Schools closed April 21

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS is being negligent of its one mission-to educate!


The entire SB needs to be fired for allowing this Calendar to have occurred.

Encourage the parent-leaders at your schools to look into running for seats and support those who do however you can (time, money, spreading the word). Many of the current board members don't have children or have children that aged out of K12 a long time ago. It's not really a surprise they can't make decisions that work for FCPS families.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The 22nd is also a 3 hr early release for my ES kids. Just hoping SACC will be open the 21st.

I think the other poster was joking but seriously, if you can take PTO, just take a 5 day weekend and make memories with your kids instead of stressing about the most insane patchwork calendar. Your kids won't miss anything. If they are younger, anything taught Monday will have to be retaught Thursday in routine and if your kids are older, they can self-study during travel.

You don't have to play their games.

We already have other travel planned this spring but yeah it would be a good week to travel.

I have to wonder what the absences have been like for UMC children in elementary school this year.

Probably high. But families are making the choices that are right for them, and if FCPS cared they would change their approach. And if grades or scores were slipping you know the UMC families would change their approach or deal with it some other way. So it seems FCPS is making bad choices and families are adapting as they see fit. Not ideal but I don't' blame anyone for not making bad decisions for their families because FCPS is incompetent.

I totally agree, but FCPS tries to hide chronic absenteeism by guilting families who might pull their kids from school a week before winter break to travel. These families are supposed to keep the average down by carrying on perfect attendance. I mean, that’s why 3 hour early releases were moved to Wednesday in the first place because attendance was down when it was held on Mondays. This year, with poor planning and a lot of Tuesday closures, they created 4 potential 5 day weekends for families not worried about missing 1.5 days of school.

[Anonymous]

They need to remove the three hour early release that same week if schools are closed on the 21st. Teachers now have that FULL day to do work.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The 22nd is also a 3 hr early release for my ES kids. Just hoping SACC will be open the 21st.

I think the other poster was joking but seriously, if you can take PTO, just take a 5 day weekend and make memories with your kids instead of stressing about the most insane patchwork calendar. Your kids won't miss anything. If they are younger, anything taught Monday will have to be retaught Thursday in routine and if your kids are older, they can self-study during travel.

You don't have to play their games.

We already have other travel planned this spring but yeah it would be a good week to travel.

I have to wonder what the absences have been like for UMC children in elementary school this year.

Probably high. But families are making the choices that are right for them, and if FCPS cared they would change their approach. And if grades or scores were slipping you know the UMC families would change their approach or deal with it some other way. So it seems FCPS is making bad choices and families are adapting as they see fit. Not ideal but I don't' blame anyone for not making bad decisions for their families because FCPS is incompetent.

I totally agree, but FCPS tries to hide chronic absenteeism by guilting families who might pull their kids from school a week before winter break to travel. These families are supposed to keep the average down by carrying on perfect attendance. I mean, that’s why 3 hour early releases were moved to Wednesday in the first place because attendance was down when it was held on Mondays. This year, with poor planning and a lot of Tuesday closures, they created 4 potential 5 day weekends for families not worried about missing 1.5 days of school.

That is 100% why they moved them to Wednesdays.

FCPS has the resources and ability to attract top talent to help address chronic absenteeism which is a real problem. But instead they spend their money on bodyguards and unneeded boundary reviews and bully the people who want to take a day for a family wedding while taking responsibility for making up work while using a disproportionate amount of class time trying to get the chronically absent kids even sort of on grade level.

That's why I gave up at taking attendance seriously. FCPS can only bully you if you let them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:'Fairfax County Public Schools will still exceed the required number of instructional hours for students, as set by the Virginia Department of Education."

I love that the bar is the bare minimum. Missing days, especially at the end of the year before finals and AP exams definitely has an impact.

They really need to do away with the religious holidays.

You really wanted to regurgitate your "the bar is the bare minimum" line you've said on DOZENS of FCPS post so badly that you're willing to use it even when it doesn't make sense.

This is FCPS saying that they're still SURPASSING/EXCEEDING/DOING MORE THAN the minimum of hours.

So yes, like everything else with a numerically based legal obligation, they're referencing the number they must meet. If they were doing the bare minimum, they would've said:

"FCPS will now be meeting the exact number of required number of instructional hours for students, as set by the Virginia Department of Education."

But they didn't say that. You just wished they did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:'Fairfax County Public Schools will still exceed the required number of instructional hours for students, as set by the Virginia Department of Education."

