Decouple Spring break from Easter. Work with the other counties to set a specific week and set that as spring break every year. Maybe the second or third week or March. Some years it will coincide with Easter but most years it won’t and that is fine.

Christmas will fall during the winter break but it is a Federal Holiday any way.

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Anonymous wrote:Those holidays that vary due to lunar issues need to be eliminated. Period.

God forbid respecting other major religions get in the way of your convenient calendar.

The people who observe those religions can have an excused day off. We don’t have to shut down the whole district for them.

So the Muslim kids, or Jewish kids, or Hindu kids are forced to miss out of all school activities (academics, sports, extra curriculars) for their 1-2 days a year, but the Christian kids get to enjoy full participation because the calendar is structurally built around their holidays?

Nah. Fairfax county is diverse, and if this is really that huge of an issue I’d suggest looking at a house out in Winchester.

Christian kids don’t get all their holidays off. Winter break and spring break coincide with Christmas and Easter. That’s it.

Neither do Jewish, Hindu, or Muslim kids. Do you think there are only 1-2 holidays for those religions?!

Geez. This is not the point you think it is.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those holidays that vary due to lunar issues need to be eliminated. Period.

God forbid respecting other major religions get in the way of your convenient calendar.

The people who observe those religions can have an excused day off. We don’t have to shut down the whole district for them.

So the Muslim kids, or Jewish kids, or Hindu kids are forced to miss out of all school activities (academics, sports, extra curriculars) for their 1-2 days a year, but the Christian kids get to enjoy full participation because the calendar is structurally built around their holidays?

Nah. Fairfax county is diverse, and if this is really that huge of an issue I’d suggest looking at a house out in Winchester.

If religious holidays are that important to someone, then go private. Let the rest of us go to school.

If you don’t like the FCPS calendar, go private, let the rest of us go to school.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those holidays that vary due to lunar issues need to be eliminated. Period.

God forbid respecting other major religions get in the way of your convenient calendar.

The people who observe those religions can have an excused day off. We don’t have to shut down the whole district for them.

So the Muslim kids, or Jewish kids, or Hindu kids are forced to miss out of all school activities (academics, sports, extra curriculars) for their 1-2 days a year, but the Christian kids get to enjoy full participation because the calendar is structurally built around their holidays?

Nah. Fairfax county is diverse, and if this is really that huge of an issue I’d suggest looking at a house out in Winchester.

If religious holidays are that important to someone, then go private. Let the rest of us go to school.

Definitely not a hack reporter. His work was the reason slimy Steve Descano has to testify in front of Congress. Probably the most impactful reporter in DC.

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Anonymous wrote:If FCPS created an honest survey, Christmas would have been on the federal holiday list and Ash Wednesday & the two Orthodox holidays would have been listed with the religious holidays, as well as decoupling Easter from spring break.

No, because the Orthodox holidays and Ash Wednesday were never days off for students. They are O days. The days that are holidays for students and staff (when they fall on school days) are Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Diwali, and the two Eids. Any other listed day is not automatically a day off for students. If it was, it was because they tried to kill two birds with one stone by placing a teacher workday during an O day.

So, if you get rid of the holidays as stated, it would only give you 5 days of school back. Everything else is required days for teacher planning or training.

Have you looked at the calendar?

The orthodox holidays and buddhist holidays, both celebrated by aroynd 1%-2% of FFX County were all off this year.

Teacher work days were slapped on top of them in a feeble attempt to justify the days off, but the days made zero sense for teacher work days. They were either completely random, or right after longer breaks. It was 100% obvious those teacher work days were just there to give religious holidays off.

The same goes for Ash Wednesday and especially chinese new year. At least All Saints Day/Day of the dead coincided with Halloween and the end of the quarter.

The FCPS school board must think their constituents are idiots if they think people didn't see through the fake random teacher workdays placed on obscure religious holidays.

School was held on Ash Wednesday. It was listed as an O day. Lunar New Year and Orthodox Good Friday were the only religious holidays that they slapped out of cycle TW days on.

Bohdi Day was off.

And Theravada.

Both celebrated by around 2% of ffx cty.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If FCPS created an honest survey, Christmas would have been on the federal holiday list and Ash Wednesday & the two Orthodox holidays would have been listed with the religious holidays, as well as decoupling Easter from spring break.

