Yay! Another religious holiday!

[Anonymous]

We have a longer year, though. As a teacher, I would prefer less days off during the year and a longer summer. These days off here and there help to catch up on sleep, but I can’t clear my head. I am always thinking about teaching.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its a scam, has anyone analzyed work days this year vs 10 years a go? Are we getting the value for our money with the taxes?

In years past, teachers and students took the religious holidays off anyway. And it was a scramble to find subs and nothing of substance got taught. And if one math teacher was our but the other wasnt then it wasn't fair to the kids who didn't have teacher instruction that day. It is really really hard to get subs right now in the post pandemic great resignation. Want more days in school? Lobby for better sub pay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its a scam, has anyone analzyed work days this year vs 10 years a go? Are we getting the value for our money with the taxes?

In years past, teachers and students took the religious holidays off anyway. And it was a scramble to find subs and nothing of substance got taught. And if one math teacher was our but the other wasnt then it wasn't fair to the kids who didn't have teacher instruction that day. It is really really hard to get subs right now in the post pandemic great resignation. Want more days in school? Lobby for better sub pay.

Well, if something's bad for a few kids then it should be bad for 170,000 kids. The FCPS rally cry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its a scam, has anyone analzyed work days this year vs 10 years a go? Are we getting the value for our money with the taxes?

In years past, teachers and students took the religious holidays off anyway. And it was a scramble to find subs and nothing of substance got taught. And if one math teacher was our but the other wasnt then it wasn't fair to the kids who didn't have teacher instruction that day. It is really really hard to get subs right now in the post pandemic great resignation. Want more days in school? Lobby for better sub pay.

Well, if something's bad for a few kids then it should be bad for 170,000 kids. The FCPS rally cry.

Yeah, pretty much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We've had 3 (4?) religious holidays so far this year... and endless more to come.

Liberals fought hard to remove any entanglement between public school and Christian religion, now these hypocrites can't add enough religious holidays to the schedule.

Wish my kids were in school and learning. Wish the School Board even cared about that.

It's interesting the push for the school holiday when many Indians in the area are contractors whose company doesn't provide the day off. Yes, they can take a vacation day if they have some available or they can take the day off without pay so many don't. The celebration mostly happens in the evening anyway so no reason parents couldn't work the day if they had to.

Just some perspective

Your perspective should add that kids are usually up (and possibly out) very, very late on this holiday and would not have time to do HW.

Which is why there should be a no-HW/quiz/test/paper/assignment policy for those days so that kids don't have to worry about it. But the kids can still be in class for lecture or get the lecture notes if their family misses class that day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a longer year, though. As a teacher, I would prefer less days off during the year and a longer summer. These days off here and there help to catch up on sleep, but I can’t clear my head. I am always thinking about teaching.

You'd prefer that for your personal schedule, but in terms of learning it's widely accepted that shorter but more frequent breaks are better for learning and prevent learning loss. A long summer is awful for learning loss.

Having a day off here or there is actually very productive for many. It's why even workplaces are starting to look at 4 day work weeks.

I get it - for parents with younger kids who are both working (this was my situation), the random days off are really hard. But now that I have one in 5th and one in middle school on that early schedule, I really appreciate them having days off to recharge. We've found that sports and music lessons still happen on these days off but it's much more relaxing to not have to rush to and from school for one day. And missing one day of school does not result in the kids forgetting the previous lesson and teachers having to reteach.

I was not a fan when this schedule came out, but experiencing it, I kind of like it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's what I don't get... why are some of the religious holidays teacher workdays, and others are just holidays with everyone off? It almost seems like FCPS is using these religious holidays as an excuse to have teacher workdays, if the holidays come at the right time in the calendar.

+1. Don't they want to respect the teachers that observe these religious holidays?

[Anonymous]

What religious holiday is this? We are in California but already had 2 Jewish holidays plus a few other random no reason days off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What religious holiday is this? We are in California but already had 2 Jewish holidays plus a few other random no reason days off.

Indian

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your kids can learn plenty today.

-- Have them research Diwali.

-- Have them research empathy.

-- Have them research kindness.

-- Have them research equality.

-- Have them research the difference between a religious observance and a cultural observance.

-- Have them bake you a humble pie.

Ah, no, but it is a good day to do some enrichment in the academics they are missing out on in FCPS due to all the extra holidays.

The amount of school days is the same. These holidays didn't replace instructional days, they delayed them. Kids are not missing any academics. They now go 4 days later than they did last year. Get over yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What religious holiday is this? We are in California but already had 2 Jewish holidays plus a few other random no reason days off.

Indian

Wow that's really culturally aware of you. India is a country with lots of religions. It's Diwali.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We've had 3 (4?) religious holidays so far this year... and endless more to come.

Liberals fought hard to remove any entanglement between public school and Christian religion, now these hypocrites can't add enough religious holidays to the schedule.

Wish my kids were in school and learning. Wish the School Board even cared about that.

It's interesting the push for the school holiday when many Indians in the area are contractors whose company doesn't provide the day off. Yes, they can take a vacation day if they have some available or they can take the day off without pay so many don't. The celebration mostly happens in the evening anyway so no reason parents couldn't work the day if they had to.

Just some perspective

Your perspective should add that kids are usually up (and possibly out) very, very late on this holiday and would not have time to do HW.

Then wouldn’t it make more sense to have tomorrow off?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What religious holiday is this? We are in California but already had 2 Jewish holidays plus a few other random no reason days off.

Indian

Oh ok! We don’t do those holidays in LA, but we have Juneteenth and all the Jewish holidays.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you want more days in the school year, advocate for that. But if it's going to be 180 days no matter what, why is a day off here and there a big deal?

Because no teaching happens once the SOLs are held and yet we have weeks of school after....those count towards the 180 days but no real instruction happens. Is that what you want for your kids education? Imbecile.

So why don't you focus on what happens after the sols, or when they are administered? Having one day off for a holiday observed by a billion people around the world doesn't seem like it would be as important as that.

A billion people around the world, sure. But how many here to justify another missed day? And if that's the measure, why don't we have off for Chinese New Year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What religious holiday is this? We are in California but already had 2 Jewish holidays plus a few other random no reason days off.

Indian

Oh ok! We don’t do those holidays in LA, but we have Juneteenth and all the Jewish holidays.

Juneteenth is a Federal Holiday now so most schools places have it off if they are still in session.