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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here are facts.

APS does not care what any of us think.  It's all about what the teachers want and the teachers want to match FCPS.  I had a School Board Member tell me this to my face when they moved to pre-Labor Day start.

The added religious holidays will only go away if FCPS gets rid of them.

We are basically an FCPS outpost in many ways.  Same reason we have to close or delay when there is not a real weather issue in Arlington.  Gotta follow FCPS.[/quote]

I think this is right and I wish they would just be more transparent about it. It’s obnoxious to ask for feedback when they aren’t going to listen to any of it. [/quote]
I agree.  But what I find interesting is that this issue largely relates to aligning childcare for APS teachers who live in FC.  But when parents express concerns about childcare, the answer is "school isn't daycare".  Teachers find it difficult to find childcare for a week in August and maybe a few days during the school year.  The rest of us do it for 2 weeks of winter, 1 week of spring, 16 holidays, teacher workdays, 10 weeks of summer...  Can't we all just agree that school IS childcare and that making schedules work for as many people as possible should be the goal?  I don't understand why we insist in this country to continue to act as though people live under agrarian schedules, with Ma and Pa on the farm having kids helping with the harvest.[/quote]

But all parents are going to have to find childcare no matter what the calendar is, so why not make it easier for teachers at least and align the calendars for them?[/quote]

This area is competitive for teachers.  APS doesn't really care if parents are unhappy on this particular topic.  If we go away and don't want to use APS, they don't care at all.  So they're going to defer to making the teachers happy.

I don't have a particular problem with it.  I think it's a labor market issue and I get it.  But I also wish they would just call it for what it is.[/quote]

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