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Anonymous wrote:If FCPS created an honest survey, Christmas would have been on the federal holiday list and Ash Wednesday & the two Orthodox holidays would have been listed with the religious holidays, as well as decoupling Easter from spring break.

No, because the Orthodox holidays and Ash Wednesday were never days off for students. They are O days. The days that are holidays for students and staff (when they fall on school days) are Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Diwali, and the two Eids. Any other listed day is not automatically a day off for students. If it was, it was because they tried to kill two birds with one stone by placing a teacher workday during an O day.

So, if you get rid of the holidays as stated, it would only give you 5 days of school back. Everything else is required days for teacher planning or training.

Have you looked at the calendar?

The orthodox holidays and buddhist holidays, both celebrated by aroynd 1%-2% of FFX County were all off this year.

Teacher work days were slapped on top of them in a feeble attempt to justify the days off, but the days made zero sense for teacher work days. They were either completely random, or right after longer breaks. It was 100% obvious those teacher work days were just there to give religious holidays off.

The same goes for Ash Wednesday and especially chinese new year. At least All Saints Day/Day of the dead coincided with Halloween and the end of the quarter.

The FCPS school board must think their constituents are idiots if they think people didn't see through the fake random teacher workdays placed on obscure religious holidays.

School was held on Ash Wednesday. It was listed as an O day. Lunar New Year and Orthodox Good Friday were the only religious holidays that they slapped out of cycle TW days on.

Bohdi Day was off.

And Theravada.

Both celebrated by around 2% of ffx cty.

School was held on both of those days this year. Days that are marked as O are when school is in session, but kids who observe those holidays are allowed an excused absence.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Those holidays that vary due to lunar issues need to be eliminated. Period.

God forbid respecting other major religions get in the way of your convenient calendar.

The people who observe those religions can have an excused day off. We don’t have to shut down the whole district for them.

So the Muslim kids, or Jewish kids, or Hindu kids are forced to miss out of all school activities (academics, sports, extra curriculars) for their 1-2 days a year, but the Christian kids get to enjoy full participation because the calendar is structurally built around their holidays?

Nah. Fairfax county is diverse, and if this is really that huge of an issue I’d suggest looking at a house out in Winchester.

If religious holidays are that important to someone, then go private. Let the rest of us go to school.

If you don’t like the FCPS calendar, go private, let the rest of us go to school.

Umm, the FCPS doesn't let anyone go to school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If FCPS created an honest survey, Christmas would have been on the federal holiday list and Ash Wednesday & the two Orthodox holidays would have been listed with the religious holidays, as well as decoupling Easter from spring break.

No, because the Orthodox holidays and Ash Wednesday were never days off for students. They are O days. The days that are holidays for students and staff (when they fall on school days) are Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Diwali, and the two Eids. Any other listed day is not automatically a day off for students. If it was, it was because they tried to kill two birds with one stone by placing a teacher workday during an O day.

So, if you get rid of the holidays as stated, it would only give you 5 days of school back. Everything else is required days for teacher planning or training.

Have you looked at the calendar?

The orthodox holidays and buddhist holidays, both celebrated by aroynd 1%-2% of FFX County were all off this year.

Teacher work days were slapped on top of them in a feeble attempt to justify the days off, but the days made zero sense for teacher work days. They were either completely random, or right after longer breaks. It was 100% obvious those teacher work days were just there to give religious holidays off.

The same goes for Ash Wednesday and especially chinese new year. At least All Saints Day/Day of the dead coincided with Halloween and the end of the quarter.

The FCPS school board must think their constituents are idiots if they think people didn't see through the fake random teacher workdays placed on obscure religious holidays.

School was held on Ash Wednesday. It was listed as an O day. Lunar New Year and Orthodox Good Friday were the only religious holidays that they slapped out of cycle TW days on.

Bohdi Day was off.

And Theravada.

Both celebrated by around 2% of ffx cty.

School was held on both of those days this year. Days that are marked as O are when school is in session, but kids who observe those holidays are allowed an excused absence.

People like the PP who claimed Bodhi Day and Theravada were days off school probably don’t even have kids in FCPS. They’re just people who love the culture wars fanned by Minock and others. Other than Christmas, FCPS has five religious holidays that are not school days - two Eids, two Jewish holidays and Diwali. O days are school days.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Those holidays that vary due to lunar issues need to be eliminated. Period.

God forbid respecting other major religions get in the way of your convenient calendar.