I love that the bar is the bare minimum. Missing days, especially at the end of the year before finals and AP exams definitely has an impact.

They really need to do away with the religious holidays.

You really wanted to regurgitate your "the bar is the bare minimum" line you've said on DOZENS of FCPS post so badly that you're willing to use it even when it doesn't make sense.

This is FCPS saying that they're still SURPASSING/EXCEEDING/DOING MORE THAN the minimum of hours.

So yes, like everything else with a numerically based legal obligation, they're referencing the number they must meet. If they were doing the bare minimum, they would've said:

"FCPS will now be meeting the exact number of required number of instructional hours for students, as set by the Virginia Department of Education."

But they didn't say that. You just wished they did.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:'Fairfax County Public Schools will still exceed the required number of instructional hours for students, as set by the Virginia Department of Education."

I love that the bar is the bare minimum. Missing days, especially at the end of the year before finals and AP exams definitely has an impact.

They really need to do away with the religious holidays.

You really wanted to regurgitate your "the bar is the bare minimum" line you've said on DOZENS of FCPS post so badly that you're willing to use it even when it doesn't make sense.

This is FCPS saying that they're still SURPASSING/EXCEEDING/DOING MORE THAN the minimum of hours.

So yes, like everything else with a numerically based legal obligation, they're referencing the number they must meet. If they were doing the bare minimum, they would've said:

"FCPS will now be meeting the exact number of required number of instructional hours for students, as set by the Virginia Department of Education."

But they didn't say that. You just wished they did.

NP-you're really arguing semantics and I agree with the prior poster. FCPS is only meeting a very low bar and they are doing the bare minimum. Nothing you say will convince me otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:'Fairfax County Public Schools will still exceed the required number of instructional hours for students, as set by the Virginia Department of Education."

I love that the bar is the bare minimum. Missing days, especially at the end of the year before finals and AP exams definitely has an impact.

They really need to do away with the religious holidays.

You really wanted to regurgitate your "the bar is the bare minimum" line you've said on DOZENS of FCPS post so badly that you're willing to use it even when it doesn't make sense.

This is FCPS saying that they're still SURPASSING/EXCEEDING/DOING MORE THAN the minimum of hours.

So yes, like everything else with a numerically based legal obligation, they're referencing the number they must meet. If they were doing the bare minimum, they would've said:

"FCPS will now be meeting the exact number of required number of instructional hours for students, as set by the Virginia Department of Education."

But they didn't say that. You just wished they did.

NP-you're really arguing semantics and I agree with the prior poster. FCPS is only meeting a very low bar and they are doing the bare minimum. Nothing you say will convince me otherwise.

Semantics? Words have specific meaning. Perhaps a lack of understanding of the definition of "bare minimum" is a more accurate argument for you to try and use.

Fairfax County Public Schools EXCEEDING the amount of required hours, by definition, is doing MORE than the "bare minimum".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:'Fairfax County Public Schools will still exceed the required number of instructional hours for students, as set by the Virginia Department of Education."

I love that the bar is the bare minimum. Missing days, especially at the end of the year before finals and AP exams definitely has an impact.

They really need to do away with the religious holidays.

You really wanted to regurgitate your "the bar is the bare minimum" line you've said on DOZENS of FCPS post so badly that you're willing to use it even when it doesn't make sense.

This is FCPS saying that they're still SURPASSING/EXCEEDING/DOING MORE THAN the minimum of hours.

So yes, like everything else with a numerically based legal obligation, they're referencing the number they must meet. If they were doing the bare minimum, they would've said:

"FCPS will now be meeting the exact number of required number of instructional hours for students, as set by the Virginia Department of Education."

But they didn't say that. You just wished they did.

NP-you're really arguing semantics and I agree with the prior poster. FCPS is only meeting a very low bar and they are doing the bare minimum. Nothing you say will convince me otherwise.

Semantics? Words have specific meaning. Perhaps a lack of understanding of the definition of "bare minimum" is a more accurate argument for you to try and use.

Fairfax County Public Schools EXCEEDING the amount of required hours, by definition, is doing MORE than the "bare minimum".

You thinking FCPS is doing a good job at education children became of a stupidly low hourly requirement is an actual joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:'Fairfax County Public Schools will still exceed the required number of instructional hours for students, as set by the Virginia Department of Education."

I love that the bar is the bare minimum. Missing days, especially at the end of the year before finals and AP exams definitely has an impact.

They really need to do away with the religious holidays.

