2023 - 2024 school calendar

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Anonymous wrote:All the options suck but esp the one that goes way late into June. No way!

Look at the calendar. It doesn’t actually go to the end of June for students. The last week is a fake week with Monday AND Wednesday off. Students will be done by June 14th.

It does screw over teachers who work over the summer. It pushes out their last day of work by 6 days.

I will quit. 100%. I’m already getting fed up, and they keep adding days. One of the benefits of teaching is having that break during the summer, and if they keep adding on days to each end of it, I’m done. I’ve had enough of the meetings and the professional development. Enough.

I don't think I want my child to have a teacher who doesn't see the value in professional development.

DP
Well, the PD needs to be valuable. Sometimes it is, often it is not.

To the other PP, in my 30 years of teaching our contract was 194 days until this year when they added a day. I do agree though that I do not like starting at the end of the second week of August and ending June 20.

Welcome to adulthood. I'm not sure why teachers -who I generally support- say things like this as if they should be exempt from things other professions have.

The PP wrote, “ I don't think I want my child to have a teacher who doesn't see the value in professional development”. Don’t we all value PD that is worthwhile? I wasn’t saying we should be exempt from it, but I understand the frustration that comes from breaking up a week of school to attend PD that is indeed, not valuable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All you people saying that they wouldn’t be tying spring break to Easter were so wrong. You guys said it would remain the first week of April. I knew they’d go back to this! I called it!

Because it aligns with the other districts and they “promised” we’d align. It’s probably the easiest break to alter.

“Promised”. A few years ago it was “promised” that the two week winter break would be here to stay and yet there is an option to shorten it. Things change.

As far as snow days, 180 days vs fewer days, etc. What happened to 180 days or 990 hours? If we have so many excess hours, why not shave off a few days? They aren’t going to shorten the school day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All you people saying that they wouldn’t be tying spring break to Easter were so wrong. You guys said it would remain the first week of April. I knew they’d go back to this! I called it!

Post your address so we can send your trophy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All the options suck but esp the one that goes way late into June. No way!

Look at the calendar. It doesn’t actually go to the end of June for students. The last week is a fake week with Monday AND Wednesday off. Students will be done by June 14th.

It does screw over teachers who work over the summer. It pushes out their last day of work by 6 days.

I will quit. 100%. I’m already getting fed up, and they keep adding days. One of the benefits of teaching is having that break during the summer, and if they keep adding on days to each end of it, I’m done. I’ve had enough of the meetings and the professional development. Enough.

I don't think I want my child to have a teacher who doesn't see the value in professional development.

DP
Well, the PD needs to be valuable. Sometimes it is, often it is not.

To the other PP, in my 30 years of teaching our contract was 194 days until this year when they added a day. I do agree though that I do not like starting at the end of the second week of August and ending June 20.

Welcome to adulthood. I'm not sure why teachers -who I generally support- say things like this as if they should be exempt from things other professions have.

The PP wrote, “ I don't think I want my child to have a teacher who doesn't see the value in professional development”. Don’t we all value PD that is worthwhile? I wasn’t saying we should be exempt from it, but I understand the frustration that comes from breaking up a week of school to attend PD that is indeed, not valuable.

I am a teacher and find most PD unnecessary. I’d much rather have one day for report cards and any extra time to work in my room. Everything FCPS makes us do is to check the box and make us look like we are forward thinking and equitable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All the options suck but esp the one that goes way late into June. No way!

Look at the calendar. It doesn’t actually go to the end of June for students. The last week is a fake week with Monday AND Wednesday off. Students will be done by June 14th.

It does screw over teachers who work over the summer. It pushes out their last day of work by 6 days.

I will quit. 100%. I’m already getting fed up, and they keep adding days. One of the benefits of teaching is having that break during the summer, and if they keep adding on days to each end of it, I’m done. I’ve had enough of the meetings and the professional development. Enough.

