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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Current calendar is fine. Teachers, students, parents, admin, support staff all have opinions. Those opinions differ both between and within each group (especially within parents, it seems). There are valid arguments for/against any of the various components of the calendar. There’s no perfect balancing of these but it seems an earnest effort was made to broadly solicit input.

Just because your personal preferences aren’t reflected in the end result doesn’t mean they weren’t considered… they just also considered others’ preferences as well. The most important thing is making the calendar decisions with enough lead time everyone can plan accordingly. Stop acting like there is a “right answer” to school calendar development and that i[b]f you just advocate hard enough you’ll convince people to see things your way and adopt your preferences[/b].[/quote]

But that is exactly what happened last year. Religious groups advocated HARD for their days off in the calendar. They put money and time in and got what they wanted.

Advocating for our preferences is precisely what we should do. [/quote]

But that is the thing. You will not get the same preference from every parent in Fairfax County. That is why they shouldn’t survey parents. So you can advocate all you want but that doesn’t mean other parents aren’t advocating for something different. The calendar will not please everyone. [/quote]

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