The school year is more than 10 months for staff and 2025-26 is extra long for students-Must be shortened

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you want kids to be in school the one-off religious days need to go. Any day in the middle of the week means that some sizeable portion of families will take the days in between off and make it a 4 or 5 day vacation. Ridiculous.

And the 80% of the PD is royal waste of time.

This
Remove 5 PD/TW days and religious holidays where very few people would be out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I prefer the longer school year.

me too

[Anonymous]

You can't keep extending the Xmas break and adding days off for all kinds of things... and then also want to start later in the fall and get out earlier in June!

Either you need to shorten your breaks and reduce days off (which I 100% support), or you end up with what appears to be a longer school year (shorter summer break).

People made their picks for longer breaks, and the school board was happy to comply.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We do NOT have extra snow days built in and the 2025-2026 calendar is set and not going to change. OP is too late.

Sorry for the impactful typo!

[Anonymous]

Maybe the 2025-2026 calendar will be changed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe the 2025-2026 calendar will be changed.

They are not going to shorten the school year. They would need to remove either the federal holidays or the new religious days or shorten the Winter Break and I don't see them doing any of that. The only one I potentially see them doing is removing the federal holidays. Losing the new religious holidays will cause a stink with the various religions and shortening winter break will piss off the people who take a month at that time of year to travel to Asia/SE Asia visit family and the parents who want two weeks in Europe or skiing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe the 2025-2026 calendar will be changed.

They are not going to shorten the school year. They would need to remove either the federal holidays or the new religious days or shorten the Winter Break and I don't see them doing any of that. The only one I potentially see them doing is removing the federal holidays. Losing the new religious holidays will cause a stink with the various religions and shortening winter break will piss off the people who take a month at that time of year to travel to Asia/SE Asia visit family and the parents who want two weeks in Europe or skiing.

If religious holiday must be kept as days off for all students, then schedule Teacher work days (professional development or planning days) on religious holidays and allow specific teachers to take off religious holiday on Teacher workdays if relevant to their religion.

-Teacher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe the 2025-2026 calendar will be changed.

They are not going to shorten the school year. They would need to remove either the federal holidays or the new religious days or shorten the Winter Break and I don't see them doing any of that. The only one I potentially see them doing is removing the federal holidays. Losing the new religious holidays will cause a stink with the various religions and shortening winter break will piss off the people who take a month at that time of year to travel to Asia/SE Asia visit family and the parents who want two weeks in Europe or skiing.

If religious holiday must be kept as days off for all students, then schedule Teacher work days (professional development or planning days) on religious holidays and allow specific teachers to take off religious holiday on Teacher workdays if relevant to their religion.

-Teacher

And that isn't going to happen because Teachers have kids at home at need to be able to watch their kids. I have plenty of friends who Teach who would be fine with the above plan and I also know that there will be a small, but large enough number, who will through a hissy fit and prevent it from happening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe the 2025-2026 calendar will be changed.

They are not going to shorten the school year. They would need to remove either the federal holidays or the new religious days or shorten the Winter Break and I don't see them doing any of that. The only one I potentially see them doing is removing the federal holidays. Losing the new religious holidays will cause a stink with the various religions and shortening winter break will piss off the people who take a month at that time of year to travel to Asia/SE Asia visit family and the parents who want two weeks in Europe or skiing.

If religious holiday must be kept as days off for all students, then schedule Teacher work days (professional development or planning days) on religious holidays and allow specific teachers to take off religious holiday on Teacher workdays if relevant to their religion.

-Teacher

And that isn't going to happen because Teachers have kids at home at need to be able to watch their kids. I have plenty of friends who Teach who would be fine with the above plan and I also know that there will be a small, but large enough number, who will through a hissy fit and prevent it from happening.

But you would just be replacing other TW days and PD days. The calendar is always going to have days where students are off (including teachers' kids) and teachers work. This seems like a decent proposal to make those days on religious holidays and let the teachers take off IF they observe that holiday. But when you are observing the holidays of 5 different religions, nobody is going to need all of those days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe the 2025-2026 calendar will be changed.

