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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is absolutely no reason school should start any earlier than a week before Labor Day and go further than the week after Memorial Day. Too much instruction time is spent on irrelevant materials and the amount of holidays/workdays this year is insane. FCPS started after Labor Day and was over by mid-June for years on end then randomly started extending the school year to late June for no reason whatsoever around 2010/11.

The AP exams have always been administered in early May yet FCPS used to have no issue having above average scores and participation in said classes. Also, why do we let a private for-profit company hold us hostage on when we make our school year calendar?

The fact that everything in the latter half of May and beyond is basically just killing time (the amount of times my kids would come home from school in late May/early June and say they watched movies/completed dumb projects was insane).

This earlier start date would be fine if the school year ended by the Friday before Memorial Day at the absolute latest. Does anyone think school in June is useful or helpful?

"Summer slide" is a myth propagated by for-profit learning centers to scare parents into paying for their kid to do homework all summer and get yelled at. Vast majority of kids are settled in and learning up to speed by the second week of school.

The FCPS school board is run by the most incompetent people known to man, it's insane and indicative of how far Fairfax County has fallen from grace.[/quote]

LOL. Someone is angry this morning. I agree though, my oldest graduated from Oakton in 2012 and the school years typically went from Labor Day to the second week of June. It worked well in my opinion and gave kids a full 2.5 months off. My DD's junior year at Oakton they randomly extended the school year to the end of June and I excused her from the last week of school and we went on a family vacation instead. I'll never forget making sure she wasn't missing anything important and multiple teachers telling me all she would miss would be a screening of some Disney movie during class.

FCPS loves having long school years and dumb holiday placements, its always been this way (my oldest entered FCPS in 1999!). It's just that the schedule has gotten really incompetent over the years to the point where I can't tolerate it anymore. So glad my youngest graduated in 2022. FCPS is flailing. [/quote]

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