How DO we get the calendar changed?

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03/16/2026 10:22

Subject: How DO we get the calendar changed?

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Anonymous wrote:You need to write your school board members and then you need to engage them where they care which is politics.

All of the schoolboard members are liberal and many are progressive. This calendar is *not* progressive and disproportionately impacts lower-income and dual-working families. Women and hourly workers are supposed to be constituencies democrats care about. So raise the issue with local league of women voters, canvassers/fundraisers who are trying to get support for other democratic candidates (especially if you’ve donated before) and directly ask school board members how they are contributing to the affordability agenda with their calendar choices.

It is idiotic that this is how any of this works. But COVID created the idea for many Democrats that liberals don’t mind keeping kids out of school and now its course correction.

Have you confused school with being child care? You think its primary purpose is to warehouse children?

I think schools exist to provide a public good at public expense. Has taxpayers we have a right to assume the public will be provided efficiently and effectively, and not create undue burdens on the households they are intended to serve.

What undue burdens are they creating? The calendars are published a year in advance. No one can control the weather. There are no burdens, except for maybe people who suck at managing a household. Stop thinking of school as child care. It's not.

The undue burden is on STUDENTS!!! You need to stop. The calendar is a problem. Go away, you lazy troll.

What burden, objectively, is being placed on students? I'm talking a real cognitive effect, not your emotions and feelings of the calendar. But a real statistical effect that is negative effecting them academically. What can you actually prove with data that shows a burden that is having an effect on student's learning as a whole?

My teens have complained they haven't been able to lock in because of the interruptions.
One of my teens has had to miss a lot of their electives just to receive their services hours that got rescheduled because of the closures and delays and shortened weeks.

So, enough from you. Many of us are here screaming that the calendar doesn't work. It is time to listen to us. It isn't about you and your need to sleep in or plan or whatever you do with this half ass schedule.

I’m sorry you didn’t teach your children resilience. That is an important life skill.

My kid basically taught herself the AP material for two classes during Covid. Sure, there were virtual classes but she essentially was self-directed. Most kids in AP classes are like that, or should be, since it is college level material and most learning takes place outside the lectures.

It sounds like your kids need their hands held more than most? I am sorry about that, but you’re still wildly in the minority about this, even if you think yelling loudly and being intransigent might give a different impression (it won’t).

Keep watching for narrative like this. The effort is

1. Shift blame
2. Shame
3. Delay/stall
4. Dissuade

If you see posters doing this, think about what action of yours they’re trying to influence and what narrative they’re trying to push. Consider the above as a case study— who benefits if you internalize the “resilience” narrative? Is it your kids? Is it their classmates?

If not…what do you think the motivation for the post is?

This is a good point. That word keeps getting used a lot. Apparently we are supposed to shut and take whatever garbage FCPS and Fairfax Country throw our way, in the name of building "resilience" in our children. No disagreement allowed! Such a winning message!