2023 - 2024 school calendar

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Anonymous wrote:What’s wrong with starting 12/24? That’s what FCPS used to do.

Ick-NO!

You must be, ew, Christian.

I don’t think it is the Christian’s who want the 2 weeks off—it is the out of area travelers.

For the rest of us who do not have $🤑🤑, 🤑🤑🤑 to blow on a Christmas vacation getaway—we’d be fine getting out 12/24 and returning 1/2.

Yep bending to the whim of people who need their two week Euro and/or ski vacation. Immigrant families would prefer a longer spring break or a long break in January or February when it's cheaper to travel.

Those of us who want 2 weeks off aren’t all rich. Some of us drive across the US to be with family this one time a year. We need the two weeks for the extra travel days,

Oh please, it's extremely privileged that you're able to do that and you know it.

Ha! Seriously? We work the whole time (telework) so the kids can see their grandparents once a year. There is nothing privileged about that.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s wrong with starting 12/24? That’s what FCPS used to do.

Ick-NO!

You must be, ew, Christian.

I don’t think it is the Christian’s who want the 2 weeks off—it is the out of area travelers.

For the rest of us who do not have $🤑🤑, 🤑🤑🤑 to blow on a Christmas vacation getaway—we’d be fine getting out 12/24 and returning 1/2.

Yep bending to the whim of people who need their two week Euro and/or ski vacation. Immigrant families would prefer a longer spring break or a long break in January or February when it's cheaper to travel.

Those of us who want 2 weeks off aren’t all rich. Some of us drive across the US to be with family this one time a year. We need the two weeks for the extra travel days,

Oh please, it's extremely privileged that you're able to do that and you know it.

DP, How do you define extremely privileged? Many, many Americans get 2 weeks of paid vacation every year. Privileged maybe, but not extremely privileged.

Most Americans don’t get a two week vacation block.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 76 percent of private industry workers (who make up 84.7 percent of all workers) receive paid vacation days. After one year of employment, these workers were granted 10 days of paid vacation, on average. This doesn’t even include the ability to telework.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s wrong with starting 12/24? That’s what FCPS used to do.

Ick-NO!

You must be, ew, Christian.

I don’t think it is the Christian’s who want the 2 weeks off—it is the out of area travelers.

For the rest of us who do not have $🤑🤑, 🤑🤑🤑 to blow on a Christmas vacation getaway—we’d be fine getting out 12/24 and returning 1/2.

Yep bending to the whim of people who need their two week Euro and/or ski vacation. Immigrant families would prefer a longer spring break or a long break in January or February when it's cheaper to travel.

Those of us who want 2 weeks off aren’t all rich. Some of us drive across the US to be with family this one time a year. We need the two weeks for the extra travel days,

Oh please, it's extremely privileged that you're able to do that and you know it.

DP, How do you define extremely privileged? Many, many Americans get 2 weeks of paid vacation every year. Privileged maybe, but not extremely privileged.

Most Americans don’t get a two week vacation block.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 76 percent of private industry workers (who make up 84.7 percent of all workers) receive paid vacation days. After one year of employment, these workers were granted 10 days of paid vacation, on average. This doesn’t even include the ability to telework.

Sure, but for teachers, the length of the holiday break is ON TOP of the personal and sick days that they get. Many districts in this area do not take a full 2 weeks for winter break.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s wrong with starting 12/24? That’s what FCPS used to do.

Ick-NO!

You must be, ew, Christian.

I don’t think it is the Christian’s who want the 2 weeks off—it is the out of area travelers.

For the rest of us who do not have $🤑🤑, 🤑🤑🤑 to blow on a Christmas vacation getaway—we’d be fine getting out 12/24 and returning 1/2.

Yep bending to the whim of people who need their two week Euro and/or ski vacation. Immigrant families would prefer a longer spring break or a long break in January or February when it's cheaper to travel.

Those of us who want 2 weeks off aren’t all rich. Some of us drive across the US to be with family this one time a year. We need the two weeks for the extra travel days,

Oh please, it's extremely privileged that you're able to do that and you know it.

DP, How do you define extremely privileged? Many, many Americans get 2 weeks of paid vacation every year. Privileged maybe, but not extremely privileged.

