Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:God, why on earth would they end school on a Wednesday? With the following week having Juneteenth? It's going to be impossible to find camp coverage those two weeks.

Why would camp be difficult during Juneteenth week?

Most camps don't start until a week AFTER school lets out, so in this case it would be a week and a half.

I don't see any reason why camps wouldn't start on June 17th.

Corbett-Sanders making a good point that the quarter-end teacher workdays and how the teachers should be left alone and not have to do any training those days.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:God, why on earth would they end school on a Wednesday? With the following week having Juneteenth? It's going to be impossible to find camp coverage those two weeks.

Why would camp be difficult during Juneteenth week?

Most camps don't start until a week AFTER school lets out, so in this case it would be a week and a half.

Anonymous wrote:What is the point of releasing four options, doing a survey, extending the survey, and then approving a completely different calendar????

You're new to FCPS, right?

If they can stack the PW (teacher professional work days) at the end of the year, doesn't that indicate that they aren't actually necessary, relevant or useful to teaching students? I mean, I'm glad they consolidated them at the end of the year, but it suggests they are not really useful.

Anonymous wrote:Is it over or still happening?

They are still talking.

Anonymous wrote:God, why on earth would they end school on a Wednesday? With the following week having Juneteenth? It's going to be impossible to find camp coverage those two weeks.

Why would camp be difficult during Juneteenth week?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:God, why on earth would they end school on a Wednesday? With the following week having Juneteenth? It's going to be impossible to find camp coverage those two weeks.

It ends on a Friday.

So is it not the blue amended calendar someone linked to? That has YE on a Wednesday. June 12th

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Anonymous wrote:Spring Break will be 11 days long.

Interesting.

but not the other years.

24/25 https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/CNW29S01214F/$file/2024-2025-standard-school-year-calendar-BLUE-DRAFT-AMENDED.pdf

25/26 https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/CNW29V0122C1/$file/2025-2026-standard-school-year-calendar-BLUE-DRAFT-AMENDED.pdf
this one has a week, then the next monday is workday, then 3 days of school, and then another workday. ludicrous.

I guess I don't have a problem with that. Easter is just way too late in 24/25 so they have two days after the QE a couple of weeks ahead. In 25/26, yeah, it'll be a three-day week but that isn't a huge deal.

Their hands are tied because they simply have too many teachers that live outside of Fairfax Co.

Anonymous wrote:May 3rd is a teacher workday.

It’s also an AP test day.

This was not considered.

I don't think the AP test dates for 2024 have been released yet.

What is the point of releasing four options, doing a survey, extending the survey, and then approving a completely different calendar????

Anonymous wrote:God, why on earth would they end school on a Wednesday? With the following week having Juneteenth? It's going to be impossible to find camp coverage those two weeks.

It ends on a Friday.

Is it over or still happening?

God, why on earth would they end school on a Wednesday? With the following week having Juneteenth? It's going to be impossible to find camp coverage those two weeks.

Anonymous wrote:What holidays are axed in this calendar?

They just messed around with the Quarter lengths in the Blue calendar. The TW that was supposed to be up against MLK day is moved to the end of Jan (Q2). The big change was moving up the end of Q3 ahead of Spring Break, which puts the two TWs after Spring Break making it 11 days.