The people who observe those religions can have an excused day off. We don’t have to shut down the whole district for them.

So the Muslim kids, or Jewish kids, or Hindu kids are forced to miss out of all school activities (academics, sports, extra curriculars) for their 1-2 days a year, but the Christian kids get to enjoy full participation because the calendar is structurally built around their holidays?

Nah. Fairfax county is diverse, and if this is really that huge of an issue I’d suggest looking at a house out in Winchester.

If religious holidays are that important to someone, then go private. Let the rest of us go to school.

If you don’t like the FCPS calendar, go private, let the rest of us go to school.

Umm, the FCPS doesn't let anyone go to school.

Ger rid of the superfluous holidays.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If FCPS created an honest survey, Christmas would have been on the federal holiday list and Ash Wednesday & the two Orthodox holidays would have been listed with the religious holidays, as well as decoupling Easter from spring break.

No, because the Orthodox holidays and Ash Wednesday were never days off for students. They are O days. The days that are holidays for students and staff (when they fall on school days) are Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Diwali, and the two Eids. Any other listed day is not automatically a day off for students. If it was, it was because they tried to kill two birds with one stone by placing a teacher workday during an O day.

So, if you get rid of the holidays as stated, it would only give you 5 days of school back. Everything else is required days for teacher planning or training.

Have you looked at the calendar?

The orthodox holidays and buddhist holidays, both celebrated by aroynd 1%-2% of FFX County were all off this year.

Teacher work days were slapped on top of them in a feeble attempt to justify the days off, but the days made zero sense for teacher work days. They were either completely random, or right after longer breaks. It was 100% obvious those teacher work days were just there to give religious holidays off.

The same goes for Ash Wednesday and especially chinese new year. At least All Saints Day/Day of the dead coincided with Halloween and the end of the quarter.

The FCPS school board must think their constituents are idiots if they think people didn't see through the fake random teacher workdays placed on obscure religious holidays.

School was held on Ash Wednesday. It was listed as an O day. Lunar New Year and Orthodox Good Friday were the only religious holidays that they slapped out of cycle TW days on.

Bohdi Day was off.

And Theravada.

Both celebrated by around 2% of ffx cty.

School was held on both of those days this year. Days that are marked as O are when school is in session, but kids who observe those holidays are allowed an excused absence.

People like the PP who claimed Bodhi Day and Theravada were days off school probably don’t even have kids in FCPS. They’re just people who love the culture wars fanned by Minock and others. Other than Christmas, FCPS has five religious holidays that are not school days - two Eids, two Jewish holidays and Diwali. O days are school days.

It's not a "culture war" to want your kids in school. And it's not just the unnecessary religious holidays, it's also stuff like Lunar New Year, Diwali, Norwruz (whatever that is), Orthodox Good Friday, it goes on and on.

Get this stuff off the calendar. Put kids in school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If FCPS created an honest survey, Christmas would have been on the federal holiday list and Ash Wednesday & the two Orthodox holidays would have been listed with the religious holidays, as well as decoupling Easter from spring break.

No, because the Orthodox holidays and Ash Wednesday were never days off for students. They are O days. The days that are holidays for students and staff (when they fall on school days) are Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Diwali, and the two Eids. Any other listed day is not automatically a day off for students. If it was, it was because they tried to kill two birds with one stone by placing a teacher workday during an O day.

So, if you get rid of the holidays as stated, it would only give you 5 days of school back. Everything else is required days for teacher planning or training.

Have you looked at the calendar?

The orthodox holidays and buddhist holidays, both celebrated by aroynd 1%-2% of FFX County were all off this year.

Teacher work days were slapped on top of them in a feeble attempt to justify the days off, but the days made zero sense for teacher work days. They were either completely random, or right after longer breaks. It was 100% obvious those teacher work days were just there to give religious holidays off.

The same goes for Ash Wednesday and especially chinese new year. At least All Saints Day/Day of the dead coincided with Halloween and the end of the quarter.

The FCPS school board must think their constituents are idiots if they think people didn't see through the fake random teacher workdays placed on obscure religious holidays.

School was held on Ash Wednesday. It was listed as an O day. Lunar New Year and Orthodox Good Friday were the only religious holidays that they slapped out of cycle TW days on.

Bohdi Day was off.

And Theravada.

Both celebrated by around 2% of ffx cty.

School was held on both of those days this year. Days that are marked as O are when school is in session, but kids who observe those holidays are allowed an excused absence.

