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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My preferred calendar is considered to be a modified year round calendar.  I think 2-3 weeks between quarters and a 6-8 week summer is best for all.    [/quote]

Oh how I wish the school system would seriously consider this schedule. I am a teacher and a parent and I would love it. This way, you can embed professional development for teachers (a couple days during each of the quarterly breaks), w/o having to front- or back-load it onto the school year, and you don't have to take time away from your classroom/students w/ sub coverage (which the superintendent has said multiple times that he wants us as a system to get away from). Kids that require childcare when school is not in session need it no matter how you break up the school year--in my mind's eye, you can get camps going for the quarterly breaks (I realize staffing them might prove to be challenging, since college kids will be away--I'm not sure how it could work). [/quote]

I also support this (am a parent). Has or will this ever be seriously considered?[/quote]

Give it a bit of time and the folks who think this idea is awful will show up and yell at you. I would love a year round schedule but so many people are tied to the traditional schedule that getting any traction on a year round idea is challenging.[/quote]

Well that is a bummer. I feel like the current LT is trying to be creatively proactive with the schedules, even if they seem weird to those of us that have been under the umbrella of tradition for so so long. I see a year-round schedule beneficial--the state even worked in the best interest of school systems to get the "Kings Dominion" law passed, so they can start earlier in the year w/o 735276 caveats to consider (read: waivers).

I know a lot of the citizenry has a problem with how many teacher workdays/professional development days that are scheduled into the calendar, but in order to be a premier workforce, we have to have them. The art & science of teaching changes at an astonishing rate, and we need the time to learn, plan, adapt, and reflect. We can't do that when we are in front of kids--we are actively teaching them. For those that say "do it during your planning period then" don't understand that those precious windows of time are used to meet with parents, grade the daily work that students are doing, preparing for the next day's lessons. Perhaps the school day should be longer, but then it's longer for the students as well, or we can't offer the wide-range of after-school activities that we currently do.  [/quote]

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