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Anonymous wrote:Who cares, really? Our kids get into good colleges even though they have half days. Our kids become productive adults even though they have half days. Our kids grow up and do great things even though they have half days. I haven’t ever heard a single adult ever say that if they only had one or two less half days I’d have made it into Harvard. Or I’d have gotten a better job. [/quote

Do you care at all about actual education for your child? There are also a lot of kids who are functionally illiterate in these schools. They need every possible hour before they are pushed out into the world with few marketable skills.

I do. And I am the parent of a child who entered middle school not being able to read and who wasn’t removed from the diploma track because I fought to keep him in The half days don’t matter. There aren’t that many. What matters is the support and programs offered by the schools.

If you add up the half days, and the wasted weeks at the end of the year, this is probably almost a month of the 9 month school year. Yes, it matters.

A "half day" is 2.5 hours shorter than a regular day. There are seven this year, so that's a difference of 17.5 hours.

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Anonymous wrote:Our high school will dismiss at 11:22 on Friday after having Monday off and next Wednesday off. What a joke calling these early dismissal days as a full day of school. Last time they had one they spend the couple of hours at school wondering if there was a gun in the building and then off to Bethesda row

It's how they skirt state law that requires X number of school days. The other bad thing about all these half days is the transportation costs are fixed.

They are more honest than private schools. Private schools ask kids to show up for conferences so they can count those 4 days without any classes as school days. Same for their graduations.

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Anonymous wrote:Be a parent and tell them to come home. One has nothing to do with the other. It’s ok to say no to your kids.

What? If your kids ‘comes home’, they are counted as an Unexcused Absence. What do you mean? I can’t just keep my kid home.

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Anonymous wrote:Who cares, really? Our kids get into good colleges even though they have half days. Our kids become productive adults even though they have half days. Our kids grow up and do great things even though they have half days. I haven’t ever heard a single adult ever say that if they only had one or two less half days I’d have made it into Harvard. Or I’d have gotten a better job. [/quote

Do you care at all about actual education for your child? There are also a lot of kids who are functionally illiterate in these schools. They need every possible hour before they are pushed out into the world with few marketable skills.

I do. And I am the parent of a child who entered middle school not being able to read and who wasn’t removed from the diploma track because I fought to keep him in The half days don’t matter. There aren’t that many. What matters is the support and programs offered by the schools.

If you add up the half days, and the wasted weeks at the end of the year, this is probably almost a month of the 9 month school year. Yes, it matters.

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Anonymous wrote:Be a parent and tell them to come home. One has nothing to do with the other. It’s ok to say no to your kids.

What? If your kids ‘comes home’, they are counted as an Unexcused Absence. What do you mean? I can’t just keep my kid home.

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Anonymous wrote:I like half days and days off. It breaks up the week and makes the school schedule less overbearing. I do wish half days were the second half of the day, though, so we could sleep in.

+100 Start time Too early for HS

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Anonymous wrote:Who cares, really? Our kids get into good colleges even though they have half days. Our kids become productive adults even though they have half days. Our kids grow up and do great things even though they have half days. I haven’t ever heard a single adult ever say that if they only had one or two less half days I’d have made it into Harvard. Or I’d have gotten a better job.

Do you care at all about actual education for your child? There are also a lot of kids who are functionally illiterate in these schools. They need every possible hour before they are pushed out into the world with few marketable skills.

I do. And I am the parent of a child who entered middle school not being able to read and who wasn’t removed from the diploma track because I fought to keep him in The half days don’t matter. There aren’t that many. What matters is the support and programs offered by the schools.

If you add up the half days, and the wasted weeks at the end of the year, this is probably almost a month of the 9 month school year. Yes, it matters.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who cares, really? Our kids get into good colleges even though they have half days. Our kids become productive adults even though they have half days. Our kids grow up and do great things even though they have half days. I haven’t ever heard a single adult ever say that if they only had one or two less half days I’d have made it into Harvard. Or I’d have gotten a better job. [/quote

Do you care at all about actual education for your child? There are also a lot of kids who are functionally illiterate in these schools. They need every possible hour before they are pushed out into the world with few marketable skills.

I do. And I am the parent of a child who entered middle school not being able to read and who wasn’t removed from the diploma track because I fought to keep him in The half days don’t matter. There aren’t that many. What matters is the support and programs offered by the schools.

If you add up the half days, and the wasted weeks at the end of the year, this is probably almost a month of the 9 month school year. Yes, it matters.