Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All I care about is that they NOT tie Easter to spring break and instead tie it to quarter end so the kids get a week and a half off all at once. But the school board is too dumb to even think about doing that.

The goal isn’t to align it to Easter, the goal is to align it to the other counties’ calendar.

If FCPS released their calendar first, they wouldn't have this problem. Just saying. FCCPS is the only one that released a multi-year calendar. About 3 FCPS teachers live in FCCPS, they'll manage.

I agree. It sounds selfish but honestly, we are the 'big dog' in terms of school population. If we have to deal with the downsides of being so large we should also reap the benefits like setting the calendar and letting the smaller surrounding districts either match up or not. But it seems the vast majority of FCPS teachers with kids in school have kids in FCPS schools.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the trade off for getting a three year calendar. The planning process takes longer, especially the first time.

No one wants this school board to create a 3 year calendar.

No one really wants them to create next year's calendar, but we are stuck with them through November.

What they need to do is give us something now to get us through the 23/24 year, then stop. Just stop.

Don't ruin another calendar year. Leave it for the next school board. Hopefully, it will contain a lot of new members and have a tiny shred of competency.

This right here. ^^^^^^^^

Anonymous wrote:It's public school. Your kids could miss 50+ days each year every year and nothing would happen. Plan your vacations now.

We have education standards. FCPS needs to have them too!!! Our kids aren't going to miss any days from this bare minimum they're putting forth.

It's almost mid-Feb and we still don't have a calendar.
This is seriously bad.

Anonymous wrote:Do we think it’s still going to be voted on, on 2/9?

I hope so! But they’ll probably extend the survey due date until August.

Do we think it’s still going to be voted on, on 2/9?

It's public school. Your kids could miss 50+ days each year every year and nothing would happen. Plan your vacations now.

Distinction begins at the top.

The current school board is a dysfunctional disaster. They need to be replaced. All of them.

Anonymous wrote:This is the trade off for getting a three year calendar. The planning process takes longer, especially the first time.

Do you seriously think they will come out of this with a 3 year calendar.

They are so terrified of making any decisions. There is no way they will make 3 big ones.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All I care about is that they NOT tie Easter to spring break and instead tie it to quarter end so the kids get a week and a half off all at once. But the school board is too dumb to even think about doing that.

The goal isn’t to align it to Easter, the goal is to align it to the other counties’ calendar.

But since other counties align with Easter, we will be aligning with Easter as well.

I thought the most important issue with the calendar was making sure Spring Break wasn't part of a Christian holiday?

That was the year they were trying to hold the line and not hand out religious holidays like candy. They tried shifting break away from Easter but because this did not align with other schools and teachers count on spring break as a vacation time with their families the staff that live outside of FC flipped out. It created a genuine operational shortfall issue. One that did not exist for any of the religious one day holidays FCPS had school on that year while others did not. But the optics of adding back a spring break that aligns with Easter (since that is when other districts take it) and not adding in the religious holidays that had no operational need to be holidays was too painful.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All I care about is that they NOT tie Easter to spring break and instead tie it to quarter end so the kids get a week and a half off all at once. But the school board is too dumb to even think about doing that.

The goal isn’t to align it to Easter, the goal is to align it to the other counties’ calendar.

But since other counties align with Easter, we will be aligning with Easter as well.

I thought the most important issue with the calendar was making sure Spring Break wasn't part of a Christian holiday?

Anonymous wrote:

Pyriimide wrote:At least all options out there seem to either have summer break end on Aug 20 or Aug 27. It‘s still rather late notice, especially booking international flights for the July window. RIP

I enjoyed the statistics in the slides where they compare their drafts to all the neighboring counties‘ schedules… How is such a statistic even possible? Well, all other counties released their plan weeks ago!

Just book your flights assuming an 8/21 start date, obviously.

OP is just being dramatic to make a point.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All I care about is that they NOT tie Easter to spring break and instead tie it to quarter end so the kids get a week and a half off all at once. But the school board is too dumb to even think about doing that.

The goal isn’t to align it to Easter, the goal is to align it to the other counties’ calendar.

If FCPS released their calendar first, they wouldn't have this problem. Just saying. FCCPS is the only one that released a multi-year calendar. About 3 FCPS teachers live in FCCPS, they'll manage.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All I care about is that they NOT tie Easter to spring break and instead tie it to quarter end so the kids get a week and a half off all at once. But the school board is too dumb to even think about doing that.

The goal isn’t to align it to Easter, the goal is to align it to the other counties’ calendar.

But since other counties align with Easter, we will be aligning with Easter as well.

They tried that and teachers freaked out. Now they have gone back to it.