Who is N?ick Minock

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Christmas is a federal holiday (one of the original federal holidays)

Christmas should have been listed with the other federal holidays, but FCPS wanted to skew the survey results so they separated Christmas from the federal holidays and moved it to the religious holidays.

FCPS knows Christmas is a federal holiday.

FCPS knows that more than 80-90% of the students celebrate Christmas, either religiously or secularly, and likely more than 95% of teachers and school staff celebrate Christmas, so there would be no adults in the building and barely any students in the building if FCPS were to hold school on Christmas Eve and Christmas just to make a point.

It was petty and dishonest of FCPS to remove Christmas from the Federal holiday list, just to try to put their thumbs on the survey results.

If FCPS created an honest survey, Christmas would have been on the federal holiday list and Ash Wednesday & the two Orthodox holidays would have been listed with the religious holidays, as well as decoupling Easter from spring break.

FCPS knows A) Christmas is a federal holiday and B) such a significant majority of FCPS families, teachers, administrators and staff celebrate Christmas that schools cannot function on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Knowing these truths, FCPS was being completely dishonest and manipulative with their survey wording removing Christmas from federal holidays.

The only reasons to do this is to influence the survey results, and to create discord in minority religious groups if other religious holidays are removed and Christmas stays because it must stay due to logistics.

Nick Minok is an investigative reporter who focuses on the stupidity and waste of FCPS. Yes, he appears to be right wing, but your question should be why don't any of the many left wing reporters ever care to deep dive into the waste and stupidity of FCPS, holding them to account as well.

Universally, parents, admin and teachers in fcps agree that this year's pandering calendar was a disaster.

With very few exceptions, anyone with a basic grasp of American civics and culture knows that FCPS removing Christmas from the federal holliday list was completely dishonest, had dishonorable ulterior motives to manipulate survey results, will not be possible or practical due to the sheer numbers of families and staff that celebrate Christmas, and will cause much more hurt in the long run for minority groups if the other religious holidays are removed and Christmas stays.

Christmas has to stay on the calendar. FCPS knows that it cannot be removed. The schools will be empty that week, there will be no teachers to teach, and the district will lose a huge chunk of funding

Removing Christmas from the federal holiday list was dishonest, petty, and mean. It was especially mean to those minority students who don't realize that Christmas is a federal holiday, what a federal holiday means, and how schools are staffed and funded. They are only going to see it as a slight to them, because they don't understand the facts around Christmas as a federal holiday, and school funding formulas. Shame on FCPS.

FCPS should get called out for their dishonesty. More local reporters than Nick Minoc should be taking FCPS to task for this dishonest and misleading survey.

DCUM needs a character count limit to cut down on these AI generated walls of text.

If you can’t read a handful of paragraphs, you might be a graduate of FCPS.

So true

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Christmas is a federal holiday (one of the original federal holidays)

Christmas should have been listed with the other federal holidays, but FCPS wanted to skew the survey results so they separated Christmas from the federal holidays and moved it to the religious holidays.

FCPS knows Christmas is a federal holiday.

FCPS knows that more than 80-90% of the students celebrate Christmas, either religiously or secularly, and likely more than 95% of teachers and school staff celebrate Christmas, so there would be no adults in the building and barely any students in the building if FCPS were to hold school on Christmas Eve and Christmas just to make a point.

It was petty and dishonest of FCPS to remove Christmas from the Federal holiday list, just to try to put their thumbs on the survey results.

If FCPS created an honest survey, Christmas would have been on the federal holiday list and Ash Wednesday & the two Orthodox holidays would have been listed with the religious holidays, as well as decoupling Easter from spring break.

FCPS knows A) Christmas is a federal holiday and B) such a significant majority of FCPS families, teachers, administrators and staff celebrate Christmas that schools cannot function on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Knowing these truths, FCPS was being completely dishonest and manipulative with their survey wording removing Christmas from federal holidays.

The only reasons to do this is to influence the survey results, and to create discord in minority religious groups if other religious holidays are removed and Christmas stays because it must stay due to logistics.

Nick Minok is an investigative reporter who focuses on the stupidity and waste of FCPS. Yes, he appears to be right wing, but your question should be why don't any of the many left wing reporters ever care to deep dive into the waste and stupidity of FCPS, holding them to account as well.

Universally, parents, admin and teachers in fcps agree that this year's pandering calendar was a disaster.

With very few exceptions, anyone with a basic grasp of American civics and culture knows that FCPS removing Christmas from the federal holliday list was completely dishonest, had dishonorable ulterior motives to manipulate survey results, will not be possible or practical due to the sheer numbers of families and staff that celebrate Christmas, and will cause much more hurt in the long run for minority groups if the other religious holidays are removed and Christmas stays.

