fcps 25-26 calendar

[Anonymous]

Whether you think you’d prefer it to the traditional 10 week summer or not, intentional year round schooling with a 9 weeks on / 2 weeks off and a 6 week summer model is far, far superior to what we have ended up with, which is de facto year round schooling with no consistency. Rather than having planned 2 week breaks throughout the year buttressing the quarters and a 6 week summer, we get a 7.5 week summer, single digit numbers of 5 day weeks, and a bunch of random 3-4 day weekends or Tuesdays off due to trying to hit every possible holiday on the calendar and build in PD days. It’s monstrous.

As a teacher, we have got to figure something out. Either shift to true year round schooling and accept that some of those holidays will fall in the 2 weeks off throughout the year and the ones that don’t are excused absences/no testing days, or cut the excess days off in the calendar so we aren’t starting mid August and going to late June. It’s bloated nonsense that’s gotten out of hand with what began as good intentions.

[Anonymous]

Sadly, random individuals in this forum can create a far better calendar than the paid professionals and School Board.

Fire them all and bring back sanity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whether you think you’d prefer it to the traditional 10 week summer or not, intentional year round schooling with a 9 weeks on / 2 weeks off and a 6 week summer model is far, far superior to what we have ended up with, which is de facto year round schooling with no consistency. Rather than having planned 2 week breaks throughout the year buttressing the quarters and a 6 week summer, we get a 7.5 week summer, single digit numbers of 5 day weeks, and a bunch of random 3-4 day weekends or Tuesdays off due to trying to hit every possible holiday on the calendar and build in PD days. It’s monstrous.

As a teacher, we have got to figure something out. Either shift to true year round schooling and accept that some of those holidays will fall in the 2 weeks off throughout the year and the ones that don’t are excused absences/no testing days, or cut the excess days off in the calendar so we aren’t starting mid August and going to late June. It’s bloated nonsense that’s gotten out of hand with what began as good intentions.

What are you prattling on about? Looking at 25-26 calendar there are 21 full normal five-day weeks, 2 five-day weeks with O-days in them, and 2 five-day weeks where kids get out 2 hours early on Friday (the horror). That's 25 total five-day weeks. And a 9.5-week summer, which is closer to your "traditional" 10-week summer than the 7.5 week summer you describe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sadly, random individuals in this forum can create a far better calendar than the paid professionals and School Board.

Fire them all and bring back sanity.

Probably not, not everyone in this forum agrees with what is being shared for ideas.