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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]APS teacher here familiar with some of the inner workings of central office/school board. Let me save you time, energy, and this 17 page thread: Your opinion doesn’t matter. The decision has been made. It’s Option 1 regardless of “community input”. Even reading the tea leaves of how each option was worded/presented  one can deduce that. A slap in the face to teachers and the community for them trying to let us believe our opinion matters. If anyone believes it won’t be Option 1 I would be happy to set up a wager. You can pick the stakes.[/quote]

What is the rationale for option 1? Why is this the option APS wants?

If there's such a compelling reason for option 1, why even offer a significantly different option?  Obviously, there was no significant difference between options 2 and 3, since it was merely a difference in which week spring break happens (and a less choppy subsequent week in one of them).  It takes a lot of balls to completely dismiss not just community input, or even teacher input, but your own appointed calendar committee's input. Everyone should flood the school board's inboxes.[/quote]

DP.  Okay, we'll flood the school board's inboxes telling them we LIKE and WANT Option 1.   :wink:   Having a two week Winter Break is the best for our family and we appreciate the other days off in the school year for observances of religious holidays other than our own.  We also like the kids to be off on Federal holidays.  All in all, Option 1 is the best option.[/quote]

Actually, I was asking the APS teacher with knowledge of the inner workings for APS' rationale for option 1.
I'd like to know why Duran is recommending option 1, especially since community, teachers, and calendar committee ALL preferred options2/3.[/quote]
NP APS staff- this is all under the idea of aligning to neighboring districts (specifically FCPS even though they have not released their calendar draft yet) lots of APS teachers actually asked for this last year, now I think there will be some regret when we go back on August 10th[/quote]

This is what’s happening- it’s in the slideshow. Every other schools system (aside from FCPS since they have only just released their drafts) are starting Aug 21. It’s all about alignment. I get it but as an APS teacher that lives in Arlington it’s also frustrating because part of why I chose to live here is so my kids would be on the same calendar. I don’t want to go back Aug 10- I usually spend that week and the next traveling and visiting family. But if we want to be able to staff our schools, we need teachers that live in other school districts.[/quote]

Yep. I pay the mortgage in Arlington. My house isn’t as big, but I do it because I work here.  And as a taxpayer here, I am concerned about where our money is going.  I refuse to pay for the Central Office to have yet another week off.  They make more than us. They got two extra weeks off for Winter and Spring Break last year (in addition to the leave they accrue).  They aren’t getting much done over there, either.  It’s a big hell no.  What is the incentive for good teachers to stay in the classroom?

I’ve never gone to central office so that I would have the same schedule as my kids.  But with three weeks off, plus another couple of weeks in the summer, less work, and more money… [/quote]

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