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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you all complain like this when colleges you actually pay for end in mid may? 
Makes sense that ap classes are lighter after the big exam.
I’m glad my kid is getting free college level material.[/quote]

When college end in May... they end.

They don't make students attend classes for 4 weeks just to watch PG movies or sit in a classroom playing on their phones, holding them at school a month after the material and classes are complete.[/quote]

Your college kid doesn’t come home and sit around for a couple of weeks playing games on their phones awaiting the start of their internships?  All the college kids I know have this same plan, but at home while spending money “going out” with their friends.  This is AFTER you pay 30K+ for room and board for 5 months.

At least they are on their phones on the wifi at school with an adult in charge of them not spending more money.

Go see the “what about the CALENDAR” people who moan about needing free daycare. [/quote]

Sorry, but this argument is crazy.

The high school kkds should not need to be babysat at school after their AP exams end.

The calendar should not have a 2 day week Memeorial Day week.  It should either be a 4 day week with excused absences for students with religious observances, or school should have ended on the Friday prior to Memorial day.  Putting a 2 day week 3 weeks before school ends, after testing, and after all the materials have been covered for the year, then expecting the students to return to school for 2-3 weeks of babysitting, is a performative waste of everyone's time.

Whether a student is jumping into an internship, job, the pool or their phones, it doesn't matter.  School should end after testing.

What FCPS has put together is a complete joke.[/quote]

You would rather have them sitting at home doing nothing like college kids spending money on lunch with friends. Got it.  That doesn’t make sense to me at all, but you do you.

As far as Memorial Day this year, you clearly should have taken a relaxing vacation and didn’t.  This will never happen again.  Eid will not be connected to Memorial Day in this way any time in the near or far future.

Relax, things are tough out there, do you best to enjoy it.
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Yes, most high school parents would rather their young adults are at home mamaging their own time vs sitting in a classroom for a full month after the AP exams when all work is completed, playing on their phones and watching PG movies.[/quote]

Why do you mamaging them?  Aren’t they old enough to manage without mama? Or is that the point? You need them to be “productive” all the time and mamage their time when they are home. I have a freshman who is taking APs.

Looking busy and doing easy projects as well as harder ones are part of work life as well.  Sometimes you get handed an easy case and are given busy work, sometimes you get a challenging project and really have to put in the hours to get something down.  [/quote]

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