They are not going to shorten the school year. They would need to remove either the federal holidays or the new religious days or shorten the Winter Break and I don't see them doing any of that. The only one I potentially see them doing is removing the federal holidays. Losing the new religious holidays will cause a stink with the various religions and shortening winter break will piss off the people who take a month at that time of year to travel to Asia/SE Asia visit family and the parents who want two weeks in Europe or skiing.

If religious holiday must be kept as days off for all students, then schedule Teacher work days (professional development or planning days) on religious holidays and allow specific teachers to take off religious holiday on Teacher workdays if relevant to their religion.

-Teacher

Teacher here. They are doing that for some of them that year - Lunar New Year and Orthodox Good Friday. But there are way too many Professional Workdays - we don't need 10 throughout the year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe the 2025-2026 calendar will be changed.

They are not going to shorten the school year. They would need to remove either the federal holidays or the new religious days or shorten the Winter Break and I don't see them doing any of that. The only one I potentially see them doing is removing the federal holidays. Losing the new religious holidays will cause a stink with the various religions and shortening winter break will piss off the people who take a month at that time of year to travel to Asia/SE Asia visit family and the parents who want two weeks in Europe or skiing.

If religious holiday must be kept as days off for all students, then schedule Teacher work days (professional development or planning days) on religious holidays and allow specific teachers to take off religious holiday on Teacher workdays if relevant to their religion.

-Teacher

Teacher here. They are doing that for some of them that year - Lunar New Year and Orthodox Good Friday. But there are way too many Professional Workdays - we don't need 10 throughout the year.

I fully agree that there are too many Professional Workdays. Most of my Teacher friends say they are a waste of time and would prefer to be teaching or have them for lesson planning, IEP meetings, and grading if they are going to have them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe the 2025-2026 calendar will be changed.

They are not going to shorten the school year. They would need to remove either the federal holidays or the new religious days or shorten the Winter Break and I don't see them doing any of that. The only one I potentially see them doing is removing the federal holidays. Losing the new religious holidays will cause a stink with the various religions and shortening winter break will piss off the people who take a month at that time of year to travel to Asia/SE Asia visit family and the parents who want two weeks in Europe or skiing.

If religious holiday must be kept as days off for all students, then schedule Teacher work days (professional development or planning days) on religious holidays and allow specific teachers to take off religious holiday on Teacher workdays if relevant to their religion.

-Teacher

Teacher here. They are doing that for some of them that year - Lunar New Year and Orthodox Good Friday. But there are way too many Professional Workdays - we don't need 10 throughout the year.

I fully agree that there are too many Professional Workdays. Most of my Teacher friends say they are a waste of time and would prefer to be teaching or have them for lesson planning, IEP meetings, and grading if they are going to have them.

I am not even sure how much of most professional workdays are used for training. At my school, we have a 3 hour training on Tuesday and then are free to meet with our department or CT if necessary. Believe me, it's nice having the 2 days after Spring Break to get things done, but it could all probably be done in one day if necessary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I prefer the longer school year.

me too

I prefer the longer school year as well. Actually, I wish our 180 days were spread out over the whole year with 3-week breaks in between the quarters and a 5-week break in the summer. That would be awesome!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I prefer the longer school year.

me too

I prefer the longer school year as well. Actually, I wish our 180 days were spread out over the whole year with 3-week breaks in between the quarters and a 5-week break in the summer. That would be awesome!

I would love that, a 2 week break at the end of each quarter and a longer summer break, 7 weeks, would be good as well. But I would love longer breaks during the year. It would be easier and less expensive to travel during the year. Camps would develop for that time period for working parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I prefer the longer school year.

me too

I prefer the longer school year as well. Actually, I wish our 180 days were spread out over the whole year with 3-week breaks in between the quarters and a 5-week break in the summer. That would be awesome!

I would love that, a 2 week break at the end of each quarter and a longer summer break, 7 weeks, would be good as well. But I would love longer breaks during the year. It would be easier and less expensive to travel during the year. Camps would develop for that time period for working parents.

Yes! But, alas, like switching to/from daylight saving time, I think we are stuck with a suboptimal schedule.