2022-2023 calendar question

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have a link to the 22-23 calendar? Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have a link to the 22-23 calendar? Thanks!

https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/2022-2023-standard-school-year-calendar.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:APS did this last year— adding more & more holidays (which of course are often a single day off mid-week) & thus extending the school year/shrinking summer break. Now they also plan to make each school day longer to compensate. I think this will become more the norm until we have year round school, which many people want anyway.

But no one, at least no one I know, wants those random single day holidays. So wasteful and bad for kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:APS did this last year— adding more & more holidays (which of course are often a single day off mid-week) & thus extending the school year/shrinking summer break. Now they also plan to make each school day longer to compensate. I think this will become more the norm until we have year round school, which many people want anyway.

Is this an APS-only thing? I'm looking at FCPS calendar and the only mid-week holiday I see the entire year is Yom Kippur (and Election Day, but that's not exactly new).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:APS did this last year— adding more & more holidays (which of course are often a single day off mid-week) & thus extending the school year/shrinking summer break. Now they also plan to make each school day longer to compensate. I think this will become more the norm until we have year round school, which many people want anyway.

Good luck getting teachers to do that! The vast majority like having a summer break.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:APS did this last year— adding more & more holidays (which of course are often a single day off mid-week) & thus extending the school year/shrinking summer break. Now they also plan to make each school day longer to compensate. I think this will become more the norm until we have year round school, which many people want anyway.

Is this an APS-only thing? I'm looking at FCPS calendar and the only mid-week holiday I see the entire year is Yom Kippur (and Election Day, but that's not exactly new).

[Anonymous]

This year in APS, 1 was on a Tuesday and 2 on a Thursday. The 4th was a Monday

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:APS did this last year— adding more & more holidays (which of course are often a single day off mid-week) & thus extending the school year/shrinking summer break. Now they also plan to make each school day longer to compensate. I think this will become more the norm until we have year round school, which many people want anyway.

But no one, at least no one I know, wants those random single day holidays. So wasteful and bad for kids.

So you don't know anyone that's not the same religion as you?

[Anonymous]

Can someone explain why we don't start earlier in August like everyone else? Most other school districts start around August 15th. That way the quarter ends could all be aligned with school holidays, too, most notably spring break.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:APS did this last year— adding more & more holidays (which of course are often a single day off mid-week) & thus extending the school year/shrinking summer break. Now they also plan to make each school day longer to compensate. I think this will become more the norm until we have year round school, which many people want anyway.

No.

APS got rid of its only year-round elementary school just within the last couple years, because it was very unpopular. So no, they are not moving to year-round.

They are making the school day longer because APS has one of the shortest school days in the DMV, and they are trying to align with the norm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain why we don't start earlier in August like everyone else? Most other school districts start around August 15th. That way the quarter ends could all be aligned with school holidays, too, most notably spring break.

I would love to start earlier and align breaks in a more consistent fashion. I posted this calendar (from my old school district) on a different thread.

https://news.kleinisd.net/2021/12/13/klein-isd-board-of-trustees-approve-2022-2023-academic-calendar/

I wish more people would push for this type of calendar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's a completely useless week off for the winter holiday. It would have made a lot of sense to make it one week this year given the timing of Christmas and New Year's, but Christian parents pushed for the two weeks and they had to get it because, you know, equity.

Thank you LORD!

[Anonymous]

Two weeks for winter break, please. I am not Christian but kids need a real break before the long spring semester. One week is too short with all the holidays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two weeks for winter break, please. I am not Christian but kids need a real break before the long spring semester. One week is too short with all the holidays.

Except that winter break is NOT the end of the quarter. This school calendar makes no sense at all. Normal school districts have the quarter end at winter break like universities do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two weeks for winter break, please. I am not Christian but kids need a real break before the long spring semester. One week is too short with all the holidays.

Except that winter break is NOT the end of the quarter. This school calendar makes no sense at all. Normal school districts have the quarter end at winter break like universities do.

School doesn’t start early enough for that, so that’s another obstacle.