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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great to hear from high school parents whose kids can 1) stay home alone 2) for free 3) can study on their own 4) have no early release nonsense - how they love this calendar and how they don't care. [/quote]

HS parent here - this calendar is awful. We don't love it and more importantly my kids have complained about it.

We need to get in a learning groove and this fractured calendar has been disastrous for that.

So no, it isn't HS parents that love it. We HATE it. We also hate that there are so many school days in June when we know very little learning will be happening after tests.[/quote]

But AGAIN. You are looking at the calendar with a TON of snow days.  Why are you all so unable to do the calendar by itself and not see past how much the snow days impacted the last few weeks?  
Without snow days, the calendar would have been fine.  It is the snow days which have blown off the track. And so all of you having a temper tantrum about it will whine to get change but when there are no snow days, you will pull your kids out for long weekends to go skiing or whatever.[/quote]

Go count the number of weeks with a day off and tell me it’s fine. We are surprised when they string together three 5 day weeks now. [/quote]

Sure thing.  In the months of Jan Feb ( you started complaining in Feb) there were supposed to be 5 weeks of 5 days of school. This was out of 8 weeks.  There were 2 weeks that had federal holidays and one with the traditional end of semester days off.  
It is the SNOW that has given us very few full weeks of school. [/quote]

Mmm, a well run school system would recognize the issue with weather closures in Jan/Feb and attempt to maximize instructional time before those months.

But FCPS is not a well run school system. [/quote]

Nah- you just think a well run school system would agree with you.  [b]You have no metric to judge whether a school system is “well run” except your own opinion of whether it serves you well.[/b]  We have LOTS of snow days built in.  In the Boston area there are no snow days, but my friend’s kids were out of school several times this year.  They will now be in school until June 27th to make up the days.  They also had a week off in February for “break.”   I prefer the way FCPS does it. [/quote]

… Who do you think a school system is supposed to serve if not the students and their families? A school system that doesn’t serve them well, isn’t well run.[/quote]

No, that is a selfish view.  A well run school system has to serve the majority kids well, not one individual parent and their individual scheduling needs.  It isn’t instagram or facebook.  It is a school system.  Greater good and all.[/quote]

Sure, and the greater number of parents are saying is the schedule doesn't serve them. Early release was imposed on a lie. That vastly eroded trust. Now there is accountability.[/quote]

Again, you are aiming weird unproven statements like “the greater number of parents”. As listed in what survey.  You don’t have any real data except more people are complaining to the board and more people are complaining NOW as the snow days are interfering with the regular calendar making it FEEL like the calendar is horrible. 
The calendar has been the same for years. It was set early this year. AS far as early release is concerned, they should move back to Mondays being short days for elementary. It only affects elementary students and there are programs for those parents who are inflexible situations.

Like I said, Boston schools will be in school until June 26 or 27tth because of snow days and they had a week last week before their latest snow storm as a built in holiday.  
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This is a strange attempt at gaslighting. The board has been getting hammered on the calendar since September and before. Early release met intense opposition. Yes how Reid handles snowstorms doesn’t build confidence in her but, the disaster calendar complaints started long before the snow did.[/quote]

You literally can’t have an opposing opinion without some Karen on here saying you’re “gaslighting” them. It’s honestly comical how often people throw that term out nowadays.

No one has any data. No one has taken a poll. There’s no survey being referenced. All Karen has is her social circle that she complains and gripes to. Misery loves company, so Karen’s friends agree and complain about it too. That doesn’t make Karen’s opinion the majority or the greater number of parents.

Karen also doesn’t know that the board is being “hammered” by complaints just because her and her miserable friends sat on their couches and sent a couple emails. I’d bet my salary that if you ask each school board member what the biggest complaint email they receive is on a regular basis is, the lack of 5 day weeks wouldn’t be in the top 5.

…and here comes “you’re gaslighting me” response in 3, 2, 1…[/quote]

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