Melanie Meren's FB post about the calendar

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Anonymous wrote:The religious holidays are here to stay. And so is the extra planning time for teachers. Deal with it.

Cool, then hold school on Federal Holidays, that will help a good amount. It gives back 4 days and causes more complete weeks. easy fix.

Will never happen hahahaha.

You’re just screwed I guess.

It already happens— Columbus/Indigenous Is one of the TW days. Do the same for veterans and one of the Memorial days.

Unless those days coincide with the end of a quarter (they don’t) turning them into TW will do nothing to improve the calendar unless they counted it as “planning time” in place of 3 hour early releases.

They need to align quarter breaks with holidays.

Quarter 1 usually ends the Friday before Election Day.

Quarter 2 could be timed around MLK or President’s Day.

And detaching Spring Break from Easter and aligning it with the end of the third quarter could transition some H days to TW/SP days.

Omg. They already tried that and it was a total disaster. Are you for real??

Doing it one year and then stopping doesn't count as trying to detach Easter from Spring Break. They should talk with the other school boards in the area and come up with a week that makes sense for everyone and do it together. I am sure that they have each others contact information.

There is no good rason tie tie Spring Break to Easter. None. Pick a week in the middle of March and call it Spring Break week. It stays the same every year and is around the time of nice weather arriving. Some years it will even coincide with Easter. Rah

A mid-March spring break would work with a late May end of school. Going weeks into June leads to a long stretch after spring break. Salem City has found a way to end in May. https://content.myconnectsuite.com/api/documents/29957869e81249f9ac72713812f81f20.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:The religious holidays are here to stay. And so is the extra planning time for teachers. Deal with it.

Cool, then hold school on Federal Holidays, that will help a good amount. It gives back 4 days and causes more complete weeks. easy fix.

Will never happen hahahaha.

You’re just screwed I guess.

It already happens— Columbus/Indigenous Is one of the TW days. Do the same for veterans and one of the Memorial days.

Unless those days coincide with the end of a quarter (they don’t) turning them into TW will do nothing to improve the calendar unless they counted it as “planning time” in place of 3 hour early releases.

They need to align quarter breaks with holidays.

Quarter 1 usually ends the Friday before Election Day.

Quarter 2 could be timed around MLK or President’s Day.

And detaching Spring Break from Easter and aligning it with the end of the third quarter could transition some H days to TW/SP days.

Omg. They already tried that and it was a total disaster. Are you for real??

The DISASTER is how a bunch of schools like to use the week before Easter as the decision for spring break. If you want to accommodate the Easter people it would be the week after but it should be secular to a certain time in the school year.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, love the non-5 day weeks. They are great. Summer is such a pain to plan, and we (and most of our friends) much prefer a day here and there, rather than additional weeks in the summer.

I agree! We love the 4 day weeks! It really helps with the sleep for middle and high schoolers.

Time to be a parent. The entire school system doesn't operate around the needs of your special child.

And it doesn’t operate around your need for a 5 day week. As long as the kids get in the required hours of instructional time I do not care. I prefer the 4 day weeks and so do a lot of parents and teachers. Your whining isn’t going to change that. Time to be a parent and deal with it.

Good to know you don't care about learning.

And no teacher likes the calendar.

Teacher here. I can assure you that the vast majority of us LOVE the current calendar. Makes it incredibly easy to take mini weekend vacations with our families without taking a ton of, if any, leave.

We hope for snow days, cherish the random holidays, and almost all of us can tell you how few "full weeks" we have until spring break and the end of the year.

Here's to hoping it snows on Monday, so we only have two full weeks before spring break!

The vast majority doesn't love the calendar, some do but not even a slight majority let alone almost everyone. Even those who like it now won't be excited come April 13 when there will be SIX CONSECUTIVE FULL WEEKS and the year goes a full week later in June then the last two years.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, love the non-5 day weeks. They are great. Summer is such a pain to plan, and we (and most of our friends) much prefer a day here and there, rather than additional weeks in the summer.

