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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You need to write your school board members and then you need to engage them where they care which is politics.

All of the schoolboard members are liberal and many are progressive. This calendar is *not* progressive and disproportionately impacts lower-income and dual-working families. Women and hourly workers are supposed to be constituencies democrats care about. So raise the issue with local league of women voters, canvassers/fundraisers who are trying to get support for other democratic candidates (especially if you’ve donated before) and directly ask school board members how they are contributing to the affordability agenda with their calendar choices.

It is idiotic that this is how any of this works. But COVID created the idea for many Democrats that liberals don’t mind keeping kids out of school and now its course correction. [/quote]

Have you confused school with being child care? You think its primary purpose is to warehouse children?[/quote]

I think schools exist to provide a public good at public expense. Has taxpayers we have a right to assume the public will be provided efficiently and effectively, and not create undue burdens on the households they are intended to serve. [/quote]

What undue burdens are they creating? The calendars are published a year in advance. No one can control the weather. There are no burdens, except for maybe people who suck at managing a household. Stop thinking of school as child care. It's not. [/quote]

The undue burden is on STUDENTS!!! You need to stop. The calendar is a problem.  Go away, you lazy troll.[/quote]

What burden, objectively, is being placed on students? I'm talking a real cognitive effect, not your emotions and feelings of the calendar. But a real statistical effect that is negative effecting them academically. What can you actually prove with data that shows a burden that is having an effect on student's learning as a whole?[/quote]

No one here needs to do your googling for you. If you’re curious, just take a quick look at the relationship between declining household, income, and academic outputs. If you create a greater financial burden on students families, you lower their outcomes. This has been settled science since the 60s.

Conversely, show the academic benefit to a schedule like this? [/quote]

To be clear, I never stated that their is an academic benefit. There are just countless people complaining that it is hurtful. Where is the actual proof of that besides their emotions and feelings?

The college acceptance rates, graduation rates, SOL scores, SAT scores, etc get released near the end of this year... we will both be able to see if the schedule is beneficial or hurtful. [/quote]

Lower income= worse outcomes. Settled science.

So taxing hourly workers hundreds of thousands of dollars this year in order to make sure we spend five days out at Memorial Day is, yes,
bad for students. Like so many things, it is especially bad for low income students, for whom the trade-offs are on things like healthcare, housing, and food and so who are more likely to have been left home unsupervised this year.[/quote]

This is a mute argument.

There is also settled science that shows time with friends, time with family, etc increase students mental health Better mental health = better outcomes. Settled science.

There is only one way to know which of the two (lower income = worse outcomes vs mental health = better outcomes) outweighs they other and that is: academic data.

[b]FCPS is only concerned with what is good or bad for student's academically, that has been clear for decades[/b]. Neither one of us has the academic data available to prove our points, one way or the other.

As stated, we will see at the end of the year when the data is released, if the schedule truly has a detrimental effect on students as a whole. [/quote]

This isn’t true. Data was clear about COVID academic impacts and FCPS doubled down on staying closed after teachers were vaccinated.

Also the word you’re looking for is “moot” not “mute”[/quote]

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