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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let's get down to specifics. Review the holiday list here. Which dates would you get rid of and why?

https://www.fcps.edu/calendars/standard-school-year-calendar[/quote]

Get rid of:
- 26 Sep (Rosh Hashanah) -- not needed as holiday
- 5 Oct (Yom Kippur) -- not needed as holiday
- 10 Oct (Indigenous Peoples') -- not needed as holiday
- 24 Oct (Diwali) -- not needed as holiday
- 31 Oct (Halloween) -- not needed as holiday
- 11 Nov (Veterans) -- not needed as holiday
- 3 Mar -- not needed as holiday
- 14 Apr (Orthodox Good Friday) -- not needed as holiday (they should time spring break to be at the end of the quarter and include a teacher workday on the Friday before or Monday after)
- 21 Apr (Eid) -- not needed as holiday

Add in:
- Week long "fall break" at the middle or end of Oct (best to be timed at the end of the quarter)

Keep:
- 4-day Labor Day break
- Election Day
- The 2 week winter break
- The 3-day Thanksgiving break
- The holiday for MLK
- The 4-day holiday at the semester's end in January
- The holiday for President's Day
- Spring break (best to be timed at the end of the quarter and move the end-of-quarter teacher workday to the Friday before Spring Break or the Monday after)
- Memorial Day[/quote]

Can you come up with a catchy-marketing phrase to represent your plan?  That's what the SANE crowd needs to get behind something like this and promote it to the voting public.  [/quote]

Change your plan so that winter break is in late January to align with the end of the quarter, we don't need Christmas off, it's just a useless religious holiday like all the others you crossed off your list.[/quote]

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