How DO we get the calendar changed?

[Anonymous]

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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.

Wrong. Public caters to ALL, whether you like it or not.

But we are punishing everyone trying to cater everyone! no one is getting what they need with this calendar. Life is not fair, but but literally have a calendar that does not work so everyone can have a day off when they need it is punishing every one else. Church and state are separated in this country.

[b]I celebrate Christmas and if you want to have school that day or that week, fine. I will take the day off for my kids.

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And so will 90% of the rest of the students, teachers, support staff, bus drivers and federally connnected folks.

FCPS could not function on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, through January 1st. Only a handful of students and even fewer staff would attend.

Up until about 10 years ago FCPS had winter break start on 12/24 and end on 1/1/ (or as close to that as they could get). It would shift slightly each year depending on what day of the week Christmas fell on but the goal was alway to have the shortest possible break. Some years (like if Christmas was a Saturday) winter break would be Friday 12/24 plus the following week. The only years that break was 2 weeks were when Christmas fell on a Wednesday.
And do you know what happened on the years that Christmas break was shorter? Huge numbers of kids didn't show up to school. Families would take 2 weeks to travel and didn't care if kids missed 3 or 4 days of school. This is a significant reason why FCPS finally went to a guaranteed 2 week winter break.
And, uncoupling Spring Break from Easter will only work if other local counties agree to do the same. The one year FCPS tried it they ended up with tons of teachers who lived outside the county having to bring their own kids to work with them.

I think many families think that missing a couple of days of school for the sake of family travel is fine. And once this is the attitude parents will justify skipping few days of school whether it's one week, two weeks or three weeks of school break. For better ticket prices, end of the year work commitments, you name it. And this years calendar has done a lot to reinforce this attitude.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here should be the holiday schedule:

Monday, January 20 Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 17* Presidents' Day/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/Indigenous Peoples' Day
Tuesday, November 11 Veterans Day
Thursday, November 27 Thanksgiving Day
Friday, November 28 Day after Thanksgiving Day

done and great w/ parents

Agree with the above plus one-week spring break and a winter break*

*I'd prefer one week (or close to) for winter break but that's because we're DCUM-poor and don't travel abroad. If everyone else wants a two-week break, so be it.

I’d prefer 1 week as well. Unless they somehow managed to link it with end of quarter then two weeks would be OK.

[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* Presidents' Day/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/Indigenous Peoples' Day
Tuesday, November 11 Veterans Day
Thursday, November 27 Thanksgiving Day
Friday, November 28 Day after Thanksgiving Day

done and great w/ parents

Agree with the above plus one-week spring break and a winter break*

*I'd prefer one week (or close to) for winter break but that's because we're DCUM-poor and don't travel abroad. If everyone else wants a two-week break, so be it.

I’d prefer 1 week as well. Unless they somehow managed to link it with end of quarter then two weeks would be OK.

Well too bad. We are never going back to a one week break. The teachers and most of the families want 2 weeks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Wrong. Public caters to ALL, whether you like it or not.

But we are punishing everyone trying to cater everyone! no one is getting what they need with this calendar. Life is not fair, but but literally have a calendar that does not work so everyone can have a day off when they need it is punishing every one else. Church and state are separated in this country.

[b]I celebrate Christmas and if you want to have school that day or that week, fine. I will take the day off for my kids.

[/b]

And so will 90% of the rest of the students, teachers, support staff, bus drivers and federally connnected folks.

FCPS could not function on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, through January 1st. Only a handful of students and even fewer staff would attend.

Up until about 10 years ago FCPS had winter break start on 12/24 and end on 1/1/ (or as close to that as they could get). It would shift slightly each year depending on what day of the week Christmas fell on but the goal was alway to have the shortest possible break. Some years (like if Christmas was a Saturday) winter break would be Friday 12/24 plus the following week. The only years that break was 2 weeks were when Christmas fell on a Wednesday.
And do you know what happened on the years that Christmas break was shorter? Huge numbers of kids didn't show up to school. Families would take 2 weeks to travel and didn't care if kids missed 3 or 4 days of school. This is a significant reason why FCPS finally went to a guaranteed 2 week winter break.
And, uncoupling Spring Break from Easter will only work if other local counties agree to do the same. The one year FCPS tried it they ended up with tons of teachers who lived outside the county having to bring their own kids to work with them.

