Yay! Another religious holiday!

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Anonymous wrote:We've had 3 (4?) religious holidays so far this year... and endless more to come.

Liberals fought hard to remove any entanglement between public school and Christian religion, now these hypocrites can't add enough religious holidays to the schedule.

Wish my kids were in school and learning. Wish the School Board even cared about that.

Hey OP, how many days a year are the kids in school?

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Anonymous wrote:We have a longer year, though. As a teacher, I would prefer less days off during the year and a longer summer. These days off here and there help to catch up on sleep, but I can’t clear my head. I am always thinking about teaching.

I am also a teacher, but I have the opposite opinion. I support what research shows, that shorter and more frequent breaks are better for learning, and for preventing learning loss, than long summer breaks are.

I'm not sure how you can ever clear your head. Even with long summers, I am always thinking about teaching. In fact, I spend most of the summer each year catching up on professional reading and planning that I did not have time for during the school year.

You spend nearly 10 weeks on “professional reading”? Doubt that. What exactly are you reading - FCPS doesn’t assign anything or have one standardized book. I’m sure you have vacations. Sick of the exaggerations of how teachers spend all summer reading and planning. They don’t.

-former FCPS teacher

I leave school after our last contract day and pretty much don’t even think about work until that email comes through with our schedule for the week we return. Am I fully planned during the school year? Not even close, but when I’m done in June I’m done.

Current FCPS Teacher

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Anonymous wrote:Let me translate for OP:

"ugh, I hate having to take care of my own kids, wish I could go to Monday Barre class"

Yeah, if only it were that simple. I’d love to be going to barre class instead of paying private tutors to get my kids somewhat caught up after the scamdemic school closures, woke ideology run amock and now more holidays and days off. I think everyone and their beliefs should be celebrated but weve truly lost sight of the bigger picture here.

"Scamdemic?" Oh, you're dumb. Your poor kids.

More kids are out sick with the flu then with COVID , I never thought so but now I'd say yes

https://www.nbc29.com/2022/10/24/rsv-local-schools/?outputType=amp

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Anonymous wrote:Get over yourself, OP. There’s still plenty of school days in the year.

All these days off is terrible for High School students because it gives teachers fewer days to get through all the course information prior to AP exams, SOLS, and finals. It isn’t like these dates got pushed back a week so fewer days to learn information. Extending the school year an extra week in June once all of these exams are over is useless because all of the course information is already done. So we will have kids in school learning nothing in June when it is sunny and beautiful out.

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Anonymous wrote:Let me translate for OP:

"ugh, I hate having to take care of my own kids, wish I could go to Monday Barre class"

Yeah, if only it were that simple. I’d love to be going to barre class instead of paying private tutors to get my kids somewhat caught up after the scamdemic school closures, woke ideology run amock and now more holidays and days off. I think everyone and their beliefs should be celebrated but weve truly lost sight of the bigger picture here.

"Scamdemic?" Oh, you're dumb. Your poor kids.

More kids are out sick with the flu then with COVID , I never thought so but now I'd say yes

https://www.nbc29.com/2022/10/24/rsv-local-schools/?outputType=amp

The flu isn’t killing gramma or others at risk the same way covid does. It was never about the kids. It was about protecting others.

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Anonymous wrote:Let me translate for OP:

"ugh, I hate having to take care of my own kids, wish I could go to Monday Barre class"

Yeah, if only it were that simple. I’d love to be going to barre class instead of paying private tutors to get my kids somewhat caught up after the scamdemic school closures, woke ideology run amock and now more holidays and days off. I think everyone and their beliefs should be celebrated but weve truly lost sight of the bigger picture here.

"Scamdemic?" Oh, you're dumb. Your poor kids.

More kids are out sick with the flu then with COVID , I never thought so but now I'd say yes

https://www.nbc29.com/2022/10/24/rsv-local-schools/?outputType=amp

I think a lot of MAGA types are posting here. Most are not from DMV area. Don't pay attention to them. Their whining has nothing to do with kid's schooling .

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So only Christian holidays are ok for OP?

Your post "might" have had some credibility if you didn't throw that in there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So only Christian holidays are ok for OP?

Your post "might" have had some credibility if you didn't throw that in there.

Name a Christian holiday that isn't part of some other break. Hint - there aren't any.

In fact, there's only one Christian holiday that is part of an existing break and that one is far longer than it needs to be and the entire country takes it off anyway.

You fail.

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Anonymous wrote:We've had 3 (4?) religious holidays so far this year... and endless more to come.

Liberals fought hard to remove any entanglement between public school and Christian religion, now these hypocrites can't add enough religious holidays to the schedule.

Wish my kids were in school and learning. Wish the School Board even cared about that.

Do you complain about getting off for Christmas???????????????

DP here. Christmas happens to be a Federal holiday and is a day off for almost every organization and business. It also falls during the Winter Break which is not necessarily affiliated with a religion (although of course it encompasses several religious holidays).

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Anonymous wrote:We've had 3 (4?) religious holidays so far this year... and endless more to come.

Liberals fought hard to remove any entanglement between public school and Christian religion, now these hypocrites can't add enough religious holidays to the schedule.

Wish my kids were in school and learning. Wish the School Board even cared about that.

Do you complain about getting off for Christmas???????????????

DP here. Christmas happens to be a Federal holiday and is a day off for almost every organization and business. It also falls during the Winter Break which is not necessarily affiliated with a religion (although of course it encompasses several religious holidays).

