Reply to Are schools really open from now Till May 27th?

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "Are schools really open from now Till May 27th?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP again. What I am trying to say is was there always a planning day thrown in that wasn't tied to the end of the quarter, and now they're just trying to align them with days that also help members of the community who may have a reason to pull their kids from school that day.[/quote]

I was an FCPS student 25 years ago. We started 2 weeks later and ended at the same time, but winter break was just over 7 days (can't remember if it was a half day on December 23rd and then off through Jan 1 or a half day on the 24th). So that leaves 5 other days that popped up besides extending winter break. Some extra planning days were definitely around by the time my kids started a few years ago. The impression I get from teachers on these boards is that the amount of meaningless video trainings and team meetings teachers have to do has proliferated, which probably fills up 5 more days.

Shortening winter break would go a long way towards getting back to a longer summer, if that's what you actually like.

When I was a student I vividly remember no days off between spring break, whenever it was, and Memorial Day. It always felt insane because the academics were at their craziest with APs and I had a spring sport, so life was so busy and there was no break.[/quote]

I think 25 years ago in the elementary schools at least there was still an early release every Monday for teacher planning. That didn't go away until maybe 2013-2014 school year? [/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