Most Americans don’t get a two week vacation block.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 76 percent of private industry workers (who make up 84.7 percent of all workers) receive paid vacation days. After one year of employment, these workers were granted 10 days of paid vacation, on average. This doesn’t even include the ability to telework.

Sure, but for teachers, the length of the holiday break is ON TOP of the personal and sick days that they get. Many districts in this area do not take a full 2 weeks for winter break.

And on top of spring break and other district holidays.

[Anonymous]

It’s all the same to me, but the shorter winter break is practically two full weeks. This seems like a huge fuss about nothing.

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Does the SB have to adopt one of these calendars or is there a chance they can create a new version based on feedback?
I am hoping they find a way to fix the spring break issue.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s wrong with starting 12/24? That’s what FCPS used to do.

Ick-NO!

You must be, ew, Christian.

I don’t think it is the Christian’s who want the 2 weeks off—it is the out of area travelers.

For the rest of us who do not have $🤑🤑, 🤑🤑🤑 to blow on a Christmas vacation getaway—we’d be fine getting out 12/24 and returning 1/2.

Yep bending to the whim of people who need their two week Euro and/or ski vacation. Immigrant families would prefer a longer spring break or a long break in January or February when it's cheaper to travel.

Those of us who want 2 weeks off aren’t all rich. Some of us drive across the US to be with family this one time a year. We need the two weeks for the extra travel days,

Oh please, it's extremely privileged that you're able to do that and you know it.

DP, How do you define extremely privileged? Many, many Americans get 2 weeks of paid vacation every year. Privileged maybe, but not extremely privileged.

Most Americans don’t get a two week vacation block.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 76 percent of private industry workers (who make up 84.7 percent of all workers) receive paid vacation days. After one year of employment, these workers were granted 10 days of paid vacation, on average. This doesn’t even include the ability to telework.

Sure, but for teachers, the length of the holiday break is ON TOP of the personal and sick days that they get. Many districts in this area do not take a full 2 weeks for winter break.

And on top of spring break and other district holidays.

All of which are a part of the contact. The vacation days are a part of the reason some people choose Teaching as a profession. Those same people are working far longer work days to develop and update lesson plans, grade, and teach our kids. They deal with young people at a variety of different skills and emotional levels. Then they deal with the parents, the ones who are supportive, the ones who helicopter, and the ones who are neglecting their kids. Then they deal with Administration and the ever changing educational guidelines coming from the COunty, State, and Federal Government.

So I’ll be cool with the idea that the folks dealing with all of the above crap so that they can educate my child get Winter and Spring break plus the assorted random holidays off. I would happy to get rid of the random Professional Development days that pretty much every Teacher I know see as a waste of a day. Give half of those as work days so that they can grade and get caught up the grade book instead.

But I would prefer one week for Winter Break. I also preferred Spring Break not being tied to Easter. I see it is a valiad complaint for non-Christian families and I prefer the consistency of knowing when the break is. I think they should set the calendar so that Winter and Spring break so that they fall at the end of quarter and that there should be a couple of Teacher work days at the end of each quarter. Start there. Then add in the Federal Holidays OR religious holidays and Teacher workdays that you think are needed that don’t move the end of quarters.

Winter break was a week when I was a kid and is a week in most of the country. It is only 2 weeks here because of the wealthy families that want to travel abroad or the international families that want to travel abroad. Most families don’t travel and the two weeks is disruptive for learning, especially given that the end of the quarter is several weeks after the kids get back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does the SB have to adopt one of these calendars or is there a chance they can create a new version based on feedback?
I am hoping they find a way to fix the spring break issue.

You really think they listen to feedback? They don’t. If they did, they would not have built the options that they did.

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Why do we come back from Spring Break to a week back of school and then 3 days off in every calendar? Seriously? 5 days of vacation set at a time that everyone gets 2 days off for the end of the quarter and a random Wednesday holiday? And people think that is a good idea?

Stupid. Really, really stupid.

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Anonymous wrote:Just remove all religious holidays and the O days from the calendar. If you want religious holidays, go to a private school.

It's that simple.

Bring back a rational school calendar.

YES PLEASE

Exactly this.

Want to keep your kid home for a religious family event or for a few extra days to travel over the winter break? Then just do it, but why must the entire school calendar revolve around things that have nothing to do with educating our kids?

