Anonymous
09/23/2025 13:49
Subject: All these days off...
Anonymous wrote:it sucks for ES but is great for HSers.
My HS student slept in until 11am. The school days are pretty busy, so they’re happy whenever they get to rest.
Anonymous
09/23/2025 13:45
Subject: All these days off...
Anonymous wrote:Just follow the federal calendar
That's what Megan McLaughlin said to do before they adopted this disaster.
If they're making that argument, they can fix spring break like they attempted to do a few years ago. They just have to drag Arlington, Loudoun, and Prince William on board. I celebrate Easter, but I don't need spring break to be tied to it.
Anonymous
09/23/2025 13:44
Subject: All these days off...
My MS and HS kids slept in, caught up on homework, and are now enjoying some chill time outside. Their Wed-Fri at school will be more productive bc of it.
Anonymous
09/23/2025 13:32
Subject: All these days off...
Just follow the federal calendar
Anonymous
09/23/2025 13:18
Subject: All these days off...
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yeah, how dare non-Christians celebrate their holidays. Terrible.
Everyone is welcome to celebrate whatever holiday they want.
Let the rest of us go to school.
You don't really feel that way because you don't want to have school open on Christmas. You just want Christians to be special and have the calendar built around them.
Christmas is not a school holiday.
Yes, it is - just wrapped around two weeks off
So it's not a holiday. Thanks for playing.
So…if they took Christmas Day and made it a regular school day and then scheduled the winter break in late January, you think everyone would be totally cool with that?
Thanks for playing.
LOL, feel free to advocate for your dumb end of quarter break, but nobody wants that. The vast majority of the country takes time off at the end of the calendar year.
Christmas is not a specific holiday in FCPS, it is only one day, and it is a federal holiday. Winter Break is a bloated mess that has little to do with Christmas.
Anonymous
09/23/2025 13:15
Subject: All these days off...
I’m annoyed because the high schools just assigned extra work for the day off.
Anonymous
09/23/2025 13:14
Subject: All these days off...
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yeah, how dare non-Christians celebrate their holidays. Terrible.
That’s the quiet part that OP won’t say out loud.
It’s a beautiful day, go outside and enjoy it with your kids.
Working parents don’t get random religious holidays.
Anonymous
09/23/2025 13:13
Subject: All these days off...
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yeah, how dare non-Christians celebrate their holidays. Terrible.
Everyone is welcome to celebrate whatever holiday they want.
Let the rest of us go to school.
You don't really feel that way because you don't want to have school open on Christmas. You just want Christians to be special and have the calendar built around them.
Christmas is not a school holiday.
Yes, it is - just wrapped around two weeks off
So it's not a holiday. Thanks for playing.
Are you actually this stupid or just trolling?
Anonymous
09/23/2025 13:09
Subject: All these days off...
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yeah, how dare non-Christians celebrate their holidays. Terrible.
Everyone is welcome to celebrate whatever holiday they want.
Let the rest of us go to school.
You don't really feel that way because you don't want to have school open on Christmas. You just want Christians to be special and have the calendar built around them.
Christmas is not a school holiday.
Yes, it is - just wrapped around two weeks off
So it's not a holiday. Thanks for playing.
So…if they took Christmas Day and made it a regular school day and then scheduled the winter break in late January, you think everyone would be totally cool with that?
Thanks for playing.
Anonymous
09/23/2025 13:04
Subject: All these days off...
Work is piling up at my office. We employ a lot of default parents and they all took leave today. An easy solution would have been to allow telework (in which work output is strictly monitored so no playing hooky) but noooo. Maybe one day they'll learn.
Anonymous
09/23/2025 12:56
Subject: All these days off...
Anonymous wrote:Some of it is clearly virtue signaling by the liberal School Board (I’m on the left, but this is obvious) and some of it is actual operational need. There are certain days where you expect call-outs due to religious holidays and if they are significant enough it hampers the ability to run school smoothly. This isn’t a student thing, it is a teacher/bus driver/etc problem.
It is a ripple effect. Neighboring school districts started giving these holidays. Staff who live outside the county struggled with childcare and were calling out on these days. FCPS decided to adopt these holidays too. Where FCPS goes above and beyond isn’t with religious holidays. It’s random padding days to bridge long weekends and 2 days off between quarters when most districts only do 1.
Anonymous
09/23/2025 12:54
Subject: All these days off...
Anonymous wrote:Some of it is clearly virtue signaling by the liberal School Board (I’m on the left, but this is obvious) and some of it is actual operational need. There are certain days where you expect call-outs due to religious holidays and if they are significant enough it hampers the ability to run school smoothly. This isn’t a student thing, it is a teacher/bus driver/etc problem.
There was never any evidence of operational problems on any of the new religious holidays. In fact, random other days had higher absences but that was ignored.
Bottom line, there's no operational reason for these religious holidays.
Anonymous
09/23/2025 12:51
Subject: All these days off...
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Haven't we always had Rosh Hashanah off? I did as a kid. Why would it be the school board's fault? Yes, the date changes every year, that's how it works.
My kid's at martial arts today. It's fine.
No. The School Board sets the calendar and recently added the unnecessary religious holidays.
Parents want their kids in school consistently, not randomly taking days off.
In all seriousness, has anyone brought this embarrassment of a calendar up with the School Board? This should be their priority quite frankly. We don't need to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, Diwali, Eid, Christmas, Kwanza, Lunar New Year and whatever other nonsense holiday they conjure up instead of educating our kids before June!!!
+1. People are talking all about all the “unnecessary” holidays other than Christmas, so i’m really happy you put that on the list. I’m sure if the school board took off Christmas as a holiday there would be a huge problem on getting it back. Let people take their own days off of school if they want to celebrate their holidays. To the rest of us, we aren’t doing anything so why not go to school?
Then we’ll hear from the, “Why are the kids at school when they’re just watching videos? They can’t learn new marital so I’m pulling them from school and letting them sleep in” contingent.
Anonymous
09/23/2025 12:51
Subject: All these days off...
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yeah, how dare non-Christians celebrate their holidays. Terrible.
Everyone is welcome to celebrate whatever holiday they want.
Let the rest of us go to school.
You don't really feel that way because you don't want to have school open on Christmas. You just want Christians to be special and have the calendar built around them.
Christmas is not a school holiday.
Yes, it is - just wrapped around two weeks off
So it's not a holiday. Thanks for playing.
Anonymous
09/23/2025 12:46
Subject: All these days off...
Some of it is clearly virtue signaling by the liberal School Board (I’m on the left, but this is obvious) and some of it is actual operational need. There are certain days where you expect call-outs due to religious holidays and if they are significant enough it hampers the ability to run school smoothly. This isn’t a student thing, it is a teacher/bus driver/etc problem.