Why does FCPS have all these random days of week off???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Because religion is dictating public school calendars.

Yup - specifically the Christian religion - Easter Break, Christmas Break disguised as spring break and winter break. LOL

Spring break is now the 1st week in April always. No longer tied to Easter (thank goodness, should have been this way for years).

Really? I thought it was tied to Easter always per the survey?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Oh please excuse us for being Jewish, Hindu, and Muslim. PLEASE excuse us for not demanding one week off for our largest holiday and then another two week holiday for another big holiday like Christians do. EXCUSE US.

#ignorantwhitechristianskindofsuck

If you need religious holidays off, go to a religious schools. Keep religious calendar out of public schools. Xmas is a federal holiday so part of fed calendar. All other Christian holidays are Sundays and not a school day off. And the gripe about Xmas is silly. 75% of the country celebrates it. That’s an overwhelming majority so we should rightly plan around staffing and student shortages.

Having Eid, Diwali and high holidays off is ridiculous. Fed holidays and only fed days should be observed

Teachers and students can observe their religious holidays as appropriate. Which they do and request time off. School systems decide to close the whole systems for some of the days as it is too hard to find that many substitutes and have a lot of kids miss school. If you want fewer if those days off, move to a less diverse area.

It's literally never been an issue to staff schools on those days in the past. It's why they did the shindig with "O" days last year--to make it look like school attendance was down in order to justify the days off, because it is illegal to base public school decisions on religion that does not impact attendance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh please excuse us for being Jewish, Hindu, and Muslim. PLEASE excuse us for not demanding one week off for our largest holiday and then another two week holiday for another big holiday like Christians do. EXCUSE US.

#ignorantwhitechristianskindofsuck

If you need religious holidays off, go to a religious schools. Keep religious calendar out of public schools. Xmas is a federal holiday so part of fed calendar. All other Christian holidays are Sundays and not a school day off. And the gripe about Xmas is silly. 75% of the country celebrates it. That’s an overwhelming majority so we should rightly plan around staffing and student shortages.

Having Eid, Diwali and high holidays off is ridiculous. Fed holidays and only fed days should be observed

Then give kids ONE DAY OFF FOR CHRISTMAS like federal government workers get. Like Jews are getting for Rosh Hoshanah, Hindus are getting for Diwali, Muslims are getting for Eid. I'm sure the Hindu Indian immigrants would love to take two weeks to visit their families for their actual holiday rather than having to do it in December because that's when the Christian holiday is.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What was the reason for Friday being off?

Fri, Nov. 11 is Veterans Day. We have that full day off for the first time.

I meant last Friday. It was extremely hard to find a camp or cover for. I don’t understand why it was a holiday

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because religion is dictating public school calendars.

This is why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh please excuse us for being Jewish, Hindu, and Muslim. PLEASE excuse us for not demanding one week off for our largest holiday and then another two week holiday for another big holiday like Christians do. EXCUSE US.

#ignorantwhitechristianskindofsuck

If you need religious holidays off, go to a religious schools. Keep religious calendar out of public schools. Xmas is a federal holiday so part of fed calendar. All other Christian holidays are Sundays and not a school day off. And the gripe about Xmas is silly. 75% of the country celebrates it. That’s an overwhelming majority so we should rightly plan around staffing and student shortages.

Having Eid, Diwali and high holidays off is ridiculous. Fed holidays and only fed days should be observed

Then give kids ONE DAY OFF FOR CHRISTMAS like federal government workers get. Like Jews are getting for Rosh Hoshanah, Hindus are getting for Diwali, Muslims are getting for Eid. I'm sure the Hindu Indian immigrants would love to take two weeks to visit their families for their actual holiday rather than having to do it in December because that's when the Christian holiday is.

Christian here. Good. I don’t care. I’d rather have set weeks off than random days. I do think Christmas and New Years tie well together but if not- oh well. The random days off kill me as a worker.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What was the reason for Friday being off?

Fri, Nov. 11 is Veterans Day. We have that full day off for the first time.

