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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Moon and Dunne have both acknowledged that the 2025-26 calendar needs to be fixed.

Please PLEASE your school board member instead of posting here!

https://www.fcps.edu/about-fcps/contact-us/school-board

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Eye roll.

Nothing will change.   [/quote]

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We are stuck with it for next year. Best case they realize what a disaster it is to hand out holidays like candy and dial it back to a saner amount in 2026-2027[/quote]
Totally agree. The long winter break is totally unnecessary.[/quote]

The two week winter break was a teacher demand years ago. Wonder if that’s still a priority for them.[/quote]

It was what we were promised when we began going to school before Labor Day.

[b]Now that most teachers are back at school by August 1-5[/b] so they can begin room set up, and knowing that we are on contract until the end of June, most of us want that two week break. Our summers are only 4-5 weeks now. 
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CUE people saying, "Boo-hoo! You only have 4-5 weeks off during the summer. No one else gets that kind of break! Stop complaining!"

Please remember: (1) school breaks are a perk of our job, much like most jobs have some type of perks, (2) many of us use summer to write new curriculum and lessons, (3) many teachers need a summer job in order to make ends meet since we aren't paid over the summer, (4) many of us entered this profession so our schedules would closely-align with our own children's schedules, (5) most of us aren't complaining; we are instead pointing out facts and points to ponder. That's not complaining. [/quote]

New teachers didn’t even have contract days until Aug 5. Others started August 12. I know very few who go in more than a day or two early for room set up. Our school doesn’t let teachers in much earlier than that.[/quote]

Interesting. At every school in which I've worked (six schools in the past 28 years), at least 50%, if not closer to 70%, have gone in [i]at least[/i] a week early to start their room set up since there is often less than one day of unencumbered time during the week before school opens. The past three years, I've had approximately 5 hours of unencumbered time, and it's often 20 minutes here, 15 minutes there. It's not easy to get anything done with so little time![/quote]

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