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[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.  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.  Those kids are the top of the top - they could study on their own before school starts if they really wanted to.  [/quote] The academic reason is that there is learning loss when the summer vacation is too long, then time is wasted in the fall relearning.  [/quote]

That is not an academic reason.  You can have the same length summer with whatever start date you pick.  It is usually 9-10 weeks under any scenario so same learning loss.[/quote]

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