People like the PP who claimed Bodhi Day and Theravada were days off school probably don’t even have kids in FCPS. They’re just people who love the culture wars fanned by Minock and others. Other than Christmas, FCPS has five religious holidays that are not school days - two Eids, two Jewish holidays and Diwali. O days are school days.

It's not a "culture war" to want your kids in school. And it's not just the unnecessary religious holidays, it's also stuff like Lunar New Year, Diwali, Norwruz (whatever that is), Orthodox Good Friday, it goes on and on.

Get this stuff off the calendar. Put kids in school.

They are in school on lunar new year's, nowruz, orthodox Good Friday ….

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If FCPS created an honest survey, Christmas would have been on the federal holiday list and Ash Wednesday & the two Orthodox holidays would have been listed with the religious holidays, as well as decoupling Easter from spring break.

No, because the Orthodox holidays and Ash Wednesday were never days off for students. They are O days. The days that are holidays for students and staff (when they fall on school days) are Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Diwali, and the two Eids. Any other listed day is not automatically a day off for students. If it was, it was because they tried to kill two birds with one stone by placing a teacher workday during an O day.

So, if you get rid of the holidays as stated, it would only give you 5 days of school back. Everything else is required days for teacher planning or training.

Have you looked at the calendar?

The orthodox holidays and buddhist holidays, both celebrated by aroynd 1%-2% of FFX County were all off this year.

Teacher work days were slapped on top of them in a feeble attempt to justify the days off, but the days made zero sense for teacher work days. They were either completely random, or right after longer breaks. It was 100% obvious those teacher work days were just there to give religious holidays off.

The same goes for Ash Wednesday and especially chinese new year. At least All Saints Day/Day of the dead coincided with Halloween and the end of the quarter.

The FCPS school board must think their constituents are idiots if they think people didn't see through the fake random teacher workdays placed on obscure religious holidays.

School was held on Ash Wednesday. It was listed as an O day. Lunar New Year and Orthodox Good Friday were the only religious holidays that they slapped out of cycle TW days on.

Bohdi Day was off.

And Theravada.

Both celebrated by around 2% of ffx cty.

School was held on both of those days this year. Days that are marked as O are when school is in session, but kids who observe those holidays are allowed an excused absence.

People like the PP who claimed Bodhi Day and Theravada were days off school probably don’t even have kids in FCPS. They’re just people who love the culture wars fanned by Minock and others. Other than Christmas, FCPS has five religious holidays that are not school days - two Eids, two Jewish holidays and Diwali. O days are school days.

It's not a "culture war" to want your kids in school. And it's not just the unnecessary religious holidays, it's also stuff like Lunar New Year, Diwali, Norwruz (whatever that is), Orthodox Good Friday, it goes on and on.

Get this stuff off the calendar. Put kids in school.

They are in school on lunar new year's, nowruz, orthodox Good Friday ….

Not always. This year they placed teacher workdays on Lunar New Year and Orthodox Good Friday. However, the wording of the survey muddies up the issue. What a lot of posters are complaining about are TW being placed on religious observances that aren’t protected by Student Holiday status. What they should be selecting on the survey is fewer TW. Those are contract days and the bulk of them are usually held before and after the first and last day of school. This year, only one TW was reserved for the end of the year, so an abnormal number of planning days were held during the school year. We could have ended school on June 12 had they held school on Lunar New Year, Orthodox Good Friday, and the day between Memorial Day and Eid. These days didn’t fall within the typical work days between quarters.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If FCPS created an honest survey, Christmas would have been on the federal holiday list and Ash Wednesday & the two Orthodox holidays would have been listed with the religious holidays, as well as decoupling Easter from spring break.

No, because the Orthodox holidays and Ash Wednesday were never days off for students. They are O days. The days that are holidays for students and staff (when they fall on school days) are Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Diwali, and the two Eids. Any other listed day is not automatically a day off for students. If it was, it was because they tried to kill two birds with one stone by placing a teacher workday during an O day.

So, if you get rid of the holidays as stated, it would only give you 5 days of school back. Everything else is required days for teacher planning or training.

Have you looked at the calendar?

The orthodox holidays and buddhist holidays, both celebrated by aroynd 1%-2% of FFX County were all off this year.

Teacher work days were slapped on top of them in a feeble attempt to justify the days off, but the days made zero sense for teacher work days. They were either completely random, or right after longer breaks. It was 100% obvious those teacher work days were just there to give religious holidays off.

