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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With a kid taking AP tests next week competing for 5s with kids who had 2-3 more weeks on instruction, I understand the benefit of starting earlier. HOWEVER, we need to get out earlier, too. It’s infuriating that they keep shrinking summer. [/quote]

AP students represent a fraction of the student population, so I don’t think it makes sense to dictate the schedule according to their needs.

Plus, our start date moves up, but then they throw in an extra week of Christmas break and a bunch of teacher workdays, so by the time May rolls around they haven’t actually gotten any more instruction.

There’s not a fixed number of 5s to be awarded, so your kid isn’t competing.

And there’s nothing stopping your kid from picking up a prep book two (or even three!) weeks before school starts. [/quote]

Tell me how starting 2 weeks earlier hurts your kid? or any kid?

I am just hearing a lot of whining about I don't waaaaant to start 2 weeks earlier!

But no real reasons not to. [/quote]

So far, you've said that starting two weeks earlier makes a difference for APs because the tests are all given in May. But in Arlington, the rest of the calendar is so packed with non-school days that the amount of actual instruction before the test hasn't changed. So unless you're advocating for streamlining Christmas break, eliminating teacher work days, eliminating certain holidays (or combining them with teacher work days), you're not actually doing anything to meet your stated goal of giving AP students a leg up.

So rather than putting it on everyone else to explain how a certain calendar "hurts" their kid, maybe you should start with making a coherent case for why your preferences would help your kid (or better yet, help the system in general...)[/quote]

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