Christmas has to stay on the calendar. FCPS knows that it cannot be removed. The schools will be empty that week, there will be no teachers to teach, and the district will lose a huge chunk of funding

Removing Christmas from the federal holiday list was dishonest, petty, and mean. It was especially mean to those minority students who don't realize that Christmas is a federal holiday, what a federal holiday means, and how schools are staffed and funded. They are only going to see it as a slight to them, because they don't understand the facts around Christmas as a federal holiday, and school funding formulas. Shame on FCPS.

FCPS should get called out for their dishonesty. More local reporters than Nick Minoc should be taking FCPS to task for this dishonest and misleading survey.

Once someone questions the board’s decisions, they will be labeled right-wing.

[Anonymous]

Nick Minock is the local rage bait reporter. Whatever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nick Minock is the local rage bait reporter. Whatever.

The board should stop doing things worth raging about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Christmas is a federal holiday (one of the original federal holidays)

Christmas should have been listed with the other federal holidays, but FCPS wanted to skew the survey results so they separated Christmas from the federal holidays and moved it to the religious holidays.

FCPS knows Christmas is a federal holiday.

FCPS knows that more than 80-90% of the students celebrate Christmas, either religiously or secularly, and likely more than 95% of teachers and school staff celebrate Christmas, so there would be no adults in the building and barely any students in the building if FCPS were to hold school on Christmas Eve and Christmas just to make a point.

It was petty and dishonest of FCPS to remove Christmas from the Federal holiday list, just to try to put their thumbs on the survey results.

If FCPS created an honest survey, Christmas would have been on the federal holiday list and Ash Wednesday & the two Orthodox holidays would have been listed with the religious holidays, as well as decoupling Easter from spring break.

FCPS knows A) Christmas is a federal holiday and B) such a significant majority of FCPS families, teachers, administrators and staff celebrate Christmas that schools cannot function on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Knowing these truths, FCPS was being completely dishonest and manipulative with their survey wording removing Christmas from federal holidays.

The only reasons to do this is to influence the survey results, and to create discord in minority religious groups if other religious holidays are removed and Christmas stays because it must stay due to logistics.

Nick Minok is an investigative reporter who focuses on the stupidity and waste of FCPS. Yes, he appears to be right wing, but your question should be why don't any of the many left wing reporters ever care to deep dive into the waste and stupidity of FCPS, holding them to account as well.

Universally, parents, admin and teachers in fcps agree that this year's pandering calendar was a disaster.

With very few exceptions, anyone with a basic grasp of American civics and culture knows that FCPS removing Christmas from the federal holliday list was completely dishonest, had dishonorable ulterior motives to manipulate survey results, will not be possible or practical due to the sheer numbers of families and staff that celebrate Christmas, and will cause much more hurt in the long run for minority groups if the other religious holidays are removed and Christmas stays.

Christmas has to stay on the calendar. FCPS knows that it cannot be removed. The schools will be empty that week, there will be no teachers to teach, and the district will lose a huge chunk of funding

Removing Christmas from the federal holiday list was dishonest, petty, and mean. It was especially mean to those minority students who don't realize that Christmas is a federal holiday, what a federal holiday means, and how schools are staffed and funded. They are only going to see it as a slight to them, because they don't understand the facts around Christmas as a federal holiday, and school funding formulas. Shame on FCPS.

FCPS should get called out for their dishonesty. More local reporters than Nick Minoc should be taking FCPS to task for this dishonest and misleading survey.

Once someone questions the board’s decisions, they will be labeled right-wing.

True.

Being on "my tean" is more important that doing the right thing or holding the district to accountability.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Christmas is a federal holiday (one of the original federal holidays)

Christmas should have been listed with the other federal holidays, but FCPS wanted to skew the survey results so they separated Christmas from the federal holidays and moved it to the religious holidays.

FCPS knows Christmas is a federal holiday.

FCPS knows that more than 80-90% of the students celebrate Christmas, either religiously or secularly, and likely more than 95% of teachers and school staff celebrate Christmas, so there would be no adults in the building and barely any students in the building if FCPS were to hold school on Christmas Eve and Christmas just to make a point.

It was petty and dishonest of FCPS to remove Christmas from the Federal holiday list, just to try to put their thumbs on the survey results.

If FCPS created an honest survey, Christmas would have been on the federal holiday list and Ash Wednesday & the two Orthodox holidays would have been listed with the religious holidays, as well as decoupling Easter from spring break.

FCPS knows A) Christmas is a federal holiday and B) such a significant majority of FCPS families, teachers, administrators and staff celebrate Christmas that schools cannot function on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Knowing these truths, FCPS was being completely dishonest and manipulative with their survey wording removing Christmas from federal holidays.

The only reasons to do this is to influence the survey results, and to create discord in minority religious groups if other religious holidays are removed and Christmas stays because it must stay due to logistics.

