Why does FCPS have all these random days of week off???

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Anonymous wrote:Go to another country and you won’t be getting ‘your’ holidays off. You’ll get their state holidays. We need to stick to that here.

Just like DCUM, keeping it white and privileged.

Ok. You tell us - in what other country would it be likely for someone who is a minority religion or cultural group to succeed in requiring the overwhelming share of people NOT of their religion / culture to observe a day off work/school. I’m curious.

Almost all federal holidays are not religious. Xmas - which is celebrated by an overwhelming majority of Americans whether they are Christian or non-religious - is the sole exception. School holidays track federal holidays primarily. Personally I am in favor of a 10 day winter break (2 days or so before Xmas to 1/2) but the people with money to travel keep voting for 2 full weeks. As for Easter - most parents do not care if spring break is the week overlapping with Easter or not and even teachers likely mostly care that it is the SAME week as other districts regardless of when that ends up being.

The height of privilege is not observing holidays that the large majority of the country observes.

+1. I've lived in a number of different countries. Nowhere have I received US fed holidays off, nor demanded them. It's truly an Americanism to insist that every holiday, religious festival, and possible cultural date be given off to cater to the <10% thereby burdening the >90%. It's insane and illogical.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go to another country and you won’t be getting ‘your’ holidays off. You’ll get their state holidays. We need to stick to that here.

Just like DCUM, keeping it white and privileged.

Ok. You tell us - in what other country would it be likely for someone who is a minority religion or cultural group to succeed in requiring the overwhelming share of people NOT of their religion / culture to observe a day off work/school. I’m curious.

Almost all federal holidays are not religious. Xmas - which is celebrated by an overwhelming majority of Americans whether they are Christian or non-religious - is the sole exception. School holidays track federal holidays primarily. Personally I am in favor of a 10 day winter break (2 days or so before Xmas to 1/2) but the people with money to travel keep voting for 2 full weeks. As for Easter - most parents do not care if spring break is the week overlapping with Easter or not and even teachers likely mostly care that it is the SAME week as other districts regardless of when that ends up being.

The height of privilege is not observing holidays that the large majority of the country observes.

In many of these schools, white Christian is the minority.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go to another country and you won’t be getting ‘your’ holidays off. You’ll get their state holidays. We need to stick to that here.

Just like DCUM, keeping it white and privileged.

Ok. You tell us - in what other country would it be likely for someone who is a minority religion or cultural group to succeed in requiring the overwhelming share of people NOT of their religion / culture to observe a day off work/school. I’m curious.

Almost all federal holidays are not religious. Xmas - which is celebrated by an overwhelming majority of Americans whether they are Christian or non-religious - is the sole exception. School holidays track federal holidays primarily. Personally I am in favor of a 10 day winter break (2 days or so before Xmas to 1/2) but the people with money to travel keep voting for 2 full weeks. As for Easter - most parents do not care if spring break is the week overlapping with Easter or not and even teachers likely mostly care that it is the SAME week as other districts regardless of when that ends up being.

The height of privilege is not observing holidays that the large majority of the country observes.

In many of these schools, white Christian is the minority.

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Plenty of people who celebrate Xmas are races other than white too. Most of those people likely also celebrate the secular holidays that are just celebrated by any Americans that want to observe them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There have been a million calendar threads. Parents were surveyed. Clearly you didn’t want what others did.

There is no way anyone voted for the schedule as is. No one likes it, no one. Starts early, ends late. Tons of random days off.

Op here. I was just with some people at the beach and they are all starting school after Labor Day. How is it that we are starting 2 weeks later but getting out later in mid June??? Ugh.

It's because people like you demanded off two weeks for Christmas.

Wrong. We're now getting out mid-June because of the 4 new holidays they added in

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go to another country and you won’t be getting ‘your’ holidays off. You’ll get their state holidays. We need to stick to that here.

Just like DCUM, keeping it white and privileged.

Ok. You tell us - in what other country would it be likely for someone who is a minority religion or cultural group to succeed in requiring the overwhelming share of people NOT of their religion / culture to observe a day off work/school. I’m curious.

Almost all federal holidays are not religious. Xmas - which is celebrated by an overwhelming majority of Americans whether they are Christian or non-religious - is the sole exception. School holidays track federal holidays primarily. Personally I am in favor of a 10 day winter break (2 days or so before Xmas to 1/2) but the people with money to travel keep voting for 2 full weeks. As for Easter - most parents do not care if spring break is the week overlapping with Easter or not and even teachers likely mostly care that it is the SAME week as other districts regardless of when that ends up being.

The height of privilege is not observing holidays that the large majority of the country observes.

In many of these schools, white Christian is the minority.

