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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Ok these post are all from a working parents perspective. No I do not support it. I do support cutting the winter break and getting out of school in early June. Summer is June July and August. These kids are in school to long. They are not adults in the working world and that time will come for them soon enough. Stop trying to conform the schools to the working world. It wasn't that way for you and it shouldent be that way for the kids today. WTF are you trying to do to these kids. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. This is so wrong. Why did you have children if you do not want to spend time with them? Cut back on your spending and spend some time raising your children. They will be adults soon enough!

But that's what the school system is based on. When the country was an agrarian society, school ended in the summer so the kids could assist in the the farms. How many kids are needed are needed in FCPS to work in the fields today? Why shouldn't the school systems change to be more inline with today's working society?[/quote]

The logic of 'let them be kids' kills me.  I grew up on a farm and our 'summer' work started even before school got out in May. It didn't matter if school was in session or not, chores began the same time every day and the cows had to be milked twice a day every day.  We prepped fruit trees/beehives in the spring.  We started seeds indoors in March. Began garden prep in April and worked most all day every day in early summer getting the vegetable gardens.  If you had a break, you cut grass (there was always grass to cut).  When we got bigger, there was hay to cut and bale (I never had to stack - was never big enough to really pick up the bales so I drove the tractor/baler).  By the time July came around, it was time to start harvesting and selling vegetables.

Tell me more about summer being a time for a kid to be a kid.[/quote]

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