The school year is more than 10 months for staff and 2025-26 is extra long for students-Must be shortened

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The OPs dates are incorrect on the student calendar, the last day of school is the 2nd Wednesday(not 3rd) June 11 2025

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Anonymous wrote:I prefer the longer school year.

me too

I prefer the longer school year as well. Actually, I wish our 180 days were spread out over the whole year with 3-week breaks in between the quarters and a 5-week break in the summer. That would be awesome!

Many local pools would probably shut down. They wouldn’t survive a 5 week summer financially. I know it seems frivolous to some, but many wouldn’t want that to happen.

They could just start recruiting college kids and international kids. I guarantee that local pools would find a way. I mean, they are open all summer long now even though HS kids are in school for half of June and half of August, right?

I wasn't thinking about the guard staff. I was thinking about how many people would choose to not pay for only 5 weeks of use.

When I was a kid in Texas, the local pools were open from the end of April to the end of Sept. Kids were in school until the end of May and then returned to school at the beginning of August. Families still bought pool passes because kids went to the pool after school and on weekends. At our pool in Fairfax, tons of kids go to the pool after school and on weekends when school is in session. I know you do not want to think so, but pool and school CAN coexist easily.

9 or 10 weeks is a far cry above 5 not to mention spending weeks in HOT SCHOOL BUSES!

Yeah, you must not be from the south. You want hot school buses? Try riding in one on a mid-August afternoon in Houston, TX.

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

Entire school system is closed for Eid-al-Fitr and Eid-al-Adha? What are these holidays and what are 180k students supposed to do on these days?

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.fcps.edu/system/files/2025-2026-standard-school-year-calendar.pdf

Entire school system is closed for Eid-al-Fitr and Eid-al-Adha? What are these holidays and what are 180k students supposed to do on these days?

Whatever the Muslim, Jewish and various other religions do on Christmas.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.fcps.edu/system/files/2025-2026-standard-school-year-calendar.pdf

Entire school system is closed for Eid-al-Fitr and Eid-al-Adha? What are these holidays and what are 180k students supposed to do on these days?

Google is an amazing tool.

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Anonymous wrote:Students YE date is June 11th 2025(2nd Wednesday)followed by staff development days.There are two Teacher work days the following week. But in past teachers weren’t “required” to be in school. As long as rooms were cleaned out, Grading could be finished and submitted from home. Is this just school dependent? I’m mainly referring to HS .

I wish we had a TW towards the end of the 4th quarter to be used for completing Progress Reports. They take a long time to complete.

ES Teacher

Friday before or Tuesday after Memorial Day would be perfect. Eliminate 2 of 3 or 3 of 4 teacher days after last day of school.

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YES! SOLs are over and the end of the year is in sight. Do the TWs/PD days around Memorial Day!

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Anonymous wrote:The OPs dates are incorrect on the student calendar, the last day of school is the 2nd Wednesday(not 3rd) June 11 2025

OP is looking at the calendar 2 years from now: SY25-26. The last day of school is June 17.

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I work for APS, and am looking at FCPS's current calendar. They have TWO days off after Easter? And had TWO entire weeks off for Winter Break this year! We don't even have the Monday after Easter off. It's a full, regular school day.

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Anonymous wrote:I work for APS, and am looking at FCPS's current calendar. They have TWO days off after Easter? And had TWO entire weeks off for Winter Break this year! We don't even have the Monday after Easter off. It's a full, regular school day.

It’s the end of the quarter and as others have mentioned I use much of that time to complete and enter grades (Monday, since Tuesday is a Staff Dev day).

One day to do grades when they are due (~2 weeks before the last day) for the 4th quarter would be super helpful.

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Anonymous wrote:I work for APS, and am looking at FCPS's current calendar. They have TWO days off after Easter? And had TWO entire weeks off for Winter Break this year! We don't even have the Monday after Easter off. It's a full, regular school day.

As someone else said, it’s the end of the quarter. I’ve been teaching in FCPS for a long time and I don’t remember ever having this Monday as a workday - it’s just how the calendar fell this year and will be different next year because Spring Break always changes.

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Anonymous wrote:I work for APS, and am looking at FCPS's current calendar. They have TWO days off after Easter? And had TWO entire weeks off for Winter Break this year! We don't even have the Monday after Easter off. It's a full, regular school day.

I would also add APS started a week later than FCPS and gets out the same.

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The winter and spring breaks are way too long. One week at Christmas is plenty. A 12 day spring break is absurd.

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Anonymous wrote:The winter and spring breaks are way too long. One week at Christmas is plenty. A 12 day spring break is absurd.

The winter break has been the same for many years( like 8-10 years) they most likely will not change that. The two days after Easter is NEW this year. They used to go back on Monday. Not sure what the change was for BUT this year the quarter ended right before spring break. Last year they had spring break and then came back for 4 days and then it was end of quarter( which was really wonky.

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Anonymous wrote:The winter and spring breaks are way too long. One week at Christmas is plenty. A 12 day spring break is absurd.

The winter break has been the same for many years( like 8-10 years) they most likely will not change that. The two days after Easter is NEW this year. They used to go back on Monday. Not sure what the change was for BUT this year the quarter ended right before spring break. Last year they had spring break and then came back for 4 days and then it was end of quarter( which was really wonky.

The end of the quarter is the reason. Next year it will not be that way. But the days off will still be there - they’ll just be at a different time.

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Anonymous wrote:Kids still need to make up from missing SCHOOL FROM MARCH 13,2020 TO AUGUST 2022

The kids who still need to make things up need it made up via intensive tutoring.

HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!! That's funny, PP.