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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Year after year we put up with this nonsense by the school board. After such a decisive election year, they still did not get the memo. [b]Parents wants kids in school, not with more days off and at home. [/b]

On the bright side, I think many of these members have limited days left on the board. Hopefully, we only have to deal with this for one more year and then we can get a school board with some sense to put kids in school instead of creating a Swiss cheese calendar that ensures a lack of continuous schooling. [/quote]

Isn’t it still a 180 day calendar?[/quote]

I'd like for you to tell me how a working parent can try to get through a work week with all the days off that FCPS has packed into each month. Why is it impossible for the kids to get more than 2 months where they go to school continuously? They have more weeks with days off from school in what should be the regular school and work week. How is that even doable for average families?

Do they have any idea how difficult that is for parents who are not sitting at home all day? I work with many low-income households and I can tell you that this virtue signaling calendar is unmanageable for these families. For families that cannot afford the back up care or to miss work, kids are left at home on their own, with no oversight, no management, and in the case of older kids end up in dangerous, destructive behaviors. One PP posted about how easy it was for her because her teens slept all day but I can tell you that is not what happens in many families. Teens walk out the door, get into trouble and drugs and violence become a real threat for them.

FCPS has clearly forgot its mission to educate and take care of kids and instead is catering to the wealthy, affluent donors who both have the resources to provide care for kids when not in school and don't have the financial strain of having to attend jobs out of the house. This is just infuriating to me because in its push to appear "inclusive" it really hurts low-income immigrant families. The irony, of course, is missed entirely on this Board. [/quote]

Fyi,

Poor and immigrant families like and want summer vacations too.

It is elitist and out of touch to suggest otherwise.[/quote]

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