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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With a kid taking AP tests next week competing for 5s with kids who had 2-3 more weeks on instruction, I understand the benefit of starting earlier. HOWEVER, we need to get out earlier, too. It’s infuriating that they keep shrinking summer. [/quote]

AP students represent a fraction of the student population, so I don’t think it makes sense to dictate the schedule according to their needs.

Plus, our start date moves up, but then they throw in an extra week of Christmas break and a bunch of teacher workdays, so by the time May rolls around they haven’t actually gotten any more instruction.

There’s not a fixed number of 5s to be awarded, so your kid isn’t competing.

And there’s nothing stopping your kid from picking up a prep book two (or even three!) weeks before school starts. [/quote]

Tell me how starting 2 weeks earlier hurts your kid? or any kid?

I am just hearing a lot of whining about I don't waaaaant to start 2 weeks earlier!

But no real reasons not to. [/quote]

Because kids should have a proper summer break. Going back in mid-August is insane. 
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Also, there are MANY divorced families who split summer vacation time/weeks. Further truncating the summer by removing yet *another* week from summer adversely affects the available time those children have with their respective parents. So yes, starting an additional week earlier than the current one-week-before-labor day calendar is BULL and would not be good for my kid.
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Custody arrangements can be changed. It is not the schools' responsibility - or even ability - to accommodate everyone's individual family situation.[/quote]

You are clearly not divorced and with your flippant remark. Furthermore, this is not some one-off unique unheard of situation for a tiny handful of families; a large percentage of families are divorced households. [/quote]

There are also "large percentages" of families with single heads of household and no other household splitting custody, and two-working-parent families, and SAHP households, and immigrant families who travel to their home countries during winter break, and, and, and....

I wasn't being flippant. Custody arrangements can be changed. Might not be easy or quick; but you know the calendar far in advance and it can be done. If it can't for some, doesn't mean schools have to accommodate. They cannot accommodate every situation and they don't pick one group of people to accommodate. The only accommodation schools should be making is what's best for teaching and learning.[/quote]

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