I don't think I want my child to have a teacher who doesn't see the value in professional development.

DP
Well, the PD needs to be valuable. Sometimes it is, often it is not.

To the other PP, in my 30 years of teaching our contract was 194 days until this year when they added a day. I do agree though that I do not like starting at the end of the second week of August and ending June 20.

Welcome to adulthood. I'm not sure why teachers -who I generally support- say things like this as if they should be exempt from things other professions have.

The PP wrote, “ I don't think I want my child to have a teacher who doesn't see the value in professional development”. Don’t we all value PD that is worthwhile? I wasn’t saying we should be exempt from it, but I understand the frustration that comes from breaking up a week of school to attend PD that is indeed, not valuable.

I am a teacher and find most PD unnecessary. I’d much rather have one day for report cards and any extra time to work in my room. Everything FCPS makes us do is to check the box and make us look like we are forward thinking and equitable.

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Yes, please for the 4th quarter!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All the options suck but esp the one that goes way late into June. No way!

Look at the calendar. It doesn’t actually go to the end of June for students. The last week is a fake week with Monday AND Wednesday off. Students will be done by June 14th.

It does screw over teachers who work over the summer. It pushes out their last day of work by 6 days.

I will quit. 100%. I’m already getting fed up, and they keep adding days. One of the benefits of teaching is having that break during the summer, and if they keep adding on days to each end of it, I’m done. I’ve had enough of the meetings and the professional development. Enough.

I don't think I want my child to have a teacher who doesn't see the value in professional development.

DP
Well, the PD needs to be valuable. Sometimes it is, often it is not.

To the other PP, in my 30 years of teaching our contract was 194 days until this year when they added a day. I do agree though that I do not like starting at the end of the second week of August and ending June 20.

Welcome to adulthood. I'm not sure why teachers -who I generally support- say things like this as if they should be exempt from things other professions have.

My last PD was sitting in a room and typing on a shared document with lots of other people so we could reflect and look over other’s reflections. This went on for a very long time. It was not based on anything practical that we could use in the classroom to help students, more like topics SOLs philosophy major found useful. At the end we were told this document wouldn’t be used for anything but was nice for them to have on file.

I’ve never had a PD that was more of a waste of time. At least have us reflect on classroom management or teaching strategies and actually discuss them in groups.

[Anonymous]

*SOL is a typo

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All you people saying that they wouldn’t be tying spring break to Easter were so wrong. You guys said it would remain the first week of April. I knew they’d go back to this! I called it!

Because it aligns with the other districts and they “promised” we’d align. It’s probably the easiest break to alter.

“Promised”. A few years ago it was “promised” that the two week winter break would be here to stay and yet there is an option to shorten it. Things change.

As far as snow days, 180 days vs fewer days, etc. What happened to 180 days or 990 hours? If we have so many excess hours, why not shave off a few days? They aren’t going to shorten the school day.

I don’t know. I just know school board said recently that our Calendar will better align with other counties.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m torn between the green and the orange choices.

Sorry- slip of the thumb here.

I would like for spring break to start April 1st. Come back on April 11th. The kids will be crazy for two days back in school but it will be a good transition back. For people who want cheaper plan tickets: get a plane ticket for April 2nd and you will have a great long spring break. Or just take the kids out of school for the full second week. I really want this because it’s too cold in late March for travel to Europe anyway. But that second week in April- is fantastic.

The green option is amazing except for the last week. If they were to take the PW day from February and May away- we could end school on June 14th. I don’t want to start in august to early and I am eyeing that short week in November for a quick trip to Mexico.

This is all a little tongue in cheek but yes, this would be the way I would do it. I really like the green one more than the orange one except for that last week. And moving spring break to make it longer would be a treat.

Why not do Green and 178 days to get rid of the last week?

I actually think part of that 180 is to adjust for inclement weather.

My thoughts are we should just say that if there are no snow days, those two days will be off and school will end early.