Then FCPS should prioritize hiring Fairfax residents.

Sorry the teachers didn’t plan well in advance like the FCPS boosters keep telling parents is so easy and inexpensive to do.

This crazy person is back. Do you realize how ridiculous you sound? People live/work all over in ALL fields. They did plan that year and TOOK off which led to an OPERATIONAL issue. Maybe if Fairfax County was affordable more teachers would move there.

My point is look at ANY school district in the US and you will find no district that has ALL staff living there.

Fairfax will be more affordable when the school calendar doesn’t force parents to shell out thousands in childcare to cover a random Tuesday “TW” day.

Housing is unaffordable. That is why teachers don’t all live here. Childcare adds into that but most people are moving to other counties due to housing. Look at Vienna. You cannot get a house for less than a million dollars. Even townhomes are 800,000 or more. Some of these homes are not million dollar homes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Wrong. Public caters to ALL, whether you like it or not.

But we are punishing everyone trying to cater everyone! no one is getting what they need with this calendar. Life is not fair, but but literally have a calendar that does not work so everyone can have a day off when they need it is punishing every one else. Church and state are separated in this country.

[b]I celebrate Christmas and if you want to have school that day or that week, fine. I will take the day off for my kids.

[/b]

And so will 90% of the rest of the students, teachers, support staff, bus drivers and federally connnected folks.

FCPS could not function on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, through January 1st. Only a handful of students and even fewer staff would attend.

Up until about 10 years ago FCPS had winter break start on 12/24 and end on 1/1/ (or as close to that as they could get). It would shift slightly each year depending on what day of the week Christmas fell on but the goal was alway to have the shortest possible break. Some years (like if Christmas was a Saturday) winter break would be Friday 12/24 plus the following week. The only years that break was 2 weeks were when Christmas fell on a Wednesday.
And do you know what happened on the years that Christmas break was shorter? Huge numbers of kids didn't show up to school. Families would take 2 weeks to travel and didn't care if kids missed 3 or 4 days of school. This is a significant reason why FCPS finally went to a guaranteed 2 week winter break.
And, uncoupling Spring Break from Easter will only work if other local counties agree to do the same. The one year FCPS tried it they ended up with tons of teachers who lived outside the county having to bring their own kids to work with them.

Then FCPS should prioritize hiring Fairfax residents.

Sorry the teachers didn’t plan well in advance like the FCPS boosters keep telling parents is so easy and inexpensive to do.

This crazy person is back. Do you realize how ridiculous you sound? People live/work all over in ALL fields. They did plan that year and TOOK off which led to an OPERATIONAL issue. Maybe if Fairfax County was affordable more teachers would move there.

My point is look at ANY school district in the US and you will find no district that has ALL staff living there.

According to the post I quoted, they did not take off, they took their unsupervised kids to work with them. Sorry that goes against your narrative.

Teacher here. Home sick. At my school we had zero children of staff that week. We had a ton of subs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Wrong. Public caters to ALL, whether you like it or not. [/quote

But we are punishing everyone trying to cater everyone! no one is getting what they need with this calendar. Life is not fair, but but literally have a calendar that does not work so everyone can have a day off when they need it is punishing every one else. Church and state are separated in this country.

[b]I celebrate Christmas and if you want to have school that day or that week, fine. I will take the day off for my kids.

[/b]

And so will 90% of the rest of the students, teachers, support staff, bus drivers and federally connnected folks.

FCPS could not function on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, through January 1st. Only a handful of students and even fewer staff would attend.

Up until about 10 years ago FCPS had winter break start on 12/24 and end on 1/1/ (or as close to that as they could get). It would shift slightly each year depending on what day of the week Christmas fell on but the goal was alway to have the shortest possible break. Some years (like if Christmas was a Saturday) winter break would be Friday 12/24 plus the following week. The only years that break was 2 weeks were when Christmas fell on a Wednesday.
And do you know what happened on the years that Christmas break was shorter? Huge numbers of kids didn't show up to school. Families would take 2 weeks to travel and didn't care if kids missed 3 or 4 days of school. This is a significant reason why FCPS finally went to a guaranteed 2 week winter break.
And, uncoupling Spring Break from Easter will only work if other local counties agree to do the same. The one year FCPS tried it they ended up with tons of teachers who lived outside the county having to bring their own kids to work with them.

