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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We don't need a longer school year. DCPS needs to stop having 4 day weeks. 1/2 day for records keeping? An entire day off for parent-teacher conferences that are 15 minutes long and don't start before 8am or occur after 5pm? I think there was only one full week of instruction in the month of October.[/quote]

Completely agree. There are so many 4 day weeks in the calendar it's ridiculous. 1/2 days are a complete waste of a school day. [/quote]

+1  I am against a longer school day of school year. Plenty as is. DCPS needs to use the time it already has to do a better job. And that's not a knock on teachers. I mean stop requiring that so much damn time be devoted to preparing for assessments.  Stop treating our children like lab test subjects. Let teachers teach. Stop filing the calendar with so many half days where 8:45-12:15 is worthless. I suspect that This extended day/year talk is less about greater and richer educational opportunities and more about serving needy children who could stand to minimize their time at home. And if there is any truth to that then lets talk about that and about the sort of wrap around services these children need so that we can make it happen. My children need the education he receive after school and during summertime too. Their time at home is full of learning too...not just academics but the life skills they need. [/quote]

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