How DO we get the calendar changed?

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS offers a fantastic education that is the envy of many communities across the country. The school year calendar is not hurting it. Kids of all ages work hard in school and deserve the breaks.

The holidays are more difficult for parents of elementary school kids, but the calendar is released well in advance. Plan ahead for childcare. It doesn't have to be expensive. Get together with neighbors and friends to create a babysitter-share. Many high schoolers are happy to babysit for a little bit of extra cash.

The holidays are a gift to the middle schoolers and high schoolers, who can stay home alone and catch up on studying, projects, research papers, sleep, relax, or babysit the younger kids.

The calendar wasn’t created to give your low energy kid breaks. Tell them to figure out how to handle their work the way you are telling parents to figure out childcare.

So low energy is an insult now? The first person I ever heard use that expression was Trump. If you are in real life as you sound in your post,should want lots of “low energy” people around you- makes it easier for your kid to get to the top!

I hate Trump, but unfortunately, he can be good at pointing things out in his opponents that cut deep. There is a reason that one stuck. And yeah, I see a bunch of people babying their kids as though the rest of the world isn’t running circles around us. I don’t care about the people immediately around my kids. I care about everyone else out there. While you choose to teach your child that they can’t handle hard things, I’m teaching mine that they can do more than they ever thought possible. Going out of your comfort zone and digging deep, whether it be mentally or physically, is how you learn what you’re made of.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS offers a fantastic education that is the envy of many communities across the country. The school year calendar is not hurting it. Kids of all ages work hard in school and deserve the breaks.

The holidays are more difficult for parents of elementary school kids, but the calendar is released well in advance. Plan ahead for childcare. It doesn't have to be expensive. Get together with neighbors and friends to create a babysitter-share. Many high schoolers are happy to babysit for a little bit of extra cash.

The holidays are a gift to the middle schoolers and high schoolers, who can stay home alone and catch up on studying, projects, research papers, sleep, relax, or babysit the younger kids.

They're really not. It's nearly impossible to find middle and high school babysitters nowadays. They don't want to do it. If a real person had written this post instead of using AI, you would know that.

PP doesn’t care as long as her mediocre kids get to relax.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS offers a fantastic education that is the envy of many communities across the country. The school year calendar is not hurting it. Kids of all ages work hard in school and deserve the breaks.

The holidays are more difficult for parents of elementary school kids, but the calendar is released well in advance. Plan ahead for childcare. It doesn't have to be expensive. Get together with neighbors and friends to create a babysitter-share. Many high schoolers are happy to babysit for a little bit of extra cash.

The holidays are a gift to the middle schoolers and high schoolers, who can stay home alone and catch up on studying, projects, research papers, sleep, relax, or babysit the younger kids.

This post is coming from a place of wealth and privilege.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS offers a fantastic education that is the envy of many communities across the country. The school year calendar is not hurting it. Kids of all ages work hard in school and deserve the breaks.

The holidays are more difficult for parents of elementary school kids, but the calendar is released well in advance. Plan ahead for childcare. It doesn't have to be expensive. Get together with neighbors and friends to create a babysitter-share. Many high schoolers are happy to babysit for a little bit of extra cash.

The holidays are a gift to the middle schoolers and high schoolers, who can stay home alone and catch up on studying, projects, research papers, sleep, relax, or babysit the younger kids.

Do you still have kids IN FCPS?? Kids want breaks, but they also need a continuous, constant schedule for education. I am not a year-round person, but the school year calendar should not be nearly 10 months long to accommodate each and every break this school board seems willing to accommodate. This school calendar simply has not delivered any consistency, especially not in the 5-day week category. We joke at my house, "It's a 5 day week? How are we going to survive???"

Kids need to be in school, period. Over the 17 years we have been in FCPS, the calendar has become worse and worse. Earlier start dates, later last days of school. There has to be a healthy balance, and what we have is not it. Having the majority of 5-day weeks after Spring Break occurs at a time when kids (and frankly faculty and staff) are checked out. No one is locked in from Mid May to Mid June. And especially not after Memorial Day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS offers a fantastic education that is the envy of many communities across the country. The school year calendar is not hurting it. Kids of all ages work hard in school and deserve the breaks.

The holidays are more difficult for parents of elementary school kids, but the calendar is released well in advance. Plan ahead for childcare. It doesn't have to be expensive. Get together with neighbors and friends to create a babysitter-share. Many high schoolers are happy to babysit for a little bit of extra cash.

