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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From Melanie Meren's FB page, there is a good discussion about her upcoming motion on April 10th to limit ERs to four times a year and nd designate Veterans Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day as instructional days. These changes would provide at least two additional full school weeks for families this fall. Progress!

There is a sub-discussion going on underneath.  Loudoun just moved their last day of school up to Friday, June 12th to prioritize a cleaner ending to the school year and add 5 days (including the weekend) to summer.  Lots of support in this discussion, especially given we began school on the same date.

Melanie Meren has expressed support for this on her facebook page and said that she would raise it.  If you are in support, please contact your school board member. [/quote]

Would love to see this happen![/quote]

I have seen her page. She said she was aware of it but did not publicly support it.   I don’t think parents realize how much planning goes towards end of year. The schedule is a puzzle piece of music concerts, SOLs, other end of year testing, special events, moving up ceremonies and graduations, etc. Every school has already scheduled all of this stuff which is why it is not going to change. [/quote]

And yet LCPS managed to figure it out.

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LCPS schedules graduation after the school year and did not have the monthly early release for ES. They have the hours. [/quote]

LCPS schedules them during the school year. Last year my school graduated at 2:30 pm on a school day so our school didn’t have classes that day. The schedule changes so some years your school graduates on a weekend and some years it graduates on a weekday and on that year classes are canceled for your school that day because all staff are required to attend. There are like 30 high schools in Loudoun, they can’t all graduate the same weekend. [/quote]

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