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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I hope they start after Labor Day. I think starting school in August, even the 31st, is just wrong. 
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Disagree. I think going after Memorial Day is just wrong.  Kids and teachers are done.[/quote]i don't get this logic. Kids and teachers are done the last 2-3 weeks no matter when it ends. It's still the SAME number of days in school.[/quote]

NO.  The SOLs dictate when the teachers are done and therefore when the students are done.  When the sols end at the end of May/first of June, THAT's when all learning stops -- even for the kids who don't have sols (1st, 2nd).  The school atmosphere is studious until the SOLs and then it's all party all the time.  So, keep your late June release, but then move the SOLs  to the last two weeks.  Both sides are happy -- starting late and not turning into movies and parties for two-three weeks in June.[/quote]

[b]They'll never move the SOLs to the last two weeks because schools need at least a week after scheduled SOL testing to get in all the make ups and re-takes and to submit all the testing stuff to VDOE. Additionally, a lot of high schoolers have finals after SOLs. Grades are always due about a week before school is out (at best...I've worked in schools where final grades were submitted 2-3weeks before the end of the year). [/b]

Fact of the matter is, no matter the last day of school, it doesn't change that 2-3 week period after the SOLs when everything starts to wrap up and formal instruction has tapered off. Keep in mind also that schools set their specific SOL schedule within a rather large window dictated by the state. The window this year closes sometime in mid-June. Schools COULD schedule all SOLs for those last two weeks but, for the reasons I already mentioned, they don't. [/quote]

Yup, this is true.  We have SOLs for 7 days straight, and then a week of make ups after that.  That brings us into mid-June right there.  We then have about a week of regular class before finals start.  Finals end the day before the end of school.  So contrary to what people think, most teachers (at least in high school) are teaching until the very end.  [/quote]

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