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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After someone posted about june Eid, I pulled up next years 2025-2026 calendar.

We start really early, August 18, and go really, really, unusually late, June 17.

I started to look at all the dates and religious events that FCPS marked off next year.  One month in particular caught my mind.

The kids return from winter break on Monday, January 5th.  With New Years on a Thursday,  that makes perfect sense.

BUT...

It appears that students only have one day of school (January 5th) then they are off for [i]2 Days[/i] for Epiphany? (January 6th and 7th)  Because of this, [b]there is only one full week of classes in January. [/b]

Am I looking at that correctly?  That can't be right, can it?  There are only 3 Orthodox churches in Fairfax County, so the population of students and staff in that religious tradition cannot be significant enough to cause even a blip of absences if all of them take off on a school day.

When FCPS moved to an August start, one of the main arguments for it was that the school year would end 2 weeks earlier in early June, shortly after SOLs and AP exams.

When the school board created a committee to look at giving days off for major religious holidays, the premise and task was to look at holidays where staff and student attendance was significantly impacted, and develop a list based explicitly on attendance issues.  Looking at the FCPS population, an attendance metric would have added the muslim, Jewish and Hindu holdays currently added to the calendar, but that should have been it.

How did we end up with 2 days off for the aorthodox Christmas/Epiphany, with only 1 day of classes between it and winter break?

Am I reading the calendar correctly?  Or am I misunderstanding the 2 different O day markings?  Epiphany does not have the no activities marking.  It has the full O.

https://www.fcps.edu/system/files/forms/2024-02/2025-2026-standard-school-year-calendar.pdf[/quote]

You are not reading calendar correctly. Those are not holidays. There will be school those days- same as all years before. You ARE correct though that the idea to start before Labor Day was to end earlier and instead school board just added in more days so now start earlier and end later.[/quote] I like this trend.  I prefer a shorter summer and more days off during the school year.  I think it is good for the kids to get breaks during the year.  [/quote]

+1  Let's keep going until we get a full year-round-school schedule with a 5/6 week summer break in July! That would be awesome.[/quote]

9 week in school, three weeks off the rest of the year. That is year round school. Are you ready to embrace that? Love it as a kid, terrible for high schoolers.[/quote]

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