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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am the OP. My child only started in FCPS in 2024. I am so confused about why people asked for this (as a poster indicated earlier). Is it a fact that the majority of people with a stake in the school calendar asked for it  by way of survey responses? What am I missing? [/quote]

The surveys are poorly designed (or brilliantly designed, depending on how you look at it) to give the school board the answers they want. Most people want to keep a full 2 week winter break, a spring break tied to Easter (because it aligns us with other school districts who all do it too - important for teachers who work in one district and whose kids attend school in another), people are supportive of minority religions with large populations in the school getting their holidays off, people want federal holidays off like Veteran's Day and Columbus Day.

They ask all these questions individually, but never say what voting for the day off does to the overall schedule. So the polls they put out are basically meaningless and they just end up doing whatever they want. I believe they've also added a lot of teacher work days since the more reasonable calendar in the early 2010s.

It all adds up to a school year that goes from mid-August to mid-June. [/quote]

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