Reply to School board reckoning?

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "School board reckoning?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The O day concept is crap.  It's a whole day of doing nothing.  They can't teach new concepts, they can't test.

They need to walk this one back and say it was an experiment which failed.[/quote]

Not sure what you are talking about (or you must be in a shitty HS pyramid).  Today is O day for Diwali.  We are Hindus. My kid went to school.  He has a full/regular class schedule.  Had homework yesterday and assignments due today.

Maybe it's time to scrap ALL religious holidays/observances including Christmas and Thanksgiving as well as the backdoor Good Friday holiday that magically seems to be rolled into Spring Break each year.  I'd rather have a week or two off late Feb when it typically snows anyways..[/quote]

Good Friday isn't rolled into spring break this year. It's an O day.

Christmas and Thanksgiving are federal holidays. That's the secular justification to have off for them. Thanksgiving especially isn't tied to Christian religious observance, per se. It comes from the tradition of harvest feasts in England through the Puritans in New England and a New Englander convinced Abe Lincoln to make it a federal holiday to cheer up the north during the Civil War.

I have ES students, but my 4th grader reports that she isn't allowed to learn new stuff on any O days.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics