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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm seeing reports that Fairfax is considering changing their calendar for next year to remove some holidays and early releases to make for more 5-day weeks. Hopefully APS follows them in that plan and fixes next year's calendar. I think there's consensus amongst many parents across both school districts that there's too many breaks and holidays and days off. And that they're too random.[/quote]

the FCPS school board members are proposing to make Veterans' Day and Indigenous People's Day school days. Won't really help parents whose offices follow federal holidays...[/quote]
The vast majority of parents aren't on a federal schedule and have to work those days. Veterans Day is one of the causes of "no school November" as it's been coined by the kids.  They will already get election day off the week before.  They don't need a random Wednesday off the following week.[/quote]

There are a lot of fed employees and contractors in the area, so probably a higher percent of families have fed holidays off than other metro areas.

I guess the silver lining is I’d finally get a real paid holiday off since as of now the kids are always out of school on my holidays. But I think we should scrap the religious ones too. Including not tying spring break to Easter. I’m non-religious and while I support people’s right to believe whatever they want, I don’t think that should be APS’s priority over creating a cohesive calendar. [/quote]

+1 to all of this, but I’d rather observe the secular holidays than the religious ones. Schools are not churches, folks. [/quote]

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