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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Create your own calendar.  What do you remove (25/26 version)?  Italicized are federal holidays (plus the two embedded in Winter Break).  Total of 39 days.

[i]Labor Day[/i] (x2) - dictated by law, unable to be removed
Sept. 9th - special election, teacher workday
Rosh Hashanah
Yom Kippur
[i]Columbus/Indigenous[/i] - staff development
Diwali
Nov. 3 - School planning day (end of Q1)
Nov. 4 - Election and teacher workday (end of Q1)
[i]Veteran's Day[/i]
Thanksgiving (x3)
Winter Break (x10)
[i]MLK day[/i]
Jan. 29 - Staff Development (end of Q2)
Jan. 30 - Teacher Workday (end of Q2)
[i]President's Day[/i]
Lunar New Year - Teacher Workday
Eid al-Fitr
Spring Break (x5)
Apr. 6 - Teacher Workday (end of Q3)
Orthodox Good Friday - School Planning Day
[i]Memorial Day[/i]
May. 26 - Teacher Workday
May. 27 - Eid al-Adha

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Off the top of my head? The day before Election Day, Veterans Day (historically HAS been a school day in FCPS), Wednesday before Thanksgiving, Lunar New Year (sorry, hard to justify as this isn’t even a religious holiday), and whatever hot mess they have going on at the end of the school year with Memorial Day leading into Eid - maybe make it known that there will be a larger number of absences that day that may affect staffing. That’s 5 days, a whole school week right there. We could be getting out June 10th instead of the 17th.

Winter break is hard this year because of when Christmas falls (and new years, a week later). But in 2027, Christmas will be on a Saturday. And they should be in school Monday-Wednesday before Christmas and then go back Monday 1/3. [/quote]

Also, the Special Election Day.  With early voting, not nearly as many people at the polls.  We were in and out in five minutes --maybe five other voters there at the time--and our precinct has strong voting.  [/quote] That just canceled one day of school-went from 180 days to 179. Although snow days aren't usually given back if not used, they should make the exception this year. End the year by June 10th if not June 5th.[/quote]

They are counting hours. I don’t think they can just lop a week or two off the end of the student calendar, although they seem to be able to do it at the HS level every year.[/quote]

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