How DO we get the calendar changed?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here should be the holiday schedule:

Monday, January 20 Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 17* Washington’s Birthday
Monday, May 26 Memorial Day
Thursday, June 19 Juneteenth National Independence Day
Friday, July 04 Independence Day
Monday, September 01 Labor Day
Monday, October 13 Columbus Day
Tuesday, November 11 Veterans Day
Thursday, November 27 Thanksgiving Day

done and great w/ parents

You left off two of our original national holidays, Christmas and New years.

85-95% of students, teaxhers and support staff would not attend school on the week from Christmas Eve to New Year Day.

Facts are facts.

Try as you might, not one school in FCPS or America would have enough people to run a single classroom on Christmas.

I’m not the person you’re quoting but I read their post to mean these should be the holidays not these should be the breaks— normal winter and spring break but no holidays observed other than the nationally recognized ones.

Personally I think the Federal holidays should represent the number of holidays and if FCPS wants to recognize say, RH/YK instead of Columbus and Labor Day they could make trade offs, but actual trade offs not just adding indefinitely.

Only having Thanksgiving itself off is the tell that they didn’t really think about doing that.

Hi, to be clear, I posted the list and should have left off Thanksgiving. My point was that, in addition to all the breaks, those should be the only holidays.

Spring break should align with Easter. Even many secular countries in Europe provide time off around Easter, so this is a reasonable middle ground.

Here are the breaks: spring break aligned with Easter, summer break ending with Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and winter break. That is already a significant amount of time off.

Teachers can use the first and last days of those breaks as workdays to avoid cutting into student time.

This was essentially the schedule in the 2000s, and with the addition of Juneteenth, it makes sense to return to that model.

There is also no need for a committee or prolonged debate. The simplest approach is to follow the federal government holiday schedule, which already drives most parent schedules in this area. It is a neutral, nonreligious framework that provides a consistent and practical standard.

Here are the words you aren’t saying: we should always squash debate particularly at the local level and just follow the feds example. It is the new American totalitarian way and a return to the past when America was great and you were comfortable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here should be the holiday schedule:

Monday, January 20 Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 17* Washington’s Birthday
Monday, May 26 Memorial Day
Thursday, June 19 Juneteenth National Independence Day
Friday, July 04 Independence Day
Monday, September 01 Labor Day
Monday, October 13 Columbus Day
Tuesday, November 11 Veterans Day
Thursday, November 27 Thanksgiving Day

done and great w/ parents

You left off two of our original national holidays, Christmas and New years.

85-95% of students, teaxhers and support staff would not attend school on the week from Christmas Eve to New Year Day.

Facts are facts.

Try as you might, not one school in FCPS or America would have enough people to run a single classroom on Christmas.

I’m not the person you’re quoting but I read their post to mean these should be the holidays not these should be the breaks— normal winter and spring break but no holidays observed other than the nationally recognized ones.

Personally I think the Federal holidays should represent the number of holidays and if FCPS wants to recognize say, RH/YK instead of Columbus and Labor Day they could make trade offs, but actual trade offs not just adding indefinitely.

Only having Thanksgiving itself off is the tell that they didn’t really think about doing that.

Hi, to be clear, I posted the list and should have left off Thanksgiving. My point was that, in addition to all the breaks, those should be the only holidays.

Spring break should align with Easter. Even many secular countries in Europe provide time off around Easter, so this is a reasonable middle ground.

Here are the breaks: spring break aligned with Easter, summer break ending with Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and winter break. That is already a significant amount of time off.

Teachers can use the first and last days of those breaks as workdays to avoid cutting into student time.

This was essentially the schedule in the 2000s, and with the addition of Juneteenth, it makes sense to return to that model.

There is also no need for a committee or prolonged debate. The simplest approach is to follow the federal government holiday schedule, which already drives most parent schedules in this area. It is a neutral, nonreligious framework that provides a consistent and practical standard.

Here are the words you aren’t saying: we should always squash debate particularly at the local level and just follow the feds example. It is the new American totalitarian way and a return to the past when America was great and you were comfortable.

