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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So seniors and senior teachers are done 5 weeks earlier! [/quote]

It would be a lot better for high school students to start a week earlier in August (build in a normal amount of snow days, and if not used can end early.) [/quote]

Do you have high school kids?  Sports and marching band start two weeks earlier.  [/quote]

So they can start earlier.  Geez guys, I know change is hard but your kids will adapt better than you.[/quote]

That means our kids get pretty much no summer and it's an issue with working jobs.  Don't your teens work?  Jobs expect them to keep working as the college kids go back.  Oh wait, you are priviileged and your kids don't work.[/quote]

Only kids 14+ have jobs.  MCPS starts at age 5, so it doesn't seem like you're considering the greater good here.  And even for those 14+, you are prioritizing a summer job over teens have a schedule that would give them 180 days of education that would equip them to be qualified for future jobs.  That's your opinion.  Many would disagree. [/quote]

Yeah but it doesn't stop the AP crowd from trying to have the whole system designed around their schedule.  Why should MCPS worry about AP testing when 80% of the students in the county aren't taking them?[/quote]

I don't see anyone trying to design the "whole system" around the AP schedule.  MCPS has a problem not planning for snow days when it builds its calendar.  My kids aren't even in high school yet but it makes more sense to me to go back to actually building ~4 days into the calendar then tacking on useless half days in June.  The latter benefits no one.  Starting a few days earlier in August would provide an ADDITIONAL benefit for students taking AP classes while providing more schedule certianty during a year of average snowfall.[/quote]

The late start also stinks for kids who do fall sports, kids who are applying to college and want their fall semester grades in for RD applications, and little kids whose parents need to send them to camps for the last couple weeks of the summer.   We are out of alignment with college schedules and with the majority of the country, and that stinks for everyone except those trying to rent property in August on the eastern shore. 
 
I also think all the half days are pretty useless but the 180 day requirement forces us into that.  [/quote]

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