You really wanted to regurgitate your "the bar is the bare minimum" line you've said on DOZENS of FCPS post so badly that you're willing to use it even when it doesn't make sense.

This is FCPS saying that they're still SURPASSING/EXCEEDING/DOING MORE THAN the minimum of hours.

So yes, like everything else with a numerically based legal obligation, they're referencing the number they must meet. If they were doing the bare minimum, they would've said:

"FCPS will now be meeting the exact number of required number of instructional hours for students, as set by the Virginia Department of Education."

But they didn't say that. You just wished they did.

NP-you're really arguing semantics and I agree with the prior poster. FCPS is only meeting a very low bar and they are doing the bare minimum. Nothing you say will convince me otherwise.

Semantics? Words have specific meaning. Perhaps a lack of understanding of the definition of "bare minimum" is a more accurate argument for you to try and use.

Fairfax County Public Schools EXCEEDING the amount of required hours, by definition, is doing MORE than the "bare minimum".

You thinking FCPS is doing a good job at education children became of a stupidly low hourly requirement is an actual joke.

No one said or implied that "FCPS is doing a good job at education children became of a stupidly low hourly requirement".

However, it is a fact that FCPS is doing more than the bare minimum that is mandated by the Virginia Department of Education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:'Fairfax County Public Schools will still exceed the required number of instructional hours for students, as set by the Virginia Department of Education."

I love that the bar is the bare minimum. Missing days, especially at the end of the year before finals and AP exams definitely has an impact.

They really need to do away with the religious holidays.

You really wanted to regurgitate your "the bar is the bare minimum" line you've said on DOZENS of FCPS post so badly that you're willing to use it even when it doesn't make sense.

This is FCPS saying that they're still SURPASSING/EXCEEDING/DOING MORE THAN the minimum of hours.

So yes, like everything else with a numerically based legal obligation, they're referencing the number they must meet. If they were doing the bare minimum, they would've said:

"FCPS will now be meeting the exact number of required number of instructional hours for students, as set by the Virginia Department of Education."

But they didn't say that. You just wished they did.

NP-you're really arguing semantics and I agree with the prior poster. FCPS is only meeting a very low bar and they are doing the bare minimum. Nothing you say will convince me otherwise.

Semantics? Words have specific meaning. Perhaps a lack of understanding of the definition of "bare minimum" is a more accurate argument for you to try and use.

Fairfax County Public Schools EXCEEDING the amount of required hours, by definition, is doing MORE than the "bare minimum".

Go away!! You're exhausting and you are missing the point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:'Fairfax County Public Schools will still exceed the required number of instructional hours for students, as set by the Virginia Department of Education."

I love that the bar is the bare minimum. Missing days, especially at the end of the year before finals and AP exams definitely has an impact.

They really need to do away with the religious holidays.

You really wanted to regurgitate your "the bar is the bare minimum" line you've said on DOZENS of FCPS post so badly that you're willing to use it even when it doesn't make sense.

This is FCPS saying that they're still SURPASSING/EXCEEDING/DOING MORE THAN the minimum of hours.

So yes, like everything else with a numerically based legal obligation, they're referencing the number they must meet. If they were doing the bare minimum, they would've said:

"FCPS will now be meeting the exact number of required number of instructional hours for students, as set by the Virginia Department of Education."

But they didn't say that. You just wished they did.

NP-you're really arguing semantics and I agree with the prior poster. FCPS is only meeting a very low bar and they are doing the bare minimum. Nothing you say will convince me otherwise.

Semantics? Words have specific meaning. Perhaps a lack of understanding of the definition of "bare minimum" is a more accurate argument for you to try and use.

Fairfax County Public Schools EXCEEDING the amount of required hours, by definition, is doing MORE than the "bare minimum".

You thinking FCPS is doing a good job at education children became of a stupidly low hourly requirement is an actual joke.

No one said or implied that "FCPS is doing a good job at education children became of a stupidly low hourly requirement".

However, it is a fact that FCPS is doing more than the bare minimum that is mandated by the Virginia Department of Education.

You're stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:'Fairfax County Public Schools will still exceed the required number of instructional hours for students, as set by the Virginia Department of Education."

I love that the bar is the bare minimum. Missing days, especially at the end of the year before finals and AP exams definitely has an impact.

They really need to do away with the religious holidays.

You really wanted to regurgitate your "the bar is the bare minimum" line you've said on DOZENS of FCPS post so badly that you're willing to use it even when it doesn't make sense.