(I hope those of you complaining about FCPS being behind in math/reading/everything aren’t the same bellyaching over needing a longer winter break and making sure every religious holiday under the sun is observed.)

The issue is that teachers also need a break. The burnout would be worse without those breaks, FCPS needs to consider that as well.

Laughable. Most Americans would kill for the time off that teachers get.

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Anonymous wrote:Just remove all religious holidays and the O days from the calendar. If you want religious holidays, go to a private school.

It's that simple.

Bring back a rational school calendar.

YES PLEASE

Exactly this.

Want to keep your kid home for a religious family event or for a few extra days to travel over the winter break? Then just do it, but why must the entire school calendar revolve around things that have nothing to do with educating our kids?

(I hope those of you complaining about FCPS being behind in math/reading/everything aren’t the same bellyaching over needing a longer winter break and making sure every religious holiday under the sun is observed.)

The issue is that teachers also need a break. The burnout would be worse without those breaks, FCPS needs to consider that as well.

Laughable. Most Americans would kill for the time off that teachers get.

No need to kill anyone, just apply for a teaching job.
And would they kill for unpaid leave? because that’s what it is.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s wrong with starting 12/24? That’s what FCPS used to do.

Ick-NO!

You must be, ew, Christian.

I don’t think it is the Christian’s who want the 2 weeks off—it is the out of area travelers.

For the rest of us who do not have $🤑🤑, 🤑🤑🤑 to blow on a Christmas vacation getaway—we’d be fine getting out 12/24 and returning 1/2.

Yep bending to the whim of people who need their two week Euro and/or ski vacation. Immigrant families would prefer a longer spring break or a long break in January or February when it's cheaper to travel.

Those of us who want 2 weeks off aren’t all rich. Some of us drive across the US to be with family this one time a year. We need the two weeks for the extra travel days,

Oh please, it's extremely privileged that you're able to do that and you know it.

DP, How do you define extremely privileged? Many, many Americans get 2 weeks of paid vacation every year. Privileged maybe, but not extremely privileged.

Most Americans don’t get a two week vacation block.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 76 percent of private industry workers (who make up 84.7 percent of all workers) receive paid vacation days. After one year of employment, these workers were granted 10 days of paid vacation, on average. This doesn’t even include the ability to telework.

Sure, but for teachers, the length of the holiday break is ON TOP of the personal and sick days that they get. Many districts in this area do not take a full 2 weeks for winter break.

And on top of spring break and other district holidays.

All of which are a part of the contact. The vacation days are a part of the reason some people choose Teaching as a profession. Those same people are working far longer work days to develop and update lesson plans, grade, and teach our kids. They deal with young people at a variety of different skills and emotional levels. Then they deal with the parents, the ones who are supportive, the ones who helicopter, and the ones who are neglecting their kids. Then they deal with Administration and the ever changing educational guidelines coming from the COunty, State, and Federal Government.

So I’ll be cool with the idea that the folks dealing with all of the above crap so that they can educate my child get Winter and Spring break plus the assorted random holidays off. I would happy to get rid of the random Professional Development days that pretty much every Teacher I know see as a waste of a day. Give half of those as work days so that they can grade and get caught up the grade book instead.

But I would prefer one week for Winter Break. I also preferred Spring Break not being tied to Easter. I see it is a valiad complaint for non-Christian families and I prefer the consistency of knowing when the break is. I think they should set the calendar so that Winter and Spring break so that they fall at the end of quarter and that there should be a couple of Teacher work days at the end of each quarter. Start there. Then add in the Federal Holidays OR religious holidays and Teacher workdays that you think are needed that don’t move the end of quarters.

Winter break was a week when I was a kid and is a week in most of the country. It is only 2 weeks here because of the wealthy families that want to travel abroad or the international families that want to travel abroad. Most families don’t travel and the two weeks is disruptive for learning, especially given that the end of the quarter is several weeks after the kids get back.

Looking at the calendar for the district in which I grew up and the students’ first day was September 7. The last day is June 8. “Christmas break” runs Dec. 22-January 2. “Easter break” is April 7 and 10. 178 student days. Looks like 26 of the weeks are 5 days. Staff have 182 days with 2 days before school starts, 1 on October 14 and another June 9.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just remove all religious holidays and the O days from the calendar. If you want religious holidays, go to a private school.