In what schools are Christians (or at least cultural Christians who observe holidays) minorities? Whiteness is irrelevant here, as that is not a prerequisite for Cmas

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There have been a million calendar threads. Parents were surveyed. Clearly you didn’t want what others did.

There is no way anyone voted for the schedule as is. No one likes it, no one. Starts early, ends late. Tons of random days off.

Op here. I was just with some people at the beach and they are all starting school after Labor Day. How is it that we are starting 2 weeks later but getting out later in mid June??? Ugh.

It's because people like you demanded off two weeks for Christmas.

Wrong. We're now getting out mid-June because of the 4 new holidays they added in

+1

While I would support a few days off of Xmas break this is accurate. We have had two weeks Xmas break for a long time due to: 1) richer families that travel and 2) poorer immigrant families that also travel home the. The new factor is the new holidays.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go to another country and you won’t be getting ‘your’ holidays off. You’ll get their state holidays. We need to stick to that here.

Just like DCUM, keeping it white and privileged.

Ok. You tell us - in what other country would it be likely for someone who is a minority religion or cultural group to succeed in requiring the overwhelming share of people NOT of their religion / culture to observe a day off work/school. I’m curious.

Almost all federal holidays are not religious. Xmas - which is celebrated by an overwhelming majority of Americans whether they are Christian or non-religious - is the sole exception. School holidays track federal holidays primarily. Personally I am in favor of a 10 day winter break (2 days or so before Xmas to 1/2) but the people with money to travel keep voting for 2 full weeks. As for Easter - most parents do not care if spring break is the week overlapping with Easter or not and even teachers likely mostly care that it is the SAME week as other districts regardless of when that ends up being.

The height of privilege is not observing holidays that the large majority of the country observes.

In many of these schools, white Christian is the minority.

In what schools are Christians (or at least cultural Christians who observe holidays) minorities? Whiteness is irrelevant here, as that is not a prerequisite for Cmas

https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/virginia/navy-elementary-208250

My kids school is plurality asian at about 46%.

Even if we assume that all of the black and hispanic kids are Christian and that 100% of the White kids are Christian that would make the entire school less than 50% Christian.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Oh please excuse us for being Jewish, Hindu, and Muslim. PLEASE excuse us for not demanding one week off for our largest holiday and then another two week holiday for another big holiday like Christians do. EXCUSE US.

#ignorantwhitechristianskindofsuck

If you need religious holidays off, go to a religious schools. Keep religious calendar out of public schools. Xmas is a federal holiday so part of fed calendar. All other Christian holidays are Sundays and not a school day off. And the gripe about Xmas is silly. 75% of the country celebrates it. That’s an overwhelming majority so we should rightly plan around staffing and student shortages.

Having Eid, Diwali and high holidays off is ridiculous. Fed holidays and only fed days should be observed

Then give kids ONE DAY OFF FOR CHRISTMAS like federal government workers get. Like Jews are getting for Rosh Hoshanah, Hindus are getting for Diwali, Muslims are getting for Eid. I'm sure the Hindu Indian immigrants would love to take two weeks to visit their families for their actual holiday rather than having to do it in December because that's when the Christian holiday is.

Then don't move to a country where 75%+ of the country celebrates Christmas if you don't like it. I mean, this isn't rocket science. Indian Hindus and Muslims knew this before they moved. In fact, I don't think any immigrants who move to this country believe that the culture should shift to minimize Christmas (which is honestly the biggest holiday in this country both culturally and religiously) just because some immigrants who move here don't celebrate. You must not live with or know any recent immigrants. I am married to one and actually work in immigration. The idea that we have to incorporate every single holiday for each religious, ethnic, immigrant, and/or minority group is just too much. We cannot celebrate them all without losing complete efficiency. Immigrants adapt to our calendar. Done.

+1,000

Actually, it seems like YOU’RE the ones who need to move, since you don’t like the inclusive calendar.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There have been a million calendar threads. Parents were surveyed. Clearly you didn’t want what others did.

The parent survey counts for nothing.

OP here. I’m fairly certain I filled out a calendar survey and I am 100% certain the current school calendar does not reflect what I wanted.

I do remember I did not mind an earlier start for an earlier end date. Nowhere did I vote for an earlier start date AND a later end date.

I definitely did not vote for all these one off days off sprinkled all over the calendar.

It’s almost as if your vote was one vote and not a binding edict you issued to the school district.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So who can we contact to discuss the calendar issue? The school board members? The superintendent? I always do the survey but it doesn't really ask about "O" days or the placing of teacher work days.

Why? It’s not going to change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go to another country and you won’t be getting ‘your’ holidays off. You’ll get their state holidays. We need to stick to that here.

Just like DCUM, keeping it white and privileged.

