Bottom line -- LCPS has far fewer school days than FCPS. They will go to school 170 days, and FCPS will go to school for 180 days.

Anonymous wrote:The thing that FCPS does differently in their calendar is built in days off at the end of each quarter. I don’t actually mind this. Gives us more 3-4 day weekends.

LCPS does this as well, teacher planning for the grades. That plus election day and another holiday had teachers taking two days off to get a 10 day vacation.

The thing that FCPS does differently in their calendar is built in days off at the end of each quarter. I don’t actually mind this. Gives us more 3-4 day weekends.

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Anonymous wrote:LCPS school day is longer. Personally I think it is ridiculous that just b/c you have extra minutes each day it adds up such that you do not need 180 school days - but this is the reason.

No that is not it. It’s bc Loudoun doesn’t have the Jewish holidays off.

And Muslim, Hindi, and Greek Orthodox holidays. FCPS added more then Jewish holidays this year. Your response makes me think you are anti-Semitic since you keep harping on the Jewish holidays but skip the other religious holidays that were added.

Keep harping? I made one post. Those are the first holidays early on in the school year. I disagree that we need those off, as well as Diwali or whatever other holidays were added. That does not make me anti Semitic at all.

The same comment has been made in in other topics. The emphasis is on the Jewish holidays not the additional religious holidays. Kind of gross that people are focused on one religion when there are at least four different religions accounting for the extra days off, and one of those religions is Christian.

I don’t think we need the religious holidays off, the only reason Christmas is off is because it is in the middle of the Winter Holiday and is a Federal Holiday. I am fine with keeping them as O days and not allowing Teachers to assign work that is due on them or hold tests on those days. But I can at least see that the new holidays are from a variety of religions and not one.

Starting the school year on a Thursday never made sense to me.

My understanding is that adding the new holidays to the calendar meant we have to go an extra week. I don't think it's more days, just more short breaks or single days off.

I'm annoyed. I've always liked the 2 week holiday break because I feel like we need the time off (we don't travel, just like the break). But I'd rather give some days up there than go so late into summer when we're also starting 2 weeks before Labor Day.

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Anonymous wrote:LCPS school day is longer. Personally I think it is ridiculous that just b/c you have extra minutes each day it adds up such that you do not need 180 school days - but this is the reason.

No that is not it. It’s bc Loudoun doesn’t have the Jewish holidays off.

And Muslim, Hindi, and Greek Orthodox holidays. FCPS added more then Jewish holidays this year. Your response makes me think you are anti-Semitic since you keep harping on the Jewish holidays but skip the other religious holidays that were added.

Keep harping? I made one post. Those are the first holidays early on in the school year. I disagree that we need those off, as well as Diwali or whatever other holidays were added. That does not make me anti Semitic at all.

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Anonymous wrote:LCPS school day is longer. Personally I think it is ridiculous that just b/c you have extra minutes each day it adds up such that you do not need 180 school days - but this is the reason.

No that is not it. It’s bc Loudoun doesn’t have the Jewish holidays off.

And Muslim, Hindi, and Greek Orthodox holidays. FCPS added more then Jewish holidays this year. Your response makes me think you are anti-Semitic since you keep harping on the Jewish holidays but skip the other religious holidays that were added.

Anonymous wrote:LCPS school day is longer. Personally I think it is ridiculous that just b/c you have extra minutes each day it adds up such that you do not need 180 school days - but this is the reason.

No, at the high school level, their school day is almost exactly the same length. (Technically, it is 2 minutes longer... but that adds up to less than 6 extra hours total over the 170 days.)

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Anonymous wrote:LCPS school day is longer. Personally I think it is ridiculous that just b/c you have extra minutes each day it adds up such that you do not need 180 school days - but this is the reason.

No that is not it. It’s bc Loudoun doesn’t have the Jewish holidays off.

Yes they do.

Anonymous wrote:I was comparing the FCPS calendar for the academic year 2022-2023 against LCPS's calendar.
FCPS starts on 22 Aug, and LCPS starts on 25 Aug, but the last day of school for FCPS is June 16th, while for LCPS it is June 8th.

Does anyone know why even though LCPS starts their school year late (than FCPS), they are able to close one week early ? I usually thought that if you start late, you end late as well. I am sure there must be an explanation to this, but I couldn't find any information. If someone can share/explain, that would be great!

They only have 170 days. Add in all the snow days Loudoun gets and the kids will probably only have 160-165. I am fine with FCPS having 180 days.

Anonymous wrote:LCPS school day is longer. Personally I think it is ridiculous that just b/c you have extra minutes each day it adds up such that you do not need 180 school days - but this is the reason.

No that is not it. It’s bc Loudoun doesn’t have the Jewish holidays off.

It is also important to count how many TWD, holidays, and PD days are on both.

LCPS school day is longer. Personally I think it is ridiculous that just b/c you have extra minutes each day it adds up such that you do not need 180 school days - but this is the reason.

I was comparing the FCPS calendar for the academic year 2022-2023 against LCPS's calendar.
FCPS starts on 22 Aug, and LCPS starts on 25 Aug, but the last day of school for FCPS is June 16th, while for LCPS it is June 8th.

Does anyone know why even though LCPS starts their school year late (than FCPS), they are able to close one week early ? I usually thought that if you start late, you end late as well. I am sure there must be an explanation to this, but I couldn't find any information. If someone can share/explain, that would be great!