Then FCPS should prioritize hiring Fairfax residents.

Sorry the teachers didn’t plan well in advance like the FCPS boosters keep telling parents is so easy and inexpensive to do.

This crazy person is back. Do you realize how ridiculous you sound? People live/work all over in ALL fields. They did plan that year and TOOK off which led to an OPERATIONAL issue. Maybe if Fairfax County was affordable more teachers would move there.

My point is look at ANY school district in the US and you will find no district that has ALL staff living there.

According to the post I quoted, they did not take off, they took their unsupervised kids to work with them. Sorry that goes against your narrative.

Teacher here. Home sick. At my school we had zero children of staff that week. We had a ton of subs.

Both things happened. Tons of subs and tons of kids at various schools

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here should be the holiday schedule:

Monday, January 20 Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 17* Presidents' Day/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/Indigenous Peoples' Day
Tuesday, November 11 Veterans Day
Thursday, November 27 Thanksgiving Day
Friday, November 28 Day after Thanksgiving Day

done and great w/ parents

Agree with the above plus one-week spring break and a winter break*

*I'd prefer one week (or close to) for winter break but that's because we're DCUM-poor and don't travel abroad. If everyone else wants a two-week break, so be it.

I’d prefer 1 week as well. Unless they somehow managed to link it with end of quarter then two weeks would be OK.

Well too bad. We are never going back to a one week break. The teachers and most of the families want 2 weeks.

I know. But I am allowed to express my opinion - and also good to know if I am not alone. I’m not the only one.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Wrong. Public caters to ALL, whether you like it or not.

But we are punishing everyone trying to cater everyone! no one is getting what they need with this calendar. Life is not fair, but but literally have a calendar that does not work so everyone can have a day off when they need it is punishing every one else. Church and state are separated in this country.

[b]I celebrate Christmas and if you want to have school that day or that week, fine. I will take the day off for my kids.

[/b]

And so will 90% of the rest of the students, teachers, support staff, bus drivers and federally connnected folks.

FCPS could not function on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, through January 1st. Only a handful of students and even fewer staff would attend.

Up until about 10 years ago FCPS had winter break start on 12/24 and end on 1/1/ (or as close to that as they could get). It would shift slightly each year depending on what day of the week Christmas fell on but the goal was alway to have the shortest possible break. Some years (like if Christmas was a Saturday) winter break would be Friday 12/24 plus the following week. The only years that break was 2 weeks were when Christmas fell on a Wednesday.
And do you know what happened on the years that Christmas break was shorter? Huge numbers of kids didn't show up to school. Families would take 2 weeks to travel and didn't care if kids missed 3 or 4 days of school. This is a significant reason why FCPS finally went to a guaranteed 2 week winter break.
And, uncoupling Spring Break from Easter will only work if other local counties agree to do the same. The one year FCPS tried it they ended up with tons of teachers who lived outside the county having to bring their own kids to work with them.

Then FCPS should prioritize hiring Fairfax residents.

Sorry the teachers didn’t plan well in advance like the FCPS boosters keep telling parents is so easy and inexpensive to do.

This crazy person is back. Do you realize how ridiculous you sound? People live/work all over in ALL fields. They did plan that year and TOOK off which led to an OPERATIONAL issue. Maybe if Fairfax County was affordable more teachers would move there.

My point is look at ANY school district in the US and you will find no district that has ALL staff living there.

Fairfax will be more affordable when the school calendar doesn’t force parents to shell out thousands in childcare to cover a random Tuesday “TW” day.

Housing is unaffordable. That is why teachers don’t all live here. Childcare adds into that but most people are moving to other counties due to housing. Look at Vienna. You cannot get a house for less than a million dollars. Even townhomes are 800,000 or more. Some of these homes are not million dollar homes.

Fairfax is bigger than Vienna, and if teachers *must* have McMansions they should work in LCPS or wherever they choose to live. Otherwise we continue to have worse quality in FCPS while we endlessly close schools because “the teachers live far away” and insist we can’t improve the calendar until other counties do. Foolish and reflects incorrect priorities.

