Anonymous
Post 01/17/2015 15:22     Subject: Would you support a year around school calendar for FCPS?
Anonymous wrote:Yes, but I prefer a different term such as modified calendar. "Year round" can be misleading.


just stop. Call it what it is. Year round. And NO! I would not be in favor of it. Freaking liberals with their euphemisms.
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2015 14:34     Subject: Re:Would you support a year around school calendar for FCPS?
Ok these post are all from a working parents perspective. No I do not support it. I do support cutting the winter break and getting out of school in early June. Summer is June July and August. These kids are in school to long. They are not adults in the working world and that time will come for them soon enough. Stop trying to conform the schools to the working world. It wasn't that way for you and it shouldent be that way for the kids today. WTF are you trying to do to these kids. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. This is so wrong. Why did you have children if you do not want to spend time with them? Cut back on your spending and spend some time raising your children. They will be adults soon enough!


But that's what the school system is based on. When the country was an agrarian society, school ended in the summer so the kids could assist in the the farms. How many kids are needed are needed in FCPS to work in the fields today? Why shouldn't the school systems change to be more inline with today's working society?


The logic of 'let them be kids' kills me. I grew up on a farm and our 'summer' work started even before school got out in May. It didn't matter if school was in session or not, chores began the same time every day and the cows had to be milked twice a day every day. We prepped fruit trees/beehives in the spring. We started seeds indoors in March. Began garden prep in April and worked most all day every day in early summer getting the vegetable gardens. If you had a break, you cut grass (there was always grass to cut). When we got bigger, there was hay to cut and bale (I never had to stack - was never big enough to really pick up the bales so I drove the tractor/baler). By the time July came around, it was time to start harvesting and selling vegetables.

Tell me more about summer being a time for a kid to be a kid.
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2015 12:10     Subject: Re:Would you support a year around school calendar for FCPS?
Anonymous wrote:No and it will most likely never happen. All of the school would need to be air conditioned first. I wonder how much that would cost.


I'd heard this as a reason for post-Labor Day schedules.

But this doesn't make much sense because poor states in the south start their kids in august.

Do we have schools that aren't air conditioned?
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2015 23:52     Subject: Re:Would you support a year around school calendar for FCPS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Ok these post are all from a working parents perspective. No I do not support it. I do support cutting the winter break and getting out of school in early June. Summer is June July and August. These kids are in school to long. They are not adults in the working world and that time will come for them soon enough. Stop trying to conform the schools to the working world. It wasn't that way for you and it shouldent be that way for the kids today. WTF are you trying to do to these kids. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. This is so wrong. Why did you have children if you do not want to spend time with them? Cut back on your spending and spend some time raising your children. They will be adults soon enough!


Idiot!


Sorry, I think PP had it right. Too many hyper parents trying to over-program everything. Many are probably the same folks who fought against adjusting high school start times later because kids needed to get used to early hours because that's what would be expected in the workplace. Ninnies!
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2015 20:53     Subject: Re:Would you support a year around school calendar for FCPS?
No and it will most likely never happen. All of the school would need to be air conditioned first. I wonder how much that would cost.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2015 20:27     Subject: Re:Would you support a year around school calendar for FCPS?
Anonymous wrote:Ok these post are all from a working parents perspective. No I do not support it. I do support cutting the winter break and getting out of school in early June. Summer is June July and August. These kids are in school to long. They are not adults in the working world and that time will come for them soon enough. Stop trying to conform the schools to the working world. It wasn't that way for you and it shouldent be that way for the kids today. WTF are you trying to do to these kids. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. This is so wrong. Why did you have children if you do not want to spend time with them? Cut back on your spending and spend some time raising your children. They will be adults soon enough!


Idiot!
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2015 20:18     Subject: Re:Would you support a year around school calendar for FCPS?
Anonymous wrote:

I never understood the issues with "learning retention." Are 21st-century kids born with shorter memories? We all had summer vacations, and I don't recall hand-wringing about it back then.


Teachers have known about this since before you were born. signed Retired teacher








OK, if you say so. But I guarantee it was NOT the bandied-about issue it is today way back when. Nor did we spend the first six weeks of school going repeating the entire math curriculum of the previous year.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2015 18:59     Subject: Re:Would you support a year around school calendar for FCPS?

I never understood the issues with "learning retention." Are 21st-century kids born with shorter memories? We all had summer vacations, and I don't recall hand-wringing about it back then.


Teachers have known about this since before you were born. signed Retired teacher






Anonymous
Post 01/16/2015 18:24     Subject: Would you support a year around school calendar for FCPS?
I would completely support year-round school. Love the idea of longer and more frequent breaks so that kids get breaks more often rather than one long hot summer break. Four or five weeks during summer would still be long enough.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2015 16:56     Subject: Would you support a year around school calendar for FCPS?
Doesn't swim team only go part of the summer anyway? It seems to at our neighborhood pool. They start while school is still in session, too.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2015 16:55     Subject: Would you support a year around school calendar for FCPS?
Hell yes, I would support year round school.

I do not need my kid to help me in the farm since this is not 1900's. I don't know any teens that work anymore... not even cut grass for money. They just inside the house and play video games all night and then come out at night drinking and peeing on the streets.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2015 16:50     Subject: Would you support a year around school calendar for FCPS?
Yes, yes, yes. Then maybe we can catch up to the rest of the world (not US) in education.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2015 16:37     Subject: Would you support a year around school calendar for FCPS?
Anonymous wrote:Revive this thread the 3rd week of Aug. See how many people are complaining that their kids need to go back to school and summer break is too long.


No problem here in August. But basically a week off after the two week winter break was a bear. PP I think the complaints with summer break being to long is not coming from the children. Just the parents who don't want to be bothered any longer.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2015 15:49     Subject: Re:Would you support a year around school calendar for FCPS?
No. My kids enjoy spending their summers at the pool with their friends and doing swim team.. Having a much shorter summer would impact that. As far as the academic slide, have your kids read, write, and, if you'd like, do a math workbook for thirty minutes per day over the summer.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2015 15:44     Subject: Would you support a year around school calendar for FCPS?
Revive this thread the 3rd week of Aug. See how many people are complaining that their kids need to go back to school and summer break is too long.