Why is fcps starting so early???

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Anonymous wrote:Way too many days off. But I like starting 2 werks before Labor Day. I just wish they would end during the first week in June. Nothing happens in June. Once people see June 1st on the calendar, they completely check out. So pushing more breaks/vacations into the school year and pushing the end date further into June is equal to taking away learning time.

A day in June is not equal to a day in August, October, January or March (or any other month). June days have very very little educational value in most fcps schools.

When fcps switched to a pre labor day start, ending in early June was the entire justification, along with more time to study for AP exams.

This school board somehow managed to screw up the calendar too.

2023 cannot come soon enough.

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But you can also blame all the people who filled out the calendar surveys saying they want Columbus Day, Veterans Day, the Wed. before Tgiving, TWO weeks at Christmas, MLK, a week for spring break, plus a bunch of teacher training days OFF.

It's the old adage about "you can't keep your cake and eat it too!" You can't take off all kinds of days during the school year and STILL end the year early.

I "voted" to end school in the first week of June. I'm happy to have the kids in school for various minor federal holidays and "only" 10 days off at Christmas. I think it would be more educational for kids to be IN school on MLK day, Indigenous Peoples Day (formerly Columbus Day), and Veterans Day. And we certainly don't need to be keeping kids out of school in a PUBLIC (non-sectarian) school for Yom Kippur, Diwali, Good Friday and Eid! If those are important days for you to celebrate among your religious compatriots, then take the day off from PUBLIC school. There is no reason everyone needs to stop learning because some people need to attend to religious events. And if it is really important to you --- consider a religious school where your holidays are everyone's holidays.

But, if a public school is going to stuff the calendar with all of those days off -- then the only way to get the minimum number of days is to start earlier and go later June.

I don’t know. That’s more on the survey itself. Of course if you ask “Would you like A, B and C” people are going to say “Yes to all”.

If you remember the survey, it did ask you to balance extra days off during the year versus a longer calendar. I prefer the extra days off during the year to a long summer break.

+1 This is what the survey did. I think some people just can't believe that there might be a majority of people who want something different than they want.

This is the essence of DCUM. Posters can’t fathom that they might be in the minority so instead they just complain about FCPS or the school board. It is ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:As a teacher I hate this calendar. All the random days off a terrible for keeping classes on a routine especially with A day/B day or other sorts of alternating day schedules.

+1. Too many days off. Very annoying.

+2. I havent had any secondary teachers in my circle say they liked this schedule. The number of short weeks is insane. It’s really hard to build/keep momentum when there is no normal routine. My issue is not with the actual start/end dates, it is with the 3 & 4 day weeks.

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ES teacher here- I like having the additional holidays off but feel the county should have moved/lessen TWD to balance and have more full weeks. There was absolutely a way to do it. Veteran’s Day and Columbus Day could have been student days. They should have moved end of quarter 1 to Election Day and made the day before a TWD and then Halloween a school day. We gave waaay to many TWD. I think if we went from 9 during the year to 5 like every other county, more people would be ok with the calendar.

That said next year Rosh Hashana and Diwali fall on a weekend.