Anonymous
11/03/2025 21:02
Subject: Will voting out the school board make the school calendar sane again?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:To those saying this isn't about woke politics, I am having a hard time fathoming why a conservative school board would have allowed this. This definitely seems like woke nonsense. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Nobody is going to bite.
Push your politocs elsewhere.
That is an interesting point, i wonder how many days off they have in the bible belt.
My family member lives in the buckle of the Bible belt.
Their public schools all start around August 15th.
High school graduations are the 3rd week of May.
School ends no later than the Friday before Memorial Day weekend.
They are off the same Thanksgiving days as FCPS (Weds-Friday), roughly 10 days for Christmas break (December 23 through January 1, might be longer on the years that Christmas/NY falls on a Tuesday or Wednesday), and are off Labor Day and I think MLK day (so honoring one national holiday each semester.)
The Friday before Easter is usually a half day.
Spring break is at the end of 3rd quarter, separate from Easter.
The 1st semester ends in December. 2nd semester begins in January.
All quarters are roughly equal.
Half days and 1 day off at the end of 1st quarter.
They have 3-5 snow days built into the calender.
This is standard for all the public schools in the area, even the diverse ones.
Public schools in with this type of calendar usually only have 165 school days per year.
Anonymous
11/03/2025 20:58
Subject: Will voting out the school board make the school calendar sane again?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What's so insane about the school year calendar? I think it's great that we're observing religious holidays beyond the Christian ones.
Do you have a job? If I have to explain this to you, you clearly do not have younger children and work full time.
schools are not your babysitters. that problem is on you.
Actually, they are. Get over it.
Anonymous
11/03/2025 18:57
Subject: Will voting out the school board make the school calendar sane again?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:To those saying this isn't about woke politics, I am having a hard time fathoming why a conservative school board would have allowed this. This definitely seems like woke nonsense. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Nobody is going to bite.
Push your politocs elsewhere.
Nobody is going to bite because there's no other explanation. There's no objective evidence supporting any of these added days off. It's pure liberal politics.
And many of us are fine with it.
I'm pretty liberal and my job is getting pretty sick of all the mondays/fridays I have to take off or work from home.
I know school isn't child care but two incomes are necessary for a lot of families around here and the school calendar is basically a 4 day school week for most of the year.
Why does everyone think this is all about non-christian religious holidays? What holiday is it today?
It's "someone complained that the perfectly good separation/security they had between general public voting and students wasn't enough and it's weird to just give Tuesday off so now it's a random 4 day weekend" day.
Anonymous
11/03/2025 18:31
Subject: Will voting out the school board make the school calendar sane again?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:To those saying this isn't about woke politics, I am having a hard time fathoming why a conservative school board would have allowed this. This definitely seems like woke nonsense. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Nobody is going to bite.
Push your politocs elsewhere.
Nobody is going to bite because there's no other explanation. There's no objective evidence supporting any of these added days off. It's pure liberal politics.
And many of us are fine with it.
I'm pretty liberal and my job is getting pretty sick of all the mondays/fridays I have to take off or work from home.
I know school isn't child care but two incomes are necessary for a lot of families around here and the school calendar is basically a 4 day school week for most of the year.
Why does everyone think this is all about non-christian religious holidays? What holiday is it today?
Saint teacher workday, day🤣
Anonymous
11/03/2025 18:06
Subject: Will voting out the school board make the school calendar sane again?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:To those saying this isn't about woke politics, I am having a hard time fathoming why a conservative school board would have allowed this. This definitely seems like woke nonsense. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Nobody is going to bite.
Push your politocs elsewhere.
That is an interesting point, i wonder how many days off they have in the bible belt.
My family member lives in the buckle of the Bible belt.
Their public schools all start around August 15th.
High school graduations are the 3rd week of May.
School ends no later than the Friday before Memorial Day weekend.
They are off the same Thanksgiving days as FCPS (Weds-Friday), roughly 10 days for Christmas break (December 23 through January 1, might be longer on the years that Christmas/NY falls on a Tuesday or Wednesday), and are off Labor Day and I think MLK day (so honoring one national holiday each semester.)
The Friday before Easter is usually a half day.
Spring break is at the end of 3rd quarter, separate from Easter.
The 1st semester ends in December. 2nd semester begins in January.
All quarters are roughly equal.
Half days and 1 day off at the end of 1st quarter.
They have 3-5 snow days built into the calender.
This is standard for all the public schools in the area, even the diverse ones.
This is the case in Southwest Ohio too. They start school in Mid-May and are off the week before Memorial Day. They have off 1-2 weeks for winter break, 1 week spring break (not always around Easter), Friday after Thanksgiving, federal holidays. They are off for 1-2 Jewish holidays.they have far less professional development days and less than 5 built in snow days. Full day kindergarten is offered.
Anonymous
11/03/2025 17:52
Subject: Will voting out the school board make the school calendar sane again?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What's so insane about the school year calendar? I think it's great that we're observing religious holidays beyond the Christian ones.
Do you have a job? If I have to explain this to you, you clearly do not have younger children and work full time.
schools are not your babysitters. that problem is on you.
This is a great example of the gaslighting no one is buying. You overplayed it during Covid. Now it’s an elections issue.
Anonymous
11/03/2025 17:52
Subject: Will voting out the school board make the school calendar sane again?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What's so insane about the school year calendar? I think it's great that we're observing religious holidays beyond the Christian ones.
