| Name | Comments |
1 | Lars :Larsen | Here we go again!It's the same thing every year. |
2 | Andrea Sharp | unhealthy for kids to ride on a school bus without A/C in the August heat/humidity; no money to pay for the extra energy costs; most other countries summer break is in August...post Labor Day Start does allow to visit family living outside the U.S. |
3 | Jasa Wolfrey | Let's focus on the kids and education, first. |
4 | Kenny Wolfrey | |
5 | Sherry Petri | Please do a facebook search and like the page "We like starting school after labor day in Stafford Va". Thank you for starting this petition. I hope they will listen. |
6 | Michael C. Brown | |
7 | Chelsea Brown | |
8 | Ronald Vick | |
9 | Shawn Ballister | |
10 | Georgia M-Neary | |
11 | Stephen Ballister | |
12 | Jennifer Johns | PLEASE let us have our family summer... discounted rates in late August are the only way SO MANY families can afford a vacation! Thanks for the petition! |
13 | Thomas Johns | |
14 | Marla Mooney | I have yet to see that adding extra days to the school calendar significantly improves student learning and the County school budget. |
15 | Debby Martinich | |
16 | jade bolinh | |
17 | carmen fierro | |
18 | Beth A Mann | unsupported claims |
19 | Pamela de Toledo | Are the schools so focused on improving test scores that they have forgotten about child development as a whole? Summers are so valuable for the development of life skills - independence, employment, etc. Family time is important too for our kids! |
20 | Kelly Upton | |
21 | Kathy Morgan | Why is Fairfax County so successful with test scores and they start after Labor Day? Time to look inside our educational system for answers, folks. Board Members who vote yes, you get to ride the bus in the sweltering heat w. the kids if this passes! |
22 | Alan Morgan | Mid-August start date? What Board Member is taking my kid back to college while I'm at the bus stop w/ my younger kids? Ah, another brilliant idea by the School Board. |
23 | Kathleen Grilli | |
24 | Christina Perry | |
25 | Anne Jacobsen | There is no evidence to support the claim that this does anything to benefit the kids. |
26 | Margaret Fearing | |
27 | Robert Fearing | |
28 | Tracey Powers | |
29 | Anne Baumgartel | |
30 | Anjanette Miller | |
31 | Lauren T. Bass | Seriously??? Spend all of that extra money on increased energy costs? Eliminating all of the ridiculous half-days would be a better option than forcing our kids back to school in the middle of the summer. |
32 | Alfred Gregory | |
33 | Kathleen Cox | SOL's are given during the school year at the High School level. Snow make up days don't benefit the fall semester kids. SOL's at Elementary level are already given in June so the test dates have already been adjusted to the Labor day start. |
34 | Lisa Gregory | |
35 | Mariah Strickland | NO! This is ridiculous! Don't cut summer and DON'T cut half days! Teach smarter! Quit focusing our kids on passing tests to meet a "STANDARD" and let them LEARN to remember not to cram for a test!! |
36 | Martha Heins | |
37 | Robert P (Bob) Hunt | |
38 | Kristina Ballard | |
39 | Erin visser | Unless the extra time was used to give every child an IEP I am against extending the school year. We use the summer to apply what we have learned and would rather my kids experience those lessons rather than study for a mandated cookie cutter test. |
40 | Ruth Carlone | |
41 | Angelo Michael Carlone | I agree with Mariah Strickland's comments |
42 | Joe Brito | |
43 | heidi harrison | |
44 | Joe Harrison | |
45 | Ashley Krawczyk | |
46 | Christine Franklin | |
47 | Yvonne Barber | |
48 | Kristine Bealmear | |
49 | Wendy Babec | |
50 | John Babec | |