DP but this is a strange take. The federal government isn’t offered for two weeks at Christmas, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here should be the holiday schedule:

Monday, January 20 Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 17* Washington’s Birthday
Monday, May 26 Memorial Day
Thursday, June 19 Juneteenth National Independence Day
Friday, July 04 Independence Day
Monday, September 01 Labor Day
Monday, October 13 Columbus Day
Tuesday, November 11 Veterans Day
Thursday, November 27 Thanksgiving Day

done and great w/ parents

You left off two of our original national holidays, Christmas and New years.

85-95% of students, teaxhers and support staff would not attend school on the week from Christmas Eve to New Year Day.

Facts are facts.

Try as you might, not one school in FCPS or America would have enough people to run a single classroom on Christmas.

I’m not the person you’re quoting but I read their post to mean these should be the holidays not these should be the breaks— normal winter and spring break but no holidays observed other than the nationally recognized ones.

Personally I think the Federal holidays should represent the number of holidays and if FCPS wants to recognize say, RH/YK instead of Columbus and Labor Day they could make trade offs, but actual trade offs not just adding indefinitely.

Only having Thanksgiving itself off is the tell that they didn’t really think about doing that.

Hi, to be clear, I posted the list and should have left off Thanksgiving. My point was that, in addition to all the breaks, those should be the only holidays.

Spring break should align with Easter. Even many secular countries in Europe provide time off around Easter, so this is a reasonable middle ground.

Here are the breaks: spring break aligned with Easter, summer break ending with Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and winter break. That is already a significant amount of time off.

Teachers can use the first and last days of those breaks as workdays to avoid cutting into student time.

This was essentially the schedule in the 2000s, and with the addition of Juneteenth, it makes sense to return to that model.

There is also no need for a committee or prolonged debate. The simplest approach is to follow the federal government holiday schedule, which already drives most parent schedules in this area. It is a neutral, nonreligious framework that provides a consistent and practical standard.

Um no. Teachers are never going to be required to work over the their holidays. They want to take time with their families as well. They will continue to have separate workdays (M-Fr) from holidays where the kids are not in school and you parents will just have to deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here should be the holiday schedule:

Monday, January 20 Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 17* Washington’s Birthday
Monday, May 26 Memorial Day
Thursday, June 19 Juneteenth National Independence Day
Friday, July 04 Independence Day
Monday, September 01 Labor Day
Monday, October 13 Columbus Day
Tuesday, November 11 Veterans Day
Thursday, November 27 Thanksgiving Day

done and great w/ parents

You left off two of our original national holidays, Christmas and New years.

85-95% of students, teaxhers and support staff would not attend school on the week from Christmas Eve to New Year Day.

Facts are facts.

Try as you might, not one school in FCPS or America would have enough people to run a single classroom on Christmas.

I’m not the person you’re quoting but I read their post to mean these should be the holidays not these should be the breaks— normal winter and spring break but no holidays observed other than the nationally recognized ones.

Personally I think the Federal holidays should represent the number of holidays and if FCPS wants to recognize say, RH/YK instead of Columbus and Labor Day they could make trade offs, but actual trade offs not just adding indefinitely.

Only having Thanksgiving itself off is the tell that they didn’t really think about doing that.

Hi, to be clear, I posted the list and should have left off Thanksgiving. My point was that, in addition to all the breaks, those should be the only holidays.

Spring break should align with Easter. Even many secular countries in Europe provide time off around Easter, so this is a reasonable middle ground.

Here are the breaks: spring break aligned with Easter, summer break ending with Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and winter break. That is already a significant amount of time off.

Teachers can use the first and last days of those breaks as workdays to avoid cutting into student time.

This was essentially the schedule in the 2000s, and with the addition of Juneteenth, it makes sense to return to that model.

There is also no need for a committee or prolonged debate. The simplest approach is to follow the federal government holiday schedule, which already drives most parent schedules in this area. It is a neutral, nonreligious framework that provides a consistent and practical standard.

Um no. Teachers are never going to be required to work over the their holidays. They want to take time with their families as well. They will continue to have separate workdays (M-Fr) from holidays where the kids are not in school and you parents will just have to deal.