Do you have a job? If I have to explain this to you, you clearly do not have younger children and work full time.
schools are not your babysitters. that problem is on you.
Well, it is not good for their education.
Teacher
Anonymous
11/03/2025 17:45
Subject: Will voting out the school board make the school calendar sane again?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What's so insane about the school year calendar? I think it's great that we're observing religious holidays beyond the Christian ones.
Do you have a job? If I have to explain this to you, you clearly do not have younger children and work full time.
schools are not your babysitters. that problem is on you.
Anonymous
11/03/2025 17:41
Subject: Will voting out the school board make the school calendar sane again?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:To those saying this isn't about woke politics, I am having a hard time fathoming why a conservative school board would have allowed this. This definitely seems like woke nonsense. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Nobody is going to bite.
Push your politocs elsewhere.
Nobody is going to bite because there's no other explanation. There's no objective evidence supporting any of these added days off. It's pure liberal politics.
And many of us are fine with it.
I'm pretty liberal and my job is getting pretty sick of all the mondays/fridays I have to take off or work from home.
I know school isn't child care but two incomes are necessary for a lot of families around here and the school calendar is basically a 4 day school week for most of the year.
Why does everyone think this is all about non-christian religious holidays? What holiday is it today?
Anonymous
11/03/2025 17:36
Subject: Will voting out the school board make the school calendar sane again?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:To those saying this isn't about woke politics, I am having a hard time fathoming why a conservative school board would have allowed this. This definitely seems like woke nonsense. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Nobody is going to bite.
Push your politocs elsewhere.
Nobody is going to bite because there's no other explanation. There's no objective evidence supporting any of these added days off. It's pure liberal politics.
And many of us are fine with it.
I'm pretty liberal and my job is getting pretty sick of all the mondays/fridays I have to take off or work from home.
I know school isn't child care but two incomes are necessary for a lot of families around here and the school calendar is basically a 4 day school week for most of the year.
Why does everyone think this is all about non-christian religious holidays? What holiday is it today?
Anonymous
11/02/2025 21:13
Subject: Will voting out the school board make the school calendar sane again?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:IRL, I never see anyone who is so upset about this, and my circles aren’t all liberal. I wonder if a lot of these posts are the same people or people who aren’t in FCPS just stirring things up.
It is possible to make feel people feel included and on academics. My kids’ schools are doing both very well.
You ever talk to a teacher?
Yes, I have many teacher friends. And on topics like this, I usually let them lead before sharing my thoughts.
Anonymous
11/02/2025 19:41
Subject: Will voting out the school board make the school calendar sane again?
Anonymous wrote:IRL, I never see anyone who is so upset about this, and my circles aren’t all liberal. I wonder if a lot of these posts are the same people or people who aren’t in FCPS just stirring things up.
It is possible to make feel people feel included and on academics. My kids’ schools are doing both very well.
Because if you're a school board apologist who tells people IRL the problem is they didn’t *plan ahead* for 40 days off per year, you’re not in the group chat.
Anonymous
11/02/2025 19:26
Subject: Will voting out the school board make the school calendar sane again?
Anonymous wrote:IRL, I never see anyone who is so upset about this, and my circles aren’t all liberal. I wonder if a lot of these posts are the same people or people who aren’t in FCPS just stirring things up.
It is possible to make feel people feel included and on academics. My kids’ schools are doing both very well.
You ever talk to a teacher?
Anonymous
11/02/2025 19:25
Subject: Will voting out the school board make the school calendar sane again?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Aren’t the calendar choices out there for us to vote on. And the calendar with the majority is the one they use. I mean you get the calendar three years in advance. How are you not planning ahead it’s not like you get the calendar month-to-month. If you don’t like it, then run for school board.
Did you actually do the calendar survey? There was no option to vote against the ton of extra days added that only a small minority of the system needs off on.
I for one am glad that our school system respects a good number of minority groups in similar measure to majority groups.
I'd rather the school system respect academics and sound operating principles. Feel free to celebrate your religion on your own time, but let the rest of us go to school.
That's exactly what they're doing, you just don't care to see it.
LOL, you think multiple broken and short weeks are good for education? Seriously, get out of here with that noise.
Anonymous
11/02/2025 17:59
Subject: Will voting out the school board make the school calendar sane again?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:To those saying this isn't about woke politics, I am having a hard time fathoming why a conservative school board would have allowed this. This definitely seems like woke nonsense. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Nobody is going to bite.
Push your politocs elsewhere.
That is an interesting point, i wonder how many days off they have in the bible belt.
My family member lives in the buckle of the Bible belt.
Their public schools all start around August 15th.
High school graduations are the 3rd week of May.
School ends no later than the Friday before Memorial Day weekend.
They are off the same Thanksgiving days as FCPS (Weds-Friday), roughly 10 days for Christmas break (December 23 through January 1, might be longer on the years that Christmas/NY falls on a Tuesday or Wednesday), and are off Labor Day and I think MLK day (so honoring one national holiday each semester.)
The Friday before Easter is usually a half day.
Spring break is at the end of 3rd quarter, separate from Easter.
The 1st semester ends in December. 2nd semester begins in January.
All quarters are roughly equal.
Half days and 1 day off at the end of 1st quarter.
They have 3-5 snow days built into the calender.
This is standard for all the public schools in the area, even the diverse ones.