Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) in Fairfax, Virginia, seems to be making things even more challenging for parents who are already stretched thin. The district’s proposed calendar for the 2026 to 2027 school year features many more days off than you would expect to see, leaving parents scrambling to figure out how to handle all the time their kids will be at home.
Being a parent isn’t easy under any circumstances, but having to coordinate your child’s school schedule with your work schedule and plan necessary childcare accordingly can get extremely complicated.
FCPS has added a lot of new holidays to the calendar that parents don’t know what to do with.…