This is FCPS saying that they're still SURPASSING/EXCEEDING/DOING MORE THAN the minimum of hours.

So yes, like everything else with a numerically based legal obligation, they're referencing the number they must meet. If they were doing the bare minimum, they would've said:

"FCPS will now be meeting the exact number of required number of instructional hours for students, as set by the Virginia Department of Education."

But they didn't say that. You just wished they did.

NP-you're really arguing semantics and I agree with the prior poster. FCPS is only meeting a very low bar and they are doing the bare minimum. Nothing you say will convince me otherwise.

Semantics? Words have specific meaning. Perhaps a lack of understanding of the definition of "bare minimum" is a more accurate argument for you to try and use.

Fairfax County Public Schools EXCEEDING the amount of required hours, by definition, is doing MORE than the "bare minimum".

You thinking FCPS is doing a good job at education children became of a stupidly low hourly requirement is an actual joke.

No one said or implied that "FCPS is doing a good job at education children became of a stupidly low hourly requirement".

However, it is a fact that FCPS is doing more than the bare minimum that is mandated by the Virginia Department of Education.

You're stupid.

Well, this is mature.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:'Fairfax County Public Schools will still exceed the required number of instructional hours for students, as set by the Virginia Department of Education."

I love that the bar is the bare minimum. Missing days, especially at the end of the year before finals and AP exams definitely has an impact.

They really need to do away with the religious holidays.

You really wanted to regurgitate your "the bar is the bare minimum" line you've said on DOZENS of FCPS post so badly that you're willing to use it even when it doesn't make sense.

This is FCPS saying that they're still SURPASSING/EXCEEDING/DOING MORE THAN the minimum of hours.

So yes, like everything else with a numerically based legal obligation, they're referencing the number they must meet. If they were doing the bare minimum, they would've said:

"FCPS will now be meeting the exact number of required number of instructional hours for students, as set by the Virginia Department of Education."

But they didn't say that. You just wished they did.

NP-you're really arguing semantics and I agree with the prior poster. FCPS is only meeting a very low bar and they are doing the bare minimum. Nothing you say will convince me otherwise.

Semantics? Words have specific meaning. Perhaps a lack of understanding of the definition of "bare minimum" is a more accurate argument for you to try and use.

Fairfax County Public Schools EXCEEDING the amount of required hours, by definition, is doing MORE than the "bare minimum".

You thinking FCPS is doing a good job at education children became of a stupidly low hourly requirement is an actual joke.

No one said or implied that "FCPS is doing a good job at education children became of a stupidly low hourly requirement".

However, it is a fact that FCPS is doing more than the bare minimum that is mandated by the Virginia Department of Education.

You're stupid.

Well, this is mature.

What's not mature is digging in your heels to argue that FCPS is doing more than the bare minimum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:'Fairfax County Public Schools will still exceed the required number of instructional hours for students, as set by the Virginia Department of Education."

I love that the bar is the bare minimum. Missing days, especially at the end of the year before finals and AP exams definitely has an impact.

They really need to do away with the religious holidays.

You really wanted to regurgitate your "the bar is the bare minimum" line you've said on DOZENS of FCPS post so badly that you're willing to use it even when it doesn't make sense.

This is FCPS saying that they're still SURPASSING/EXCEEDING/DOING MORE THAN the minimum of hours.

So yes, like everything else with a numerically based legal obligation, they're referencing the number they must meet. If they were doing the bare minimum, they would've said:

"FCPS will now be meeting the exact number of required number of instructional hours for students, as set by the Virginia Department of Education."

But they didn't say that. You just wished they did.

NP-you're really arguing semantics and I agree with the prior poster. FCPS is only meeting a very low bar and they are doing the bare minimum. Nothing you say will convince me otherwise.

Semantics? Words have specific meaning. Perhaps a lack of understanding of the definition of "bare minimum" is a more accurate argument for you to try and use.

Fairfax County Public Schools EXCEEDING the amount of required hours, by definition, is doing MORE than the "bare minimum".

You thinking FCPS is doing a good job at education children became of a stupidly low hourly requirement is an actual joke.

No one said or implied that "FCPS is doing a good job at education children became of a stupidly low hourly requirement".

However, it is a fact that FCPS is doing more than the bare minimum that is mandated by the Virginia Department of Education.

You're stupid.

Well, this is mature.

What's not mature is digging in your heels to argue that FCPS is doing more than the bare minimum.

The word for this would be, "immature". I'm guessing you attended the bare minimum of classes when you were in school, no?