Change in May 2022 "O" day -- now it could affect different AP tests?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there a link to any source that says the May 2 exams are being moved? Not sure where to confirm this info for my kid's exams.

Check with your high school.

Our fcps high school is battling the school board right now on behalf of its families to allow those who want to take the AP exams to take them as scheduled. We have a lot of kids who take both AP gov, AP chem and AP spanish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious as to why, if this is such a huge deal, this has never been brought up to the school board or superintendent. It's a huge deal but everyone is just rolling over and accepting it? Why? My kids aren't high school age yet but you can bet your ass if they were I'd be raising hell about this issue (somewhere other than a public message board).

It seems like, if this is true, a simple call to the media to put the story on blast could be enough to pressure FCPS to clarify their position here. I'm completely baffled as to why an O day in FCPS would affect students who need to take a national exam. Is it because the exams are taken in school buildings? If that's the case, let's find another place to do them (local college auditorium/classroom maybe?) and take FCPS out of the equation.

Like everything else this school board does, they made a political decision which they hid from the parents.

[Anonymous]

I know the youngkin hotline is not popular, but this is the kind of thing that it was intended to be used for.

[Anonymous]

This could easily be turned into a national news story that will swing the decision. High school kids not getting to take an AP test with the rest of the nation (or having their days moved around) because of a lunar sighting is Onion-level absurd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:October 2022 is a mess. Starts with a stupid 1/2 "O" day followed by a "H" day. Two PW days. Indigenous Peoples' Day. And a 2-hour early dismissal day due to end of 1st Quarter. SMH

October 2022 is terrible. It will be awful for young ES students and many SPED students.

Currently some of those days tend to fall in January. We've been joking for at least 7 years now among my friends that FCPS never has school in Jan & Feb. I am assuming the "never has school" month is just moving to October.

I want them to resurrect the calendar from 20 years ago with only 4 built in snow days and a lot less PD days. Only keep the PD the teachers find helpful and drop the rest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious as to why, if this is such a huge deal, this has never been brought up to the school board or superintendent. It's a huge deal but everyone is just rolling over and accepting it? Why? My kids aren't high school age yet but you can bet your ass if they were I'd be raising hell about this issue (somewhere other than a public message board).

It seems like, if this is true, a simple call to the media to put the story on blast could be enough to pressure FCPS to clarify their position here. I'm completely baffled as to why an O day in FCPS would affect students who need to take a national exam. Is it because the exams are taken in school buildings? If that's the case, let's find another place to do them (local college auditorium/classroom maybe?) and take FCPS out of the equation.

Like everything else this school board does, they made a political decision which they hid from the parents.

They don't change anything, no matter the mass parental complaints, until it shows up in the mainstream national media. Even then sometimes they double down. But good luck getting coverage. Hannah Natanson, for example, would never touch it.

[Anonymous]

Some of us DID bring up the issue last Sept, but the SB doesn't care. They are only interested in signalling "equity. " We have no power, and the teachers couldn't do anything about it.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1004100.page#20947610

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:October 2022 is a mess. Starts with a stupid 1/2 "O" day followed by a "H" day. Two PW days. Indigenous Peoples' Day. And a 2-hour early dismissal day due to end of 1st Quarter. SMH

October 2022 is terrible. It will be awful for young ES students and many SPED students.

Currently some of those days tend to fall in January. We've been joking for at least 7 years now among my friends that FCPS never has school in Jan & Feb. I am assuming the "never has school" month is just moving to October.

I want them to resurrect the calendar from 20 years ago with only 4 built in snow days and a lot less PD days. Only keep the PD the teachers find helpful and drop the rest.

I want the Texas school calendar.

We started around August 21-24. Finished the Thursday before Memorial day with Graduatioms starting the week prior right after AP exams were completed.

1 week off for Thanksgiving.

2 weeks off over Chriwtmas/New Year.

National holidays off.

No early release days except the last day of school.

Limited teacher work days (maybe 1x quarter???) It was a nominal amount of days off for parent/teacher conferences. I think teacher work days were at the beginning of the year. I taught there, starting a month into the school year and we did not have any schoolwide days off for teacher workdays, beyond the conference days. If you needed training it was a couple of teachers at a time at an offsite location with a sub in the classroom.

Kids with religious observances were excused with time to make up assignments.

Such a smarter schedule and so much less inconvenient to parents.

[Anonymous]

Put this on the political forum. It’ll get picked up 😂

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly the College Board is at fault here. FCPS is trying to right their wrong.

And what wrong is that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:October 2022 is a mess. Starts with a stupid 1/2 "O" day followed by a "H" day. Two PW days. Indigenous Peoples' Day. And a 2-hour early dismissal day due to end of 1st Quarter. SMH

October 2022 is terrible. It will be awful for young ES students and many SPED students.

Currently some of those days tend to fall in January. We've been joking for at least 7 years now among my friends that FCPS never has school in Jan & Feb. I am assuming the "never has school" month is just moving to October.

I want them to resurrect the calendar from 20 years ago with only 4 built in snow days and a lot less PD days. Only keep the PD the teachers find helpful and drop the rest.

I want the Texas school calendar.

We started around August 21-24. Finished the Thursday before Memorial day with Graduatioms starting the week prior right after AP exams were completed.

1 week off for Thanksgiving.

2 weeks off over Chriwtmas/New Year.

National holidays off.

No early release days except the last day of school.

Limited teacher work days (maybe 1x quarter???) It was a nominal amount of days off for parent/teacher conferences. I think teacher work days were at the beginning of the year. I taught there, starting a month into the school year and we did not have any schoolwide days off for teacher workdays, beyond the conference days. If you needed training it was a couple of teachers at a time at an offsite location with a sub in the classroom.

Kids with religious observances were excused with time to make up assignments.

Such a smarter schedule and so much less inconvenient to parents.

Fine by me. FCPS in 2001 only had 2 days for Thanksgiving and a 1 week winter break, a little more in the way of teacher workdays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly the College Board is at fault here. FCPS is trying to right their wrong.

And what wrong is that?

Scheduling a test on a major religious holiday

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly the College Board is at fault here. FCPS is trying to right their wrong.

And what wrong is that?

Scheduling a test on a major religious holiday

There are holidays strung all throughout the year; it's not reasonable to expect the AP tests to avoid all holidays. There is a make-up day; if kids need to celebrate on Eid they can use the make-up day.

[Anonymous]

What if they’re sick on may 17? They miss the test?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly the College Board is at fault here. FCPS is trying to right their wrong.

And what wrong is that?

Scheduling a test on a major religious holiday

The date of this holiday cannot be predicted in advance. Furthermore—there is a make-up day available for kids who have conflicts. Not the other way around.