Anonymous wrote:You are not an intelligent person. When disproven you resort to emoticons.

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Anonymous wrote:There was no public information that the system or school board was considering this for next year until it was disclosed at the school board work session in very late spring that there was a working group (with no teachers) studying this issue. It was most definitely rushed and secretive.

While people may have been considering this since YOU were a kid, there was no indication that this was officially going on in recent years.

You're kidding, right? Anyone who reads the paper regularly over the years would have seen editorials, letters to the editor, and articles regarding the early-release Monday. It's been controversial since, well, its implementation! It's a shame you're not happy with the School Board's decision, but I applaud them for cutting through the crap that would have resulted from holding multiple public hearings about the issue, and simply making a decision that the majority of FxCo taxpayers support.

Do you know what official means? Editorials, letters to the editor and articles are not official school board or FCPS actions. My post said "official."

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Anonymous wrote:There was no public information that the system or school board was considering this for next year until it was disclosed at the school board work session in very late spring that there was a working group (with no teachers) studying this issue. It was most definitely rushed and secretive.

While people may have been considering this since YOU were a kid, there was no indication that this was officially going on in recent years.

You're kidding, right? Anyone who reads the paper regularly over the years would have seen editorials, letters to the editor, and articles regarding the early-release Monday. It's been controversial since, well, its implementation! It's a shame you're not happy with the School Board's decision, but I applaud them for cutting through the crap that would have resulted from holding multiple public hearings about the issue, and simply making a decision that the majority of FxCo taxpayers support.

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Anonymous wrote:9:25, me too! I almost booked a weekend trip. Guess I shouldn't be so eager LOL!

We already did! We have one in a private school who has always has a four day weekend for Columbus day, so we jumped at the chance. Our other one will just miss a day now. Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things.

Anonymous wrote:There was no public information that the system or school board was considering this for next year until it was disclosed at the school board work session in very late spring that there was a working group (with no teachers) studying this issue. It was most definitely rushed and secretive.

While people may have been considering this since YOU were a kid, there was no indication that this was officially going on in recent years.

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Anonymous wrote:I keep teaching new things until the last day of school. The SOLs do not cover all the things I need my students to know.

You must be in the minority.

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Anonymous wrote:I keep teaching new things until the last day of school. The SOLs do not cover all the things I need my students to know.

You must be in the minority.

Anonymous wrote:I keep teaching new things until the last day of school. The SOLs do not cover all the things I need my students to know.

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Anonymous wrote:What is encouraging is the school can absorb 11 snow days without changing the calendar.

And what is discouraging is that there is no chance of getting those 11 days of summer back if we don't use a single snow day.

... b/c you don't want your children exposed to one minute of education more than the absolute minimum????? Nice standards.

It's FCPS. Get real. Everyone knows all new material stops in April for SOL prep and zero learning happens after the SOLs.

You're hilarious. If you can show me how I can get through all the math and social studies content by April, I'd nominate you for the Nobel prize. I am literally teaching new material up until early May. As for what happens after the SOLs, I'll give you that. After all it's one week and then school is out.

My kids were in school for an entire month after their SOLs.

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Anonymous wrote:What is encouraging is the school can absorb 11 snow days without changing the calendar.

And what is discouraging is that there is no chance of getting those 11 days of summer back if we don't use a single snow day.

... b/c you don't want your children exposed to one minute of education more than the absolute minimum????? Nice standards.

It's FCPS. Get real. Everyone knows all new material stops in April for SOL prep and zero learning happens after the SOLs.

You're hilarious. If you can show me how I can get through all the math and social studies content by April, I'd nominate you for the Nobel prize. I am literally teaching new material up until early May. As for what happens after the SOLs, I'll give you that. After all it's one week and then school is out.

Anonymous wrote:For those who wanted to keep short Mondays ---

NEWS FLASH --- it's over. Your position didn't win the day. Can you please give it a rest? The decision isn't going to be changed this year, probably not next year or the year after that. Harping about what you wanted and whether it was rushed and what the down-sides are --- NONE of it matters. Decision DONE.

Sit back and enjoy all your free Mondays and Tuesdays and Wednesdays and Thursdays and Fridays this summer while you still have them. Come Sept... it's going to be full days M-F. Accept it for what it is.... done.