Nick Minok is an investigative reporter who focuses on the stupidity and waste of FCPS. Yes, he appears to be right wing, but your question should be why don't any of the many left wing reporters ever care to deep dive into the waste and stupidity of FCPS, holding them to account as well.

Universally, parents, admin and teachers in fcps agree that this year's pandering calendar was a disaster.

With very few exceptions, anyone with a basic grasp of American civics and culture knows that FCPS removing Christmas from the federal holliday list was completely dishonest, had dishonorable ulterior motives to manipulate survey results, will not be possible or practical due to the sheer numbers of families and staff that celebrate Christmas, and will cause much more hurt in the long run for minority groups if the other religious holidays are removed and Christmas stays.

Christmas has to stay on the calendar. FCPS knows that it cannot be removed. The schools will be empty that week, there will be no teachers to teach, and the district will lose a huge chunk of funding

Removing Christmas from the federal holiday list was dishonest, petty, and mean. It was especially mean to those minority students who don't realize that Christmas is a federal holiday, what a federal holiday means, and how schools are staffed and funded. They are only going to see it as a slight to them, because they don't understand the facts around Christmas as a federal holiday, and school funding formulas. Shame on FCPS.

FCPS should get called out for their dishonesty. More local reporters than Nick Minoc should be taking FCPS to task for this dishonest and misleading survey.

DCUM needs a character count limit to cut down on these AI generated walls of text.

It is not AI.

Even if it were AI, I applaud this post.

FCPS should not be celebrating religious holidays. Christmas is exempt for all the reasons stated. It isn't complicated!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t mind that they listed Christmas with religious holidays, because even if they did stop “observing” Christmas (they will not)… it would still be an excused absence for religious observation. Which is how we should deal with every other religious holiday as well.

It’s an empty threat, but a foolish one because it hyped up the right wing war on Christmas folks.

The problem is that soooo many families and teachers celebrate Christmas that hopding school that day means FCPS would only have 4 or 5 teachers in the buildings that week, and maybe 5% of the diehard students whose parents want to make a point.

FCPS would lose their funding for that entire week Christmas falls on, and would not have enough warm bodies to hold functioning school.

Agreed— and so they will never ever do it. But the threat is enough to galvanize the war on Christmas folks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t mind that they listed Christmas with religious holidays, because even if they did stop “observing” Christmas (they will not)… it would still be an excused absence for religious observation. Which is how we should deal with every other religious holiday as well.

It’s an empty threat, but a foolish one because it hyped up the right wing war on Christmas folks.

The problem is that soooo many families and teachers celebrate Christmas that hopding school that day means FCPS would only have 4 or 5 teachers in the buildings that week, and maybe 5% of the diehard students whose parents want to make a point.

FCPS would lose their funding for that entire week Christmas falls on, and would not have enough warm bodies to hold functioning school.

Agreed— and so they will never ever do it. But the threat is enough to galvanize the war on Christmas folks

I think you missed the point. FCPS intentionally placed Christmas on the same list as Rosh Hashana, Diwali, and Eid because it wants to pretend there is no difference between them. If they asked about eliminating religious holidays and excluded Christmas from that list, people might actually choose that option.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t mind that they listed Christmas with religious holidays, because even if they did stop “observing” Christmas (they will not)… it would still be an excused absence for religious observation. Which is how we should deal with every other religious holiday as well.

It’s an empty threat, but a foolish one because it hyped up the right wing war on Christmas folks.

The problem is that soooo many families and teachers celebrate Christmas that hopding school that day means FCPS would only have 4 or 5 teachers in the buildings that week, and maybe 5% of the diehard students whose parents want to make a point.

FCPS would lose their funding for that entire week Christmas falls on, and would not have enough warm bodies to hold functioning school.

Agreed— and so they will never ever do it. But the threat is enough to galvanize the war on Christmas folks

I think you missed the point. FCPS intentionally placed Christmas on the same list as Rosh Hashana, Diwali, and Eid because it wants to pretend there is no difference between them. If they asked about eliminating religious holidays and excluded Christmas from that list, people might actually choose that option.

I actually chose eliminating the religious holidays because Christmas is a federal holiday. They cannot have school on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day because of all those reasons above.

It was a transparent, manipulative empty threat to remove Christmas from the national holiday list. FCPS completely insulted the intelligence of its families by doing this petty and obvious attempt to manipulate the survey. And even worse, they are going to cause a lot of hurt to other minority faiths if those holidays celebrated by less than 5% of the fcps population go away, and Christmas remains.

FCPS,knows they functionally cannot have school on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. They should have been transparent from the beginning and listed Christmas with the national holidays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t mind that they listed Christmas with religious holidays, because even if they did stop “observing” Christmas (they will not)… it would still be an excused absence for religious observation. Which is how we should deal with every other religious holiday as well.

It’s an empty threat, but a foolish one because it hyped up the right wing war on Christmas folks.