I agree! We love the 4 day weeks! It really helps with the sleep for middle and high schoolers.

Time to be a parent. The entire school system doesn't operate around the needs of your special child.

And it doesn’t operate around your need for a 5 day week. As long as the kids get in the required hours of instructional time I do not care. I prefer the 4 day weeks and so do a lot of parents and teachers. Your whining isn’t going to change that. Time to be a parent and deal with it.

Good to know you don't care about learning.

And no teacher likes the calendar.

Teacher here. I can assure you that the vast majority of us LOVE the current calendar. Makes it incredibly easy to take mini weekend vacations with our families without taking a ton of, if any, leave.

We hope for snow days, cherish the random holidays, and almost all of us can tell you how few "full weeks" we have until spring break and the end of the year.

Here's to hoping it snows on Monday, so we only have two full weeks before spring break!

Teachers with this attitude are the reason people think the profession is a jobs program rather than for the benefit of students.

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Anonymous wrote:One of my favorite things in life is watching people purposefully have kids then complaining about the scheduling/planning issues that come with having kids. Almost as if they were forced into parenthood.

Like sorry Karen, I guess no one warned you that having 3 kids while you and Chad both work 9-5s that can barely financially support the 5 of you financially may come with obstacles.

But I digress, much easier for parents to moan and complain than to adapt and overcome.

Nope, you do not get to gaslight people into thinking they are whining or weak for wanting an entirely normal thing that is done in the vast majority of this state/region (I don't care what Colorado does, different parts of the country have different seasonal weather patterns) and was done here until very recently. And way to be tone deaf on the very real affordability challenges people are facing right now.

By your logic no one should ever complain about anything that they see as placing a difficult burden or lacking in common sense, and just "adapt and overcome". Not a winning argument.

I can only imagine who smug you were when you had little kids. We all knew a mom like you and rolled our eyes behind your back.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, love the non-5 day weeks. They are great. Summer is such a pain to plan, and we (and most of our friends) much prefer a day here and there, rather than additional weeks in the summer.

I agree! We love the 4 day weeks! It really helps with the sleep for middle and high schoolers.

Time to be a parent. The entire school system doesn't operate around the needs of your special child.

And it doesn’t operate around your need for a 5 day week. As long as the kids get in the required hours of instructional time I do not care. I prefer the 4 day weeks and so do a lot of parents and teachers. Your whining isn’t going to change that. Time to be a parent and deal with it.

Good to know you don't care about learning.

And no teacher likes the calendar.

Teacher here. I can assure you that the vast majority of us LOVE the current calendar. Makes it incredibly easy to take mini weekend vacations with our families without taking a ton of, if any, leave.

We hope for snow days, cherish the random holidays, and almost all of us can tell you how few "full weeks" we have until spring break and the end of the year.

Here's to hoping it snows on Monday, so we only have two full weeks before spring break!

Teachers with this attitude are the reason people think the profession is a jobs program rather than for the benefit of students.

I saw a teacher on a local weather Facebook account comment "School closings are my love language". With her occupation featured on her profile. Can you imagine publicly stating that you hope to do your job as little as possible? Some teachers truly lack professionalism. If they wonder why they don't get treated as full fledged professionals, they need to look at some of their colleagues.

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Anonymous wrote:One of my favorite things in life is watching people purposefully have kids then complaining about the scheduling/planning issues that come with having kids. Almost as if they were forced into parenthood.

Like sorry Karen, I guess no one warned you that having 3 kids while you and Chad both work 9-5s that can barely financially support the 5 of you financially may come with obstacles.

But I digress, much easier for parents to moan and complain than to adapt and overcome.

Imagine if FCPS adopted the (majority of) Colorado school schedule... 7.5 hour days, 4 days a week, 144 days a year.

HOW WOULD ANYONE SURVIVE?!

