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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is this a ridiculous policy?  I do 't get it.

Personally we love the longer summer.  If you don't like it, then put your kid in an academic camp or something.  It's nice to have that long break.

We always started after Labor Day when I was growing up in NY.  [/quote]

Because it's bad for kids' education to be out of school that long -- [b]especially poor kids. [/b]Whose parents are not going to put them in an academic camp or something.[/quote]

Oh, please.  It's been discussed on here before.  MCPS offers educational opportunities for poor/lower income students over the summer.  Plus free meals at churches/some schools.  It's perfectly fine for their (and all kids') education to have a little bit of a break.  
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First of all, that's not a little break.  And secondly, my upper/middle class children also get brain drain even being in great summer camps where they are learning and doing their summer packets.  Look at the fall MAP scores of most children. They are typically lower than the previous quarter.  Summer brain drain is real.[/quote]

Summer drain is real if the parents don't do a thing to help their kids.  Learning shouldn't be 6hrs a day/ 180 days a year and only in a classroom.  If it was, all the kids would be failing because the 2.0 curriculum and teacher/student ratio allow for maybe 30min of direct teaching a day.  But you know this.  [/quote]

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