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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And then school will end June 21st because of people insistence on an insanely long winter break.[/quote]

Winter break is not the issue.

Most districts around the cohntry have 2 weeks winter break and 1 week spring break.

The issue in fcps is all of the stupid teacher work days.[/quote]

And the recently added religious holidays for "equity".[/quote]

Why did you put quotation marks around “equity”?[/quote]

It was performative. They had to make the religious holidays into "O" days because county lawyers warned they would get sued for violating the US constitution. The school board didn't obtain any data showing these religious holidays corresponded to a large rate of absences which would provide a secular reason for having a school day off during a religious holiday. Actual data would easily show that some of the religious holidays had enough absences but probably not all of them. Instead, the school board didn't do the work but opted to honor hand picked religious holidays over others based on their personal "equity" concerns.[/quote]

They did look at attendance for the dates last year. I remember because I saw the document on Board Docs. [/quote]

Yes they looked at them. And the data showed no massive spike in absences to justify closing the entire system. The main “alignment with other systems” issue that they pointed to was the spring break mismatch since understandably having zero spring break teachers could do with their kids (if they worked in a different system from where they lived) was not popular. [/quote]

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