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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s wrong with starting 12/24? That’s what FCPS used to do.[/quote]

Ick-NO![/quote]

You must be, ew, Christian.[/quote]

I don’t think it is the Christian’s who want the 2 weeks off—it is the out of area travelers.

For the rest of us who do not have $🤑🤑, 🤑🤑🤑 to blow on a Christmas vacation getaway—we’d be fine getting out 12/24 and returning 1/2.[/quote]

Yep bending to the whim of people who need their two week Euro and/or ski vacation. Immigrant families would prefer a longer spring break or a long break in January or February when it's cheaper to travel.[/quote]

Those of us who want 2 weeks off aren’t all rich.  Some of us drive across the US to be with family this one time a year.  We need the two weeks for the extra travel days, [/quote]

Oh please, it's extremely privileged that you're able to do that and you know it.[/quote]

DP, How do you define extremely privileged? Many, many Americans get 2 weeks of paid vacation every year. Privileged maybe, but not extremely privileged.[/quote]

Most Americans don’t get a two week vacation block.[/quote]

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 76 percent of private industry workers (who make up 84.7 percent of all workers) receive paid vacation days. After one year of employment, these workers were granted 10 days of paid vacation, on average.   This doesn’t even include the ability to telework.[/quote]

Sure, but for teachers, the length of the holiday break is ON TOP of the personal and sick days that they get. Many districts in this area do not take a full 2 weeks for winter break. [/quote]

And on top of spring break and other district holidays. [/quote]

All of which are a part of the contact. The vacation days are a part of the reason some people choose Teaching as a profession. Those same people are working far longer work days to develop and update lesson plans, grade, and teach our kids. They deal with young people at a variety of different skills and emotional levels. Then they deal with the parents, the ones who are supportive, the ones who helicopter, and the ones who are neglecting their kids. Then they deal with Administration and the ever changing educational guidelines coming from the COunty, State, and Federal Government.

So I’ll be cool with the idea that the folks dealing with all of the above crap so that they can educate my child get Winter and Spring break plus the assorted random holidays off. I would happy to get rid of the random Professional Development days that pretty much every Teacher I know see as a waste of a day. Give half of those as work days so that they can grade and get caught up the grade book instead.

But I would prefer one week for Winter Break. I also preferred Spring Break not being tied to Easter. I see it is a valiad complaint for non-Christian families and I prefer the consistency of knowing when the break is. I think they should set the calendar so that Winter and Spring break so  that they fall at the end of quarter and that there should be a couple of Teacher work days at the end of each quarter. Start there. Then add in the Federal Holidays OR religious holidays and Teacher workdays that you think are needed that don’t move the end of quarters.

Winter break was a week when I was a kid and is a week in most of the country. It is only 2 weeks here because of the wealthy families that want to travel abroad or the international families that want to travel abroad. Most families don’t travel and the two weeks is disruptive for learning, especially given that the end of the quarter is several weeks after the kids get back. [/quote]

Looking at the calendar for the district in which I grew up and the students’ first day was September 7. The last day is June 8. “Christmas break” runs Dec. 22-January 2. “Easter break” is April 7 and 10. 178 student days. Looks like 26 of the weeks are 5 days. Staff have 182 days with 2 days before school starts, 1 on October 14 and another June 9. [/quote]

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