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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one is thinking about the low income and ESL students who need consistent support to make progress against their educational goals. 
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You think you are, but have no research and the research that is out there says it doesn’t matter WHEN, but it does matter how many hours. [/quote]

Show us that research. There is no research that says hours, no matter how incinsistently applied, is the same as a consistent schedule. You're misinterpreting research on alternative schedules.[/quote]

I already did in at least of these threads.  The main research said 180 days is 180 days and the TIME in school matters over placement of the days. 
All other research about extending the school year and adding breaks is mixed.  Feel free to find the link I already posted in an easy to watch PBS segment or do more research yourself and post that. [/quote]
I believe the study was comparing a traditional 9-10 month calendar with a year round calendar. I don’t believe any study has been performed where 180 days were randomly selected to hold school over the course of a year to prove time in school mattered over placement of days. Traditional and full year calendars still have consistent 4-5 day school weeks. It’s the distribution of longer breaks that changes.  [/quote]

I think a distribution of longer breaks is what would be desired. I'm in Loudoun and my kids have tomorrow off. WHY? Why wasn't this moved to last Monday to give kids 6 days off for spring break. Why just randomly choose a Friday after kids have already been off the whole week before? [/quote]

Fcps says hold my beer.

Fcps kids had the Monday after spring break off, the Friday after spring break off, AND an O day (no tests or performances) on April 16th for Theravada New Year, a buddhist holiday tied to the moon not celebrated in all forms of buddhism for a religion that is not practiced in any significant numbers in the US and in the low single digitis in Fairfax County.

Fairfax County is full of people who have lived overseas in countries where Christians and westerners are a minority, where our holidays, including Christmas are nominally recognized and not at all celebrated, where our families have had to go to work and school for important holidays in our western culture, such as Thanksgiving and Christmas, and where the breaks are inconveniently aligned (for westerners) to holidays like Lunar New Year instead of Christmas and our 12/31-1/1 New Year.  We learn to roll with it, because it makes sense for the majority.

If the smaller groups have holidays that significantly affect student attendance, then that is one thing.  But most of the teacher workdays don't make calendar sense because they are actually scheduled to coincide with and mask/hide religious days, randomly placed on obscure religious holidays not celebrated by the vast majority of our northern Virginia population, and clustered around academically critical times like April before AP exams and SOL testing or at the end of first semester at the last stretch of good weather before snow days hit.  The fake teacher workdays hiding religious holidays put education on the back burner for virtue signalling.[/quote]

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