Follow the federal holidays it's not that hard, then you don't need to create panels and so called diversity focus groups to waste money decide and complicate things. This is a rare case where th federal government actually has a use.

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Anonymous wrote:I like the breaks, it helps my HS stay on top of their studies and be able to have enough down time.

+1

I think it’s fine for high school, but for working parents with younger kids the inconsistent schedule is really hard.

It's not "inconsistent" if it's on a set schedule far in advance, which these days off are.

There is time to plan. I'm not saying it's easy or ideal, I get that it isn't. But calling it "inconsistent", as if schools just airily declare on a whim on Wednesday that the next Monday is a day off, whenever, is incorrect.

It’s inconsistent for my kid because that day of sitting around (I work outside the home) gets him in a funk. He would rather be in school.

You could have easily given him things to work on (reading, extra homework prep, chores, raking leaves, volunteering in the neighbor hood, etc.) if he did nothing that I’d definitely on you.

DP, but how old are your kids, where they can do these things independently and this parent can work without interruptions? Good luck finding volunteer opportunities without a parent. If anyone has a magic way to get kids to rake leaves for hours and actually do it, please let me know. Money doesn’t work. Any of these activities can occupy them for a little while but it’s constant start and stop all day for a parent trying to work.

No one said "rake leaves for hours," and you don't need "magic" to get your kids to do what you tell them to do. Have you tried -- oh, I don't know -- parenting?

Just go away!!!! These random days off are highly disruptive to even the best of kids. It has nothing to do with parenting. And if parents are at work, then it becomes harder to keep the kids engaged. Moreover, your woke self completely glosses over the fact that some kids don’t have huge yards to rake. Or that these random days off are hard on kids in troubled homes. And they certainly do no favors to the exact groupings of kids that you pretend to care for.

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Anonymous wrote:Pull the plug on stupid religious holidays, end sooner in June, start after Labor Day.

This includes Christian holidays right? School on Christmas, hooray!

I’m not the DP but I’m absolutely fine with that. Not that my kid would attend school that day anyway. You don’t get it, we just want a normal school year. This is really not a good calendar. Way too many short weeks and missed classes because of it. Monday and Friday might as well be study hall days at this point—how do teachers that have classes on those days handle it?

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Anonymous wrote:We've had 3 (4?) religious holidays so far this year... and endless more to come.

Liberals fought hard to remove any entanglement between public school and Christian religion, now these hypocrites can't add enough religious holidays to the schedule.

Wish my kids were in school and learning. Wish the School Board even cared about that.

Maybe you should send your kid to private. Homeschooling is also an option.

Maybe Public Schools should have a sensible schedule. I don't think that we have a month left this year were the kids have a full week of school every week. We have a few were there is only one short week but most have 2-3 weeks that are off or shortened. Say what you will about diversity but many kids need a more stable schedule.

Between Teacher Workdays and Religious holidays and Federal Holidays the kids are out of school in a way that is disruptive. Something needs to change. And yes, I filled out the survey. And I have looked at the survey results and it sure as hell looks to me like most parents are not happy with the schedule.

Actually, the first 3 weeks in December are full weeks.

And then time off so not a full month of school. The Winter Holiday is normal but the disruptions in September and October are new. January and February are traditionally a mess because it is near impossible to get back into a routine due to the various Federal Holidays and then snow days. Now we are extending that with extra days off in April.

The fall used to be reasonably stable but no more.

A complete mess.

My kid is fine but he doesn't have any issues and is chill and goes with the flow well. My friends kid with anxiety and ADHD is having issues with refusal this year because of all the disruptions. I can only imagine the trouble that kids with executive functioning issues are having because there are consistent changes to schedules.

It is unnecessary. Make these days O days where there are no tests or homework or assignments due. Let people who want to miss, miss without punishment, but stop disrupting the routines that are needed for lots of kids.

And if your high school kid needs the extra time to do the work and is stressed about the work load, revisit your kids workload.

Of course you assume that the 2 week "Winter Holiday is normal" because it is the one that works for you. O days were a mess last year, which is why they aren't doing them again.

Yeah, im muslim and having random 2 weeks off at the end of December is totally stupid and unnecessary for me. the weather is terrible, id rather have a longer break in spring/fall when the weather is nicer but there is a major religious holiday that most ppl celebrate and take off for so I think its fine to accommodate them. T. Jefferson had a huge role in shaping how this country was going to look, he planned for this- hindus and muslims and jews and all sorts of others will come here and they'll make this country a roaring success which.. it is compared to everywhere else. Look around you... and dont tell me EU.. EU had 3 devastating wars that they have recovered from b/c of massive mount of remittances from European immigrants who moved here and took office and helped them on a federal level. Those constant wars also taught them some hard lessons in resiliency and we should be thankful we haven't had to learn those lessons.

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Anonymous wrote:I like the breaks, it helps my HS stay on top of their studies and be able to have enough down time.

+1

I think it’s fine for high school, but for working parents with younger kids the inconsistent schedule is really hard.

School isn’t daycare, dumbass

This is the worst response. It's the same number of school days, genius.

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Anonymous wrote:I like the breaks, it helps my HS stay on top of their studies and be able to have enough down time.

+1

I think it’s fine for high school, but for working parents with younger kids the inconsistent schedule is really hard.

School isn’t daycare, dumbass

This is the worst response. It's the same number of school days, genius.

I agree to some extent with the daycare poster, but please, can we stop the name calling. Imbecile earlier, dumbass now. Why is it necessary? It just makes these forums more toxic