Reply to APS 2021-2022 CALENDAR CHANGES

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "APS 2021-2022 CALENDAR CHANGES"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about the P/T conferences February 24th/25th? That makes a 2 day week after President's day. I suggested moving the conferences to the 17th/18th for a long weekend instead.

Also, I understand the added holidays but really don't like starting August 23rd. I'd rather lose September 3rd, Indigenous People's Day, Veteran's Day and start the Holiday Break on the 22nd in order to start the year on August 30th.

And why does Spring Break always have to be tied to Easter?! I'd much prefer it the last week of March.[/quote]

The survey is a little disingenuous, as some of the days offered as substitute instruction days either aren't legally or practically available.  For example, the Friday before Labor Day. From the Virginia DOE website: "All school divisions in Virginia may set the school calendar such that the first day students are required to attend is up to 14 days before Labor Day. [b]Those divisions beginning school prior to Labor Day must close each school in the school division from the Friday immediately preceding Labor Day through Labor Day[/b]." Also, no one really expects that Christmas Eve or any days between Christmas and New Year's Day will really be instructional days, so it seems a little strange to have offered them.

I agree that the holiday break doesn't have to be so long and it would make sense to go to school through 12/22 and start the vacation on Thursday, 12/23.
[/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