It's that simple.

Bring back a rational school calendar.

YES PLEASE

Exactly this.

Want to keep your kid home for a religious family event or for a few extra days to travel over the winter break? Then just do it, but why must the entire school calendar revolve around things that have nothing to do with educating our kids?

(I hope those of you complaining about FCPS being behind in math/reading/everything aren’t the same bellyaching over needing a longer winter break and making sure every religious holiday under the sun is observed.)

The issue is that teachers also need a break. The burnout would be worse without those breaks, FCPS needs to consider that as well.

Laughable. Most Americans would kill for the time off that teachers get.

Why is there such a drastic teacher shortage if most would kill for this?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does the SB have to adopt one of these calendars or is there a chance they can create a new version based on feedback?
I am hoping they find a way to fix the spring break issue.

You really think they listen to feedback? They don’t. If they did, they would not have built the options that they did.

But the Spring Break issue followed by those days off is problematic. Like, why?????? They need to fix that.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s wrong with starting 12/24? That’s what FCPS used to do.

Ick-NO!

You must be, ew, Christian.

I don’t think it is the Christian’s who want the 2 weeks off—it is the out of area travelers.

For the rest of us who do not have $🤑🤑, 🤑🤑🤑 to blow on a Christmas vacation getaway—we’d be fine getting out 12/24 and returning 1/2.

Yep bending to the whim of people who need their two week Euro and/or ski vacation. Immigrant families would prefer a longer spring break or a long break in January or February when it's cheaper to travel.

Those of us who want 2 weeks off aren’t all rich. Some of us drive across the US to be with family this one time a year. We need the two weeks for the extra travel days,

Oh please, it's extremely privileged that you're able to do that and you know it.

DP, How do you define extremely privileged? Many, many Americans get 2 weeks of paid vacation every year. Privileged maybe, but not extremely privileged.

Most Americans don’t get a two week vacation block.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 76 percent of private industry workers (who make up 84.7 percent of all workers) receive paid vacation days. After one year of employment, these workers were granted 10 days of paid vacation, on average. This doesn’t even include the ability to telework.

Sure, but for teachers, the length of the holiday break is ON TOP of the personal and sick days that they get. Many districts in this area do not take a full 2 weeks for winter break.

And on top of spring break and other district holidays.

All of which are a part of the contact. The vacation days are a part of the reason some people choose Teaching as a profession. Those same people are working far longer work days to develop and update lesson plans, grade, and teach our kids. They deal with young people at a variety of different skills and emotional levels. Then they deal with the parents, the ones who are supportive, the ones who helicopter, and the ones who are neglecting their kids. Then they deal with Administration and the ever changing educational guidelines coming from the COunty, State, and Federal Government.

So I’ll be cool with the idea that the folks dealing with all of the above crap so that they can educate my child get Winter and Spring break plus the assorted random holidays off. I would happy to get rid of the random Professional Development days that pretty much every Teacher I know see as a waste of a day. Give half of those as work days so that they can grade and get caught up the grade book instead.

But I would prefer one week for Winter Break. I also preferred Spring Break not being tied to Easter. I see it is a valiad complaint for non-Christian families and I prefer the consistency of knowing when the break is. I think they should set the calendar so that Winter and Spring break so that they fall at the end of quarter and that there should be a couple of Teacher work days at the end of each quarter. Start there. Then add in the Federal Holidays OR religious holidays and Teacher workdays that you think are needed that don’t move the end of quarters.

Winter break was a week when I was a kid and is a week in most of the country. It is only 2 weeks here because of the wealthy families that want to travel abroad or the international families that want to travel abroad. Most families don’t travel and the two weeks is disruptive for learning, especially given that the end of the quarter is several weeks after the kids get back.

Looking at the calendar for the district in which I grew up and the students’ first day was September 7. The last day is June 8. “Christmas break” runs Dec. 22-January 2. “Easter break” is April 7 and 10. 178 student days. Looks like 26 of the weeks are 5 days. Staff have 182 days with 2 days before school starts, 1 on October 14 and another June 9.

Yes please to that schedule!