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Anonymous wrote:Didn’t APS pass a broad policy about developing calendars and say they would do 2 weeks at every Christmas holiday? A couple years ago.

Indeed they did. There was a whole big assessment with “stakeholder input” over months. Everyone was focused on the start date and somehow APS didn’t mention that they would keep kids in school until the end of June. Latest start to summer in the nation. And yes, two full weeks for winter. What is this 2026/27 nonsense?

Remember when they solicited all those comments and they were all so negative and instead of listening to to any of it they just shit canned the whole thing

And the survey very intentionally didn’t ask anyone’s opinion on keeping or eliminating the newly added religious holidays (nor federal holidays). It basically just asked about start date and how long winter break should last. They didn’t want to hear what people really thought or do anything about it.

+100 !

Yes, very intentionally they didn’t tell us that due to the newly added religious days we would now be the last in the nation to start summer despite beginning two whole weeks earlier than previous years.

APS has made a school calendar so unworkable for families that it reduces treating attendance as required.

This definitely seems true. Attendance has been a bigger issue since this calendar has been adopted.

That is true at my school. We have devalued regular attendance with all the added days off and early releases. For the first time in my career I am taking a frivolous vacation in the middle of the year. I think the added days off and early release dates are actually making teacher burnout worse, because we can't get into a good rhythm. The PD they have us do on early release could not be more useless most of the time.

Anonymous wrote:APS is single-handedly undoing the feminist movement week by week. Parents have to find additional childcare every single week. We're just back from a two week break and they have a half day already, a day off next week, and another the week after. How is anyone supposed to work

Then tell your husband to split them with you.

We are not even 10 school days into the new year and it's a 1/2 day two days before a 3-day weekend? Idiocy.

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Anonymous wrote:Didn’t APS pass a broad policy about developing calendars and say they would do 2 weeks at every Christmas holiday? A couple years ago.

Indeed they did. There was a whole big assessment with “stakeholder input” over months. Everyone was focused on the start date and somehow APS didn’t mention that they would keep kids in school until the end of June. Latest start to summer in the nation. And yes, two full weeks for winter. What is this 2026/27 nonsense?

Remember when they solicited all those comments and they were all so negative and instead of listening to to any of it they just shit canned the whole thing

And the survey very intentionally didn’t ask anyone’s opinion on keeping or eliminating the newly added religious holidays (nor federal holidays). It basically just asked about start date and how long winter break should last. They didn’t want to hear what people really thought or do anything about it.

+100 !

Yes, very intentionally they didn’t tell us that due to the newly added religious days we would now be the last in the nation to start summer despite beginning two whole weeks earlier than previous years.

APS has made a school calendar so unworkable for families that it reduces treating attendance as required.

This definitely seems true. Attendance has been a bigger issue since this calendar has been adopted.

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Anonymous wrote:APS is single-handedly undoing the feminist movement week by week. Parents have to find additional childcare every single week. We're just back from a two week break and they have a half day already, a day off next week, and another the week after. How is anyone supposed to work

In fairness to APS, MLK Day, Winter Break, and teacher workdays are pretty standard.

It's these on top of all the other days. The calendar has more holes than swiss cheese.

Anonymous wrote:APS is single-handedly undoing the feminist movement week by week. Parents have to find additional childcare every single week. We're just back from a two week break and they have a half day already, a day off next week, and another the week after. How is anyone supposed to work

In fairness to APS, MLK Day, Winter Break, and teacher workdays are pretty standard.

APS is single-handedly undoing the feminist movement week by week. Parents have to find additional childcare every single week. We're just back from a two week break and they have a half day already, a day off next week, and another the week after. How is anyone supposed to work

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Anonymous wrote:Didn’t APS pass a broad policy about developing calendars and say they would do 2 weeks at every Christmas holiday? A couple years ago.

Indeed they did. There was a whole big assessment with “stakeholder input” over months. Everyone was focused on the start date and somehow APS didn’t mention that they would keep kids in school until the end of June. Latest start to summer in the nation. And yes, two full weeks for winter. What is this 2026/27 nonsense?

Remember when they solicited all those comments and they were all so negative and instead of listening to to any of it they just shit canned the whole thing

And the survey very intentionally didn’t ask anyone’s opinion on keeping or eliminating the newly added religious holidays (nor federal holidays). It basically just asked about start date and how long winter break should last. They didn’t want to hear what people really thought or do anything about it.

+100 !

Yes, very intentionally they didn’t tell us that due to the newly added religious days we would now be the last in the nation to start summer despite beginning two whole weeks earlier than previous years.

I am no fan of the calendar but we are definitely not the last in the nation to finish. NYC finishes June 26(!) https://pwsblobprd.schools.nyc/prd-pws/docs/default-source/default-document-library/school-year-2025-26-calendar.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:Didn’t APS pass a broad policy about developing calendars and say they would do 2 weeks at every Christmas holiday? A couple years ago.

Indeed they did. There was a whole big assessment with “stakeholder input” over months. Everyone was focused on the start date and somehow APS didn’t mention that they would keep kids in school until the end of June. Latest start to summer in the nation. And yes, two full weeks for winter. What is this 2026/27 nonsense?

Remember when they solicited all those comments and they were all so negative and instead of listening to to any of it they just shit canned the whole thing

And the survey very intentionally didn’t ask anyone’s opinion on keeping or eliminating the newly added religious holidays (nor federal holidays). It basically just asked about start date and how long winter break should last. They didn’t want to hear what people really thought or do anything about it.

