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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These O days are a total waste of time. Guess my kids will be missing school on those days.

Once again, the School Board is only good at keeping kids out of school.[/quote]

No, the SB wanted to cherry pick holidays celebrated by a small % of the district and just give those 4 days off for religious reasons. FCPS lawyers basically said it's a lawsuit waiting to happen and so came up with O days. It is FCPS that made the ridiculous decision not to allow any actual teaching to happen those days rather than just saying "no assessments or special events with opportunity to make up assignments for a week". THAT would have been a 100% reasonable policy and sounded a lot like what they actually planned to do from the initial press release - the additional guidance teachers have posted is WAY more restrictive than FCPS initially implied in its announcement about this. [/quote]

As someone who has kids that will be observing Rosh Hashanah on Tuesday and Yom Kippur next week, I was perfectly fine with them missing new work, provided that there was a way to catch up within a reasonable amount of time. With block scheduling, an 80 minute class spent not teaching just seems ridiculous to me. [/quote]

The SB needs to hear from people like you. The input that ample time to catch up missed new teaching - coupled with no assessments or big 1 time activities on the holidays - is what they need to hear in order to dial this back to reasonable and they need to hear it from peopel that have a dog in the fight on the relevant holidays. [/quote]

The schoolboard formed a committee that spent months, perhaps even the past year, to come up with exactly that recommendation.  But then the school board completely ignored the committe's recommendation and came up with this crazy mess of zero days, most of which are not celebrated as a major holiday for any of the fcps families.  The committee took input from faith and community leaders, as well as other things like demographics and attendance.

Sorry, but you people REALLY need to start paying attention to the school board meetings and agenda.

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