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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The new school board needs to throw out the 25/26 calendar and replace it with one that ends the first week of june.

Going 3 weeks into june is unacceptable.   It prevents high school students from participating in most summer programs, which are designed for a traditional school calendar ending around memorial day.  June is completely wasted time,  because all the worthwhile instruction ends with AP exams in May

Why is this county so bad at electing competent,  moderate school board members??[/quote]until a few years ago, we went into the third week of June all the time. High school students found plenty of programs and jobs. [/quote]

We also started after Labor Day.

The start date was moved to August in order to end the school year in Early June, shortly after the AP exams and SOLs.

So little learning occurs in June.

Teachers are burned out, students are completely checked out, and there is nothing left to cover in the curriculum.

It is a complete waste of everyone's time to extend the school year to late June, just to add in a bunch of random days off throughout the year.

Those random days off force so many families to use all their vacation days for childcare, so there is nothing left for summer vacation.

It is a stupid, selfish calendar and should be axed for a normal, shorter calendar.[/quote]

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