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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Options A and B-no way. So they shortened summer last year and want to shorten it again this year? Wow. That's harsh.  Kids in sports and band would start camps a week earlier-that means near the end of July? Weather can't always been depended on in early June. We like to buy a pool membership but probably would not if options A or B were chosen.  We would barely make use of it. It was bad enough they started before Labor Day this year. It was tough for my kids and a lot of other kids I know.[/quote]

The pools are empty in Augist.[/quote]

Not that pool use should be the metric -- but they are empty in August because (1) everyone has had enough swim time by then and it's old news, and (2) many people leave town for vacations in Aug b/c Congress shuts down.  So, yes, pools are generally not very full in Aug.  People are excited about summer in June/right after Memorial Day.  By August, they are looking toward the next thing and summer is a has-been.[/quote]

The pools are packed in June and empty in August.

Pools are not going to lose any business by fcps starting mid August[/quote]

They definitely will. Ours has August memberships that support the pool. Who is going to buy an August membership if school starts halfway through the month? Also, what happens if the VA general assembly decides that Fairfax can't have the waiver in a couple of years. The school year was just moved up and that had some push back. No reason to try to move it up further.[/quote]

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