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[quote=Anonymous]I think they need to match it up better to when the SOL’s and the AP tests are given. I’m just looking at McLean’s dates since it was the first one to come up on a search https://mcleanhs.fcps.edu/node/4680 and all the SOL’s are done before Memorial Day apart from retakes, but even those are done by the end of May after MD. AP tests for HS are the same. And I think there’s a mental block after Memorial Day - everyone is checked out and not much learning is going on. It feels like wasted time. I know some 1st grade teacher is going to say they’re doing a lot after Memorial Day but it’s different when you get to SOL age.

They could do a better job of consolidating the teacher work days and student holidays. 24-25 calendar actually isn’t too bad with this, the annoying 3 hour ES ER days notwithstanding. But 25-26 is rough. For example, October 2025 has holidays for Yom Kippur on Thursday 10/2, and Diwali on Tuesday 10/21, and a teacher work day on Monday 10/13 for Columbus/Indigenous Peoples Day. They couldn’t give a teacher work day on any of those days and consolidate a little? The kids have a day off on Veterans Day in November - which historically was NOT a student holiday - with 2 days off earlier in the month for teacher work days/voting and 3 days for Thanksgiving? If they could cut out just 5 days of holidays, they could get out on June 10th. [/quote]

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