Just like indigenous peoples day, days can be more than one thing. Veterans day was the tip of the iceberg and now its gone…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here should be the holiday schedule:

Monday, January 20 Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 17* Washington’s Birthday
Monday, May 26 Memorial Day
Thursday, June 19 Juneteenth National Independence Day
Friday, July 04 Independence Day
Monday, September 01 Labor Day
Monday, October 13 Columbus Day
Tuesday, November 11 Veterans Day
Thursday, November 27 Thanksgiving Day

done and great w/ parents

You left off two of our original national holidays, Christmas and New years.

85-95% of students, teaxhers and support staff would not attend school on the week from Christmas Eve to New Year Day.

Facts are facts.

Try as you might, not one school in FCPS or America would have enough people to run a single classroom on Christmas.

I’m not the person you’re quoting but I read their post to mean these should be the holidays not these should be the breaks— normal winter and spring break but no holidays observed other than the nationally recognized ones.

Personally I think the Federal holidays should represent the number of holidays and if FCPS wants to recognize say, RH/YK instead of Columbus and Labor Day they could make trade offs, but actual trade offs not just adding indefinitely.

Only having Thanksgiving itself off is the tell that they didn’t really think about doing that.

Hi, to be clear, I posted the list and should have left off Thanksgiving. My point was that, in addition to all the breaks, those should be the only holidays.

Spring break should align with Easter. Even many secular countries in Europe provide time off around Easter, so this is a reasonable middle ground.

Here are the breaks: spring break aligned with Easter, summer break ending with Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and winter break. That is already a significant amount of time off.

Teachers can use the first and last days of those breaks as workdays to avoid cutting into student time.

This was essentially the schedule in the 2000s, and with the addition of Juneteenth, it makes sense to return to that model.

There is also no need for a committee or prolonged debate. The simplest approach is to follow the federal government holiday schedule, which already drives most parent schedules in this area. It is a neutral, nonreligious framework that provides a consistent and practical standard.

Here are the words you aren’t saying: we should always squash debate particularly at the local level and just follow the feds example. It is the new American totalitarian way and a return to the past when America was great and you were comfortable.

DP but this is a strange take. The federal government isn’t offered for two weeks at Christmas, etc.

Federal government is also only off for Thanksgiving on Thursday, not 3 days.

We do not need to add Juneteenth to the calendar because school should not be running still on June 19! That should be summer vacation already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here should be the holiday schedule:

Monday, January 20 Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 17* Washington’s Birthday
Monday, May 26 Memorial Day
Thursday, June 19 Juneteenth National Independence Day
Friday, July 04 Independence Day
Monday, September 01 Labor Day
Monday, October 13 Columbus Day
Tuesday, November 11 Veterans Day
Thursday, November 27 Thanksgiving Day

done and great w/ parents

You left off two of our original national holidays, Christmas and New years.

85-95% of students, teaxhers and support staff would not attend school on the week from Christmas Eve to New Year Day.

Facts are facts.

Try as you might, not one school in FCPS or America would have enough people to run a single classroom on Christmas.

I’m not the person you’re quoting but I read their post to mean these should be the holidays not these should be the breaks— normal winter and spring break but no holidays observed other than the nationally recognized ones.

Personally I think the Federal holidays should represent the number of holidays and if FCPS wants to recognize say, RH/YK instead of Columbus and Labor Day they could make trade offs, but actual trade offs not just adding indefinitely.

Only having Thanksgiving itself off is the tell that they didn’t really think about doing that.

Hi, to be clear, I posted the list and should have left off Thanksgiving. My point was that, in addition to all the breaks, those should be the only holidays.

Spring break should align with Easter. Even many secular countries in Europe provide time off around Easter, so this is a reasonable middle ground.

Here are the breaks: spring break aligned with Easter, summer break ending with Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and winter break. That is already a significant amount of time off.

Teachers can use the first and last days of those breaks as workdays to avoid cutting into student time.

This was essentially the schedule in the 2000s, and with the addition of Juneteenth, it makes sense to return to that model.

There is also no need for a committee or prolonged debate. The simplest approach is to follow the federal government holiday schedule, which already drives most parent schedules in this area. It is a neutral, nonreligious framework that provides a consistent and practical standard.

