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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's going to blow your mind to realize that fcps has off days on Monday and Tuesday, for the oh so important American holiday of lunar new year.

Amother 2.5 day week to recover from this week, one of the very few 5 day weeks on the calendar.

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23 of the 41 school weeks are 5 day weeks. Not one of the few, one of the absolute majority. School should've taught you the difference.

Tuesday is a Teacher Workday. It is not an off day for Lunar New Year. Pretty easy to verify that information. [/quote]

Only 23 weeks of 5 days is an abomination.

The biggest chunk of 5 day weeks occurs late spring, during and after end of year testing.

Tuesday is off because of Lunar New Year.  Calling it a "teacher work day" is a farce and you know it.  We just had two teacher work days just 2 weeks ago.  There is no reason to have another teacher work day 2 weeks into the quarter, on a random Tuesday that oh so coincidentally happens to occur on the calendar recognized Lunar New Year.  THIS day off is not needed and was never needed as a teacher work day and everyone knows it.

No month is a full month of  5 day weeks.  This is unacceptable.   FCPS needs to get rid of at least half of these unnecessary holidays that are not major holidays in the US, starting with Lunar New Year and any holiday that is masked with a fake teacher workday.  The kids need to be in school.  If individual parents don't want them in school, pull them out and give them an excused absence. 
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"No month is a full month of 5 day weeks"  :lol:

First off, no singular month has all 5 day work weeks. The week always starts or ends with another month sometime during the week...

Also, August is the only month without a federal holiday, soooo the whole "getting rid of at least half of these unnecessary holidays that are not major holidays in the US" argument still wouldn't put your child in school every weekday for a month straight. [/quote]

March and April have no federal holidays. If you're lumping in Easter as "major holiday in the US", that's understandable, but it isn't  a federal holiday and isn't in both months in the same year.

Most feds I know would be happy to have their kids in school for Veterans' Day, Presidents' Day, and Columbus/Indigenous People's Day.[/quote]

Those are definitely holidays that could provide learning in the classrooms. MLK day too.

I personally want kids in school for more of the days that aren't federal holidays. Like Halloween and Lunar New Year.[/quote]

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