Anonymous wrote:I wish FCPS would implement a year round schedule. It would be nice to have longer breaks throughout the year rather than a huge chunk in the summer when it's pretty much too hot to go out and play for most of the days. 3 week breaks in the fall, winter and spring would be a welcome change. Traveling would be cheaper since it's not peak times, the weather is more suitable to outside play, there would be less time wasted at the beginning of each school year bringing kids back up to speed. Ds's class last year spent the entire first quarter just doing review work!

Those that are worried about camps and such shouldn't. All the places that provide summer camps and spring break camps will provide camps for the intercession times. The supply meets the demand, simple economics.

There would still be a longer summer period of 6 weeks so no need to fret about not having the long lingering lazy days of summer. 6 weeks is plenty of time.

Could noy agree more...wish that Loudoun had modified calendar years offered too!

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Anonymous wrote:I wish FCPS would implement a year round schedule. It would be nice to have longer breaks throughout the year rather than a huge chunk in the summer when it's pretty much too hot to go out and play for most of the days. 3 week breaks in the fall, winter and spring would be a welcome change. Traveling would be cheaper since it's not peak times, the weather is more suitable to outside play, there would be less time wasted at the beginning of each school year bringing kids back up to speed. Ds's class last year spent the entire first quarter just doing review work!

Those that are worried about camps and such shouldn't. All the places that provide summer camps and spring break camps will provide camps for the intercession times. The supply meets the demand, simple economics.

There would still be a longer summer period of 6 weeks so no need to fret about not having the long lingering lazy days of summer. 6 weeks is plenty of time.

I wouldn't call that "year round". I'd call that a "modified calendar".

I guess "year round" school is a misnomer, but this format (6 week summer + a couple 3 week breaks) is what everyone is talking about. Perhaps those of us advocating for it should change our messaging because I think there is a misperception that there would be no summer.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish FCPS would implement a year round schedule. It would be nice to have longer breaks throughout the year rather than a huge chunk in the summer when it's pretty much too hot to go out and play for most of the days. 3 week breaks in the fall, winter and spring would be a welcome change. Traveling would be cheaper since it's not peak times, the weather is more suitable to outside play, there would be less time wasted at the beginning of each school year bringing kids back up to speed. Ds's class last year spent the entire first quarter just doing review work!

Those that are worried about camps and such shouldn't. All the places that provide summer camps and spring break camps will provide camps for the intercession times. The supply meets the demand, simple economics.

There would still be a longer summer period of 6 weeks so no need to fret about not having the long lingering lazy days of summer. 6 weeks is plenty of time.

I wouldn't call that "year round". I'd call that a "modified calendar".

Anonymous wrote:I wish FCPS would implement a year round schedule. It would be nice to have longer breaks throughout the year rather than a huge chunk in the summer when it's pretty much too hot to go out and play for most of the days. 3 week breaks in the fall, winter and spring would be a welcome change. Traveling would be cheaper since it's not peak times, the weather is more suitable to outside play, there would be less time wasted at the beginning of each school year bringing kids back up to speed. Ds's class last year spent the entire first quarter just doing review work!

Those that are worried about camps and such shouldn't. All the places that provide summer camps and spring break camps will provide camps for the intercession times. The supply meets the demand, simple economics.

There would still be a longer summer period of 6 weeks so no need to fret about not having the long lingering lazy days of summer. 6 weeks is plenty of time.

Anonymous wrote:We considered a house that fed into Barcroft elementary, which is a year-round school. I actually wasn't excited about the year-round aspect of it because I thought it would be more difficult to find backup care at random weeks during the year. Most schools are on similar August-June schedules and there are summer camps for the weeks school isn't in session.

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Anonymous wrote:The Alexandria modified calendar schools offer classes (either remedial or enrichment) during intercession to help alleviate the child are issue. It's in place at two of the schools with very high numbers of low income kids and gives them opportunities to participate in activities they might never get a chance to otherwise (things like karate).

I think it's a great concept.

But as I mentioned, both schools have terrible test scores and achievements have been few and far between so the concept doesn't seem to be all that beneficial.