Um no. Teachers are never going to be required to work over the their holidays. They want to take time with their families as well. They will continue to have separate workdays (M-Fr) from holidays where the kids are not in school and you parents will just have to deal.

I am sure everyone can agree to have them take one additional day off and remember no other profession gets so many days off to begin with

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here should be the holiday schedule:

Monday, January 20 Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 17* Washington’s Birthday
Monday, May 26 Memorial Day
Thursday, June 19 Juneteenth National Independence Day
Friday, July 04 Independence Day
Monday, September 01 Labor Day
Monday, October 13 Columbus Day
Tuesday, November 11 Veterans Day
Thursday, November 27 Thanksgiving Day

done and great w/ parents

You left off two of our original national holidays, Christmas and New years.

85-95% of students, teaxhers and support staff would not attend school on the week from Christmas Eve to New Year Day.

Facts are facts.

Try as you might, not one school in FCPS or America would have enough people to run a single classroom on Christmas.

I’m not the person you’re quoting but I read their post to mean these should be the holidays not these should be the breaks— normal winter and spring break but no holidays observed other than the nationally recognized ones.

Personally I think the Federal holidays should represent the number of holidays and if FCPS wants to recognize say, RH/YK instead of Columbus and Labor Day they could make trade offs, but actual trade offs not just adding indefinitely.

Only having Thanksgiving itself off is the tell that they didn’t really think about doing that.

Hi, to be clear, I posted the list and should have left off Thanksgiving. My point was that, in addition to all the breaks, those should be the only holidays.

Spring break should align with Easter. Even many secular countries in Europe provide time off around Easter, so this is a reasonable middle ground.

Here are the breaks: spring break aligned with Easter, summer break ending with Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and winter break. That is already a significant amount of time off.

Teachers can use the first and last days of those breaks as workdays to avoid cutting into student time.

This was essentially the schedule in the 2000s, and with the addition of Juneteenth, it makes sense to return to that model.

There is also no need for a committee or prolonged debate. The simplest approach is to follow the federal government holiday schedule, which already drives most parent schedules in this area. It is a neutral, nonreligious framework that provides a consistent and practical standard.

Here are the words you aren’t saying: we should always squash debate particularly at the local level and just follow the feds example. It is the new American totalitarian way and a return to the past when America was great and you were comfortable.

You do realize the federal govt calendar has been this way for decades except for the addition of juneteetnth by Biden?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here should be the holiday schedule:

Monday, January 20 Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 17* Washington’s Birthday
Monday, May 26 Memorial Day
Thursday, June 19 Juneteenth National Independence Day
Friday, July 04 Independence Day
Monday, September 01 Labor Day
Monday, October 13 Columbus Day
Tuesday, November 11 Veterans Day
Thursday, November 27 Thanksgiving Day

done and great w/ parents

You left off two of our original national holidays, Christmas and New years.

85-95% of students, teaxhers and support staff would not attend school on the week from Christmas Eve to New Year Day.

Facts are facts.

Try as you might, not one school in FCPS or America would have enough people to run a single classroom on Christmas.

I’m not the person you’re quoting but I read their post to mean these should be the holidays not these should be the breaks— normal winter and spring break but no holidays observed other than the nationally recognized ones.

Personally I think the Federal holidays should represent the number of holidays and if FCPS wants to recognize say, RH/YK instead of Columbus and Labor Day they could make trade offs, but actual trade offs not just adding indefinitely.

Only having Thanksgiving itself off is the tell that they didn’t really think about doing that.

Hi, to be clear, I posted the list and should have left off Thanksgiving. My point was that, in addition to all the breaks, those should be the only holidays.

Spring break should align with Easter. Even many secular countries in Europe provide time off around Easter, so this is a reasonable middle ground.

Here are the breaks: spring break aligned with Easter, summer break ending with Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and winter break. That is already a significant amount of time off.

Teachers can use the first and last days of those breaks as workdays to avoid cutting into student time.

This was essentially the schedule in the 2000s, and with the addition of Juneteenth, it makes sense to return to that model.

There is also no need for a committee or prolonged debate. The simplest approach is to follow the federal government holiday schedule, which already drives most parent schedules in this area. It is a neutral, nonreligious framework that provides a consistent and practical standard.

