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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think they will drop the Feb. break with this late start.[/quote]

I pray they don’t. This is our Christmas and Spring break vacationing time.[/quote]

Agree. We love the Feb break.[/quote]

NP. I don't think we should have both. Either Feb or Spring break. I'm a high school parent. The more breaks before May 1 is detrimental to students who are taking AP classes and exams; those exams are the first week of May. Pushing 10 hours of instruction past the tests makes little sense.

For younger students, especially for those who are below grade level, it probably affects PARCC scores as well.[/quote]

These breaks were happening before, just at different times. It all works out at the end. I think it just depends on if you prefer more 3/4 day weekends or an extra full week off. [/quote]

It ends up even by June, but for high school students you need to maximize instructional time between Aug and April. If you're going to keep a Feb break, the start date matters and should probably be earlier than 8/31.

In 2018-19, school started on 8/20. Through April students had 150 instructional days. 
In 2019-20 school started on 8/26. Through April students had 146 instructional days.

Both years there was a Feb break. But the start date "cost" a week of instruction.[/quote]

Well unfortunately it looks like the start date battle is lost. Even if you do away with the February break, you will still be down instructional days as they will just start taking every Friday off in the fall again. I think the question is not how many days off but instead how they are spread out and I feel like a post high school testing break is unlikely. [/quote]

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