The same goes for Ash Wednesday and especially chinese new year. At least All Saints Day/Day of the dead coincided with Halloween and the end of the quarter.

The FCPS school board must think their constituents are idiots if they think people didn't see through the fake random teacher workdays placed on obscure religious holidays.

School was held on Ash Wednesday. It was listed as an O day. Lunar New Year and Orthodox Good Friday were the only religious holidays that they slapped out of cycle TW days on.

Bohdi Day was off.

And Theravada.

Both celebrated by around 2% of ffx cty.

School was held on both of those days this year. Days that are marked as O are when school is in session, but kids who observe those holidays are allowed an excused absence.

People like the PP who claimed Bodhi Day and Theravada were days off school probably don’t even have kids in FCPS. They’re just people who love the culture wars fanned by Minock and others. Other than Christmas, FCPS has five religious holidays that are not school days - two Eids, two Jewish holidays and Diwali. O days are school days.

It's not a "culture war" to want your kids in school. And it's not just the unnecessary religious holidays, it's also stuff like Lunar New Year, Diwali, Norwruz (whatever that is), Orthodox Good Friday, it goes on and on.

Get this stuff off the calendar. Put kids in school.

They are in school on lunar new year's, nowruz, orthodox Good Friday ….

Nope, nope, and nope. Could you be more wrong?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If FCPS created an honest survey, Christmas would have been on the federal holiday list and Ash Wednesday & the two Orthodox holidays would have been listed with the religious holidays, as well as decoupling Easter from spring break.

No, because the Orthodox holidays and Ash Wednesday were never days off for students. They are O days. The days that are holidays for students and staff (when they fall on school days) are Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Diwali, and the two Eids. Any other listed day is not automatically a day off for students. If it was, it was because they tried to kill two birds with one stone by placing a teacher workday during an O day.

So, if you get rid of the holidays as stated, it would only give you 5 days of school back. Everything else is required days for teacher planning or training.

Have you looked at the calendar?

The orthodox holidays and buddhist holidays, both celebrated by aroynd 1%-2% of FFX County were all off this year.

Teacher work days were slapped on top of them in a feeble attempt to justify the days off, but the days made zero sense for teacher work days. They were either completely random, or right after longer breaks. It was 100% obvious those teacher work days were just there to give religious holidays off.

The same goes for Ash Wednesday and especially chinese new year. At least All Saints Day/Day of the dead coincided with Halloween and the end of the quarter.

The FCPS school board must think their constituents are idiots if they think people didn't see through the fake random teacher workdays placed on obscure religious holidays.

School was held on Ash Wednesday. It was listed as an O day. Lunar New Year and Orthodox Good Friday were the only religious holidays that they slapped out of cycle TW days on.

Bohdi Day was off.

And Theravada.

Both celebrated by around 2% of ffx cty.

School was held on both of those days this year. Days that are marked as O are when school is in session, but kids who observe those holidays are allowed an excused absence.

People like the PP who claimed Bodhi Day and Theravada were days off school probably don’t even have kids in FCPS. They’re just people who love the culture wars fanned by Minock and others. Other than Christmas, FCPS has five religious holidays that are not school days - two Eids, two Jewish holidays and Diwali. O days are school days.

It's not a "culture war" to want your kids in school. And it's not just the unnecessary religious holidays, it's also stuff like Lunar New Year, Diwali, Norwruz (whatever that is), Orthodox Good Friday, it goes on and on.

Get this stuff off the calendar. Put kids in school.

They are in school on lunar new year's, nowruz, orthodox Good Friday ….

Nope, nope, and nope. Could you be more wrong?

You mean no, yes, and no, though that is only applicable for the 25-26 school year. For 26-27, two of those days are on a weekend and the third… school is being held.

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Anonymous wrote:Christmas is a federal holiday (one of the original federal holidays)

Christmas should have been listed with the other federal holidays, but FCPS wanted to skew the survey results so they separated Christmas from the federal holidays and moved it to the religious holidays.

FCPS knows Christmas is a federal holiday.

FCPS knows that more than 80-90% of the students celebrate Christmas, either religiously or secularly, and likely more than 95% of teachers and school staff celebrate Christmas, so there would be no adults in the building and barely any students in the building if FCPS were to hold school on Christmas Eve and Christmas just to make a point.

It was petty and dishonest of FCPS to remove Christmas from the Federal holiday list, just to try to put their thumbs on the survey results.

