Last Day of School Possibly Changing to June 12th?

[Anonymous]

The vote on Thursday is to make Indigenous People's Day and Veteran's Day school days next year. Two days. We're not touching anyone's precious religious holidays. We're not touching the two week winter break, we're not untying spring break from easter. We're just sending kids to school on two federal holidays, one of which is frequently in the middle of the week. I, for one, look forward to being able to go out to lunch with my spouse on Veteran's Day like we used to.

[Anonymous]

More $$$$ for camp. God I hate summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The vote on Thursday is to make Indigenous People's Day and Veteran's Day school days next year. Two days. We're not touching anyone's precious religious holidays. We're not touching the two week winter break, we're not untying spring break from easter. We're just sending kids to school on two federal holidays, one of which is frequently in the middle of the week. I, for one, look forward to being able to go out to lunch with my spouse on Veteran's Day like we used to.

Wow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The vote on Thursday is to make Indigenous People's Day and Veteran's Day school days next year. Two days. We're not touching anyone's precious religious holidays. We're not touching the two week winter break, we're not untying spring break from easter. We're just sending kids to school on two federal holidays, one of which is frequently in the middle of the week. I, for one, look forward to being able to go out to lunch with my spouse on Veteran's Day like we used to.

Here’s the thing. It will cost me zero dollars to hire childcare on Indigenous Peoples Day and Veterans Day since I will be off of work.

I will not have work off for the religious holidays that FCPC celebrates so will have to budget accordingly.

I wish it was the other way around.

I do support ending school on June 12th.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't get it. People have been complaining about all the random holidays, weather delays and closures, early releases, and the answer is to shorten the calendar?

No learning occurs after May AP exams, SOLs, etc.

School should end in June, and almost all of the religious cultural holidays should be eliminated.

In particular, Chinese Lunar New Year, Eastern orthodox Christmas, Day of the Dead, and Diwali should be in school days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't get it. People have been complaining about all the random holidays, weather delays and closures, early releases, and the answer is to shorten the calendar?

No learning occurs after May AP exams, SOLs, etc.

School should end in early June, or Menorial Day weekend, and almost all of the religious cultural holidays should be eliminated.

In particular, Chinese Lunar New Year, Eastern orthodox Christmas, Day of the Dead, and Diwali should be in school days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The vote on Thursday is to make Indigenous People's Day and Veteran's Day school days next year. Two days. We're not touching anyone's precious religious holidays. We're not touching the two week winter break, we're not untying spring break from easter. We're just sending kids to school on two federal holidays, one of which is frequently in the middle of the week. I, for one, look forward to being able to go out to lunch with my spouse on Veteran's Day like we used to.

Wow.

What is so shocking about the bolded?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't get it. People have been complaining about all the random holidays, weather delays and closures, early releases, and the answer is to shorten the calendar?

No learning occurs after May AP exams, SOLs, etc.

School should end in early June, or Menorial Day weekend, and almost all of the religious cultural holidays should be eliminated.

In particular, Chinese Lunar New Year, Eastern orthodox Christmas, Day of the Dead, and Diwali should be in school days.

Oh, so we can have off your holidays, but not mine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The vote on Thursday is to make Indigenous People's Day and Veteran's Day school days next year. Two days. We're not touching anyone's precious religious holidays. We're not touching the two week winter break, we're not untying spring break from easter. We're just sending kids to school on two federal holidays, one of which is frequently in the middle of the week. I, for one, look forward to being able to go out to lunch with my spouse on Veteran's Day like we used to.

Here’s the thing. It will cost me zero dollars to hire childcare on Indigenous Peoples Day and Veterans Day since I will be off of work.

I will not have work off for the religious holidays that FCPC celebrates so will have to budget accordingly.

I wish it was the other way around.

I do support ending school on June 12th.

Have you not been paying attention, sweetheart? Most of us are not government workers, we have to work on those two days and we don't want to take them off just because YOU have the day off. Similar to how you are here complaining about religious holidays that you don't want to take work off for. Are you really this stupid????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't get it. People have been complaining about all the random holidays, weather delays and closures, early releases, and the answer is to shorten the calendar?

