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[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]
An interfaith task force was convened by the SB to advise on religious equity in the calendar, and that task force recommended four days to add to the calendar. The days weren't "hand picked" by the SB for personal reasons. The task force was convened in the first place, because existing rules about what could and couldn't be assigned/schedule on minority religious holidays were regularly ignored by teachers and staff. The O days were ridiculous and performative, but the initial directive the SB gave the task force to improve religious equity was not performative, but a direct response to an ongoing problem for students of minority faiths.[/quote]

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