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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know that it’ll pass just yet, but they’re shifting the Overton window by getting people to at least consider it. Maybe another 1-2 years of acclimating to the idea and they could launch it for the 2030 school year. As a teacher, I see the benefits - right now, as Shernoff says, we have an ad hoc nearly-year round schedule without the benefit of the consistent chunks of time off between quarters. It’s just a hodge podge of inconvenient scattered days off that extend our school calendar interminably, disrupt consistent learning, and create childcare gaps for parents of younger kids. Each year we start earlier and stay in school later - it’s so maddening.  
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This is exactly how they have been building toward year-round school. Make the calendar increasingly inconvenient because of the start and end times, all the 3 and 4-day weeks for work days, end of quarter days, the day after Halloween, election day, religious holidays, etc. until people are so fed up that they will support year-round school because at least there will be more consistency and five-day weeks. I looked at multiple LCPS calendars for reference, and depending on the year, the year-round calendar provides between 3-5 more weeks of five-days-a-week in school than the current calendars. For 26-27, most months of the school year, the kids have TWO five-days weeks a month. How does that calendar work for anyone -- teachers, students, families?

The thing that really gets me, though, is that the proposed year-round school calendar goes back to federal holidays only. All the religious holidays that have been added to be "inclusive because we have a diverse community" turn out to be not that important after all? That makes me feel like they were added just to drive people towards the year-round school option. [/quote]

Good point. If they can remove the religious holidays to have year round school, they can remove them and just have a normal calendar with a nice long summer, too. [/quote]

But some of us would prefer to have a shorter summer. 10 weeks is too long. 6-7 weeks would be perfect.[/quote]

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