Lunar new year is not cdlebrated in the US, not even by asians. This holiday is pandering. |
| Teachers hate the calendar also. Most would prefer less days off and a longer summer so they can get more consecutive days to work a second job in the summer. |
Can you please contact the school board and tell them this, and ask your Asian friends/family to contact them too? The FCPS decision makers seem to assume what various groups want in terms of holidays and recognition. Maybe if they hear from enough people, they will realize they are out of step with what is actually wanted by the people they think they are recognizing/supporting with this. |
LOLOLOL, you must be new here. They simply do not care. |
Define "woke." Hint: It has nothing to do with scheduling a day off for students that happens to align with a major holiday. |
Better try! I have emailed |
Obviously they do care or they would not have put a million holidays into the calendar. Maybe if the hear from the people they think they are helping, they will realize some of them were a misguided effort at inclusion. |
The big celebration is the night before. Not the day itself. |
OK, well there are people here saying they'd rather have their kids in school the next day because it's not really celebrated here anyway. So if that is the case, they should tell the school board that they don't feel a day off is needed. |
Off is the important word in that sentence. We have to make up the time later. |
A major holiday where? To say it is major here in the US is a real stretch. |
Honestly? If FCPS was legitimately trying to give off for culturally significant non religious/religiously adjacent holidays in the US, they would not have put Lunar New Year OR Day of the Dead on the calender. They would have put the Monday after Superbowl Sunday, Halloween and St. Patrick's Day on the calendar instead. |
+1000 |
No, we don’t. We have snow days built into the calendar. |
Yeah, they don’t. |