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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have had it with the FCPS calendar. The days off have gotten totally out off hand. At some point FCPS decided it need to celebrate EVERY possibly , religious and non religious holiday under the sun. 
It is out of control.

Throw in all the weather delays and closing and kids are never in school. I know, I know, but they still meet their hours and are above the VA standard. Sure, who cares when it come to elementary, but HS teachers, especially, those teaching AP classes plan their year around having a certain number of days of school, and given that most AP exams are early May they already have a condensed timeline. Elementary parents come back to the conversation with your kid in in HS and school actually matters. Why not have a higher bar and if there aren't weather related closing we get more instruction.

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Can you provide any actual data to support your points?

Are SOL scores lower overall?

High School students have already taken the Writing SOL or the Business Writing Work Keys exam. Are these scores lower than other years?

Are graduation rates declining?

Are FCPS students being accepted into colleges at a lower rate?

Are students being held back at a higher rate?

Are reading levels dropping overall?

Are AP scores lower than in previous years? My child's AP teacher told her that they will have 3-4 weeks of pure review before her upcoming AP exam.

The public school system is there to educate your child, not warehouse them at your convenience. If you can not PROVE (with statistics and data) that the calendar is having an detrimental effect on students ACADEMICALLY, there is no real argument to change the calendar outside of personal preference. [/quote]

What is your obsession with "warehousing kids"? I don't want my kids "warehoused".  I don't' want them "warehoused" in school until June 17 when teachers stop teaching in May all because we have to make the week of memorial day a 2 day week because of yet another religious holiday.[/quote]

People like PP studiously ignore those of us who say we would a school year with a consistent schedule + a longer summer, because it goes against their simplistic argument that parents just want to warehouse their kids.

I am not sure why this person feels such a strong need to defend FCPS. It’s like any criticism of the school district threatens their identity in some way. That or they are a loser who gets their kicks from arguing with people on a message board. Pathetic either way. [/quote]

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