After 19 pages it seems K-6/7 parents hate it. 6/7 - 12 appreciate the breaks. FCPS cannot please everyone. It is what it is.

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Anonymous wrote:We've had 3 (4?) religious holidays so far this year... and endless more to come.

Liberals fought hard to remove any entanglement between public school and Christian religion, now these hypocrites can't add enough religious holidays to the schedule.

Wish my kids were in school and learning. Wish the School Board even cared about that.

Someone is missing out on their free babysitting. Nothing stops kids from learning when they're at home.

Oh troll harder. Why even have school?

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Anonymous wrote:This calendar is brutal on kids. I can hardly believe that next week will be even worse than this week. I am so fed up with this woke school board and their crappy calendar. They're scum. Has anyone counted how many days off the kids have had this Fall??????

9 days off through Thanksgiving, 12 days including Thanksgiving break.

So for the parents that had to take 9 days off just this fall, that's essentially their vacation for the year.

Sounds like some parents didn’t look at the calendar ahead of time and plan for it.

I personally love the breaks for the kids (and we are a dual working family). Anything that makes summer shorter is a win.

Why???????????? How is that a win for anyone?

It’s a win for education because there is a TON of learning loss over the summer. If we move to shortening summer even more, I would more than welcome that. And that learning loss is highest for low income kids.

You realize that this isn’t about adding days to the calendar right? And that there are summer programs that counter summer learning loss that are free? The learning loss happening this fall is probably worse than anything you’d see in a normal summer. This is ridiculous. Consistency is key to learning. A bunch of random days off makes things worse.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This calendar is brutal on kids. I can hardly believe that next week will be even worse than this week. I am so fed up with this woke school board and their crappy calendar. They're scum. Has anyone counted how many days off the kids have had this Fall??????

9 days off through Thanksgiving, 12 days including Thanksgiving break.

So for the parents that had to take 9 days off just this fall, that's essentially their vacation for the year.

Sounds like some parents didn’t look at the calendar ahead of time and plan for it.

I personally love the breaks for the kids (and we are a dual working family). Anything that makes summer shorter is a win.

Why???????????? How is that a win for anyone?

It’s a win for education because there is a TON of learning loss over the summer. If we move to shortening summer even more, I would more than welcome that. And that learning loss is highest for low income kids.

There is a lot of summer school programs already in place to cover the low income kids. Those kids need their parents to work. Can you imagine being a shift worker and trying to juggle this calendar? Every hour counts. You get fired for taking to0 much time off.

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Anonymous wrote:We've had 3 (4?) religious holidays so far this year... and endless more to come.

Liberals fought hard to remove any entanglement between public school and Christian religion, now these hypocrites can't add enough religious holidays to the schedule.

Wish my kids were in school and learning. Wish the School Board even cared about that.

Someone is missing out on their free babysitting. Nothing stops kids from learning when they're at home.

Stop It. My kids are old enough to not need "free babysitting" and I want them in SCHOOL to learn. If I knew how to teach my sped kid, I would! But as it stands, I moved to this district and pay these taxes because I want the schools to do their job.

Anonymous wrote:We've had 3 (4?) religious holidays so far this year... and endless more to come.

Liberals fought hard to remove any entanglement between public school and Christian religion, now these hypocrites can't add enough religious holidays to the schedule.

Wish my kids were in school and learning. Wish the School Board even cared about that.

Someone is missing out on their free babysitting. Nothing stops kids from learning when they're at home.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This calendar is brutal on kids. I can hardly believe that next week will be even worse than this week. I am so fed up with this woke school board and their crappy calendar. They're scum. Has anyone counted how many days off the kids have had this Fall??????

9 days off through Thanksgiving, 12 days including Thanksgiving break.

So for the parents that had to take 9 days off just this fall, that's essentially their vacation for the year.

Sounds like some parents didn’t look at the calendar ahead of time and plan for it.

I personally love the breaks for the kids (and we are a dual working family). Anything that makes summer shorter is a win.

Why???????????? How is that a win for anyone?

It’s a win for education because there is a TON of learning loss over the summer. If we move to shortening summer even more, I would more than welcome that. And that learning loss is highest for low income kids.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This calendar is brutal on kids. I can hardly believe that next week will be even worse than this week. I am so fed up with this woke school board and their crappy calendar. They're scum. Has anyone counted how many days off the kids have had this Fall??????

9 days off through Thanksgiving, 12 days including Thanksgiving break.

So for the parents that had to take 9 days off just this fall, that's essentially their vacation for the year.

