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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Year-round school is all about the parents, not the students. Let's just be honest for once. It's to please the parents. The students will end up on anxiety meds because they never get a break. [/quote]

Not all parents. Just the whiny ES ones.[/quote]

You seem to not understand "year-round school." We will have the same number of school days; they will just be organized differently. The one that I like is 9 weeks on, 2 weeks off with a 7 week summer. Students also get off Thanksgiving week and Memorial/Labor Days.[/quote]

I understand it perfectly. The one Loudoun has proposed offers 3 weeks off a the breaks not two (the transition year offers two, but the end goal is three.)

I am unequivocally opposed to this.  Teens need the summer to work, prep for AP classes and SATs. This is also their only chance to attend summer enrichment camps/programs in other places. A year round schedule would be terrible for AP classes, they would not get to nearly all the material in time. AP exams are in early May. Also, 3 weeks off at random times of the year are completely pointless. Year round school would be the end of teen summer work, summer internships, and summer enrichment camps. Our students would be at a distinct disadvantage in college applications to areas that don’t do this.[/quote]

Teens already get out mid-June amd go back mid-August. They could start working summer jobs on the evenings/weekends, just like they do now. They could prep for the AP tests just like they do now (even having it a little better since they start the school year earlier). There are plenty of summer enrichment camps or internships that they could do during the 5 weeks, 6 weeks, 7 weeks that they have off. Yes, they would miss out on some that start in early June, but they already miss out on those.

But you already know all of that. You just don't prefer the year round schedule. That's fine. But many of us do prefer it and hope it will happen one of these years.[/quote]

Eh, kids need babysitting for such a short period of time. Once your kids don’t need it anymore, you won’t want year round school. It’s like all the parents who complain about the early ES start time. It’s such a fleeting point in time. [/quote]

PP here. I have middle school and high school-aged kids. I would love to have year round school. You might be forgetting that year round school would still inly have 180 days.[/quote]

No. I’m not forgetting. I understand how it works. [/quote]

Then why do you keep saying ridiculous things in this thread like "eh, kids need babysitting for such a short period of time"? Are you, perhaps, a student who is against the idea of year round school?[/quote]

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