The problem is that soooo many families and teachers celebrate Christmas that hopding school that day means FCPS would only have 4 or 5 teachers in the buildings that week, and maybe 5% of the diehard students whose parents want to make a point.

FCPS would lose their funding for that entire week Christmas falls on, and would not have enough warm bodies to hold functioning school.

Agreed— and so they will never ever do it. But the threat is enough to galvanize the war on Christmas folks

I think you missed the point. FCPS intentionally placed Christmas on the same list as Rosh Hashana, Diwali, and Eid because it wants to pretend there is no difference between them. If they asked about eliminating religious holidays and excluded Christmas from that list, people might actually choose that option.

People *did* choose this. This wasn’t subtle manipulation it was obvious that FCPS was trying to “scare” people into thinking they’d cancel Christmas. I don’t think they fooled anyone and they pointlessly irritated some.

[Anonymous]

The people complaining about this survey (that rightfully identifies Christmas as a religious holiday) are the same people who claim they’re bullied for saying Merry Christmas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The people complaining about this survey (that rightfully identifies Christmas as a religious holiday) are the same people who claim they’re bullied for saying Merry Christmas.

Yup, another right wing culture war fanned by Sinclair personalities such as Minock.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The people complaining about this survey (that rightfully identifies Christmas as a religious holiday) are the same people who claim they’re bullied for saying Merry Christmas.

Yup, another right wing culture war fanned by Sinclair personalities such as Minock.

Calling out FCPS performative stupidity should not be right wing only. You should be asking why the overwhelmingly left wing local media consistently looks the other way and makes excuses when FCPS fails, behaves incompetently, or wastes taxpayer money.

[Anonymous]

I am liberal and I hate what the lefties are doing to FCPS. They have lost their way. Enough is enough. By being all inclusive, they are hurting those they pretend to advocate care for and most importantly, they aren't fulfilling their mission on education!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Christmas is a federal holiday (one of the original federal holidays)

Christmas should have been listed with the other federal holidays, but FCPS wanted to skew the survey results so they separated Christmas from the federal holidays and moved it to the religious holidays.

FCPS knows Christmas is a federal holiday.

FCPS knows that more than 80-90% of the students celebrate Christmas, either religiously or secularly, and likely more than 95% of teachers and school staff celebrate Christmas, so there would be no adults in the building and barely any students in the building if FCPS were to hold school on Christmas Eve and Christmas just to make a point.

It was petty and dishonest of FCPS to remove Christmas from the Federal holiday list, just to try to put their thumbs on the survey results.

If FCPS created an honest survey, Christmas would have been on the federal holiday list and Ash Wednesday & the two Orthodox holidays would have been listed with the religious holidays, as well as decoupling Easter from spring break.

FCPS knows A) Christmas is a federal holiday and B) such a significant majority of FCPS families, teachers, administrators and staff celebrate Christmas that schools cannot function on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Knowing these truths, FCPS was being completely dishonest and manipulative with their survey wording removing Christmas from federal holidays.

The only reasons to do this is to influence the survey results, and to create discord in minority religious groups if other religious holidays are removed and Christmas stays because it must stay due to logistics.

Nick Minok is an investigative reporter who focuses on the stupidity and waste of FCPS. Yes, he appears to be right wing, but your question should be why don't any of the many left wing reporters ever care to deep dive into the waste and stupidity of FCPS, holding them to account as well.

Universally, parents, admin and teachers in fcps agree that this year's pandering calendar was a disaster.

With very few exceptions, anyone with a basic grasp of American civics and culture knows that FCPS removing Christmas from the federal holliday list was completely dishonest, had dishonorable ulterior motives to manipulate survey results, will not be possible or practical due to the sheer numbers of families and staff that celebrate Christmas, and will cause much more hurt in the long run for minority groups if the other religious holidays are removed and Christmas stays.

Christmas has to stay on the calendar. FCPS knows that it cannot be removed. The schools will be empty that week, there will be no teachers to teach, and the district will lose a huge chunk of funding

Removing Christmas from the federal holiday list was dishonest, petty, and mean. It was especially mean to those minority students who don't realize that Christmas is a federal holiday, what a federal holiday means, and how schools are staffed and funded. They are only going to see it as a slight to them, because they don't understand the facts around Christmas as a federal holiday, and school funding formulas. Shame on FCPS.

FCPS should get called out for their dishonesty. More local reporters than Nick Minoc should be taking FCPS to task for this dishonest and misleading survey.

DCUM needs a character count limit to cut down on these AI generated walls of text.

If you can’t read a handful of paragraphs, you might be a graduate of FCPS.

I was also an English major, getting your point across in an efficient manner is highly valued. As far as people writing huge blocks on text on an anonymous message board, it's AI, people I work with use AI as a crutch for everything.