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Anonymous wrote:Do you think summer break is too long? I think it’s actually too short! I prefer the mid June end and starting after Labor Day.

ugh! I prefer shorter summers and breaks in the year.

No one wants that.

+1 The breaks during the year are horrible for routine. Kids function better with a routine.

+1 I think we need the routine more than ever. And too often there's the planned breaks and then a snow day or two and then a covid isolation period and there's this time off that you couldn't really plan for and do anything particularly valuable with. I much rather have a longer summer break where we can plan travel, camps etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you think summer break is too long? I think it’s actually too short! I prefer the mid June end and starting after Labor Day.

ugh! I prefer shorter summers and breaks in the year.

No one wants that.

+1 The breaks during the year are horrible for routine. Kids function better with a routine.

Anonymous wrote:So is Spring Break being the week of Easter again intentional, or is it just always going to be the first week of April (like it is in 2022) and in 2023 it happened to align?

Spring break aligns with Easter for two reasons.

#1 is to put it back at the same week as neighboring districts and the private schools. There were LOTS of complaints about this year's spring break from parents and teachers as it did not align with any of the surrounding districts or private schools.

#2 Is that in spring 2023, 3 of the 11 zero learning days happened to fall the week prior to Easter. It just makes sense to have that week as spring break, ince there were only going to be 2 content days that week due to the O days.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you think summer break is too long? I think it’s actually too short! I prefer the mid June end and starting after Labor Day.

ugh! I prefer shorter summers and breaks in the year.

No one wants that.

A post labor day start was always ridiculiusly late.

We need to end school around June 7th +/-

Anonymous wrote:Do you think summer break is too long? I think it’s actually too short! I prefer the mid June end and starting after Labor Day.

I like the August 22 start date. That is a good move by fcps.

But it should be accompanied by an early June dismissal so we can be closer aligned to most of the rest of the country and the various high school summer programs.

Anonymous wrote:I searched and can not find the calendar posted online. Where is it?

Just got the email notification with the link.

Anonymous wrote:So is Spring Break being the week of Easter again intentional, or is it just always going to be the first week of April (like it is in 2022) and in 2023 it happened to align?

It will always be the first week of April. It has nothing to do with Easter.

Teachers, parents. I know no one at the HS that thinks O Days are a good idea. Even if teachers can teacher, sports event, drama rehearsals, etc cannot be scheduled. My DC is in robotics and the school made them cancel meetings on O Days. And they are in a 6 week build season and need every single day.

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Anonymous wrote:Starting on 8/22 and ending on 6/16? Random days off? How the heck are working parents supposed to earn a living? Is this just a product of woke upper class parents? When did the public comment period on this calendar even happen????

Probably geared more to the HS crowd, TBH

Nope. By mid May AP exams are over. Not a lot happens in many classes after that. And good luck getting seniors to do anything. Plus, the late end date effects summer jobs, internships and programs. No reason not to end school by Memorial Day at the HS level.

So is Spring Break being the week of Easter again intentional, or is it just always going to be the first week of April (like it is in 2022) and in 2023 it happened to align?

That's nuts. Days off should be grouped as much as possible to minimize the number of short weeks. It's frankly easier to deal with a few long weekends than a million random four-day weeks.

I searched and can not find the calendar posted online. Where is it?

Here's the general highlights from the FCPS survey:
General Highlights
A majority of all groups responded that they were somewhat or extremely satisfied with the current calendar.
A majority of employees and students were against losing days at Winter Break, Spring Break, or the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. However, a majority of all groups were also opposed to lengthening the school year.
A majority of all surveyed showed willingness to shift one or two in-person learning days to asynchronous learning days during the year.

So...they basically ignored all of this and did whatever they wanted to do.

I was a teacher. Routine is important in schools. There is no month with full weeks of school until after New Year's.

SB claims to be liberal and support working families--yet, this schedule makes it very difficult for those who work outside the home--or, for that matter, inside the home.

Do these SB members have any common sense whatsoever? Love that at least one SB member had her kids in a "pod" while other kids were at home.