If FCPS created an honest survey, Christmas would have been on the federal holiday list and Ash Wednesday & the two Orthodox holidays would have been listed with the religious holidays, as well as decoupling Easter from spring break.

FCPS knows A) Christmas is a federal holiday and B) such a significant majority of FCPS families, teachers, administrators and staff celebrate Christmas that schools cannot function on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Knowing these truths, FCPS was being completely dishonest and manipulative with their survey wording removing Christmas from federal holidays.

The only reasons to do this is to influence the survey results, and to create discord in minority religious groups if other religious holidays are removed and Christmas stays because it must stay due to logistics.

Nick Minok is an investigative reporter who focuses on the stupidity and waste of FCPS. Yes, he appears to be right wing, but your question should be why don't any of the many left wing reporters ever care to deep dive into the waste and stupidity of FCPS, holding them to account as well.

Universally, parents, admin and teachers in fcps agree that this year's pandering calendar was a disaster.

With very few exceptions, anyone with a basic grasp of American civics and culture knows that FCPS removing Christmas from the federal holliday list was completely dishonest, had dishonorable ulterior motives to manipulate survey results, will not be possible or practical due to the sheer numbers of families and staff that celebrate Christmas, and will cause much more hurt in the long run for minority groups if the other religious holidays are removed and Christmas stays.

Christmas has to stay on the calendar. FCPS knows that it cannot be removed. The schools will be empty that week, there will be no teachers to teach, and the district will lose a huge chunk of funding

Removing Christmas from the federal holiday list was dishonest, petty, and mean. It was especially mean to those minority students who don't realize that Christmas is a federal holiday, what a federal holiday means, and how schools are staffed and funded. They are only going to see it as a slight to them, because they don't understand the facts around Christmas as a federal holiday, and school funding formulas. Shame on FCPS.

FCPS should get called out for their dishonesty. More local reporters than Nick Minoc should be taking FCPS to task for this dishonest and misleading survey.

DCUM needs a character count limit to cut down on these AI generated walls of text.

If you can’t read a handful of paragraphs, you might be a graduate of FCPS.

I was also an English major, getting your point across in an efficient manner is highly valued. As far as people writing huge blocks on text on an anonymous message board, it's AI, people I work with use AI as a crutch for everything.

Sorry, but you are just wrong.

The post is not AI.

Signed,

English writing teacher who wrote the post

You had a lot of repetition. I sincerely hope you aren’t an “English writing teacher” whatever that means. LOL.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If FCPS created an honest survey, Christmas would have been on the federal holiday list and Ash Wednesday & the two Orthodox holidays would have been listed with the religious holidays, as well as decoupling Easter from spring break.

No, because the Orthodox holidays and Ash Wednesday were never days off for students. They are O days. The days that are holidays for students and staff (when they fall on school days) are Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Diwali, and the two Eids. Any other listed day is not automatically a day off for students. If it was, it was because they tried to kill two birds with one stone by placing a teacher workday during an O day.

So, if you get rid of the holidays as stated, it would only give you 5 days of school back. Everything else is required days for teacher planning or training.

Have you looked at the calendar?

The orthodox holidays and buddhist holidays, both celebrated by aroynd 1%-2% of FFX County were all off this year.

Teacher work days were slapped on top of them in a feeble attempt to justify the days off, but the days made zero sense for teacher work days. They were either completely random, or right after longer breaks. It was 100% obvious those teacher work days were just there to give religious holidays off.

The same goes for Ash Wednesday and especially chinese new year. At least All Saints Day/Day of the dead coincided with Halloween and the end of the quarter.

The FCPS school board must think their constituents are idiots if they think people didn't see through the fake random teacher workdays placed on obscure religious holidays.

School was held on Ash Wednesday. It was listed as an O day. Lunar New Year and Orthodox Good Friday were the only religious holidays that they slapped out of cycle TW days on.

Bohdi Day was off.

And Theravada.

Both celebrated by around 2% of ffx cty.

School was held on both of those days this year. Days that are marked as O are when school is in session, but kids who observe those holidays are allowed an excused absence.

People like the PP who claimed Bodhi Day and Theravada were days off school probably don’t even have kids in FCPS. They’re just people who love the culture wars fanned by Minock and others. Other than Christmas, FCPS has five religious holidays that are not school days - two Eids, two Jewish holidays and Diwali. O days are school days.