That’s not a good schedule and even 10 years ago, people here would have been justifiably aghast if we had a 4 day school week. No idea what has changed but again, I mostly blame COVID.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, love the non-5 day weeks. They are great. Summer is such a pain to plan, and we (and most of our friends) much prefer a day here and there, rather than additional weeks in the summer.

I agree! We love the 4 day weeks! It really helps with the sleep for middle and high schoolers.

Time to be a parent. The entire school system doesn't operate around the needs of your special child.

And it doesn’t operate around your need for a 5 day week. As long as the kids get in the required hours of instructional time I do not care. I prefer the 4 day weeks and so do a lot of parents and teachers. Your whining isn’t going to change that. Time to be a parent and deal with it.

Good to know you don't care about learning.

And no teacher likes the calendar.

Teacher here. I can assure you that the vast majority of us LOVE the current calendar. Makes it incredibly easy to take mini weekend vacations with our families without taking a ton of, if any, leave.

We hope for snow days, cherish the random holidays, and almost all of us can tell you how few "full weeks" we have until spring break and the end of the year.

Here's to hoping it snows on Monday, so we only have two full weeks before spring break!

Teachers with this attitude are the reason people think the profession is a jobs program rather than for the benefit of students.

I saw a teacher on a local weather Facebook account comment "School closings are my love language". With her occupation featured on her profile. Can you imagine publicly stating that you hope to do your job as little as possible? Some teachers truly lack professionalism. If they wonder why they don't get treated as full fledged professionals, they need to look at some of their colleagues.

I think if you are a corporate desk worker that would be a bit lazy but, whatever. Can you imagine if you signed up to teach the next generation, expecting praise for your noble career, and publicly brag about how much you love slacking off? So gross.

Most of the teachers I know are really worried about their kids falling behind or not doing well on standardized tests because of the haphazard schedules. A specialist friend - helping kids who need extra instruction - said she has seen her Monday kids 2x in 6 weeks.

If the salaries are so unbearable, do these kids a favor and take a different job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of my favorite things in life is watching people purposefully have kids then complaining about the scheduling/planning issues that come with having kids. Almost as if they were forced into parenthood.

Like sorry Karen, I guess no one warned you that having 3 kids while you and Chad both work 9-5s that can barely financially support the 5 of you financially may come with obstacles.

But I digress, much easier for parents to moan and complain than to adapt and overcome.

Imagine if FCPS adopted the (majority of) Colorado school schedule... 7.5 hour days, 4 days a week, 144 days a year.

HOW WOULD ANYONE SURVIVE?!

If it were standard and expected, people and the community would adapt. It's the uncertainty that is burdening people so much. If we all knew going into our children's school years that it would be M-TH or Monday Tuesday, Thursday Friday people would plan for that. Employers would all know and they would likewise plan around it the same way we all currently know that there is no school on Saturdays or Sundays.

There would be workplaces that gave the option to work Saturdays because some people could work that day and their spouse work the Friday or Wednesday that kids were off. There would be private supplemental daycare places, businesses that offer martial arts or academics that would be open those days. Parents might get together and form co-ops to support each other with that one day a week off with babysitting and homework supervision and social time.

Again, the uncertainty and it changing one year to the next is the issue.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, love the non-5 day weeks. They are great. Summer is such a pain to plan, and we (and most of our friends) much prefer a day here and there, rather than additional weeks in the summer.

I agree! We love the 4 day weeks! It really helps with the sleep for middle and high schoolers.

Time to be a parent. The entire school system doesn't operate around the needs of your special child.

And it doesn’t operate around your need for a 5 day week. As long as the kids get in the required hours of instructional time I do not care. I prefer the 4 day weeks and so do a lot of parents and teachers. Your whining isn’t going to change that. Time to be a parent and deal with it.

Good to know you don't care about learning.

And no teacher likes the calendar.

Teacher here. I can assure you that the vast majority of us LOVE the current calendar. Makes it incredibly easy to take mini weekend vacations with our families without taking a ton of, if any, leave.

We hope for snow days, cherish the random holidays, and almost all of us can tell you how few "full weeks" we have until spring break and the end of the year.

