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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I'm a former DCPS parent, and my kid's current private has Feb. and April breaks--actually, the April break is two weeks.  [b]I haven't heard that these breaks impact academics[/b] (although yes, can see the case for summer slide with a 2-3 month break, particularly for kids that are struggling).[/quote]

[b]Private school student populations are different than public school populations.[/b] Same for class sizes. [/quote]

Fair point, but I just don't see any evidence that a week off will irreparably set kids back.[/quote]

One bit of anecdata - the year Feb break was first introduced my DC was at BASIS, and taking 3 AP classes. The school followed DCPS. Overall the AP scores that year were somewhat lower.

The high school teachers begged for an earlier start date if the school was going to continue having Feb break. It wasn't so much the break that made things hard, it was a fewer classes days before these high stakes exams (which many private school students don't actually take).

The school listened, and the scores went back up. Was it causation or correlation? I don't know. But I trust the teachers.

Obviously DCPS operates differently. [/quote]

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