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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCPS less time off at Christmas in the 1980s and we did not have a problem like this with attendance. People now feel entitled to their vacations even at the expense of school. But that is where we are now.[/quote]

School felt entitled to their schedule of choice at the expense of parents. Why are parents supposed to treat schools with more respect than they recieve?[/quote]

But the school schedule provides more breaks. Why would parents need more?[/quote]

Families with international jobs, families of immigrants, families of military/transient DC residence— all very well represented in the area— can’t fly to visit relatives in the 1 and 2 and .5 day breaks that are all over the calendar. Summer, spring, and winter breaks are expensive (which is why the teachers aren’t sticking around) and the principal correctly noticed a lot of people don’t want to spend thousands of extra dollars to have their kids watch a movie on Friday afternoon. FCPS should make it a planning day.[/quote]

Not the school system's problem. You could argue there are way too many small breaks, but building a schedule to allow extended school year vacations is a recent and stupid entitlement.[/quote]

Apparently it is the school system’s problem since they're the ones sending unhinged emails.

I didn’t say they should build in longer breaks. They should be smart about how they use the breaks they have, like putting these planning days on the days they’re having attendance issues instead of on random Tuesdays. Then they don’t have an attendance issue for the state to be mad at them about and they don’t have a chaotic calendar to alienate the parents. [/quote]

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