Luckily, we get 180 school days in FCPS. In my old Houston TX suburbs, they have 165 days of school -- with a fall break, a week at Thanksgiving, 1.5 week winter break, spring break, other random days off, and a really long summer.
Personally, I like the long winter break and voted for it in the survey. Majority wins! |
This is a reasonable school calendar. The FCPS School Board would never adopt it. |
I wonder how this is possible since Fairfax had their 11th day on their 1st day and there are still 4 days of school after their last day. Winter break there was 3 days shorter and their school year 2 days shorter so how are the other 9 days made up? Do they not have a spring break? Based on how Christmas and January 1 fall the next few years it looks like they'll have 2 weeks the next 2 or 3 years as next year they would only have a 1 day week if they went back January 3 and the year after December 22 is a Monday. |
You couldn't be more wrong not only does every major mid-west city except Milwaukee have a 2 week break but so does nearly all of California. In fact look at LA, they have 3 weeks off and the entire week of Thanksgiving and their school year is only a little longer than Fairfax for students and it's actually shorter for teachers since they have 1 day before and after the school year. While it is a long school year it's because they have FIVE full weeks off (Thanksgiving, 3 in winter, 1 in spring) to 3 in Virginia (2 in winter, 1 in spring). Fairfax has a zillion teacher only days and single day holidays. |
My California schools actually had 3 week winter breaks when I was a kid. They always went through at least January 6 to accommodate all the kids going to Mexico for family celebrations.
They’ve since dropped it back down to 2 weeks, but I’ve never heard of less than 2 before I moved to Maryland. The 2 weeks here in Fairfax feels normal. |
Whose fault is it that parents didn't fill out the survey? Parents. The blame's on them. |
OMG - FFX has a ridiculous amount of time off. |
You think a 3-month (13-week) summer break is reasonable?? I'm sorry, I completely disagree. And, luckily, so does the majority of FCPS parents. |
Went back and looked again. They have one teacher workday during the school year and it is in October. Thanksgiving was W-F. Students are off 2 days for conferences. Spring break is three days, March 29-April 2. |
What’s best academically is to have a much shorter summer break. |
Uh, how do you know this? Do you speak for the majority of FCPS parents? |
How was the summer three months long? it’s more like 10 weeks. |
Is it also best academically to have multiple broken weeks? A long winter break? |
The Ohio calendar is completely reasonable. There is far too much nonsense baked into FCPS's calendar. |
I don’t think anybody on this board is holding you back from moving to Ohio |