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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Swim season and marching band are 9 weeks just on their own. NVSL is huge in this area. People want to go on vacation as a family. They need two weeks outside of swim and preseason high school activities to do so. [/quote]

People are going to be like - swim is no reason to change the school calendar.  Well guess what - there is no academic reason to change the school calendar either.  [b]The most academic reason anyone can come up with is AP tests & which affects such a small subset - I think it hardly justifies changing the calendar for 180,000.[/b]  Those kids are the top of the top - they could study on their own before school starts if they really wanted to.  [/quote]

But summer recreational swim team does?  I suspect there are a lot more AP students in school than summer swim team members.  My neighborhood has an active swim team and I'm confident there are more AP students that live here.[/quote]

NP here, I was curious so googled. NVSL has 19,000(!) kids participate and is the largest summer swim in the country. Considering that it pulls kids from K-12 I’m willing to argue it impacts more families schedules in the area than AP classes. [/quote]

FCPS has 180,000 kids. NVSL pulls from how many counties in the area? So you are honestly arguing that we need the summer break set the way it is so that less then 10% of the County can participate in swim at private swim clubs in the NoVA area? Really?

Talk about a privileged, entitled position. [/quote]

Ok but there is really no academic reason to start earlier either.  The SOL were already back loaded as much as possible under the post-Labor Day start schedule.[/quote]

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