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Parents don't realize how much less classtime students get at LAMB than they do at DCPS schools. [/quote]

Based on what? If you compare calendars, there's the same number of days, except that LAMB takes 5 half days (new this year - I won't address unannounced possible additional half days for future years).  BUT, LAMB's hours are 8:15-3:15, while most DCPS elementary schools hours are 8:45-3:15, so LAMB students get an extra 30 minutes of class time every day, for the 175 full days of school.  Doing the math, that adds up to an EXTRA 12.5 days of class time for LAMB kids.

https://dcps.dc.gov/page/school-start-and-end-times[/quote]

It's really difficult to accurately compare this. You have to account for lunch and recess and any other breaks, which vary by grade level. And a "half day" can be dismissal at 12, 12:30, 1, etc. it would be a real pain to do it precisely for many schools.[/quote]

+1. Charters often have longer hours than DCPS in part because they have more recess (at our DCPS - 30 min) and lunch (20 min) time in their schedule. Which is good because 50 minutes total for recess AND lunch, including transition time, is objectively terrible. But that extra 12.5 days of instructional time goes poof if a charter has a more developmentally appropriate, reasonable schedule.

Can any LAMB parents speak to how long recess and lunch are?[/quote]

I believe upper el get 45 minutes to an hour of recess and lower el gets an hour. Plus lunch. I could be wrong there have been so many changes. [/quote]

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