Who is N?ick Minock

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Christmas is a federal holiday (one of the original federal holidays)

Christmas should have been listed with the other federal holidays, but FCPS wanted to skew the survey results so they separated Christmas from the federal holidays and moved it to the religious holidays.

FCPS knows Christmas is a federal holiday.

FCPS knows that more than 80-90% of the students celebrate Christmas, either religiously or secularly, and likely more than 95% of teachers and school staff celebrate Christmas, so there would be no adults in the building and barely any students in the building if FCPS were to hold school on Christmas Eve and Christmas just to make a point.

It was petty and dishonest of FCPS to remove Christmas from the Federal holiday list, just to try to put their thumbs on the survey results.

If FCPS created an honest survey, Christmas would have been on the federal holiday list and Ash Wednesday & the two Orthodox holidays would have been listed with the religious holidays, as well as decoupling Easter from spring break.

FCPS knows A) Christmas is a federal holiday and B) such a significant majority of FCPS families, teachers, administrators and staff celebrate Christmas that schools cannot function on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Knowing these truths, FCPS was being completely dishonest and manipulative with their survey wording removing Christmas from federal holidays.

The only reasons to do this is to influence the survey results, and to create discord in minority religious groups if other religious holidays are removed and Christmas stays because it must stay due to logistics.

Nick Minok is an investigative reporter who focuses on the stupidity and waste of FCPS. Yes, he appears to be right wing, but your question should be why don't any of the many left wing reporters ever care to deep dive into the waste and stupidity of FCPS, holding them to account as well.

Universally, parents, admin and teachers in fcps agree that this year's pandering calendar was a disaster.

With very few exceptions, anyone with a basic grasp of American civics and culture knows that FCPS removing Christmas from the federal holliday list was completely dishonest, had dishonorable ulterior motives to manipulate survey results, will not be possible or practical due to the sheer numbers of families and staff that celebrate Christmas, and will cause much more hurt in the long run for minority groups if the other religious holidays are removed and Christmas stays.

Christmas has to stay on the calendar. FCPS knows that it cannot be removed. The schools will be empty that week, there will be no teachers to teach, and the district will lose a huge chunk of funding

Removing Christmas from the federal holiday list was dishonest, petty, and mean. It was especially mean to those minority students who don't realize that Christmas is a federal holiday, what a federal holiday means, and how schools are staffed and funded. They are only going to see it as a slight to them, because they don't understand the facts around Christmas as a federal holiday, and school funding formulas. Shame on FCPS.

FCPS should get called out for their dishonesty. More local reporters than Nick Minoc should be taking FCPS to task for this dishonest and misleading survey.

DCUM needs a character count limit to cut down on these AI generated walls of text.

If you can’t read a handful of paragraphs, you might be a graduate of FCPS.

I was also an English major, getting your point across in an efficient manner is highly valued. As far as people writing huge blocks on text on an anonymous message board, it's AI, people I work with use AI as a crutch for everything.

Sorry, but you are just wrong.

The post is not AI.

Signed,

English writing teacher who wrote the post

[Anonymous]

If you have the opportunity to respond to this survey, vote to remove religious holidays from the calendar.

Let’s see FCPS’ next move?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If FCPS created an honest survey, Christmas would have been on the federal holiday list and Ash Wednesday & the two Orthodox holidays would have been listed with the religious holidays, as well as decoupling Easter from spring break.

No, because the Orthodox holidays and Ash Wednesday were never days off for students. They are O days. The days that are holidays for students and staff (when they fall on school days) are Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Diwali, and the two Eids. Any other listed day is not automatically a day off for students. If it was, it was because they tried to kill two birds with one stone by placing a teacher workday during an O day.

So, if you get rid of the holidays as stated, it would only give you 5 days of school back. Everything else is required days for teacher planning or training.

[Anonymous]

This really comes down to the two Muslim and Jewish holidays each. Nobody wants Diwali off and anything else is just a placeholder for a teacher workday.

My question is, what if there is an operational reason for closing some schools and not others? There are very likely schools (and/or related transportation cohorts) that do have significant Muslim or Jewish personnel and would fall below a critical mass on those holidays and can’t be backfilled. Is it appropriate to close only some schools in the district?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am liberal and I hate what the lefties are doing to FCPS. They have lost their way. Enough is enough. By being all inclusive, they are hurting those they pretend to advocate care for and most importantly, they aren't fulfilling their mission on education!

Nice try. Liberals don’t call other liberals “lefties”. You may as well have thrown in a “Democrat Party” too.

[Anonymous]

Those holidays that vary due to lunar issues need to be eliminated. Period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those holidays that vary due to lunar issues need to be eliminated. Period.

God forbid respecting other major religions get in the way of your convenient calendar.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Those holidays that vary due to lunar issues need to be eliminated. Period.

God forbid respecting other major religions get in the way of your convenient calendar.

When you cannot plan ahead and make decisions like eliminating a day of AP tests, there is a problem.

Why should all kids have to observe random days that are not predictable? That year they were going to eliminate a day of AP tests told me enough.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Those holidays that vary due to lunar issues need to be eliminated. Period.

God forbid respecting other major religions get in the way of your convenient calendar.

The people who observe those religions can have an excused day off. We don’t have to shut down the whole district for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those holidays that vary due to lunar issues need to be eliminated. Period.

God forbid respecting other major religions get in the way of your convenient calendar.

When you cannot plan ahead and make decisions like eliminating a day of AP tests, there is a problem.

Why should all kids have to observe random days that are not predictable? That year they were going to eliminate a day of AP tests told me enough.

You can easily plan ahead as the calendars are advertised 2-3 years in advance, and there’s a note around the 1-2 lunar based holidays saying they are subject to shifting by 1 day. Stop the dramatic exaggerations.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Those holidays that vary due to lunar issues need to be eliminated. Period.

God forbid respecting other major religions get in the way of your convenient calendar.

Ok, let's take these religious holidays and abolish all other days off.

You just can't be off every other day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those holidays that vary due to lunar issues need to be eliminated. Period.

God forbid respecting other major religions get in the way of your convenient calendar.

When you cannot plan ahead and make decisions like eliminating a day of AP tests, there is a problem.

Why should all kids have to observe random days that are not predictable? That year they were going to eliminate a day of AP tests told me enough.

You can easily plan ahead as the calendars are advertised 2-3 years in advance, and there’s a note around the 1-2 lunar based holidays saying they are subject to shifting by 1 day. Stop the dramatic exaggerations.

You don't remember cancelling the AP tests because of it? There are lots of things that are put on a calendar --especially that time of year that are affected by a last minute change. The kids get excused absences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those holidays that vary due to lunar issues need to be eliminated. Period.

God forbid respecting other major religions get in the way of your convenient calendar.

The people who observe those religions can have an excused day off. We don’t have to shut down the whole district for them.

So the Muslim kids, or Jewish kids, or Hindu kids are forced to miss out of all school activities (academics, sports, extra curriculars) for their 1-2 days a year, but the Christian kids get to enjoy full participation because the calendar is structurally built around their holidays?

Nah. Fairfax county is diverse, and if this is really that huge of an issue I’d suggest looking at a house out in Winchester.

[Anonymous]

I appreciate his reporting

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you have the opportunity to respond to this survey, vote to remove religious holidays from the calendar.

Let’s see FCPS’ next move?

If they respond the way APS does to surveys, they'll look at the clear winner and do the opposite