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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s just amazing to me that people truly look at the Fairfax County Public School system, and think to themselves “this, this is the pinnacle of what the world has to offer my child (or any other)” and so conclude the best place for them for as much of the year as possible is a FCPS facility. Maybe it’s a lack of imagination? Parental fatigue? It’s just very sad.[/quote]

People who think FCPS is the pinnacle of education often come from elsewhere in the country with public school systems that are a lot worse. FCPS is objectively better than what they had but it is not objectively good. A lot of this is "I've made it!" ego.  Add in the political piece that the board is all Dems and therefore it must be great and there is no convincing these people that their kid getting a 3.6 on watered down material and with infinite retakes isn't actually learning that much.[/quote]

It’s not even about being the pinnacle of education. It’s about the whole of childhood/adolescence. Yes, school is both legally required and extremely important, but many, many students find their true passion outside of school, and those summer opportunities make up for huge gaps in the arts and sciences, in athletics, in culture. Wanting to take those away from students for something as generic as FCPS seems abusive.[/quote]

PP - comment was more about the current calendar than year-round schooling. I am in agreement that a longer summer (and less random breaks) would be better. I was being supportive of the commenter who said that it's nuts people think the schools are so good we should keep kids in them all the time.[/quote]

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