It's not a "culture war" to want your kids in school. And it's not just the unnecessary religious holidays, it's also stuff like Lunar New Year, Diwali, Norwruz (whatever that is), Orthodox Good Friday, it goes on and on.

Get this stuff off the calendar. Put kids in school.

They are in school on lunar new year's, nowruz, orthodox Good Friday ….

Nope, nope, and nope. Could you be more wrong?

You mean no, yes, and no, though that is only applicable for the 25-26 school year. For 26-27, two of those days are on a weekend and the third… school is being held.

Norwuz was a holiday this year on March 20th. Get your eyes checked.

And I couldn't care less about 26-27, what happens when these come back around in future years? Same problem all over again.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If FCPS created an honest survey, Christmas would have been on the federal holiday list and Ash Wednesday & the two Orthodox holidays would have been listed with the religious holidays, as well as decoupling Easter from spring break.

No, because the Orthodox holidays and Ash Wednesday were never days off for students. They are O days. The days that are holidays for students and staff (when they fall on school days) are Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Diwali, and the two Eids. Any other listed day is not automatically a day off for students. If it was, it was because they tried to kill two birds with one stone by placing a teacher workday during an O day.

So, if you get rid of the holidays as stated, it would only give you 5 days of school back. Everything else is required days for teacher planning or training.

Have you looked at the calendar?

The orthodox holidays and buddhist holidays, both celebrated by aroynd 1%-2% of FFX County were all off this year.

Teacher work days were slapped on top of them in a feeble attempt to justify the days off, but the days made zero sense for teacher work days. They were either completely random, or right after longer breaks. It was 100% obvious those teacher work days were just there to give religious holidays off.

The same goes for Ash Wednesday and especially chinese new year. At least All Saints Day/Day of the dead coincided with Halloween and the end of the quarter.

The FCPS school board must think their constituents are idiots if they think people didn't see through the fake random teacher workdays placed on obscure religious holidays.

School was held on Ash Wednesday. It was listed as an O day. Lunar New Year and Orthodox Good Friday were the only religious holidays that they slapped out of cycle TW days on.

Bohdi Day was off.

And Theravada.

Both celebrated by around 2% of ffx cty.

School was held on both of those days this year. Days that are marked as O are when school is in session, but kids who observe those holidays are allowed an excused absence.

People like the PP who claimed Bodhi Day and Theravada were days off school probably don’t even have kids in FCPS. They’re just people who love the culture wars fanned by Minock and others. Other than Christmas, FCPS has five religious holidays that are not school days - two Eids, two Jewish holidays and Diwali. O days are school days.

It's not a "culture war" to want your kids in school. And it's not just the unnecessary religious holidays, it's also stuff like Lunar New Year, Diwali, Norwruz (whatever that is), Orthodox Good Friday, it goes on and on.

Get this stuff off the calendar. Put kids in school.

They are in school on lunar new year's, nowruz, orthodox Good Friday ….

Nope, nope, and nope. Could you be more wrong?

You mean no, yes, and no, though that is only applicable for the 25-26 school year. For 26-27, two of those days are on a weekend and the third… school is being held.

Norwuz was a holiday this year on March 20th. Get your eyes checked.

And I couldn't care less about 26-27, what happens when these come back around in future years? Same problem all over again.

March 20 was closed due to Eid al-Fitr. Though I’m sure if another cultural observance happened to fall on December 25, you’d be complaining about school being closed due to that too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Christmas is a federal holiday (one of the original federal holidays)

Christmas should have been listed with the other federal holidays, but FCPS wanted to skew the survey results so they separated Christmas from the federal holidays and moved it to the religious holidays.

FCPS knows Christmas is a federal holiday.

FCPS knows that more than 80-90% of the students celebrate Christmas, either religiously or secularly, and likely more than 95% of teachers and school staff celebrate Christmas, so there would be no adults in the building and barely any students in the building if FCPS were to hold school on Christmas Eve and Christmas just to make a point.

It was petty and dishonest of FCPS to remove Christmas from the Federal holiday list, just to try to put their thumbs on the survey results.

If FCPS created an honest survey, Christmas would have been on the federal holiday list and Ash Wednesday & the two Orthodox holidays would have been listed with the religious holidays, as well as decoupling Easter from spring break.

FCPS knows A) Christmas is a federal holiday and B) such a significant majority of FCPS families, teachers, administrators and staff celebrate Christmas that schools cannot function on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Knowing these truths, FCPS was being completely dishonest and manipulative with their survey wording removing Christmas from federal holidays.

