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Anonymous wrote:Parents of younger kids whined about starting school earlier because they wanted to keep their cheap beach rentals in late August. Now they want to end earlier. Can’t have it both ways.

Here's an idea... let's not have a freaking 2 week winter break and a holiday for every little group that wants it to be "fair". Schools north of here go to school until 12/22 or 23 depending on the year. Fewer holidays = shorter school year. Trying to please everyone ends up pleasing no one. It is ridiculous to start 2 weeks before Labor Day and not end until mid-June.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents of younger kids whined about starting school earlier because they wanted to keep their cheap beach rentals in late August. Now they want to end earlier. Can’t have it both ways.

Here's an idea... let's not have a freaking 2 week winter break and a holiday for every little group that wants it to be "fair". Schools north of here go to school until 12/22 or 23 depending on the year. Fewer holidays = shorter school year. Trying to please everyone ends up pleasing no one. It is ridiculous to start 2 weeks before Labor Day and not end until mid-June.

Anonymous wrote:Parents of younger kids whined about starting school earlier because they wanted to keep their cheap beach rentals in late August. Now they want to end earlier. Can’t have it both ways.

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Anonymous wrote:Just looked and next year it goes even later, to June 16...how can that be??

Start lobbying the school board now to change it!

Might as well go outside and yell at a cloud. The only hope for calendar sanity is to vote out the school board members that pushed this bloated calendar onto us.

Parents of younger kids whined about starting school earlier because they wanted to keep their cheap beach rentals in late August. Now they want to end earlier. Can’t have it both ways.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just looked and next year it goes even later, to June 16...how can that be??

Start lobbying the school board now to change it!

Seriously +1

How stupid. The time to “lobby the school board” was months ago when the calendar was under consideration. Teachers need to do neat projects and continue to instruct after SOLs. That’s what my kids’ teachers did.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just looked and next year it goes even later, to June 16...how can that be??

Start lobbying the school board now to change it!

Or maybe tell the administration to have their teachers continue teaching after SOLs. There's still plenty of material left to teach.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just looked and next year it goes even later, to June 16...how can that be??

Start lobbying the school board now to change it!

Seriously +1

Anonymous wrote:Just looked and next year it goes even later, to June 16...how can that be??

Start lobbying the school board now to change it!

Next year will be much worse.

Anonymous wrote:Just looked and next year it goes even later, to June 16...how can that be??

We have additional days off during the year.

Just looked and next year it goes even later, to June 16...how can that be??

I'm an MS teacher and it has us ending the year on a low note. On the one hand it's nice to have less structured time with some students to talk, etc. And of course great for some kids to have that time with each other.

Unfortunately the majority of kids in my school can't seem to handle 90-minute class periods of mostly down time. The teachers I know who've planned cool non-computer-based activities (paper airplanes, Rube Golberg machines, writing comic panels, etc.) are finding them falling flat with most kids as they remain on phones or otherwise refuse to participate. Staff with planning periods have to be out in the halls as monitors because so many kids are just running around looking for mischief. Just one of many examples: today a couple of kids took chocolate milk from the cafeteria up the main stairs, opened it, and threw it over the edge so it splashed on a wall and then all over the main hallway floor.

My middle schooler is begging to stay home tomorrow. It’s pretty much what you said. Assignments are done and they are watching movies. He’s tired of catching the 6:30 bus and will see friends all summer anyway. I haven’t agreed to let him stay home yet but he makes good points.

Why is there so much school after SOLs in ES and MS (where there are no Final exams, AP tests, etc.)? And why a whole week of school after assignments are all due, grades are due, and computers are handed in?

My kids were excited yesterday to just hang out with friends. Today they're saying it's boring, nothing to do, kids are loud and getting in trouble, etc. 3 more days of this...why?