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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“ The committee came up with recommendations, but I wouldn't call them good.

In fact, the School Board's lawyer stated that the religious holidays were very likely illegal, which is why we have the even worse O day situation.

Moving the AP test dates is ridiculous and could actually harm students.”

The answer here is NOT to bow to the pressure and just give out the extra 4 holidays. It is to go back to the approach it sounded like FCPS was proposing when O days came up initially - avoid FCPS tests those days and tell schools not to schedule big one time only things like school plays, graduation, etc (non-recurring) those days and tell teachers kids get X days to make up the work or tests.

But do away with trying to literally grind the entire district to a half those days. [/quote]

+1 And if they were going to add more days beyond those 4, they needed to be days that could be justified by numbers (officially none of them could be). It's beyond ridiculous that there are now 11 days of this. I don't think there should be any days that kids in school aren't being taught or encouraged to practice new skills, beyond things like the last day of school, but tolerating 4 of them would be better than 11. [/quote]

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