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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]The religious holiday "problem" is helped the next two school years by many of them falling on weekends.  In the 23-24 calendar there are only two stand-alone religious holidays:

Yom Kippur 9/25
Eid al Fitr 4/10

In the 24-25 calendar there are four, but two of them are paired with quarter-ends, so again, only two "random" days off.

Rosh Hashanah 10/3
Diwali 11/1
Lunar New Year 1/29 (TW, combined with Q2 end)
Eid al Fitr 3/31 (combined with Q3 end)

The problem comes in the 25-26 calendar when a bunch of them come during the school year.  I'm sure it would be completely insensitive, but I wonder if they could gather a religious contingent to pick one between Rosh Hashanah/Yom Kippur and one of the Eids.  Or just look at the absentee data from the past.

Rosh Hashanah 9/23
Yom Kippur 10/2
Diwali 10/21
Lunar New Year 2/17 (TW)
Eid-al-Fitr 3/20
Orthodox Good Friday (TW)
Eid-al-Adha[/quote]

Or get rid of all of them since this is a public, secular school system.

Any school board candidate who will advocate for getting rid of these absurd days off of school has my vote.[/quote]

This!! 1000% agree.  It is getting out of hand. 
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Dear school board,
There is no pleasing these people.  They are probably the same ones who asked for a three year calendar to plan vacations.  They are youngkin trolls looking for ANY angle (including the calendar) too trumpet about voting out the school board.  There are more sane people and parents in the county that outnumber these fools.  Please don't listen.

Thanks,

Most People
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Huh? I’m a lifelong Dem. Never voted R in my life. I am voting for any R to replace this school board, though. Will be a first for me.
And I am far from alone. Most of my D friends hate the religion days off. I think the out of touch folks are you all who support endless four day weeks [/quote]

Huh? I don't care one way or another about the days off. If you think making the school board R so charters and vouchers can be approved is fixing the issue, you are being shortsighted and are unable to control you anger over 5 days off.  You are also playing right into Republican's hands.  It's 5 days.  You can handle it, your kids can handle it. [/quote]

I’m sure you were surprised when Youngkin won because you are out of touch and think everyone in this area shares your viewpoints. I didn’t vote for him but wasn’t surprised by it. School has become something many people don’t recognize when they think of their own experiences either in this county or elsewhere. This school board makes everything overly complicated and this can’t get anything done. If it was just thing most people would overlook it. But it’s every little thing adding up. I personally am pissed that there is an extra week of the school year because of these holidays not because there would be too many people absent, but to make the school board feel good about themselves. Other people have their reasons to be upset about any number of things from the calendar to the OCR lawsuit to overuse of technology to overcrowding on their school. Most of the school board members seem to only be listening to people in their own little bubble who are telling they’re doing a great job. They are going to be in for a rude awakening in November. I think you’re going to see people vote for republican candidates just to get some balance on the board even when they would never vote R for state or national office.[/quote]

You focus your pandemic anger on the schools as it is exactly what the republicans want from you to do as they strip people of their rights and dismantle government. Rage is a powerful destructive emotion and republicans are playing you. if you are an easy mark I’m sorry.[/quote]

Not PP and I don’t have pandemic anger: the worst part for my kids was my MS one became really socially isolated when FCPS chose to let sports practice but no other extracurriculars. That’s way behind us now though.

But I agree with PP on all accounts - I would not vote for Rs at federal or state levels but I’m fed up with the SB’s focus on stuff that feels “performance-ish” and the religious holidays for reasons entirely unneeded operationally are one part of that. Increasing focus on the gap between demographics vs helping each kid achieve (which may not all be at the same pace) is another frustration, no textbooks is frustrating as I don’t think the random copies and online games are as useful, etc. I think having an all D SB has created an echo chamber where Megan as a genuine D moderate has been seen as an agitator because she hasn’t [b]been on exactly the same page as the other members[/b]. More diversity of perspectives on the SB would be helpful. [/quote]

Did you watch the last meeting and the vote on the calendar?

Which R will you consider voting for in the SB election? I’m not set on voting straight ticket (although technically they don’t run as a D or R), but I’d like to here some names. If anyone knows of a moderate R running for school board (at large or Springfield District) please share. [/quote]

In the springfield district I know of a [b]R candidate and a libertarian candidate[/b] who just got enough sigs to be on the ballot. I’m personally not voting for anyone who is on the current school board again due to the school closures for one year during covid. I was D from 1999 to 2022 and now I am an independent. If Laura Jane Cohen gets the D delegate nomination she is not running for school board again per her website the last time I checked. I am most likely not going to vote D again for school board in springfield district but I will wait to decide until I see who is running.

At large Saundra Davis will be running as an independent that I know of. [/quote]

I haven’t found them in a search. Do you have the names?[/quote]

Saundra is great.

I believe she is just slightly left of center but mostly a centrist.  The kind of dem ffx would have run 10 years ago.

I spoke with her when she was collecting signatures and she really seems focused on academics.

I don't think she is my party, but I think she represents the mainstream moderates who have been pushed out of the discussion for the past few years.  She will get my vote and the vote of the 3 other eligible voters in our household.[/quote]

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