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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]APS has wasted June ever since my senior was in Kindergarten. That's as far back as my knowledge goes. But I bet it's been longer than that even.

However, kid #2 is now in private HS where they are still teaching new content and writing papers. This kid will be spending the last week of school taking final exams.

Also, the *only* organized voice in Arlington that would advocate for meaningful reform on this is APE. [/quote]

APE did, they pushed for more school days. [/quote]

Keep up the good work, APE! 180+ days was the normal pre-pandemic. The new holidays is what’s extending us out past June even though we start earlier. [/quote]

All this blame on the "new" holidays is just so classic APE. Who cares about equity for the brown people's holidays?! Not APE!!![/quote]

If you want to talk about equity,  please make sure to address the inequity of disjointed weeks on young learners and SWDs, the inequity of a two week winter break that means kids miss more than half a month of a school and tremendous effort spent to get back to classroom
Norms after such a long break.

Also don’t forget to address the inequity of families, especially si fle parents and low income, in finding childcare on all these random days odd and a two week winter break. Last year they county had something like 40 slots for school day camps.  Other more expensive private camps had to be booked as soon as they opened. All of this requires families be able to drive or provide transportation to drop their kids off so the can go to work.

Also while we’re talking about equity and holidays, why are some religions and cultural celebrations being elevated over others? How is this equitable to the orthodox for example? What about Asians and lunar new year?

There are lots of way to address equity around the holidays in schools that don’t include giving everyone some days off and  leads to more inequity than it solves. [/quote]

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