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Anonymous wrote:I think the year round idea is going to be more popular with parents of younger kids. For high schoolers, having only 5-6 weeks of summer could make it almost impossible to attend national-level camps/internships/summer programs or to have a meaningful summer job.

+1. Teachers hate it too. It’s the one thing they like about their jobs - long summer breaks. I think year round is DOA.

Praying the teachers push back against this idea. I love a long lazy summer with my kids!

I’m a teacher and will be pushing FOR it.

+1 I would LOVE the 9 week on, 3 week off schedule with a 5 week summer. Please, please, please can this happen in my lifetime? (Probably not, but one can always hope.)

Why? How old are your kids? Can you help me understand the benefits to a schedule like this?

My kids are in high school. They work as life guards during the summer. I am a high school teacher.

I would like having time off during the fall and the spring to visit family and travel during the "off season." I think the summer learning loss issue would be slightly lessened. I would like to move away from having all of these religious days off. I would like a fixed, predictable calendar. I would like for younger kids to have the opportunity to do different types of camps (seasonally related) for childcare during the breaks. I like the idea of schools developing intercession enrichment activities (and/or targeted instruction) for kids during the 3 week fall and spring breaks. (Extended School Year programs could still occur during the 5 week summer.)

Insider insight:

LCPS doesn’t know how to implement year round without losing an estimated 25-35% of the current staff as stated by current employees.

Why? How old are your kids? Can you help me understand the benefits to a schedule like this?

I'm not the PP but as a teacher, the year-round schedule is far preferable to me because of the huge losses I see occur the summer--and those losses are truly compounded by how much time we spend re-teaching in the fall and giving endless required assessments so we can quantify what losses students had over the summer. A year-round schedule would mitigate those losses and give us a chance to catch students up after briefer breaks. I truly would prefer genuine year-round school, at least in the Title I schools, with as few breaks as possible to help students try to make it to grade level, but I know that's not going to happen.

I thought the school board was supposed to vote on this yesterday? Does anyone have any insight?

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Anonymous wrote:I think the year round idea is going to be more popular with parents of younger kids. For high schoolers, having only 5-6 weeks of summer could make it almost impossible to attend national-level camps/internships/summer programs or to have a meaningful summer job.

+1. Teachers hate it too. It’s the one thing they like about their jobs - long summer breaks. I think year round is DOA.

Praying the teachers push back against this idea. I love a long lazy summer with my kids!

I’m a teacher and will be pushing FOR it.

+1 I would LOVE the 9 week on, 3 week off schedule with a 5 week summer. Please, please, please can this happen in my lifetime? (Probably not, but one can always hope.)

Why? How old are your kids? Can you help me understand the benefits to a schedule like this?

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Anonymous wrote:I think the year round idea is going to be more popular with parents of younger kids. For high schoolers, having only 5-6 weeks of summer could make it almost impossible to attend national-level camps/internships/summer programs or to have a meaningful summer job.

+1. Teachers hate it too. It’s the one thing they like about their jobs - long summer breaks. I think year round is DOA.

Praying the teachers push back against this idea. I love a long lazy summer with my kids!

I’m a teacher and will be pushing FOR it.

+1 I would LOVE the 9 week on, 3 week off schedule with a 5 week summer. Please, please, please can this happen in my lifetime? (Probably not, but one can always hope.)

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Anonymous wrote:I’m completely against year round school and am hoping LCPS doesn’t head that direction. I love summer break.

Did you even look at the sample calendar? There’s still a summer break, it’s just 5-6 weeks instead of 8+.

Summer 2026 would only be 7 or 8 weeks instead of 9-10 weeks but summers there after would go back to normal length but start and end differently.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the year round idea is going to be more popular with parents of younger kids. For high schoolers, having only 5-6 weeks of summer could make it almost impossible to attend national-level camps/internships/summer programs or to have a meaningful summer job.

+1. Teachers hate it too. It’s the one thing they like about their jobs - long summer breaks. I think year round is DOA.

Praying the teachers push back against this idea. I love a long lazy summer with my kids!

I don't know any family in Loudoun that has long lazy anything; we have the most over-scheduled kids of anywhere. There are at least 2 robotics/school prep/sports/trampoline/karate/swimming places in every strip mall that could accommodate "school break camp."

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Anonymous wrote:I think the year round idea is going to be more popular with parents of younger kids. For high schoolers, having only 5-6 weeks of summer could make it almost impossible to attend national-level camps/internships/summer programs or to have a meaningful summer job.

+1. Teachers hate it too. It’s the one thing they like about their jobs - long summer breaks. I think year round is DOA.

Praying the teachers push back against this idea. I love a long lazy summer with my kids!

Can't remember the last "long lazy summer" because, you know, I'm employed.

Tough luck. Become a teacher if you want summers off. Otherwise silence and clock in on time

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Anonymous wrote:I think the year round idea is going to be more popular with parents of younger kids. For high schoolers, having only 5-6 weeks of summer could make it almost impossible to attend national-level camps/internships/summer programs or to have a meaningful summer job.

+1. Teachers hate it too. It’s the one thing they like about their jobs - long summer breaks. I think year round is DOA.

Praying the teachers push back against this idea. I love a long lazy summer with my kids!

Can't remember the last "long lazy summer" because, you know, I'm employed.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the year round idea is going to be more popular with parents of younger kids. For high schoolers, having only 5-6 weeks of summer could make it almost impossible to attend national-level camps/internships/summer programs or to have a meaningful summer job.

+1. Teachers hate it too. It’s the one thing they like about their jobs - long summer breaks. I think year round is DOA.

Praying the teachers push back against this idea. I love a long lazy summer with my kids!

I’m a teacher and will be pushing FOR it.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the year round idea is going to be more popular with parents of younger kids. For high schoolers, having only 5-6 weeks of summer could make it almost impossible to attend national-level camps/internships/summer programs or to have a meaningful summer job.

+1. Teachers hate it too. It’s the one thing they like about their jobs - long summer breaks. I think year round is DOA.

Praying the teachers push back against this idea. I love a long lazy summer with my kids!

Anonymous wrote:I think the year round idea is going to be more popular with parents of younger kids. For high schoolers, having only 5-6 weeks of summer could make it almost impossible to attend national-level camps/internships/summer programs or to have a meaningful summer job.

+1. Teachers hate it too. It’s the one thing they like about their jobs - long summer breaks. I think year round is DOA.

I think the year round idea is going to be more popular with parents of younger kids. For high schoolers, having only 5-6 weeks of summer could make it almost impossible to attend national-level camps/internships/summer programs or to have a meaningful summer job.

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We go long because we build in a lot of denominational holidays that other school districts around the country don’t. We have to add in days for the Jewish holidays, Muslim, and Hindu holidays in our calendar. This stretches us further into the year to hit the required seat hours.

We also go long because on addition to the needed teacher work days, we have a bunch of teacher training days. At least from my perspective as an experienced teacher who gets high ratings, there are too many of those. It often feels like we are getting trained on things because there is a training day, and not because the training is critical to our teaching that time.

Oh I 100% agree as an LCPS teacher. Those countywide staff development days are the worst.