Here's to hoping it snows on Monday, so we only have two full weeks before spring break!

Teachers with this attitude are the reason people think the profession is a jobs program rather than for the benefit of students.

I saw a teacher on a local weather Facebook account comment "School closings are my love language". With her occupation featured on her profile. Can you imagine publicly stating that you hope to do your job as little as possible? Some teachers truly lack professionalism. If they wonder why they don't get treated as full fledged professionals, they need to look at some of their colleagues.

I think if you are a corporate desk worker that would be a bit lazy but, whatever. Can you imagine if you signed up to teach the next generation, expecting praise for your noble career, and publicly brag about how much you love slacking off? So gross.

Most of the teachers I know are really worried about their kids falling behind or not doing well on standardized tests because of the haphazard schedules. A specialist friend - helping kids who need extra instruction - said she has seen her Monday kids 2x in 6 weeks.

If the salaries are so unbearable, do these kids a favor and take a different job.

Most of the public school teachers I know are unapologetic that they NEED the many days off and that they work harder than anyone. So insufferable. They are lazy low iq people. The good ones go to private schools. Ask me how I know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of my favorite things in life is watching people purposefully have kids then complaining about the scheduling/planning issues that come with having kids. Almost as if they were forced into parenthood.

Like sorry Karen, I guess no one warned you that having 3 kids while you and Chad both work 9-5s that can barely financially support the 5 of you financially may come with obstacles.

But I digress, much easier for parents to moan and complain than to adapt and overcome.

Imagine if FCPS adopted the (majority of) Colorado school schedule... 7.5 hour days, 4 days a week, 144 days a year.

HOW WOULD ANYONE SURVIVE?!

If it were standard and expected, people and the community would adapt. It's the uncertainty that is burdening people so much. If we all knew going into our children's school years that it would be M-TH or Monday Tuesday, Thursday Friday people would plan for that. Employers would all know and they would likewise plan around it the same way we all currently know that there is no school on Saturdays or Sundays.

There would be workplaces that gave the option to work Saturdays because some people could work that day and their spouse work the Friday or Wednesday that kids were off. There would be private supplemental daycare places, businesses that offer martial arts or academics that would be open those days. Parents might get together and form co-ops to support each other with that one day a week off with babysitting and homework supervision and social time.

Again, the uncertainty and it changing one year to the next is the issue.

There’s nothing uncertain about our current calendar. It’s been set for years, including the days off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of my favorite things in life is watching people purposefully have kids then complaining about the scheduling/planning issues that come with having kids. Almost as if they were forced into parenthood.

Like sorry Karen, I guess no one warned you that having 3 kids while you and Chad both work 9-5s that can barely financially support the 5 of you financially may come with obstacles.

But I digress, much easier for parents to moan and complain than to adapt and overcome.

Imagine if FCPS adopted the (majority of) Colorado school schedule... 7.5 hour days, 4 days a week, 144 days a year.

HOW WOULD ANYONE SURVIVE?!

If it were standard and expected, people and the community would adapt. It's the uncertainty that is burdening people so much. If we all knew going into our children's school years that it would be M-TH or Monday Tuesday, Thursday Friday people would plan for that. Employers would all know and they would likewise plan around it the same way we all currently know that there is no school on Saturdays or Sundays.

There would be workplaces that gave the option to work Saturdays because some people could work that day and their spouse work the Friday or Wednesday that kids were off. There would be private supplemental daycare places, businesses that offer martial arts or academics that would be open those days. Parents might get together and form co-ops to support each other with that one day a week off with babysitting and homework supervision and social time.

Again, the uncertainty and it changing one year to the next is the issue.

There’s nothing uncertain about our current calendar. It’s been set for years, including the days off.

What day is early release next year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of my favorite things in life is watching people purposefully have kids then complaining about the scheduling/planning issues that come with having kids. Almost as if they were forced into parenthood.

Like sorry Karen, I guess no one warned you that having 3 kids while you and Chad both work 9-5s that can barely financially support the 5 of you financially may come with obstacles.

