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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work for APS, and am looking at FCPS's current calendar. They have TWO days off after Easter? And had TWO entire weeks off for Winter Break this year! We don't even have the Monday after Easter off. It's a full, regular school day. [/quote]

As someone else said, it’s the end of the quarter.  I’ve been teaching in FCPS for a long time and I don’t remember ever having this Monday as a workday - it’s  just how the calendar fell this year and will be different next year because Spring Break always changes.  [/quote]
Spring break should be at the same time every year based on a secular schedule like end of 3rd quarter/start of 4th quarter. It is a very long haul next year between early January and mid-April.
It could easily be March 31-April 4, 2025 with April 18 as a standalone day off.[/quote]

100% this.

I find it funny that the same people who say “winter break isn’t for Christmas, it’s long because we’re so multicultural and people need to go overseas” don’t say anything about spring break being specifically tied to Easter (and don’t deny it, it was written that way in the survey). Most other parts of the country have spring break the same week every year and it’s usually not tied to Easter which means people can actually find affordable flights. It’s so expensive to travel around Easter. [/quote]

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