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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why not have spring break in March like most of the other local schools. Then you don't need a February break. Or what feels like an endless winter to get to a mid-April break. I heard they always tie spring break to Emancipation Day, but why not just offer Emancipation Day as a one-off No School Day? [/quote]

They tie spring break to Emancipation Day because it's otherwise really hard to hit 180 days of school instruction and not get out of school until late June. Having ED inside the spring break week ensures kids get out of school in June one day earlier.

DCPS has 12 forced federal or District holidays every school year. Plus 4 record keeping/PD days. Plus another 8 PD days. It's really tough to hit 180 days of classes.

DCPS would have a lot more flexibility if they didn't use the schools for elections and they pared back the Professional Development days.

Do teachers even want 10 days of Professional Development? I guess they probably don't want to give up the salary for those days.

Regardless of where you stand on the February break, the most important things DCPS could do is: (1) do two full weeks of classes before Labor Day and (2) ensure last day of school is June 15. Hard stop. With those two points of consistency, I think families would be happier.[/quote]

No teachers don’t want all those PD days.  And we don’t give up a salary for those days.  So I’d rather we get out a week earlier. [/quote]

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