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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Montoya says she isn’t supporting the calendar over the early release days [/quote]

Also because they are adding a 1/2 day on the 23rd. She said she fought for the day off for Hispanic/Latino people.[/quote]

I found that irritating. Nochebuena, as she said, is on December 24, not the 23rd. The 24th is off! Seemed really tone deaf that she said that folks need extra time to cook and travel the day before the holiday when literally Eid and Passover just became possible school days if we need snow make ups. Your holiday is off, with a half day prior. No one else gets cooking days. [/quote] Almost all the secular schools in the country not only have December 23 off but Dec 21 and 22 too. It's Maryland and much of the Northeast States that starts break on December 24 (Christmas Eve). The reason for that is the requirement to hold 180 days even if bad weather cancels school days. Most other states have a more normal law. If there are makeup days at the end summer is still long enough. Thanksgiving is at least a five day weekend with more places converting to a full week off. The late December break is two full weeks in nearly every state that has a more flexible law.[/quote]

Why would anyone want or need a full week off for Thanksgiving? It’s one meal. Even if you are traveling to celebrate, you’d be traveling domestically since it’s obviously an American holiday. No one needs two weekends and a full week to get to/from a domestic destination for one meal. Lots of people stay local if they have local family or international family. So it’s really the rare situation where anyone would want/need 9 days off to celebrate the holiday. [/quote]

My parents have since passed away, but they used to be where I grew up on the other side of the country. We are not Christian and do not celebrate Christmas so Thanksgiving was (and still remains even without them) our big family holiday. It may not be international travel but it still takes a good 8 hours to get out there as there are no direct flights. Stop thinking you know everyone's situation. Lots of folks in MoCo did not grow up here and were brought out here to work in DC. [/quote]

Not to mention, we always -- regardless of the school calendar -- flew out on Sunday because I will never, ever travel on the day before Thanksgiving again nor on the Sunday after (we'd leave on Saturday)[/quote]

Ok but you don’t seriously think the entire school system should start an entire week earlier in August just so that the small number of folks who have family very far away with no direct flights and who refuse to fly the day before Thanksgiving and whose family without school aged children also won’t travel here instead should not miss a few inconsequential half days, do you? [/quote]

I don't have family far away that I would visit for Thanksgiving. But three half days in a row is extremely dumb. The Wednesday before Thanksgiving is going to be a pointless, wasted day.[/quote]

That’s true. And I also think the week of thanksgiving is really late and difficult to be holding parent teacher conferences. They should probably make the Monday a full day, maybe also the Tuesday and go back to parent teacher conferences near Veterans Day. [/quote] I think they moved the parent teacher conferences to that week strictly because it's a meaningless week for instruction so they left the earlier week with Veteran's Day a full week since it is a quality instruction week.[/quote]
Thanksgiving week is meaningless because it is half days. This is within the school system's control. They can schedule Monday and Tuesday as full days of school and have conferences on a a different week.[/quote]

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