Ok. You tell us - in what other country would it be likely for someone who is a minority religion or cultural group to succeed in requiring the overwhelming share of people NOT of their religion / culture to observe a day off work/school. I’m curious.

Almost all federal holidays are not religious. Xmas - which is celebrated by an overwhelming majority of Americans whether they are Christian or non-religious - is the sole exception. School holidays track federal holidays primarily. Personally I am in favor of a 10 day winter break (2 days or so before Xmas to 1/2) but the people with money to travel keep voting for 2 full weeks. As for Easter - most parents do not care if spring break is the week overlapping with Easter or not and even teachers likely mostly care that it is the SAME week as other districts regardless of when that ends up being.

The height of privilege is not observing holidays that the large majority of the country observes.

In many of these schools, white Christian is the minority.

In what schools are Christians (or at least cultural Christians who observe holidays) minorities? Whiteness is irrelevant here, as that is not a prerequisite for Cmas

https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/virginia/navy-elementary-208250

My kids school is plurality asian at about 46%.

Even if we assume that all of the black and hispanic kids are Christian and that 100% of the White kids are Christian that would make the entire school less than 50% Christian.

Huh? Math. That would make 54%, which is more that 50 and not minority. Plus, why are all Asians non-Christians? Do you not know any Koreans??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The calendar has too many random days off. Makes it very hard for parents who can’t afford child care to go to work. But yet they insist on “equity”. This SB needs to be voted out!!!

Don’t have kids if you “can’t afford” childcare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There have been a million calendar threads. Parents were surveyed. Clearly you didn’t want what others did.

The parent survey counts for nothing.

OP here. I’m fairly certain I filled out a calendar survey and I am 100% certain the current school calendar does not reflect what I wanted.

I do remember I did not mind an earlier start for an earlier end date. Nowhere did I vote for an earlier start date AND a later end date.

I definitely did not vote for all these one off days off sprinkled all over the calendar.

It’s almost as if your vote was one vote and not a binding edict you issued to the school district.

No, parents generally did not vote in favor of this calendar. They voted against extending the year and against prioritizing alignment with other districts. FCPS just ignored what a string majority of parents voted for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There have been a million calendar threads. Parents were surveyed. Clearly you didn’t want what others did.

The parent survey counts for nothing.

OP here. I’m fairly certain I filled out a calendar survey and I am 100% certain the current school calendar does not reflect what I wanted.

I do remember I did not mind an earlier start for an earlier end date. Nowhere did I vote for an earlier start date AND a later end date.

I definitely did not vote for all these one off days off sprinkled all over the calendar.

It’s almost as if your vote was one vote and not a binding edict you issued to the school district.

No, parents generally did not vote in favor of this calendar. They voted against extending the year and against prioritizing alignment with other districts. FCPS just ignored what a string majority of parents voted for.

If you look at the survey results only about 20 percent of parents took it. So everyone clamoring about parents not getting what they wanted needs to take a step back and look at the data. Not a lot of parents even took the survey. They also looked at viewpoints of students and teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go to another country and you won’t be getting ‘your’ holidays off. You’ll get their state holidays. We need to stick to that here.

Just like DCUM, keeping it white and privileged.

Ok. You tell us - in what other country would it be likely for someone who is a minority religion or cultural group to succeed in requiring the overwhelming share of people NOT of their religion / culture to observe a day off work/school. I’m curious.

Almost all federal holidays are not religious. Xmas - which is celebrated by an overwhelming majority of Americans whether they are Christian or non-religious - is the sole exception. School holidays track federal holidays primarily. Personally I am in favor of a 10 day winter break (2 days or so before Xmas to 1/2) but the people with money to travel keep voting for 2 full weeks. As for Easter - most parents do not care if spring break is the week overlapping with Easter or not and even teachers likely mostly care that it is the SAME week as other districts regardless of when that ends up being.

The height of privilege is not observing holidays that the large majority of the country observes.

In many of these schools, white Christian is the minority.

In what schools are Christians (or at least cultural Christians who observe holidays) minorities? Whiteness is irrelevant here, as that is not a prerequisite for Cmas

https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/virginia/navy-elementary-208250

My kids school is plurality asian at about 46%.

Even if we assume that all of the black and hispanic kids are Christian and that 100% of the White kids are Christian that would make the entire school less than 50% Christian.

Huh? Math. That would make 54%, which is more that 50 and not minority. Plus, why are all Asians non-Christians? Do you not know any Koreans??

Koreans are a much smaller portion of the Navy elementary population. The Asian population primarily Indian and Chinese.

Whites are 38.9%, Hispanic is 5.6 and Black is 3.6, though there are only 2 White kids in my child's class. The summation is 48.1%.