I meant last Friday. It was extremely hard to find a camp or cover for. I don’t understand why it was a holiday

They always give the Friday off before the Labor Day holiday since they start school now before Labor Day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because religion is dictating public school calendars.

This is why.

It should not be. Separation of religion and state

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because religion is dictating public school calendars.

Yup - specifically the Christian religion - Easter Break, Christmas Break disguised as spring break and winter break. LOL

Spring break is now the 1st week in April always. No longer tied to Easter (thank goodness, should have been this way for years).

Really? I thought it was tied to Easter always per the survey?

It does line up this year but will not always.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because religion is dictating public school calendars.

This is why.

It should not be. Separation of religion and state

I’m the PP and I agree with you. I’m also Muslim and married to a Hindu and I want school to stay open for our children during Eid and Divali.

FCPS is acting like a religious school that closes for religious holidays … but I chose public school because I thought religion should not impact their education!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh please excuse us for being Jewish, Hindu, and Muslim. PLEASE excuse us for not demanding one week off for our largest holiday and then another two week holiday for another big holiday like Christians do. EXCUSE US.

#ignorantwhitechristianskindofsuck

If you need religious holidays off, go to a religious schools. Keep religious calendar out of public schools. Xmas is a federal holiday so part of fed calendar. All other Christian holidays are Sundays and not a school day off. And the gripe about Xmas is silly. 75% of the country celebrates it. That’s an overwhelming majority so we should rightly plan around staffing and student shortages.

Having Eid, Diwali and high holidays off is ridiculous. Fed holidays and only fed days should be observed

Then give kids ONE DAY OFF FOR CHRISTMAS like federal government workers get. Like Jews are getting for Rosh Hoshanah, Hindus are getting for Diwali, Muslims are getting for Eid. I'm sure the Hindu Indian immigrants would love to take two weeks to visit their families for their actual holiday rather than having to do it in December because that's when the Christian holiday is.

Sure.

Then fcps can have 10 days of 75% absences over Christmas to New Years, with loss of per student funds and no subs for the missing teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d love to move winter break to not coincide with Christmas. Travel would be so much cheaper. Give the kids the 25th as the federal holiday but move the two weeks to early January instead.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh please excuse us for being Jewish, Hindu, and Muslim. PLEASE excuse us for not demanding one week off for our largest holiday and then another two week holiday for another big holiday like Christians do. EXCUSE US.

#ignorantwhitechristianskindofsuck

I'm not christian. I just think it's infuriating that I can't teach a full week of school for half the year because of religious holidays. In public (aka non religious) school.

But it really isn’t the religious holidays causing this. It is the number of teacher workdays. Fairfax has way more than most school districts. If they changed the schedule to accommodate the holidays but made changes to other TWD to create more full weeks, no one would complain.

They should have done the following:
Made Columbus Day a school day, Made Veteran’s Day a School Day, Moved End of Q1 to where Election Day is and make that Mon and Tues TWD. That would gain more full weeks.

Next year will be better because Rosh Hashanah and Diwali fall on a weekend.

R/H will be on the weekend but Y/K is on Monday in 2023

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There have been a million calendar threads. Parents were surveyed. Clearly you didn’t want what others did.

There is no way anyone voted for the schedule as is. No one likes it, no one. Starts early, ends late. Tons of random days off.

Op here. I was just with some people at the beach and they are all starting school after Labor Day. How is it that we are starting 2 weeks later but getting out later in mid June??? Ugh.

It's because people like you demanded off two weeks for Christmas.

I am a new poster and all for reducing winter break. None one agrees me with.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There have been a million calendar threads. Parents were surveyed. Clearly you didn’t want what others did.

There is no way anyone voted for the schedule as is. No one likes it, no one. Starts early, ends late. Tons of random days off.

Op here. I was just with some people at the beach and they are all starting school after Labor Day. How is it that we are starting 2 weeks later but getting out later in mid June??? Ugh.

It's because people like you demanded off two weeks for Christmas.

I am a new poster and all for reducing winter break. None one agrees me with.

The schools need that break over winter. The summer needs to be shortened drastically to 5-6 weeks and we should have longer breaks spread evenly through the year. The American school calendar is ridiculous.