Dont forget all the half days school is closed to students. |
O days are just for awareness. We're not getting those days of school, dummy. What we getting are two totally unnecessary weeks for Christmas and New Year's. And Spring Break tied to easter, but at least this year it coincides with the quarter end. If they'd shortened winter break, quarter end could coincide with MLK day and we wouldn't have two random days off at the end of January. |
Why do we need to discuss this again and again? Some people want a longer summer, some people want a shorter summer. It's already been discussed, probably by the OP, no less. |
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It’s when Eid al-Daha falls. This year it’s on a weekend. Next year it’s the Wednesday of Memorial Day week so they made Tuesday a work day. |
The calendar next year is absolutely awful for working parents. If I recall correctly, for example there's memorial day off, plus the 2 following days. That's great if you go out of town, but we don't so I'll have to figure out something for those two days. |
Oh, so I'm imagining that school starts earlier than ever and ends later than ever? No wonder the FCPS budget keeps going up. |
DP Huh? 180 days is 180 days. That doesn't change based on the start/end dates. |
That's a really great idea! |
This year, we started August 19th and are ending June 11th. There were 180 instructional days over 42.5 weeks. Next year, we will start August 18th and end June 17th. There will 180 instructional days over 43.5 weeks. So somewhere, yes, there are 5 more days off in the middle of the school year than there were this year. I counted and there were 6 Teacher workday/Staff Development days this year and there will be 9 next year (not counting the days before and after school ends), so that's three of them. The remaining two must be holidays. |
SACC or camp. Places always offer day off camps. |
I just laugh so hard at all the white christians complaining about TWO extra holidays this year when they literally get three weeks off due to theirs. *queue the lady who goes on and on about this is the only time for international families to visit their families overseas. My family always went in the summer. Yes, to India. Yes, during monsoon season. |
Then how come many other school systems can start after Labor Day and end in late May/early June? |
Umm, there were no explicitly Christian holidays on the calendar until they added the unnecessary Orthodox holidays. You may be referring to Spring and Winter Breaks, but as you can easily see, these are not Christian holidays. Try harder. |
Racist much? You do realize that Christians come in all colors? |