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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do quarters matter? Just thinking back to my own education (in CA) we operated on a semester system with both mid-year and end-of-year grades, and some elective classes were only single-semester (but most classes were year-long), so a semester break made sense (usually end of January) and usually we got a couple days off then for what I presume were teacher workdays to grade and reset before the new semester began.

But in a year-long class (English, Math, Social Studies, etc.) we worked on "units" of material during the year and we'd get tested on them, but they didn't necessarily align to quarters per se (which was nice, you usually weren't reviewing for tests or completeing major projects for multiple classes with the exact same cadence or deadlines). Some didn't really even adhere too much to the semester break (other than delivering grades, but materials/content-wise it was pretty seamless).

Is it different now/here that things are meaningfully broken up by quarter?[/quote]

You're right... it really doesn't matter.  And our single-semester electives work out just fine right now even though they do not align with the 2 week winter break.  But, in my opinion, it is kind of a nice way to split up the calendar.[/quote]

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