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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's nice that you think all students doing extended school would make for good community.  But if my kids were denied summer break, we would leave the community for either private or the suburbs.  [/quote]

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Why do your kids need more than a month of summer break? [/quote]

Please read the thread.  There are many examples that parents have advanced.  In my household, summer is when real prep for college and career takes place:

1.  Exposure to out of school learning opportunities that go beyond DCPS boundaries, learning experiences that will help strengthen DC's interest in a profession and employability.  Another month of choosing the right answer on a test, or coming up with sentences to analyze a lit or non-fiction passage in not going to get DC anywhere.
2.  Opportunity to spend time with extended family/language immersion, which will also enhance employability.
3.  Opportunity to work with DC on academic skills that are not addressed in DCPS test prep academic program, which is still a makeshift as alignment of new testing, new standards, via an appropriate curriculum is still a sickening mess.  An additional month of makeshift curriculum in an often disrupted classroom is not what my DC needs.

Before the class warriors start firing away at paper tigers, I know that many DCPS students are at risk.  I really wonder whether an additional month of the same old same old -- with some baking and a trip to a museum or two thrown in --  will actually boost the future employability of at-risk children.  But if the consensus is that it will, why not channel resources to address that challenge, by focusing the extended year program and any fresh thinking/funds on the 40 or so schools that are at risk?  It seems that a key criticism of Chacellor Henderson's tenure was lack of focus on schools identified as priority targets.

Given the activity on this thread between the hours of 9 and 4, I have a sickening feeling that the mayor is about to name an in-house candidate as chancellor, and that extended school year for all is going to be unveiled as a bold initiative.  Same old, same old, just more of it.[/quote]

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