Why did FCPS screw up on Diwali?

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Anonymous wrote:All of these complainers will change their minds once their kids are in secondary school. My kids (and everyone I know) love these days off. High school is hard, especially with sports. They have a ton of work. A day to catch up, sleep, work on college applications, see friends, etc. etc. is very welcome at that age.

And, we get to make people in our community feel more included? Win win.

FCPS used to release the calendars late. I understood the frustration then. Now, if you didn't take the time to plan for this, it's on you. Get more organized and plan ahead.

When my 13 and 16 kids got Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah, both of them told me how they really appreciated the "Indians". I had to correct them to thank the Jews. When they got Diwali off, the 16-year old thanked the Indians in his best Indian accent, clearly immitating a call center.

If the point of these observances were foster some sort of inclusion and/or cultural awareness, that didn't happen with my kids.

Also, on the days they get off, they still have practices with their club teams. They have more days of practice with their club team than does FCPS have for school. So there's that for priorities.

Sounds more like poor parenting than poor school priorities. So, there's that.

not the PP, but what was poor parenting? that the parent needs to explain each of the observances?

No. The first example was whatever, they didn’t know which holiday. But my kids know not to make fun of accents and certainly not to me. Wow, that household sounds like it has bigger issues.

Comedians should be banned.

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Anonymous wrote:If we had school on the religious holidays celebrated by a high percentage of the population you know that means all the teachers will be out too? You need teachers, staff, bus drivers to have a school day.

Finding subs is part of the challenge.

This is also part of why MoCo has always had Jewish holidays off. Higher percentage Jewish population in county means more teachers are Jewish and would be out.

It’s not about religion. It’s about staffing.

Correct. And the evidence showed there were no staffing issues in FCPS on any of these religious holidays.

I'm not sure that we saw any definitive proof of that. They released data about absences, but I don't recall seeing it by job category, which is what really matters.

It just really doesn’t matter. No one is going to waste their time researching this to the ends of the earth. The kids are in school the same amount of time. You could have spent all the time you spent on this thread lining up childcare. Relax.

Thanks for missing the point. A consistent schedule is better for learning. And the days in June are a complete waste of time.

Nope, you missed the point. And clearly, most people agree or we would have heard about it IRL. Not the case, thankfully. Perhaps you’ll get more traction on whatever other topic you’re internally raging about.

LOL, get out of your bubble.