No, because the Orthodox holidays and Ash Wednesday were never days off for students. They are O days. The days that are holidays for students and staff (when they fall on school days) are Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Diwali, and the two Eids. Any other listed day is not automatically a day off for students. If it was, it was because they tried to kill two birds with one stone by placing a teacher workday during an O day.

So, if you get rid of the holidays as stated, it would only give you 5 days of school back. Everything else is required days for teacher planning or training.

Have you looked at the calendar?

The orthodox holidays and buddhist holidays, both celebrated by aroynd 1%-2% of FFX County were all off this year.

Teacher work days were slapped on top of them in a feeble attempt to justify the days off, but the days made zero sense for teacher work days. They were either completely random, or right after longer breaks. It was 100% obvious those teacher work days were just there to give religious holidays off.

The same goes for Ash Wednesday and especially chinese new year. At least All Saints Day/Day of the dead coincided with Halloween and the end of the quarter.

The FCPS school board must think their constituents are idiots if they think people didn't see through the fake random teacher workdays placed on obscure religious holidays.

School was held on Ash Wednesday. It was listed as an O day. Lunar New Year and Orthodox Good Friday were the only religious holidays that they slapped out of cycle TW days on.

And neither of those days should have been off.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those holidays that vary due to lunar issues need to be eliminated. Period.

God forbid respecting other major religions get in the way of your convenient calendar.

The people who observe those religions can have an excused day off. We don’t have to shut down the whole district for them.

So the Muslim kids, or Jewish kids, or Hindu kids are forced to miss out of all school activities (academics, sports, extra curriculars) for their 1-2 days a year, but the Christian kids get to enjoy full participation because the calendar is structurally built around their holidays?

Nah. Fairfax county is diverse, and if this is really that huge of an issue I’d suggest looking at a house out in Winchester.

The ligical policy would be to base it on the religious percentage breakdown of Fairfax County as determined by the census, and the funding formula by the state of when attendance becomes an issue.

If the census population for that religion hits above a large enough percentage that it would cause issues with funding, say 10%, the holiday gets added. Below 10% and certainly below 5% based on the census, school stays in session.

This eould likely eliminate all of the religious holidays, except Eid and possibly the jewish holidays. Everything else gets an excused absence.

The 95% of students not from that religious tradition shoulld be in school, period.

And get rid of the cultural non US holidays of Day of the Dead and Chinese New Year. They are not US holidays so the kids should be in school.

Keep our national holidays that fall during the school year: Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, MLK Day and Columbus Day.

Make the goal to finish the year by Memorial Day.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If FCPS created an honest survey, Christmas would have been on the federal holiday list and Ash Wednesday & the two Orthodox holidays would have been listed with the religious holidays, as well as decoupling Easter from spring break.

No, because the Orthodox holidays and Ash Wednesday were never days off for students. They are O days. The days that are holidays for students and staff (when they fall on school days) are Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Diwali, and the two Eids. Any other listed day is not automatically a day off for students. If it was, it was because they tried to kill two birds with one stone by placing a teacher workday during an O day.

So, if you get rid of the holidays as stated, it would only give you 5 days of school back. Everything else is required days for teacher planning or training.

Have you looked at the calendar?

The orthodox holidays and buddhist holidays, both celebrated by aroynd 1%-2% of FFX County were all off this year.

Teacher work days were slapped on top of them in a feeble attempt to justify the days off, but the days made zero sense for teacher work days. They were either completely random, or right after longer breaks. It was 100% obvious those teacher work days were just there to give religious holidays off.

The same goes for Ash Wednesday and especially chinese new year. At least All Saints Day/Day of the dead coincided with Halloween and the end of the quarter.

The FCPS school board must think their constituents are idiots if they think people didn't see through the fake random teacher workdays placed on obscure religious holidays.

School was held on Ash Wednesday. It was listed as an O day. Lunar New Year and Orthodox Good Friday were the only religious holidays that they slapped out of cycle TW days on.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those holidays that vary due to lunar issues need to be eliminated. Period.

God forbid respecting other major religions get in the way of your convenient calendar.

When you cannot plan ahead and make decisions like eliminating a day of AP tests, there is a problem.

