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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think we should always go until Dec. 20 or 21st regardless of how Xmas falls on the calendar.  It's silly to start Xmas break on Dec. 15 or 16th.

Nothing wrong with starting the first week of school on a Wednesday.  Makes for a more gentle transition back to school when you get a weekend after 3 days of being back.

Don't know why you think Spring Break is going to be the first week in April if Easter is March 31.  The tradition in FCPS is to have spring break BEFORE Easter.  So, it would likely be the last week of March.

I think kids should be IN SCHOOL for Veterans Day AND MLK Day.  They can talk about being a minority of any kind on MLK Day as well as productive activism.  We already have days off for end of the quarter plus snow days in January.  Same with Presidents Day -- kids should be in school.  We don't need to be going unitl the middle of June.

NOTHING useful happens after June 1st. People see JUNE and they check out.  So, any days of school in June are just wasted time (subtracting from the 180 that kids need).  The  kids are in the building, but they aren't getting anything for their time if it's in June.  So the earlier we end in June, the better.[/quote]

Agree on Winter Break.

Not sure about starting school mid-week.  I'm thinking mainly of child-care and how camps are generally full weeks.

My impression was that FCPS was trying to go to a fixed Spring Break schedule rather than trying to follow Easter around.

Veterans/MLK/Presidents are going to be holidays.  That seems to be a state thing.

It seems like your strongest preference would be ending early.  [/quote]

Veterans Day was never a holiday in FCPS until THIS year.  It's not a "state thing."

Yes, my strongest preference is to end school as close to June 1st as possible ONLY b/c I HATE having my kids go to school and get nothing out of it.  I would rather lose "holidays" during the school year b/c those are days that will be treated as actual school days.  Any day in June is treated as babysitting (even at the HS level).  My kids hate going to school and doing nothing valuable.[/quote]+1.  After SOLs, our school just babysits and shows movie after movie. [/quote]

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