[Anonymous]

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* Presidents' Day/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/Indigenous Peoples' Day
Tuesday, November 11 Veterans Day
Thursday, November 27 Thanksgiving Day
Friday, November 28 Day after Thanksgiving Day

done and great w/ parents

Agree with the above plus one-week spring break and a winter break*

*I'd prefer one week (or close to) for winter break but that's because we're DCUM-poor and don't travel abroad. If everyone else wants a two-week break, so be it.

I’d prefer 1 week as well. Unless they somehow managed to link it with end of quarter then two weeks would be OK.

Well too bad. We are never going back to a one week break. The teachers and most of the families want 2 weeks.

Offhand are you the same poster who said we were never going to get school on Veterans Day?

[Anonymous]

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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

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

I never said that but don't live in a country like the US that was "founded" by Christians and then complain about spring break being close to Easter or time off at Christmas- the HORROR. It's like you all have no idea where you live? Bes t of luck as you move to another country then and complain about them having holidays around their culture.

Christian Nationalism? Really? That's what you're going with?

That is what this entire calendar thing is about. A return to when parents were in school so they can believe things are stable here in the USA. Meanwhile the calendar doesn’t really have anything to do with the instability in the economy right now.

When I was a kid, my school district (in the used-to-be-more-Jewish-but-wasn't-anymore side of the Chicago suburbs) closed for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. And for Pulaski Day. But we also went to school on Veterans Day (with an assembly to hear from local vets) and on election days (people just voted while we were in school and it was fine).

It's not new for school districts to close for minority religious holidays and cultural days. There are definitely ways to honor and celebrate the fact that the US is a multicultural society. It's wild for Christian nationalists to pretend this stuff is new and to try to write immigrants out of our national identity.

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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.

Wrong. Public caters to ALL, whether you like it or not.

But we are punishing everyone trying to cater everyone! no one is getting what they need with this calendar. Life is not fair, but but literally have a calendar that does not work so everyone can have a day off when they need it is punishing every one else. Church and state are separated in this country.

[b]I celebrate Christmas and if you want to have school that day or that week, fine. I will take the day off for my kids.

[/b]

And so will 90% of the rest of the students, teachers, support staff, bus drivers and federally connnected folks.

FCPS could not function on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, through January 1st. Only a handful of students and even fewer staff would attend.

Up until about 10 years ago FCPS had winter break start on 12/24 and end on 1/1/ (or as close to that as they could get). It would shift slightly each year depending on what day of the week Christmas fell on but the goal was alway to have the shortest possible break. Some years (like if Christmas was a Saturday) winter break would be Friday 12/24 plus the following week. The only years that break was 2 weeks were when Christmas fell on a Wednesday.
And do you know what happened on the years that Christmas break was shorter? Huge numbers of kids didn't show up to school. Families would take 2 weeks to travel and didn't care if kids missed 3 or 4 days of school. This is a significant reason why FCPS finally went to a guaranteed 2 week winter break.
And, uncoupling Spring Break from Easter will only work if other local counties agree to do the same. The one year FCPS tried it they ended up with tons of teachers who lived outside the county having to bring their own kids to work with them.

Then FCPS should prioritize hiring Fairfax residents.

Sorry the teachers didn’t plan well in advance like the FCPS boosters keep telling parents is so easy and inexpensive to do.

This crazy person is back. Do you realize how ridiculous you sound? People live/work all over in ALL fields. They did plan that year and TOOK off which led to an OPERATIONAL issue. Maybe if Fairfax County was affordable more teachers would move there.

My point is look at ANY school district in the US and you will find no district that has ALL staff living there.

Fairfax will be more affordable when the school calendar doesn’t force parents to shell out thousands in childcare to cover a random Tuesday “TW” day.

Housing is unaffordable. That is why teachers don’t all live here. Childcare adds into that but most people are moving to other counties due to housing. Look at Vienna. You cannot get a house for less than a million dollars. Even townhomes are 800,000 or more. Some of these homes are not million dollar homes.

Fairfax is bigger than Vienna, and if teachers *must* have McMansions they should work in LCPS or wherever they choose to live. Otherwise we continue to have worse quality in FCPS while we endlessly close schools because “the teachers live far away” and insist we can’t improve the calendar until other counties do. Foolish and reflects incorrect priorities.

Different poster. There is very little housing in Fairfax County under 750,000. Not everyone earns more than 200,000 a year.

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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.

Wrong. Public caters to ALL, whether you like it or not.

