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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here should be the holiday schedule:

Monday, January 20	Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 17*	Washington’s Birthday
Monday, May 26	Memorial Day
Thursday, June 19	Juneteenth National Independence Day
Friday, July 04	Independence Day
Monday, September 01	Labor Day
Monday, October 13	Columbus Day
Tuesday, November 11	Veterans Day
Thursday, November 27	Thanksgiving Day

done and great w/ parents[/quote]

You left off two of our original national holidays, Christmas and New years.

85-95% of students, teaxhers and support staff would not attend school on the week from Christmas Eve to New Year Day.

Facts are facts.

Try as you might, not one school in FCPS or America would have enough people to run a single classroom on Christmas.[/quote]

I’m not the person you’re quoting but I read their post to mean these should be the holidays not these should be the breaks— normal winter and spring break but no holidays observed other than the nationally recognized ones.

Personally I think the Federal holidays should represent the number of holidays and if FCPS wants to recognize say, RH/YK instead of Columbus and Labor Day they could make trade offs, but actual trade offs not just adding indefinitely.[/quote]

Only having Thanksgiving itself off is the tell that they didn’t really think about doing that. [/quote]

Hi, to be clear, I posted the list and should have left off Thanksgiving. My point was that, in addition to all the breaks, those should be the only holidays.

Spring break should align with Easter. Even many secular countries in Europe provide time off around Easter, so this is a reasonable middle ground.

Here are the breaks: spring break aligned with Easter, summer break ending with Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and winter break. That is already a significant amount of time off.

[b]Teachers can use the first and last days of those breaks as workdays to avoid cutting into student time.[/b]

This was essentially the schedule in the 2000s, and with the addition of Juneteenth, it makes sense to return to that model.

There is also no need for a committee or prolonged debate. The simplest approach is to follow the federal government holiday schedule, which already drives most parent schedules in this area. It is a neutral, nonreligious framework that provides a consistent and practical standard.[/quote]

Um no. Teachers are never going to be required to work over the their holidays. They want to take time with their families as well. They will continue to have separate workdays (M-Fr) from holidays where the kids are not in school and you parents will just have to deal. [/quote]

I am sure everyone can agree to have them take one additional day off and remember no other profession gets so many days off to begin with [/quote]

You mean unpaid days, right?

Teachers are paid for a certain number of days a year. They aren’t getting “days off.”

Also, the PP was suggesting teachers should be expected to work weekends. Hard pass.

And as I’ve said many times: if you want a teacher’s schedule, you have that option. Nobody is stopping you from achieving the easy, cushy job of a teacher. If you want something, go get it. 
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