Sounds like some parents didn’t look at the calendar ahead of time and plan for it.

I personally love the breaks for the kids (and we are a dual working family). Anything that makes summer shorter is a win.

Sounds like you have flexible jobs and/or older kids. Mine are old enough to be alone now and/or we can WFH - not everyone can. The day here, day there approach puts a lot more burden on working families of young kids than extra summer days do.

In addition, it puts a lot of burden on shift workers and the very kids that FCPS claims to care about with their "equity agenda".

It also puts a heavy burden on sped kids who need routine.

But it's disruptive to ALL kids who should be in school and learning as much as possible between now and the end of the year. We've been off enough. Get the kids back in school. They don't need breaks every 4 days.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This calendar is brutal on kids. I can hardly believe that next week will be even worse than this week. I am so fed up with this woke school board and their crappy calendar. They're scum. Has anyone counted how many days off the kids have had this Fall??????

9 days off through Thanksgiving, 12 days including Thanksgiving break.

So for the parents that had to take 9 days off just this fall, that's essentially their vacation for the year.

Sounds like some parents didn’t look at the calendar ahead of time and plan for it.

I personally love the breaks for the kids (and we are a dual working family). Anything that makes summer shorter is a win.

Why???????????? How is that a win for anyone?

It doesn’t even make summer shorter? It’s just a bunch of spread out days. I’d rather two weeks for spring break and a week at thanksgiving than this!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This calendar is brutal on kids. I can hardly believe that next week will be even worse than this week. I am so fed up with this woke school board and their crappy calendar. They're scum. Has anyone counted how many days off the kids have had this Fall??????

9 days off through Thanksgiving, 12 days including Thanksgiving break.

So for the parents that had to take 9 days off just this fall, that's essentially their vacation for the year.

Sounds like some parents didn’t look at the calendar ahead of time and plan for it.

I personally love the breaks for the kids (and we are a dual working family). Anything that makes summer shorter is a win.

Sounds like you have flexible jobs and/or older kids. Mine are old enough to be alone now and/or we can WFH - not everyone can. The day here, day there approach puts a lot more burden on working families of young kids than extra summer days do.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This calendar is brutal on kids. I can hardly believe that next week will be even worse than this week. I am so fed up with this woke school board and their crappy calendar. They're scum. Has anyone counted how many days off the kids have had this Fall??????

9 days off through Thanksgiving, 12 days including Thanksgiving break.

So for the parents that had to take 9 days off just this fall, that's essentially their vacation for the year.

Sounds like some parents didn’t look at the calendar ahead of time and plan for it.

I personally love the breaks for the kids (and we are a dual working family). Anything that makes summer shorter is a win.

Why???????????? How is that a win for anyone?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This calendar is brutal on kids. I can hardly believe that next week will be even worse than this week. I am so fed up with this woke school board and their crappy calendar. They're scum. Has anyone counted how many days off the kids have had this Fall??????

9 days off through Thanksgiving, 12 days including Thanksgiving break.

So for the parents that had to take 9 days off just this fall, that's essentially their vacation for the year.

Sounds like some parents didn’t look at the calendar ahead of time and plan for it.

I personally love the breaks for the kids (and we are a dual working family). Anything that makes summer shorter is a win.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This calendar is brutal on kids. I can hardly believe that next week will be even worse than this week. I am so fed up with this woke school board and their crappy calendar. They're scum. Has anyone counted how many days off the kids have had this Fall??????

9 days off through Thanksgiving, 12 days including Thanksgiving break.

So for the parents that had to take 9 days off just this fall, that's essentially their vacation for the year.

I wouldn’t complain if I could actually take a vacation, but since the days are spread out it’s just disruptive
Some families are pulling kids out of school even more to string together long weekends to make the time off worth something. I wonder what overall attendance looks like this fall.

Anonymous wrote:This calendar is brutal on kids. I can hardly believe that next week will be even worse than this week. I am so fed up with this woke school board and their crappy calendar. They're scum. Has anyone counted how many days off the kids have had this Fall??????

9 days off through Thanksgiving, 12 days including Thanksgiving break.

So for the parents that had to take 9 days off just this fall, that's essentially their vacation for the year.

Anonymous wrote:This calendar is brutal on kids. I can hardly believe that next week will be even worse than this week. I am so fed up with this woke school board and their crappy calendar. They're scum. Has anyone counted how many days off the kids have had this Fall??????

I think it’s 10 not including winter break. So two weeks off, plus two weeks over winter break. I don’t like it at all—they could at least try to string them together into a quarter break instead of random days off.