But we are punishing everyone trying to cater everyone! no one is getting what they need with this calendar. Life is not fair, but but literally have a calendar that does not work so everyone can have a day off when they need it is punishing every one else. Church and state are separated in this country.

[b]I celebrate Christmas and if you want to have school that day or that week, fine. I will take the day off for my kids.

[/b]

And so will 90% of the rest of the students, teachers, support staff, bus drivers and federally connnected folks.

FCPS could not function on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, through January 1st. Only a handful of students and even fewer staff would attend.

Up until about 10 years ago FCPS had winter break start on 12/24 and end on 1/1/ (or as close to that as they could get). It would shift slightly each year depending on what day of the week Christmas fell on but the goal was alway to have the shortest possible break. Some years (like if Christmas was a Saturday) winter break would be Friday 12/24 plus the following week. The only years that break was 2 weeks were when Christmas fell on a Wednesday.
And do you know what happened on the years that Christmas break was shorter? Huge numbers of kids didn't show up to school. Families would take 2 weeks to travel and didn't care if kids missed 3 or 4 days of school. This is a significant reason why FCPS finally went to a guaranteed 2 week winter break.
And, uncoupling Spring Break from Easter will only work if other local counties agree to do the same. The one year FCPS tried it they ended up with tons of teachers who lived outside the county having to bring their own kids to work with them.

Then FCPS should prioritize hiring Fairfax residents.

Sorry the teachers didn’t plan well in advance like the FCPS boosters keep telling parents is so easy and inexpensive to do.

This crazy person is back. Do you realize how ridiculous you sound? People live/work all over in ALL fields. They did plan that year and TOOK off which led to an OPERATIONAL issue. Maybe if Fairfax County was affordable more teachers would move there.

My point is look at ANY school district in the US and you will find no district that has ALL staff living there.

Fairfax will be more affordable when the school calendar doesn’t force parents to shell out thousands in childcare to cover a random Tuesday “TW” day.

Housing is unaffordable. That is why teachers don’t all live here. Childcare adds into that but most people are moving to other counties due to housing. Look at Vienna. You cannot get a house for less than a million dollars. Even townhomes are 800,000 or more. Some of these homes are not million dollar homes.

Fairfax is bigger than Vienna, and if teachers *must* have McMansions they should work in LCPS or wherever they choose to live. Otherwise we continue to have worse quality in FCPS while we endlessly close schools because “the teachers live far away” and insist we can’t improve the calendar until other counties do. Foolish and reflects incorrect priorities.

Different poster. There is very little housing in Fairfax County under 750,000. Not everyone earns more than 200,000 a year.

A great reason that schools should not be adding to household costs by having such an irregular schedule and driving up costs. The parents of their students have to live in these conditions, many do not own homes, they should not have a calendar dictated by where teachers can buy big houses.

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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.

Wrong. Public caters to ALL, whether you like it or not.

But we are punishing everyone trying to cater everyone! no one is getting what they need with this calendar. Life is not fair, but but literally have a calendar that does not work so everyone can have a day off when they need it is punishing every one else. Church and state are separated in this country.

[b]I celebrate Christmas and if you want to have school that day or that week, fine. I will take the day off for my kids.

[/b]

And so will 90% of the rest of the students, teachers, support staff, bus drivers and federally connnected folks.

FCPS could not function on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, through January 1st. Only a handful of students and even fewer staff would attend.

Up until about 10 years ago FCPS had winter break start on 12/24 and end on 1/1/ (or as close to that as they could get). It would shift slightly each year depending on what day of the week Christmas fell on but the goal was alway to have the shortest possible break. Some years (like if Christmas was a Saturday) winter break would be Friday 12/24 plus the following week. The only years that break was 2 weeks were when Christmas fell on a Wednesday.
And do you know what happened on the years that Christmas break was shorter? Huge numbers of kids didn't show up to school. Families would take 2 weeks to travel and didn't care if kids missed 3 or 4 days of school. This is a significant reason why FCPS finally went to a guaranteed 2 week winter break.
And, uncoupling Spring Break from Easter will only work if other local counties agree to do the same. The one year FCPS tried it they ended up with tons of teachers who lived outside the county having to bring their own kids to work with them.

Then FCPS should prioritize hiring Fairfax residents.

