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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd LOVE to see them cement Spring Break to the first week of April.  I hate that it moves around.  Just nail it down!!  Also, planning less around the Christian holidays means you don't have to plan for every other holiday off.  So let's release Spring break!

I'd also love to have a week long fall break instead of all the random days off (election day followed by Vet's day always drives me nuts).[/quote]
I’d like spring break to be the end of third quarter and include the grade prep day. [/quote]
Sounds good to me.[/quote]

Yup, let's do this. I'm onboard for fall break (taking away any combination of Friday before Labor Day, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Columbus Day, Election Day, Veteran's Day, Eid or Diwali works for me - if you tack it on to Thanksgiving you only need to pick two) and making Spring Break a fixed week instead of floating with Easter. [/quote]
The Friday before Labor Day is required by Virginia law. As for the other days I'd pick Election Day/1Q grade prep and the 3Q grade prep for Fall Break.[/quote]

Any of the changes proposed will only bring about new issues if they are not coordinated with FCPS (and to a lesser extent, ACPS). This is especially true regarding spring break. Too many teachers live in a different country than that which their kids go to school. When winter or spring breaks don’t align, the sub shortage is out of control. [/quote]

This is frequently mentioned as a reason why we (APS) can’t change our days — teachers living in different systems (primarily, Fairfax) won’t come to work in APS because their own (presumably elementary?) children won’t be in school.   I don’t buy it.  Either this is true in which case APS is completely beholden to the Fairfax calendar 100% because we cannot staff our schools OR it’s not true and we can staff our schools.  We are not 100% aligned with Fairfax, which means to me that it’s not true.  [/quote]
+1 I don't buy it either. I worked in APS before the calendars were synched and it was not a huge problem. Something they put out a few years ago said that around 53% of APS staff members lived in Arlington, the rest are spread out over several counties. There's not real reason to align with FCPS (not that we fully do, they start and get out a week earlier) [/quote]

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