No learning occurs after May AP exams, SOLs, etc.

School should end in early June, or Menorial Day weekend, and almost all of the religious cultural holidays should be eliminated.

In particular, Chinese Lunar New Year, Eastern orthodox Christmas, Day of the Dead, and Diwali should be in school days.

This gets repeated all the time and it isn’t true. Fourth quarter is an entire quarter. There is a MONTH of school after SOLs and AP tests. Yes we are still learning and doing work and covering new material! I hate when parents pretend we are sitting around doing nothing for a month because they want to push some agenda, it makes no damn sense and is not true.

-hs teacher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't get it. People have been complaining about all the random holidays, weather delays and closures, early releases, and the answer is to shorten the calendar?

No learning occurs after May AP exams, SOLs, etc.

School should end in June, and almost all of the religious cultural holidays should be eliminated.

In particular, Chinese Lunar New Year, Eastern orthodox Christmas, Day of the Dead, and Diwali should be in school days.

I went to a school system that ended in May. If you push up the last day of school, you just push up the date where "no learning occurs after.."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't get it. People have been complaining about all the random holidays, weather delays and closures, early releases, and the answer is to shorten the calendar?

No learning occurs after May AP exams, SOLs, etc.

School should end in June, and almost all of the religious cultural holidays should be eliminated.

In particular, Chinese Lunar New Year, Eastern orthodox Christmas, Day of the Dead, and Diwali should be in school days.

I went to a school system that ended in May. If you push up the last day of school, you just push up the date where "no learning occurs after.."

I walked to school a mile uphill each way. Therefore, so should my kids. I was spanked, therefore my kids should be too. I was kicked out of the house at 18 and paid for college on my own…….

Just because you did it as a child, doesn’t mean it is the best or only way. Even if it feels the most comfortable to you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't get it. People have been complaining about all the random holidays, weather delays and closures, early releases, and the answer is to shorten the calendar?

No learning occurs after May AP exams, SOLs, etc.

School should end in June, and almost all of the religious cultural holidays should be eliminated.

In particular, Chinese Lunar New Year, Eastern orthodox Christmas, Day of the Dead, and Diwali should be in school days.

I went to a school system that ended in May. If you push up the last day of school, you just push up the date where "no learning occurs after.."

I walked to school a mile uphill each way. Therefore, so should my kids. I was spanked, therefore my kids should be too. I was kicked out of the house at 18 and paid for college on my own…….

Just because you did it as a child, doesn’t mean it is the best or only way. Even if it feels the most comfortable to you.

DP and this response makes no sense. I don't think you understood PP's point. The "date that no learning occurs after" isn't a static one. It will adjust, based on the last day of school. If we end in late May, "no learning occurs after" early May.

Until legislation kicks in that requires SOLs to be held during the last two weeks of school, the SOL window is adjusted based on the last day of school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The vote on Thursday is to make Indigenous People's Day and Veteran's Day school days next year. Two days. We're not touching anyone's precious religious holidays. We're not touching the two week winter break, we're not untying spring break from easter. We're just sending kids to school on two federal holidays, one of which is frequently in the middle of the week. I, for one, look forward to being able to go out to lunch with my spouse on Veteran's Day like we used to.

Wow.

What is so shocking about the bolded?

It's an admission that many of you do see school as child care. Even though you all keep screeching that having schools open is about educating your precious snowflakes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The vote on Thursday is to make Indigenous People's Day and Veteran's Day school days next year. Two days. We're not touching anyone's precious religious holidays. We're not touching the two week winter break, we're not untying spring break from easter. We're just sending kids to school on two federal holidays, one of which is frequently in the middle of the week. I, for one, look forward to being able to go out to lunch with my spouse on Veteran's Day like we used to.

Wow.

What is so shocking about the bolded?

It’s only important to you so you can go to lunch? So in other words, you just want child care.

You can take any day off of work and go to lunch with your spouse. FCPS doesn’t make their calendar so you can go to lunch.