Sorry the teachers didn’t plan well in advance like the FCPS boosters keep telling parents is so easy and inexpensive to do.

This crazy person is back. Do you realize how ridiculous you sound? People live/work all over in ALL fields. They did plan that year and TOOK off which led to an OPERATIONAL issue. Maybe if Fairfax County was affordable more teachers would move there.

My point is look at ANY school district in the US and you will find no district that has ALL staff living there.

Fairfax will be more affordable when the school calendar doesn’t force parents to shell out thousands in childcare to cover a random Tuesday “TW” day.

Housing is unaffordable. That is why teachers don’t all live here. Childcare adds into that but most people are moving to other counties due to housing. Look at Vienna. You cannot get a house for less than a million dollars. Even townhomes are 800,000 or more. Some of these homes are not million dollar homes.

Fairfax is bigger than Vienna, and if teachers *must* have McMansions they should work in LCPS or wherever they choose to live. Otherwise we continue to have worse quality in FCPS while we endlessly close schools because “the teachers live far away” and insist we can’t improve the calendar until other counties do. Foolish and reflects incorrect priorities.

Different poster. There is very little housing in Fairfax County under 750,000. Not everyone earns more than 200,000 a year.

A great reason that schools should not be adding to household costs by having such an irregular schedule and driving up costs. The parents of their students have to live in these conditions, many do not own homes, they should not have a calendar dictated by where teachers can buy big houses.

There are not enough teachers living in Fairfax County to staff the schools. Every district has people commuting from other counties. They are literally hiring foreigners to help staff the schools. The schools priority should be getting quality teachers.

Very few people live in the town they work in. In ALL professions.

Your argument is ridiculous and not actually plausible as NO SCHOOL district in the US has all of their staff members living in boundary.

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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.

Wrong. Public caters to ALL, whether you like it or not.

But we are punishing everyone trying to cater everyone! no one is getting what they need with this calendar. Life is not fair, but but literally have a calendar that does not work so everyone can have a day off when they need it is punishing every one else. Church and state are separated in this country.

[b]I celebrate Christmas and if you want to have school that day or that week, fine. I will take the day off for my kids.

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And so will 90% of the rest of the students, teachers, support staff, bus drivers and federally connnected folks.

FCPS could not function on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, through January 1st. Only a handful of students and even fewer staff would attend.

Up until about 10 years ago FCPS had winter break start on 12/24 and end on 1/1/ (or as close to that as they could get). It would shift slightly each year depending on what day of the week Christmas fell on but the goal was alway to have the shortest possible break. Some years (like if Christmas was a Saturday) winter break would be Friday 12/24 plus the following week. The only years that break was 2 weeks were when Christmas fell on a Wednesday.
And do you know what happened on the years that Christmas break was shorter? Huge numbers of kids didn't show up to school. Families would take 2 weeks to travel and didn't care if kids missed 3 or 4 days of school. This is a significant reason why FCPS finally went to a guaranteed 2 week winter break.
And, uncoupling Spring Break from Easter will only work if other local counties agree to do the same. The one year FCPS tried it they ended up with tons of teachers who lived outside the county having to bring their own kids to work with them.

Then FCPS should prioritize hiring Fairfax residents.

Sorry the teachers didn’t plan well in advance like the FCPS boosters keep telling parents is so easy and inexpensive to do.

This crazy person is back. Do you realize how ridiculous you sound? People live/work all over in ALL fields. They did plan that year and TOOK off which led to an OPERATIONAL issue. Maybe if Fairfax County was affordable more teachers would move there.

My point is look at ANY school district in the US and you will find no district that has ALL staff living there.

Fairfax will be more affordable when the school calendar doesn’t force parents to shell out thousands in childcare to cover a random Tuesday “TW” day.

Housing is unaffordable. That is why teachers don’t all live here. Childcare adds into that but most people are moving to other counties due to housing. Look at Vienna. You cannot get a house for less than a million dollars. Even townhomes are 800,000 or more. Some of these homes are not million dollar homes.

Fairfax is bigger than Vienna, and if teachers *must* have McMansions they should work in LCPS or wherever they choose to live. Otherwise we continue to have worse quality in FCPS while we endlessly close schools because “the teachers live far away” and insist we can’t improve the calendar until other counties do. Foolish and reflects incorrect priorities.