The holidays are a gift to the middle schoolers and high schoolers, who can stay home alone and catch up on studying, projects, research papers, sleep, relax, or babysit the younger kids.

The calendar wasn’t created to give your low energy kid breaks. Tell them to figure out how to handle their work the way you are telling parents to figure out childcare.

You sound like a total ass. Even more of an ass than our deadbeat school board members and that’s saying a lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS offers a fantastic education that is the envy of many communities across the country. The school year calendar is not hurting it. Kids of all ages work hard in school and deserve the breaks.

The holidays are more difficult for parents of elementary school kids, but the calendar is released well in advance. Plan ahead for childcare. It doesn't have to be expensive. Get together with neighbors and friends to create a babysitter-share. Many high schoolers are happy to babysit for a little bit of extra cash.

The holidays are a gift to the middle schoolers and high schoolers, who can stay home alone and catch up on studying, projects, research papers, sleep, relax, or babysit the younger kids.

This post is coming from a place of wealth and privilege.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS offers a fantastic education that is the envy of many communities across the country. The school year calendar is not hurting it. Kids of all ages work hard in school and deserve the breaks.

The holidays are more difficult for parents of elementary school kids, but the calendar is released well in advance. Plan ahead for childcare. It doesn't have to be expensive. Get together with neighbors and friends to create a babysitter-share. Many high schoolers are happy to babysit for a little bit of extra cash.

The holidays are a gift to the middle schoolers and high schoolers, who can stay home alone and catch up on studying, projects, research papers, sleep, relax, or babysit the younger kids.

If your child truly— truly— cannot handle routine five day weeks more than 60% of the time, you need to engage with your pediatrician. Or you need to make some difficult parenting choices about Screen Time, extracurriculars, course-load, family travel, whatever it is that is keeping them from being able to be in a five day week half the time successfully.

+1

My teen loves days off, but even he thinks this year’s schedule is too much. Zero momentum.

[Anonymous]

My high schooler is on his way to a 5 on his AP exams thanks to the break. We love it!!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So do the 8 early release days include early release Wednesdays? Or will that be a totally different thing since it only applies to elementary schools? They have been so dumb.

The motion turned into a disaster. Dunne was trying to stop elementary early releases by using language in the calendar planning policy, but then it was pointed out that there are a ton of high school early releases that aren’t on the calendar either, and we can’t just make high schoolers sit around at school after they’ve finished their AP exam or final because the school board said they couldn’t leave early!

Then the new guy threw out 8 days as a compromise and the language specifying elementary schools got added.

Basically, the attempt to kill the Wednesday early releases resulted in the death of end of quarter early releases, which isn’t going to be popular with the long weekend travelers.

Updated calendar from today still has the QE early dismissals. The long weekends are safe.

Could you please link to this?

https://www.fcps.edu/system/files/forms/2025-04/2026-2027-standard-school-year-calendar.pdf

Updated 4/10, QE days unchanged

PP wasn't kidding, they did forget the first week of August, LOL!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My high schooler is on his way to a 5 on his AP exams thanks to the break. We love it!!!!

I'm so glad you were able to get a ton of tutoring in on those days off!! Wish I could afford that for my children!

[Anonymous]

It’s the golden age of striving for sure. Efforts in equity have resulted in my average kids with a little extra parental support becoming the tippy top in their pyramid. A little bit goes a long way when most kids barely read a single book through their whole k-12 time in FCPS. I love it. Then inconsistent scheduling only helps in lowering the bar and expectations as most kids just barely meet the standards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So do the 8 early release days include early release Wednesdays? Or will that be a totally different thing since it only applies to elementary schools? They have been so dumb.

The motion turned into a disaster. Dunne was trying to stop elementary early releases by using language in the calendar planning policy, but then it was pointed out that there are a ton of high school early releases that aren’t on the calendar either, and we can’t just make high schoolers sit around at school after they’ve finished their AP exam or final because the school board said they couldn’t leave early!

Then the new guy threw out 8 days as a compromise and the language specifying elementary schools got added.

Basically, the attempt to kill the Wednesday early releases resulted in the death of end of quarter early releases, which isn’t going to be popular with the long weekend travelers.

Updated calendar from today still has the QE early dismissals. The long weekends are safe.

Could you please link to this?

https://www.fcps.edu/system/files/forms/2025-04/2026-2027-standard-school-year-calendar.pdf

Updated 4/10, QE days unchanged

PP wasn't kidding, they did forget the first week of August, LOL!