Regardless of that- I personally think the green calendar is more cohesive.

There is ZERO need for snow days. We don't have a need for them, from a weather perspective. And when we do, They can do asynchronous or virtual. And if the "but the snow days are so fun!" people want to play in the snow -and we would be one of those- the littles can just miss the day.

PP here. I don’t disagree with you. I just think that is why we’re here doing it this way.

The green schedule, despite the hot mess of the last week is actually not horrible. I hate starting in the middle of august when a week before Labor Day weekend is fine. I like how the end of the first quarter aligns with Election Day and Veterans Day so if you have littles taking that week off is ok for Florida. Let’s be clear: that week is amazing for Disney. Very low crowds and cheap.

As for snow days: agree 100%. But also- that last hot mess of a week: who is really going to keep their kids in school for that when we could just go on vacation? And the camp orgs here are all probably looking at the calendar mess and going why?!?!?’

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All the options suck but esp the one that goes way late into June. No way!

Look at the calendar. It doesn’t actually go to the end of June for students. The last week is a fake week with Monday AND Wednesday off. Students will be done by June 14th.

It does screw over teachers who work over the summer. It pushes out their last day of work by 6 days.

I will quit. 100%. I’m already getting fed up, and they keep adding days. One of the benefits of teaching is having that break during the summer, and if they keep adding on days to each end of it, I’m done. I’ve had enough of the meetings and the professional development. Enough.

I don't think I want my child to have a teacher who doesn't see the value in professional development.

DP, if you saw the PD offered, you would t feel that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All the options suck but esp the one that goes way late into June. No way!

Look at the calendar. It doesn’t actually go to the end of June for students. The last week is a fake week with Monday AND Wednesday off. Students will be done by June 14th.

It does screw over teachers who work over the summer. It pushes out their last day of work by 6 days.

I will quit. 100%. I’m already getting fed up, and they keep adding days. One of the benefits of teaching is having that break during the summer, and if they keep adding on days to each end of it, I’m done. I’ve had enough of the meetings and the professional development. Enough.

I don't think I want my child to have a teacher who doesn't see the value in professional development.

DP
Well, the PD needs to be valuable. Sometimes it is, often it is not.

To the other PP, in my 30 years of teaching our contract was 194 days until this year when they added a day. I do agree though that I do not like starting at the end of the second week of August and ending June 20.

Welcome to adulthood. I'm not sure why teachers -who I generally support- say things like this as if they should be exempt from things other professions have.

But a different poster said that she doesn’t want her child to have a teacher who’s not interested in PD. Being a good teacher or not, it’s not linked to wanting to attend invaluable PD..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All the options suck but esp the one that goes way late into June. No way!

Look at the calendar. It doesn’t actually go to the end of June for students. The last week is a fake week with Monday AND Wednesday off. Students will be done by June 14th.

It does screw over teachers who work over the summer. It pushes out their last day of work by 6 days.

I will quit. 100%. I’m already getting fed up, and they keep adding days. One of the benefits of teaching is having that break during the summer, and if they keep adding on days to each end of it, I’m done. I’ve had enough of the meetings and the professional development. Enough.

I don't think I want my child to have a teacher who doesn't see the value in professional development.

DP, if you saw the PD offered, you would t feel that way.

Right. I am a very open-minded and flexible person and I am constantly learning and adapting, but most of the PD is such a waste of time. I’m all for continuing my education, but ENOUGH with this PD.

[Anonymous]

Someone on another thread mentioned this, but why isn’t there a calendar for all of NoVA or even the DC region. Other countries have school calendars that cover an entire state.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I will have to kill myself if they give two weeks plus one day for winter break.

Apparently you survived this one.

LOL I was thinking this. deep breaths PP it will be ok

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just two more years... just two more years... just two more years....

then I'm out. of. here.

Ugh we have six....virtual VA is starting to look good Wish we could move!