Anonymous
Post 12/14/2017 19:55     Subject: Re:FCPS 2018-2019 school calendar?
Anonymous wrote:Supposedly the calendar will be voted on today. Post here if you see it approved


It will be “D” with a few tweaks.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2017 14:28     Subject: Re:FCPS 2018-2019 school calendar?
Supposedly the calendar will be voted on today. Post here if you see it approved
Anonymous
Post 12/07/2017 21:37     Subject: FCPS 2018-2019 school calendar?
Did anybody see the regular meeting tonight? I just checked in to Red Apple, but it must be over.
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2017 19:13     Subject: FCPS 2018-2019 school calendar?
Anonymous wrote:Note that while Xmas break "ends" Jan 4th -- that is a Friday -- meaning kids won't actually go back to school until Jan. 7th.

That is very late.


Right, but unlike this year, they’ll be in school right up through Fri, Dec 21. Basically they’re shifting the two week break from a week before and a week of Christmas to a week of Christmas and a week after Christmas. Six of one, half a dozen of the other. All I know is that I want the 2 weeks.
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2017 13:45     Subject: FCPS 2018-2019 school calendar?
Note that while Xmas break "ends" Jan 4th -- that is a Friday -- meaning kids won't actually go back to school until Jan. 7th.

That is very late.
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2017 11:14     Subject: Re:FCPS 2018-2019 school calendar?
Anonymous wrote:2018-2019 calendar being voted on this week (Dec 14th, 2017).
- Proposed option D starts school on Aug 28th
- Replaces 2 hour early release with 3 hour early release
- Some of this years student holidays (teacher planning, development, and workdays) are now 3 hour early release instead of whole date
- Proposed Christmas/New Year's break is still 2 weeks but starts Dec 21 and ends Jan 4th
- Proposed Spring Break is later now April 15-19
- Proposed last day of school is June 13th.


I like this. Only thing is with a middle schooler, 3 hour early release means he’ll get out at 11:15 which is really early.
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2017 11:14     Subject: Re:FCPS 2018-2019 school calendar?
Anonymous wrote:2018-2019 calendar being voted on this week (Dec 14th, 2017).
- Proposed option D starts school on Aug 28th
- Replaces 2 hour early release with 3 hour early release
- Some of this years student holidays (teacher planning, development, and workdays) are now 3 hour early release instead of whole date
- Proposed Christmas/New Year's break is still 2 weeks but starts Dec 21 and ends Jan 4th
- Proposed Spring Break is later now April 15-19
- Proposed last day of school is June 13th.


Thanks for flagging. Just noting that spring break is still the week before Easter, which is later in 2019.
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2017 11:07     Subject: Re:FCPS 2018-2019 school calendar?
2018-2019 calendar being voted on this week (Dec 14th, 2017).
- Proposed option D starts school on Aug 28th
- Replaces 2 hour early release with 3 hour early release
- Some of this years student holidays (teacher planning, development, and workdays) are now 3 hour early release instead of whole date
- Proposed Christmas/New Year's break is still 2 weeks but starts Dec 21 and ends Jan 4th
- Proposed Spring Break is later now April 15-19
- Proposed last day of school is June 13th.
Anonymous
Post 12/03/2017 21:52     Subject: FCPS 2018-2019 school calendar?
Anonymous wrote:This is actually a comment on the 2017-2018 calendar.

I keep getting emails from KMES saying Winter Break is from 123/15-1/1. Will someone please tell them that there is school on Friday, December 15? Or am I wrong?


There is a full-day of school on Friday, December 15.
Students return on Tues, January 2
Anonymous
Post 12/03/2017 21:46     Subject: FCPS 2018-2019 school calendar?
In FCPS there is school on Friday, December 15.
Anonymous
Post 12/03/2017 21:35     Subject: FCPS 2018-2019 school calendar?
This is actually a comment on the 2017-2018 calendar.

I keep getting emails from KMES saying Winter Break is from 123/15-1/1. Will someone please tell them that there is school on Friday, December 15? Or am I wrong?
Anonymous
Post 11/27/2017 10:22     Subject: Re:FCPS 2018-2019 school calendar?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I understand that teacher work days count toward the 180 hours. Why dont they let the kids out at 2 and tge teachers will have plenty of time during working hours. I dont understand why the kids have to be there. It is too much ! There is no reason for the school year to be stretched so long.


What does this mean?

As you say, the students have to have 180 days. Whether the teachers have 2 hour early release or 3 hour early release days it won't change the length of the school year.



Teacher work days count towards the 180 days. Put a teacher work day/staff development day/ school planning day at the end of every school day. Let the students go home. Stop the early release dats. Shorten the school year calendar.


Teacher work days do not count towards the 990 hours that are required. Teacher's contracts are for 194 days, which is an [b]additional 2 weeks on top of what is required of students. FCPS is no longer counting days anyway due to the waiver. They are counting hours, which have to add up to 990.

From Board Docs" http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/9NSFW841032B/$file/R1344.pdf

"The school year consists of 180 days or a minimum 990 hours of class for students and 194 days of employment for most teacher-scale employees."

Is the above poster actually suggesting that every day teachers stay for a few extra hours? 99% of the teachers I know chose the profession so that they could be on the same schedule as their children.


It’s actually just one day short of being 3 weeks more than the student calendar.


I stand corrected, I was thinking 14 days, 2 weeks. Thankfully, we only work 5 days a week.
Anonymous
Post 11/26/2017 21:16     Subject: FCPS 2018-2019 school calendar?
Anonymous wrote:This seems late for them not to have announced next year's calendar. What's up with that?


Look here:

https://www.fcps.edu/news/fairfax-county-school-board-consider-2018-19-calendar-starting-school-august-28-2018
Anonymous
Post 11/26/2017 20:30     Subject: FCPS 2018-2019 school calendar?
Anonymous wrote:This seems late for them not to have announced next year's calendar. What's up with that?


Umm, no it's not. The calendar has never been released in November. And have you bothered to read any of this thread? The decision will be made in...

I'll let you look and find the answer yourself.
Anonymous
Post 11/26/2017 20:26     Subject: FCPS 2018-2019 school calendar?
This seems late for them not to have announced next year's calendar. What's up with that?