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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s a lot of good stuff in the 2022 calendar that we should be bringing back. Using two federal holidays as SP days. Almost all TW days on Fridays. 
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Are you referencing 2021-2022 or 2022-2023?

Either way, neither calendar has more than half of the TW on Fridays once school began in August. Also, neither had two SP days on Federal holidays.

The 2021-2022 calendar had no SP days on federal holidays and the 2022-2023 calendar had one, a SP day on Veterans Day.[/quote]

2022-2023– October 10, 2022 was a federal holiday even if not one VA recognizes. Nov 11 2022 also a federal holiday.

5 school year TW days on either Monday or Friday, lowest commuting days in the region.

Yeah there’s still some midweek foolishness, but nothing like we have now. It’s a good place to start.

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Ah, well FCPS is in Virginia and Virginia recognizes Indigenous People's Day, so no it was not a federal holiday.

Also, your post said "Fridays". Way to move the goalposts to Fridays AND Mondays once you were fact checked. [/quote]

Virginia can decide what federal holidays it honors, it cannot decide what federal holidays exist. October 10, 2022 was a federal holiday no matter how hard you stomp your feet.

I think we have a lot to learn from the 2022 calendar.  [/quote]

True, but FCPS's calendar (what we're discussing) is [b]based off of the holidays Virginia recognizes[/b] no matter how much you hate progressive change, boomer. [/quote]

I'm glad to see you say that, because the state code calls it Columbus Day.

[quote]The second Monday in October — Columbus Day and Yorktown Victory Day to honor Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), a discoverer of the Americas, and the final victory at Yorktown on October 19, 1781, in the Revolutionary War.[/quote]

Code of Virginia Code - Chapter 33. State Holidays and Other Special Days https://share.google/8p5AT5wimA2TvoYGN[/quote]
Fairfax County does not list Indigenous People/Columbus/Yorktown Day as a holiday. I believe that’s why it can be classified as a SP day while county holidays are all listed as SH.

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/Calendar/showCalendar.aspx[/quote]

Shhhh don't make it make sense for the geriatrics. They can't handle the thought of not honoring Columbus. [/quote]

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