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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not thrilled with the extra religious holidays added to the calendar; these first 3 months have been “choppy,” at best. [b]If we continue with them, however, let’s swap them out and not take off for Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Veteran’s Day, and shave 3 days off the winter break. We are off a FULL week of school before before we even get near the Christmas holiday this year. [/b]

Or how about FCPS goes back to being a secular public school that just teaches our kids? Keep the fixed week spring break and allow excused absences for students to observe their respective religious days like they always did. There is no purpose to keep extending the school year into June! The important school days need to happen in the beginning of the school year when the testing and assessments are being administered (at least at the ES level). After Memorial Day learning is wrapping up, they are having fun, parties, watching movies, etc…. We don’t need an extra week of that in June. [/quote]

I mean, this would make sense. Of course, the irony is that there's a huge contingent of fed workers in this area who would be off on the federal holidays and would then need to take days off for the religious holidays that their kids are out. So, of course, FCPS would go for the most difficult option for parents. Because equity. [/quote]
I wouldn't mind having a day off from work where I could send my kids to school.[/quote]

That's Veterans Day.  It was so weird to have the kids home for that.  [/quote]

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