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[quote=Anonymous]The problem is that FCPS (or many parents) want their cake and they want to eat it too -- start the year late (sometimes as late as Sept. 8th!), two full weeks for Xmas break, a full week of Spring Break (when I was a kid we had Holy Thurs, Good Fri. and sometimes Easter Mon --- can you tell it was Catholic school? -- we didn't have a whole week off), a short trigger for cancelling/delaying school, and we want to end by the middle of June.

Well, you can't have everything!  Either you start earlier, stay later each day or at the end of the year, you don't cancel school so easily, you make the breaks shorter, or something!  (BTW, I'm not against a full week of spring break, but if FCPS/parents are unwilling to give up any of the other options... that would be one way to keep school from going into the last week of June).  FCPS parents claim that they value education so much, but not if it inconveniences them in any way.

I support starting the year at least a week before Labor Day.  I support a "winter break" that is 10 days rather than 2 weeks.  I support kids going to school on MLK day.  I support a shorter spring break.  I support adding 15 min to each day (all year or Feb-May).  I don't support extending the year into the last week of June b/c IME, the teachers aren't seriously teaching much of anything.

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