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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok.  Thank you.

I am glad i am misreading the O days.

Why is next year's calendar so long?[/quote]

Because our school board is run by idiots.

The only thing FCPS is good at is keeping kids out of school. [/quote]

Sigh. You get 180 days. They are not keeping kids out of school any more or less than years past.[/quote]

Oh, so I'm imagining that school starts earlier than ever and ends later than ever?

No wonder the FCPS budget keeps going up. [/quote]

This year, we started August 19th and are ending June 11th. There were 180 instructional days over 42.5 weeks. 
Next year, we will start August 18th and end June 17th. There will 180 instructional days over 43.5 weeks.

So somewhere, yes, there are 5 more days off in the middle of the school year than there were this year. I counted and there were 6 Teacher workday/Staff Development days this year and there will be 9 next year (not counting the days before and after school ends), so that's three of them. The remaining two must be holidays.
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I just laugh so hard at all the white christians complaining about TWO extra holidays this year when they literally get three weeks off due to theirs.

*queue the lady who goes on and on about this is the only time for international families to visit their families overseas. My family always went in the summer. Yes, to India. Yes, during monsoon season. [/quote]

Umm, there were no explicitly Christian holidays on the calendar until they added the unnecessary Orthodox holidays.

You may be referring to Spring and Winter Breaks, but as you can easily see, these are not Christian holidays.

Try harder. [/quote]

This is such a stupid argument. The ONLY reason we have that particular two weeks off in Dec/January rather than at the end of the Quarter is because of Christmas and New Year's. You know it, I know it, we all know it. If we were having a true winter break, it would be at the end of the quarter in January.

I can make an even better connection for spring break. A few years ago, FCPS sent out a survey that literally asked parents and teachers if they wanted spring break tied to Easter. The majority of respondents apparently said yes, so therefore spring break is always going to be tied to easter and is going flip around between March and April. A lot of school systems don't do this, they pick the last week of March or the first week of April or the week after Quarter end EVERY YEAR for their spring break. But FCPS ties it to Easter. It is not quit literally an easter break, but it is an Easter Break. Again, everyone knows it, it was literally in a survey. FCPS will fully admit it.

Just because your religious holidays aren't in the name doesn't mean those breaks are not tied to the religious holidays. Stop being outraged at other religions getting holidays off when you're getting yours off, too. [/quote]

You are missing a crucial detail.

FCPS moved spring break to the end of the quarter.

None of the other school systems did this.

Many of our teachers and support staff live in other counties.

FCPS was out one week and the rest of the area was out Easter week.

FCPS employees ran into significant childcare issues due to FCPS spring break not aligned to the rest of the area.

Teachers and staff wanted spring break tied to other districts, which happens to be Easter week.  They voted in that survey too.

No matter though.  If the vast majority wanted spring break tied to Easter, then that is a cultural choice based on when spring break traditionally occurs in northern Virginia,  not a religious decision, because:

A) Holy Week is a time of reflection, worship and sacrifice for practicing Christians, not a party on the beach and fly to Disney week.  Practicing Christians want spring break separated from Holy Week, just like the Catholic schools do.  If spring break was determined based on Christian residents, it would either be the week after Easter, or the end of the quarter, but certainly NOT Holy Week.

B) It was a large majority that voted to keep spring break with Easter.  The percentage was larger than the actual percentage of religious, practicing Christians.  Since the practicing Christians prefer spring break uncoupled from Holy Week, one can only assume that many of the votes to keep spring break on Holy Week came from non Christians and non practicing cultural Christians who just view Easter as Egg Hunt Bunny Day, not Our Lord has risen Day.

C) If FCPS was observing Easter as a religious holiday, they would have kids in school Holy Week, giving an early dismissal on Good Friday with Good Friday listed on the calendar.  [i]That[/i] would be an example of FCPS religiously obaerving Easter.

To your other point, try having school on Christmas Eve and Chrsitmas Day.  You wouldn't have enough teachers or students to staff a full grade anywhere, except maube 1 or 2 places.

Christmas is the largest CULTURAL holiday in the USA and one of our first national holidays.  It is sewn into the cultural fabric and history of our country.  [b]Celebrating Christmas is as American as celebrating the Fourth of July[/b] and part of our country's history from the beginning.  It is religious, clearly.  But it is also one of the most significant secular cultural celebrations in the USA and has been from the beginning of our nation.

To claim otherwise shows a gross misunderstanding of our nation's history and culture.[/quote]
Look, I don't mind getting time off to travel at the end of the year, but let's not go crazy comparing Christmas with the 4th of July. Independence Day is an actual American holiday. Christmas, no matter how secular you make it, is still rooted in Christianity, and non-Christian Americans are no less American for not celebrating it.[/quote]

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