Fairfax Co. parents support an August school start

Fairfax County parents are in favor of bumping up the school calendar to start classes before Labor Day, and frankly, we could not be less surprised: those little monsters haven’t been in school since Tuesday, thanks to snow and teachers’ professional days, and their parents must be cracking. Stay strong, McLean mothers and Franconia fathers!

We kid of course (your kids are awesome!), but 64 percent of 10,687 parents who responded to a survey from the school system said they support pushing the school calendar up. Of 12,562 school employees, 71 percent said the same — bring on fall 2011.