
Trustees approve instrumental days for 2025-2026
(Seguin) — Here’s one more thing to add to your fall calendar if you are a parent or guardian of a Seguin ISD student.
Look for students to be off an entire week during Fall Break Oct. 6-10. The week, which coincides with the start of the Guadalupe County Fair and PRCA Rodeo, will be the newest addition to the newly approved 2025-2026 school calendar.
Although the school calendar was approved by the Seguin ISD Board of Trustees, it was not unanimous. Voting against the calendar were Trustees William Dwyer, Lisa Burns and Josh Bright. Burns questioned the burden that it could create for many working families, especially here in Seguin, which is deemed as a manufacturing community.
During the meeting, Dwyer was unable to get a clear answer from district officials as to why the district committee in charge of coming up with the calendar proposed an entire Fall Break.
“Like Mrs. Burns said, what are we going to do with our children while we are going to work, and they are not at school? So, that’s definitely a problem for me and especially since there was no rationale in the question that I asked of why are we going to take a whole week off? I always appreciate participating in the fair and all that kind of stuff but at the same time, I wasn’t seeing a need for an entire week. But that’s why I voted against it,” said Dwyer.
Also, not clear in understanding the rationale for these days, Bright felt that perhaps the days could have been better scheduled – still giving time off to students and staff during the fall semester.
“I don’t feel that the Fall Break is necessary, and I also think that I liked the other calendar that I saw because it still had five days off, but it was like two days (Thursday, Friday) and then one day, (Monday) which is right around the fair. I think it’s great. I love the fact that we get a day off for the fair and then the fair and then maybe the Monday off because it’s a big weekend. But I don’t think the whole week leading up to the fair weekend we need off and I think a lot of the manufacturers that we have and a lot of the parents that we have in the community – that they didn’t vote for whatever reason — but when see the calendar and they see whole week off, that’s another whole week off they are going to have to take off from work or find childcare or pay for childcare for their children and you know there are people in the community who cannot afford to do any of those things. So, I just don’t think it was the best calendar for the community,” said Bright.
Although there was no clear reasoning on the night of the meeting, district officials later did state that the decision was based on “staff feedback, as well as the Guadalupe County Fair, in which Seguin ISD students and staff are involved.”
The adopted calendar was one of two drafts created in conjunction with the District Education Improvement Committee (DEIC). Both drafts were then voted on by the community from Dec. 18-Jan. 11. District officials say of the 1,121 survey respondents, 64 percent were in favor of the calendar that was approved by the board on Thursday.
The calendar, for the most part, maintains all the other traditional days off. Other important dates include the first day of school, Tuesday, Aug. 12; the last day of school, Friday, May 22, 2026, and Spring Break March 9-13, 2026.