Here are the words you aren’t saying: we should always squash debate particularly at the local level and just follow the feds example. It is the new American totalitarian way and a return to the past when America was great and you were comfortable.

DP but this is a strange take. The federal government isn’t offered for two weeks at Christmas, etc.

No federal workers have leave they can take whenever. Do kids?
This is an insane calendar

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here should be the holiday schedule:

Monday, January 20 Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 17* Washington’s Birthday
Monday, May 26 Memorial Day
Thursday, June 19 Juneteenth National Independence Day
Friday, July 04 Independence Day
Monday, September 01 Labor Day
Monday, October 13 Columbus Day
Tuesday, November 11 Veterans Day
Thursday, November 27 Thanksgiving Day

done and great w/ parents

You left off two of our original national holidays, Christmas and New years.

85-95% of students, teaxhers and support staff would not attend school on the week from Christmas Eve to New Year Day.

Facts are facts.

Try as you might, not one school in FCPS or America would have enough people to run a single classroom on Christmas.

I’m not the person you’re quoting but I read their post to mean these should be the holidays not these should be the breaks— normal winter and spring break but no holidays observed other than the nationally recognized ones.

Personally I think the Federal holidays should represent the number of holidays and if FCPS wants to recognize say, RH/YK instead of Columbus and Labor Day they could make trade offs, but actual trade offs not just adding indefinitely.

Only having Thanksgiving itself off is the tell that they didn’t really think about doing that.

Hi, to be clear, I posted the list and should have left off Thanksgiving. My point was that, in addition to all the breaks, those should be the only holidays.

Spring break should align with Easter. Even many secular countries in Europe provide time off around Easter, so this is a reasonable middle ground.

Here are the breaks: spring break aligned with Easter, summer break ending with Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and winter break. That is already a significant amount of time off.

Teachers can use the first and last days of those breaks as workdays to avoid cutting into student time.

This was essentially the schedule in the 2000s, and with the addition of Juneteenth, it makes sense to return to that model.

There is also no need for a committee or prolonged debate. The simplest approach is to follow the federal government holiday schedule, which already drives most parent schedules in this area. It is a neutral, nonreligious framework that provides a consistent and practical standard.

Here are the words you aren’t saying: we should always squash debate particularly at the local level and just follow the feds example. It is the new American totalitarian way and a return to the past when America was great and you were comfortable.

DP but this is a strange take. The federal government isn’t offered for two weeks at Christmas, etc.

That statement wasn’t about the calendar as much as the PP saying that there shouldn’t be any debates about this topic, FCPS should just do as that poster was saying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here should be the holiday schedule:

Monday, January 20 Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 17* Washington’s Birthday
Monday, May 26 Memorial Day
Thursday, June 19 Juneteenth National Independence Day
Friday, July 04 Independence Day
Monday, September 01 Labor Day
Monday, October 13 Columbus Day
Tuesday, November 11 Veterans Day
Thursday, November 27 Thanksgiving Day

done and great w/ parents

You left off two of our original national holidays, Christmas and New years.

85-95% of students, teaxhers and support staff would not attend school on the week from Christmas Eve to New Year Day.

Facts are facts.

Try as you might, not one school in FCPS or America would have enough people to run a single classroom on Christmas.

I’m not the person you’re quoting but I read their post to mean these should be the holidays not these should be the breaks— normal winter and spring break but no holidays observed other than the nationally recognized ones.

Personally I think the Federal holidays should represent the number of holidays and if FCPS wants to recognize say, RH/YK instead of Columbus and Labor Day they could make trade offs, but actual trade offs not just adding indefinitely.

Only having Thanksgiving itself off is the tell that they didn’t really think about doing that.

Hi, to be clear, I posted the list and should have left off Thanksgiving. My point was that, in addition to all the breaks, those should be the only holidays.

Spring break should align with Easter. Even many secular countries in Europe provide time off around Easter, so this is a reasonable middle ground.

Here are the breaks: spring break aligned with Easter, summer break ending with Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and winter break. That is already a significant amount of time off.

Teachers can use the first and last days of those breaks as workdays to avoid cutting into student time.