Why should all kids have to observe random days that are not predictable? That year they were going to eliminate a day of AP tests told me enough.

They were going to eliminate 2 AP test dsys.

The mistaken holiday and the correct holiday

Parents were furious so they backed down on the real holiday

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If FCPS created an honest survey, Christmas would have been on the federal holiday list and Ash Wednesday & the two Orthodox holidays would have been listed with the religious holidays, as well as decoupling Easter from spring break.

No, because the Orthodox holidays and Ash Wednesday were never days off for students. They are O days. The days that are holidays for students and staff (when they fall on school days) are Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Diwali, and the two Eids. Any other listed day is not automatically a day off for students. If it was, it was because they tried to kill two birds with one stone by placing a teacher workday during an O day.

So, if you get rid of the holidays as stated, it would only give you 5 days of school back. Everything else is required days for teacher planning or training.

Have you looked at the calendar?

The orthodox holidays and buddhist holidays, both celebrated by aroynd 1%-2% of FFX County were all off this year.

Teacher work days were slapped on top of them in a feeble attempt to justify the days off, but the days made zero sense for teacher work days. They were either completely random, or right after longer breaks. It was 100% obvious those teacher work days were just there to give religious holidays off.

The same goes for Ash Wednesday and especially chinese new year. At least All Saints Day/Day of the dead coincided with Halloween and the end of the quarter.

The FCPS school board must think their constituents are idiots if they think people didn't see through the fake random teacher workdays placed on obscure religious holidays.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those holidays that vary due to lunar issues need to be eliminated. Period.

God forbid respecting other major religions get in the way of your convenient calendar.

Ok, let's take these religious holidays and abolish all other days off.

You just can't be off every other day.

Exactly. At this point keep the holiday and get rid of the 4 federal
Holidays students have off- indigenous people, Veterans Day (done), MLK and Presidents’ Day. Take another teacher work day and we can end a week earlier next year.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those holidays that vary due to lunar issues need to be eliminated. Period.

God forbid respecting other major religions get in the way of your convenient calendar.

The people who observe those religions can have an excused day off. We don’t have to shut down the whole district for them.

So the Muslim kids, or Jewish kids, or Hindu kids are forced to miss out of all school activities (academics, sports, extra curriculars) for their 1-2 days a year, but the Christian kids get to enjoy full participation because the calendar is structurally built around their holidays?

Nah. Fairfax county is diverse, and if this is really that huge of an issue I’d suggest looking at a house out in Winchester.

They can be designated O days. If the religious celebration is that important, they can miss a couple of days of activities.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those holidays that vary due to lunar issues need to be eliminated. Period.

God forbid respecting other major religions get in the way of your convenient calendar.

The people who observe those religions can have an excused day off. We don’t have to shut down the whole district for them.

So the Muslim kids, or Jewish kids, or Hindu kids are forced to miss out of all school activities (academics, sports, extra curriculars) for their 1-2 days a year, but the Christian kids get to enjoy full participation because the calendar is structurally built around their holidays?

Nah. Fairfax county is diverse, and if this is really that huge of an issue I’d suggest looking at a house out in Winchester.

Christian kids don’t get all their holidays off. Winter break and spring break coincide with Christmas and Easter. That’s it.

Christmas is a federal holiday.
Easter is on Sunday: no school

And, we know ahead of time with they occur.

Schools have activities, etc, that have to be cancelled for random holidays. Sports activities, music concerts, drama ,etc. Making plans and then having to cancel because the moon changed is not helpful.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those holidays that vary due to lunar issues need to be eliminated. Period.

God forbid respecting other major religions get in the way of your convenient calendar.

The people who observe those religions can have an excused day off. We don’t have to shut down the whole district for them.

So the Muslim kids, or Jewish kids, or Hindu kids are forced to miss out of all school activities (academics, sports, extra curriculars) for their 1-2 days a year, but the Christian kids get to enjoy full participation because the calendar is structurally built around their holidays?

Nah. Fairfax county is diverse, and if this is really that huge of an issue I’d suggest looking at a house out in Winchester.

Christian kids don’t get all their holidays off. Winter break and spring break coincide with Christmas and Easter. That’s it.