Different poster. There is very little housing in Fairfax County under 750,000. Not everyone earns more than 200,000 a year.

A great reason that schools should not be adding to household costs by having such an irregular schedule and driving up costs. The parents of their students have to live in these conditions, many do not own homes, they should not have a calendar dictated by where teachers can buy big houses.

There are not enough teachers living in Fairfax County to staff the schools. Every district has people commuting from other counties. They are literally hiring foreigners to help staff the schools. The schools priority should be getting quality teachers.

Very few people live in the town they work in. In ALL professions.

Your argument is ridiculous and not actually plausible as NO SCHOOL district in the US has all of their staff members living in boundary.

Except… nowhere was that my argument. Your out-of-county teacher would’ve told you, that a strawman.

I said Fairfax resident should be prioritized in hiring. That would lower the incentive to make foolish decisions based on people living in Loudoun. Quite a few areas have incentives for his teachers to move/live there, and many areas have residence requirements for employees, so welcome to 2026 where schools do not (or should not) exist to serve teachers, but students.

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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.

Wrong. Public caters to ALL, whether you like it or not.

But we are punishing everyone trying to cater everyone! no one is getting what they need with this calendar. Life is not fair, but but literally have a calendar that does not work so everyone can have a day off when they need it is punishing every one else. Church and state are separated in this country.

[b]I celebrate Christmas and if you want to have school that day or that week, fine. I will take the day off for my kids.

[/b]

And so will 90% of the rest of the students, teachers, support staff, bus drivers and federally connnected folks.

FCPS could not function on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, through January 1st. Only a handful of students and even fewer staff would attend.

Up until about 10 years ago FCPS had winter break start on 12/24 and end on 1/1/ (or as close to that as they could get). It would shift slightly each year depending on what day of the week Christmas fell on but the goal was alway to have the shortest possible break. Some years (like if Christmas was a Saturday) winter break would be Friday 12/24 plus the following week. The only years that break was 2 weeks were when Christmas fell on a Wednesday.
And do you know what happened on the years that Christmas break was shorter? Huge numbers of kids didn't show up to school. Families would take 2 weeks to travel and didn't care if kids missed 3 or 4 days of school. This is a significant reason why FCPS finally went to a guaranteed 2 week winter break.
And, uncoupling Spring Break from Easter will only work if other local counties agree to do the same. The one year FCPS tried it they ended up with tons of teachers who lived outside the county having to bring their own kids to work with them.

Then FCPS should prioritize hiring Fairfax residents.

Sorry the teachers didn’t plan well in advance like the FCPS boosters keep telling parents is so easy and inexpensive to do.

This crazy person is back. Do you realize how ridiculous you sound? People live/work all over in ALL fields. They did plan that year and TOOK off which led to an OPERATIONAL issue. Maybe if Fairfax County was affordable more teachers would move there.

My point is look at ANY school district in the US and you will find no district that has ALL staff living there.

Fairfax will be more affordable when the school calendar doesn’t force parents to shell out thousands in childcare to cover a random Tuesday “TW” day.

Housing is unaffordable. That is why teachers don’t all live here. Childcare adds into that but most people are moving to other counties due to housing. Look at Vienna. You cannot get a house for less than a million dollars. Even townhomes are 800,000 or more. Some of these homes are not million dollar homes.

Fairfax is bigger than Vienna, and if teachers *must* have McMansions they should work in LCPS or wherever they choose to live. Otherwise we continue to have worse quality in FCPS while we endlessly close schools because “the teachers live far away” and insist we can’t improve the calendar until other counties do. Foolish and reflects incorrect priorities.

Different poster. There is very little housing in Fairfax County under 750,000. Not everyone earns more than 200,000 a year.

A great reason that schools should not be adding to household costs by having such an irregular schedule and driving up costs. The parents of their students have to live in these conditions, many do not own homes, they should not have a calendar dictated by where teachers can buy big houses.

There are not enough teachers living in Fairfax County to staff the schools. Every district has people commuting from other counties. They are literally hiring foreigners to help staff the schools. The schools priority should be getting quality teachers.

Very few people live in the town they work in. In ALL professions.

Your argument is ridiculous and not actually plausible as NO SCHOOL district in the US has all of their staff members living in boundary.

Then pump up this program!

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/housing/rentalhousing/magnet