All these days off...

[Anonymous]

Kids are left home alone during these stupid one-off days on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Another teaching day gone.

[Anonymous]

Are absence rates up going up or down with the fewer 5 day week school weeks? Would think increase as parents use them to build out long weekends and only miss 1 actual day at school. For HS and MS kids, would think they may be missing more on own as not FCPS modeling having to consistently go to school during any given week and students just tell busy parents they thought it was another no school day if caught.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My school at least is now coding absences as unexcused for travel, regardless of filling out the silly prearranged absence form.

Makes it 1000x easier for me, I can just say, "Sorry, it was unexcused, look at schoology and prepare yourself for the retake." vs having to privately tutor the week of lessons they missed.

This should be standard across the county. My school counts travel absences as excused and we are expected to jump through all sorts of hoops to get the students caught up whenever they return.

[Anonymous]

I am sorry. To go away when the kids haven’t been in school for 30 days is ridiculous. That falls on the parents. There are plenty of 4 day weekends that a kid should not need to miss an additional week off around school.

[Anonymous]

This years spring break will turn into 2 weeks with the extra 2 days off the week after

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This years spring break will turn into 2 weeks with the extra 2 days off the week after

This! If in ES, 100% time to take that trip to Alaska or Asia. Do it now before in HS! Enjoy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This years spring break will turn into 2 weeks with the extra 2 days off the week after

Yeah, we are going to Europe.

[Anonymous]

I didn't want to create a new post about this but oMG...

THE AMOUNT OF SUB JOBS TODAY IS INSANE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn't want to create a new post about this but oMG...

THE AMOUNT OF SUB JOBS TODAY IS INSANE.

An entirely predictable outcome of the idiotic school calendar.

[Anonymous]

Please email the School Board. They need to hear how utterly ridiculous their Calendar is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This years spring break will turn into 2 weeks with the extra 2 days off the week after

This! If in ES, 100% time to take that trip to Alaska or Asia. Do it now before in HS! Enjoy!

Agree!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please email the School Board. They need to hear how utterly ridiculous their Calendar is.

There is a post about the calendar at least once a month on this board, do you actually believe people have not complained to the school board?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. With all the days off, we still have kids taking trips on school days. Have already had several kids go on vacation and miss school.

Because if FCPS doesn't care enough about education to have the kids in school 5 days per week, why should the families care?

Right. School clearly doesn’t matter since they take off for even non religious holidays. They aren’t giving families 5 days off straight for a vacation so families have to take off.

Also summer is so short! It’s hard to fit in summer trips.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn't want to create a new post about this but oMG...


THE AMOUNT OF SUB JOBS TODAY IS INSANE.

I agree the midweek days off are bad this school year. At least 26-27 and 27-28 don't have many of those.

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

https://www.fcps.edu/system/files/forms/2025-02/2027-2028-standard-school-year-calendar.pdf

[Anonymous]

Was talking to an ES teacher about the 5-day Memorial Day weekend that is scheduled for this year. She said that if your child has passed the SOLS and you can afford it, do you NOT send your child back for the last three weeks of school.

Her reasoning is that ALL of the instruction is done in early April and then its just SOL review. The last three weeks of school will be videos and busy work while the teachers clean up their classrooms or help students who failed the SOLs. Kids will be better off at home with a stay at home parent.