But I digress, much easier for parents to moan and complain than to adapt and overcome.

Imagine if FCPS adopted the (majority of) Colorado school schedule... 7.5 hour days, 4 days a week, 144 days a year.

HOW WOULD ANYONE SURVIVE?!

If it were standard and expected, people and the community would adapt. It's the uncertainty that is burdening people so much. If we all knew going into our children's school years that it would be M-TH or Monday Tuesday, Thursday Friday people would plan for that. Employers would all know and they would likewise plan around it the same way we all currently know that there is no school on Saturdays or Sundays.

There would be workplaces that gave the option to work Saturdays because some people could work that day and their spouse work the Friday or Wednesday that kids were off. There would be private supplemental daycare places, businesses that offer martial arts or academics that would be open those days. Parents might get together and form co-ops to support each other with that one day a week off with babysitting and homework supervision and social time.

Again, the uncertainty and it changing one year to the next is the issue.

There’s nothing uncertain about our current calendar. It’s been set for years, including the days off.

What day is early release next year?

Hopefully NEVER!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of my favorite things in life is watching people purposefully have kids then complaining about the scheduling/planning issues that come with having kids. Almost as if they were forced into parenthood.

Like sorry Karen, I guess no one warned you that having 3 kids while you and Chad both work 9-5s that can barely financially support the 5 of you financially may come with obstacles.

But I digress, much easier for parents to moan and complain than to adapt and overcome.

Imagine if FCPS adopted the (majority of) Colorado school schedule... 7.5 hour days, 4 days a week, 144 days a year.

HOW WOULD ANYONE SURVIVE?!

If it were standard and expected, people and the community would adapt. It's the uncertainty that is burdening people so much. If we all knew going into our children's school years that it would be M-TH or Monday Tuesday, Thursday Friday people would plan for that. Employers would all know and they would likewise plan around it the same way we all currently know that there is no school on Saturdays or Sundays.

There would be workplaces that gave the option to work Saturdays because some people could work that day and their spouse work the Friday or Wednesday that kids were off. There would be private supplemental daycare places, businesses that offer martial arts or academics that would be open those days. Parents might get together and form co-ops to support each other with that one day a week off with babysitting and homework supervision and social time.

Again, the uncertainty and it changing one year to the next is the issue.

There’s nothing uncertain about our current calendar. It’s been set for years, including the days off.

What day is early release next year?

I think they’ve announced it the week after school ends for the following year. It’s sometime over the summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of my favorite things in life is watching people purposefully have kids then complaining about the scheduling/planning issues that come with having kids. Almost as if they were forced into parenthood.

Like sorry Karen, I guess no one warned you that having 3 kids while you and Chad both work 9-5s that can barely financially support the 5 of you financially may come with obstacles.

But I digress, much easier for parents to moan and complain than to adapt and overcome.

Imagine if FCPS adopted the (majority of) Colorado school schedule... 7.5 hour days, 4 days a week, 144 days a year.

HOW WOULD ANYONE SURVIVE?!

If it were standard and expected, people and the community would adapt. It's the uncertainty that is burdening people so much. If we all knew going into our children's school years that it would be M-TH or Monday Tuesday, Thursday Friday people would plan for that. Employers would all know and they would likewise plan around it the same way we all currently know that there is no school on Saturdays or Sundays.

There would be workplaces that gave the option to work Saturdays because some people could work that day and their spouse work the Friday or Wednesday that kids were off. There would be private supplemental daycare places, businesses that offer martial arts or academics that would be open those days. Parents might get together and form co-ops to support each other with that one day a week off with babysitting and homework supervision and social time.

Again, the uncertainty and it changing one year to the next is the issue.

There’s nothing uncertain about our current calendar. It’s been set for years, including the days off.

What day is early release next year?

I think they’ve announced it the week after school ends for the following year. It’s sometime over the summer.

So…the calendar isn’t certain years in advance. What a remarkable development.