The only reasons to do this is to influence the survey results, and to create discord in minority religious groups if other religious holidays are removed and Christmas stays because it must stay due to logistics.

Nick Minok is an investigative reporter who focuses on the stupidity and waste of FCPS. Yes, he appears to be right wing, but your question should be why don't any of the many left wing reporters ever care to deep dive into the waste and stupidity of FCPS, holding them to account as well.

Universally, parents, admin and teachers in fcps agree that this year's pandering calendar was a disaster.

With very few exceptions, anyone with a basic grasp of American civics and culture knows that FCPS removing Christmas from the federal holliday list was completely dishonest, had dishonorable ulterior motives to manipulate survey results, will not be possible or practical due to the sheer numbers of families and staff that celebrate Christmas, and will cause much more hurt in the long run for minority groups if the other religious holidays are removed and Christmas stays.

Christmas has to stay on the calendar. FCPS knows that it cannot be removed. The schools will be empty that week, there will be no teachers to teach, and the district will lose a huge chunk of funding

Removing Christmas from the federal holiday list was dishonest, petty, and mean. It was especially mean to those minority students who don't realize that Christmas is a federal holiday, what a federal holiday means, and how schools are staffed and funded. They are only going to see it as a slight to them, because they don't understand the facts around Christmas as a federal holiday, and school funding formulas. Shame on FCPS.

FCPS should get called out for their dishonesty. More local reporters than Nick Minoc should be taking FCPS to task for this dishonest and misleading survey.

WHAT? Also recently up for review was having school during federal holidays- so, yeah those two things are separated. The WHAT ABOUT THE CALENDAR contingent wanted fewer federal holidays to be school holidays, you all said this. That you are saying Christmas is religious and federal doesn’t help your argument at ALL. You are weakening your argument and basically just saying you want what you want when you want it (those wants mostly around what you experienced as a kid BTW) and that everything else has no actual rules around it.

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Anonymous wrote:Decouple Spring break from Easter. Work with the other counties to set a specific week and set that as spring break every year. Maybe the second or third week or March. Some years it will coincide with Easter but most years it won’t and that is fine.

Christmas will fall during the winter break but it is a Federal Holiday any way.

The year they did that so many staff took off for Good Friday they had to pull in central office staff to sub. So they would need to recognize that as a religious holiday. Easier to just have it spring break.

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Anonymous wrote:If FCPS created an honest survey, Christmas would have been on the federal holiday list and Ash Wednesday & the two Orthodox holidays would have been listed with the religious holidays, as well as decoupling Easter from spring break.

No, because the Orthodox holidays and Ash Wednesday were never days off for students. They are O days. The days that are holidays for students and staff (when they fall on school days) are Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Diwali, and the two Eids. Any other listed day is not automatically a day off for students. If it was, it was because they tried to kill two birds with one stone by placing a teacher workday during an O day.

So, if you get rid of the holidays as stated, it would only give you 5 days of school back. Everything else is required days for teacher planning or training.

Have you looked at the calendar?

The orthodox holidays and buddhist holidays, both celebrated by aroynd 1%-2% of FFX County were all off this year.

Teacher work days were slapped on top of them in a feeble attempt to justify the days off, but the days made zero sense for teacher work days. They were either completely random, or right after longer breaks. It was 100% obvious those teacher work days were just there to give religious holidays off.

The same goes for Ash Wednesday and especially chinese new year. At least All Saints Day/Day of the dead coincided with Halloween and the end of the quarter.

The FCPS school board must think their constituents are idiots if they think people didn't see through the fake random teacher workdays placed on obscure religious holidays.

School was held on Ash Wednesday. It was listed as an O day. Lunar New Year and Orthodox Good Friday were the only religious holidays that they slapped out of cycle TW days on.

Bohdi Day was off.

And Theravada.

Both celebrated by around 2% of ffx cty.

School was held on both of those days this year. Days that are marked as O are when school is in session, but kids who observe those holidays are allowed an excused absence.

People like the PP who claimed Bodhi Day and Theravada were days off school probably don’t even have kids in FCPS. They’re just people who love the culture wars fanned by Minock and others. Other than Christmas, FCPS has five religious holidays that are not school days - two Eids, two Jewish holidays and Diwali. O days are school days.

People like that poster just fundamentally hate that this isn’t a Christian-only nation.