+100 !

Yes, very intentionally they didn’t tell us that due to the newly added religious days we would now be the last in the nation to start summer despite beginning two whole weeks earlier than previous years.

APS has made a school calendar so unworkable for families that it reduces treating attendance as required.

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Anonymous wrote:Didn’t APS pass a broad policy about developing calendars and say they would do 2 weeks at every Christmas holiday? A couple years ago.

Indeed they did. There was a whole big assessment with “stakeholder input” over months. Everyone was focused on the start date and somehow APS didn’t mention that they would keep kids in school until the end of June. Latest start to summer in the nation. And yes, two full weeks for winter. What is this 2026/27 nonsense?

Remember when they solicited all those comments and they were all so negative and instead of listening to to any of it they just shit canned the whole thing

And the survey very intentionally didn’t ask anyone’s opinion on keeping or eliminating the newly added religious holidays (nor federal holidays). It basically just asked about start date and how long winter break should last. They didn’t want to hear what people really thought or do anything about it.

+100 !

Yes, very intentionally they didn’t tell us that due to the newly added religious days we would now be the last in the nation to start summer despite beginning two whole weeks earlier than previous years.

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Anonymous wrote:Didn’t APS pass a broad policy about developing calendars and say they would do 2 weeks at every Christmas holiday? A couple years ago.

Indeed they did. There was a whole big assessment with “stakeholder input” over months. Everyone was focused on the start date and somehow APS didn’t mention that they would keep kids in school until the end of June. Latest start to summer in the nation. And yes, two full weeks for winter. What is this 2026/27 nonsense?

Remember when they solicited all those comments and they were all so negative and instead of listening to to any of it they just shit canned the whole thing

And the survey very intentionally didn’t ask anyone’s opinion on keeping or eliminating the newly added religious holidays (nor federal holidays). It basically just asked about start date and how long winter break should last. They didn’t want to hear what people really thought or do anything about it.

It was classic APS. Now they’ve committed to a two week winter break, except for next year when they didn’t.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Didn’t APS pass a broad policy about developing calendars and say they would do 2 weeks at every Christmas holiday? A couple years ago.

Indeed they did. There was a whole big assessment with “stakeholder input” over months. Everyone was focused on the start date and somehow APS didn’t mention that they would keep kids in school until the end of June. Latest start to summer in the nation. And yes, two full weeks for winter. What is this 2026/27 nonsense?

Remember when they solicited all those comments and they were all so negative and instead of listening to to any of it they just shit canned the whole thing

And the survey very intentionally didn’t ask anyone’s opinion on keeping or eliminating the newly added religious holidays (nor federal holidays). It basically just asked about start date and how long winter break should last. They didn’t want to hear what people really thought or do anything about it.

It was classic APS. Now they’ve committed to a two week winter break, except for next year when they didn’t.

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Anonymous wrote:Didn’t APS pass a broad policy about developing calendars and say they would do 2 weeks at every Christmas holiday? A couple years ago.

Indeed they did. There was a whole big assessment with “stakeholder input” over months. Everyone was focused on the start date and somehow APS didn’t mention that they would keep kids in school until the end of June. Latest start to summer in the nation. And yes, two full weeks for winter. What is this 2026/27 nonsense?

Remember when they solicited all those comments and they were all so negative and instead of listening to to any of it they just shit canned the whole thing

And the survey very intentionally didn’t ask anyone’s opinion on keeping or eliminating the newly added religious holidays (nor federal holidays). It basically just asked about start date and how long winter break should last. They didn’t want to hear what people really thought or do anything about it.

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Anonymous wrote:They either need to come off the 180 day commitment or eliminate holidays — don’t care if religious or Columbus Day or whatever. Something has to give. The calendar is out of control. We’ve gotten nothing out of moving up a week. They just added more days off. All the nonsense about more instructional days before AP exams was just a scam to put in the religious holidays.

+1000

This is the worst one yet since we’ve had all the changes.

The 180 days is thanks to APE. That's what they lobbied for and APS caved to them.

Do you think fewer days is better?

DP. I think that when we just made the school day longer a few years ago, and when we have so many extra hours that we could have 13 snow days without dropping below state requirements, then yes. We could have fewer days, or get out a week earlier if we don’t use the snow days. The requirement is 990 hours OR 180 days, not both.

It depends how they are used. More days just for the sake of more days is silly. Like two random days the week of christmas that are going to be wasted with half the kids absent. Or too many days at the end of the year after the tests are done.

+1. If it’s just to check off a box or babysitting, it’s awful. I’m super annoyed by things like 3 early release days in a row, yet I’m stuck here and we cannot leave town until the end of June while they are watching TV every day. And what about the 12 unused snow days every year?

yes! great example. those multiple early release days were the worst. so clearly just to satisfy the 180 day requirement and those obnoxious loudmouth ape's!

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Anonymous wrote:Didn’t APS pass a broad policy about developing calendars and say they would do 2 weeks at every Christmas holiday? A couple years ago.

Indeed they did. There was a whole big assessment with “stakeholder input” over months. Everyone was focused on the start date and somehow APS didn’t mention that they would keep kids in school until the end of June. Latest start to summer in the nation. And yes, two full weeks for winter. What is this 2026/27 nonsense?

Remember when they solicited all those comments and they were all so negative and instead of listening to to any of it they just shit canned the whole thing