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Reply to "The school year is more than 10 months for staff and 2025-26 is extra long for students-Must be shortened"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The school yr is long for staff because they demanded a two wk winter break, unlike all our neighboring jurisdictions. We can all finish earlier or start later without that nonsense.[/quote] Most places have 2 weeks off for winter break outside the Northeast and Maryland. It's extreme SD/TW days and some religious closures that wouldn't have a mass absence problem. Extending spring break is fine but some other off days should be removed.[/quote] That’s not true at all. I’m from the Midwest and my family lives all over the Midwest. Everyone was shocked about how long our winter break was this year. They typically get the week between Christmas and new years and maybe one day on each side or travel.[/quote] I see Milwaukee only had 1.5 weeks but who else didn't have 2 weeks off in the Mid-West? Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Kansas City and St. Louis all had 2 weeks off. St. Louis was split between Wednesday, December 20-Tuesday, January 2 the rest all had 3 weekends.[/quote] DP I was curious and looked up the Ohio district I attended. They have 178 student days. Their winter break started on Friday Dec 22 and went through Tuesday January. 8 school days off. The first day of school was Wednesday, September 6 and their last day is Thursday, June 6. [/quote] This is a reasonable school calendar. The FCPS School Board would never adopt it.[/quote] 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.[/quote] The Ohio calendar is completely reasonable. There is far too much nonsense baked into FCPS's calendar.[/quote] I don’t think anybody on this board is holding you back from moving to Ohio[/quote]
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