This was essentially the schedule in the 2000s, and with the addition of Juneteenth, it makes sense to return to that model.

There is also no need for a committee or prolonged debate. The simplest approach is to follow the federal government holiday schedule, which already drives most parent schedules in this area. It is a neutral, nonreligious framework that provides a consistent and practical standard.

Here are the words you aren’t saying: we should always squash debate particularly at the local level and just follow the feds example. It is the new American totalitarian way and a return to the past when America was great and you were comfortable.

You do realize the federal govt calendar has been this way for decades except for the addition of juneteetnth by Biden?

Federal vs local government. Saying a locality should just do what the feds do without any debate or other input is what I’m pushing back against. What works for adults doesn’t work for kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here should be the holiday schedule:

Monday, January 20 Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 17* Washington’s Birthday
Monday, May 26 Memorial Day
Thursday, June 19 Juneteenth National Independence Day
Friday, July 04 Independence Day
Monday, September 01 Labor Day
Monday, October 13 Columbus Day
Tuesday, November 11 Veterans Day
Thursday, November 27 Thanksgiving Day

done and great w/ parents

You left off two of our original national holidays, Christmas and New years.

85-95% of students, teaxhers and support staff would not attend school on the week from Christmas Eve to New Year Day.

Facts are facts.

Try as you might, not one school in FCPS or America would have enough people to run a single classroom on Christmas.

I’m not the person you’re quoting but I read their post to mean these should be the holidays not these should be the breaks— normal winter and spring break but no holidays observed other than the nationally recognized ones.

Personally I think the Federal holidays should represent the number of holidays and if FCPS wants to recognize say, RH/YK instead of Columbus and Labor Day they could make trade offs, but actual trade offs not just adding indefinitely.

Only having Thanksgiving itself off is the tell that they didn’t really think about doing that.

Hi, to be clear, I posted the list and should have left off Thanksgiving. My point was that, in addition to all the breaks, those should be the only holidays.

Spring break should align with Easter. Even many secular countries in Europe provide time off around Easter, so this is a reasonable middle ground.

Here are the breaks: spring break aligned with Easter, summer break ending with Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and winter break. That is already a significant amount of time off.

Teachers can use the first and last days of those breaks as workdays to avoid cutting into student time.

This was essentially the schedule in the 2000s, and with the addition of Juneteenth, it makes sense to return to that model.

There is also no need for a committee or prolonged debate. The simplest approach is to follow the federal government holiday schedule, which already drives most parent schedules in this area. It is a neutral, nonreligious framework that provides a consistent and practical standard.

Here are the words you aren’t saying: we should always squash debate particularly at the local level and just follow the feds example. It is the new American totalitarian way and a return to the past when America was great and you were comfortable.

You do realize the federal govt calendar has been this way for decades except for the addition of juneteetnth by Biden?

Federal vs local government. Saying a locality should just do what the feds do without any debate or other input is what I’m pushing back against. What works for adults doesn’t work for kids.

We all know that works for working parents isn’t even a consideration. Or if it is, it falls much lower than the 2% of people celebrating some religious holiday feeling “celebrated” by a secular school system.

[Anonymous]

We should not have these holidays off or as observance days-
Rosh Hashanah
Yom Kippur
Diwali
Eid al Fitr
Eid al Adha

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We should not have these holidays off or as observance days-
Rosh Hashanah
Yom Kippur
Diwali
Eid al Fitr
Eid al Adha

Sounds about white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We should not have these holidays off or as observance days-
Rosh Hashanah
Yom Kippur
Diwali
Eid al Fitr
Eid al Adha

But spring break should be aligned with Easter and of course we need a full two weeks off around Christmas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We should not have these holidays off or as observance days-
Rosh Hashanah
Yom Kippur
Diwali
Eid al Fitr
Eid al Adha

Sounds about white.

If my kids go to a Jewish school, they don't celebrate all the Christian and Pagan holidays so enough with your virtue signaling. My "whitness" can't move to move to India and demand the entire country to give all "whites" paid days off for American holidays? Your insistent cultural neediness is exhausting and disruptive to the learning of ALL students. If you want cultural handholding go to an international school, not public.