That Calendar is awful, but hey the complainers who don’t like being with their elementary kids are happy. We are being ruled by complainers on social media rather than surveys and thinking things through.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So do the 8 early release days include early release Wednesdays? Or will that be a totally different thing since it only applies to elementary schools? They have been so dumb.

The motion turned into a disaster. Dunne was trying to stop elementary early releases by using language in the calendar planning policy, but then it was pointed out that there are a ton of high school early releases that aren’t on the calendar either, and we can’t just make high schoolers sit around at school after they’ve finished their AP exam or final because the school board said they couldn’t leave early!

Then the new guy threw out 8 days as a compromise and the language specifying elementary schools got added.

Basically, the attempt to kill the Wednesday early releases resulted in the death of end of quarter early releases, which isn’t going to be popular with the long weekend travelers.

Updated calendar from today still has the QE early dismissals. The long weekends are safe.

Could you please link to this?

https://www.fcps.edu/system/files/forms/2025-04/2026-2027-standard-school-year-calendar.pdf

Updated 4/10, QE days unchanged

PP wasn't kidding, they did forget the first week of August, LOL!

That Calendar is awful, but hey the complainers who don’t like being with their elementary kids are happy. We are being ruled by complainers on social media rather than surveys and thinking things through.

Yup. You’ve solved it. Parents go to work because they don’t like being with their young kids. Not because they like feeding, clothing, and housing those kids. Thanks Sherlock for solving that mystery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So do the 8 early release days include early release Wednesdays? Or will that be a totally different thing since it only applies to elementary schools? They have been so dumb.

The motion turned into a disaster. Dunne was trying to stop elementary early releases by using language in the calendar planning policy, but then it was pointed out that there are a ton of high school early releases that aren’t on the calendar either, and we can’t just make high schoolers sit around at school after they’ve finished their AP exam or final because the school board said they couldn’t leave early!

Then the new guy threw out 8 days as a compromise and the language specifying elementary schools got added.

Basically, the attempt to kill the Wednesday early releases resulted in the death of end of quarter early releases, which isn’t going to be popular with the long weekend travelers.

Updated calendar from today still has the QE early dismissals. The long weekends are safe.

Could you please link to this?

https://www.fcps.edu/system/files/forms/2025-04/2026-2027-standard-school-year-calendar.pdf

Updated 4/10, QE days unchanged

PP wasn't kidding, they did forget the first week of August, LOL!

That Calendar is awful, but hey the complainers who don’t like being with their elementary kids are happy. We are being ruled by complainers on social media rather than surveys and thinking things through.

Yup. You’ve solved it. Parents go to work because they don’t like being with their young kids. Not because they like feeding, clothing, and housing those kids. Thanks Sherlock for solving that mystery.

If you are not making it because of 4 days off, I do honestly feel for you, but summer camps are pricey too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS offers a fantastic education that is the envy of many communities across the country. The school year calendar is not hurting it. Kids of all ages work hard in school and deserve the breaks.

The holidays are more difficult for parents of elementary school kids, but the calendar is released well in advance. Plan ahead for childcare. It doesn't have to be expensive. Get together with neighbors and friends to create a babysitter-share. Many high schoolers are happy to babysit for a little bit of extra cash.

The holidays are a gift to the middle schoolers and high schoolers, who can stay home alone and catch up on studying, projects, research papers, sleep, relax, or babysit the younger kids.

The calendar wasn’t created to give your low energy kid breaks. Tell them to figure out how to handle their work the way you are telling parents to figure out childcare.

So low energy is an insult now? The first person I ever heard use that expression was Trump. If you are in real life as you sound in your post,should want lots of “low energy” people around you- makes it easier for your kid to get to the top!

I hate Trump, but unfortunately, he can be good at pointing things out in his opponents that cut deep. There is a reason that one stuck. And yeah, I see a bunch of people babying their kids as though the rest of the world isn’t running circles around us. I don’t care about the people immediately around my kids. I care about everyone else out there. While you choose to teach your child that they can’t handle hard things, I’m teaching mine that they can do more than they ever thought possible. Going out of your comfort zone and digging deep, whether it be mentally or physically, is how you learn what you’re made of.

Ugh. You should have just taken the hit I gave you about Trump because your explanation did not help your cause. Go climb into your brodozer and show the world the tuff stuff you are made of.

You are embarrassing yourself. I am far from a bro. I am a woman who works with your child once they have graduated from high school. I bet big money your kids are on track to be the type of anxiety- and depression-riddled young adults I encounter on a daily basis. Just like their neurotic parents.