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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am DCPS teacher and we would never finish the curriculum if we lost that instructional time each week.  There are already so many disruptions in the school schedule-  we have lots of three day weekends, PD days, parent teacher conference days, etc.  This year I have probably covered 80% of the material I would normally cover.  And some of the stuff I did cover I rushed through because I am a HS teacher and the AP exams happen at a certain time no matter what the school district decides to do with the schedule.[/quote]

I think the idea is that this time would be in lieu of PD days. So it could actually offer more consistency, not less. And help working parents, since it's easier to extend an aftercare program by two hours a week than to find random all-day childcare throughout the year on PD days. As a parent, I would love it if PD time was built into the week instead of having to deal with random PD days throughout the year -- they are far and away the most annoying scheduling issue we deal with on a regular basis.[/quote]

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