President's Day makeup day?

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t mcps hold school over zoom this Wed and Thursday?

Lack of forewarning to families so some students don’t have a device at home.

We only knew this storm was coming for over a week ahead of time 🙄

DP. This would have had to be done at the school Board level. There would need to be an established plan after public comment.

This is from SY 225, but I don’t think anything has changed.

“The county school board may authorize the use of virtual education days in severe weather
conditions. Before this authorization is given to local school superintendents, the county school
board must discuss this topic at an open meeting and vote affirmatively on the authorization.
• The county school board shall publish the county’s plan for virtual education on the LEA’s
website.”

https://marylandpublicschools.org/stateboard/Documents/2024/0123/Virtual-Education-for-Severe-Weather-Conditions-2024-2025-School-Year.pdf

DCPS had asynchronous learning today Wednesday. They’re back in school tomorrow with a 2 hour delay opening? How is it that DCPS can plan for a storm and deploy virtual learning while we have MCPS which does nothing but send out stupid snow day videos by its superintendent.

DCPS also handles cell phones better than MCPS. They lock them away in pouches for the entire day which would make MCPS parents lose their minds

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t mcps hold school over zoom this Wed and Thursday?

Lack of forewarning to families so some students don’t have a device at home.

We only knew this storm was coming for over a week ahead of time 🙄

DP. This would have had to be done at the school Board level. There would need to be an established plan after public comment.

This is from SY 225, but I don’t think anything has changed.

“The county school board may authorize the use of virtual education days in severe weather
conditions. Before this authorization is given to local school superintendents, the county school
board must discuss this topic at an open meeting and vote affirmatively on the authorization.
• The county school board shall publish the county’s plan for virtual education on the LEA’s
website.”

https://marylandpublicschools.org/stateboard/Documents/2024/0123/Virtual-Education-for-Severe-Weather-Conditions-2024-2025-School-Year.pdf

BOE and Taylor are anti-virtual. They said because it didn't work for them it doesn't work for anyone which is why they didn't release the MVA data and were very secretative of how the program was doing. Virtual makes sense right now.

Well it looks like Anne Arundel and Baltimore County are pivoting to virtual tomorrow. I know some people don’t love virtual but would they rather go to school until the end of June? A day or two of virtual is sensible if they’re not going to put in enough snow days in the calendar. You can’t just hope it never snows. It always snows!

I'd rather they use the earlier make-up days, but even late June schools days are better than virtual. My kids don't have chromebooks or textbooks. There's no way we can do virtual without it doing more harm than good.

Late June days aren't better than anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We should really just shave Spring Break by a day or two if we really needed to

They could shave it by 1 day and just have the full week off but shaving part of that week off is as bad as the first full week of summer vacation.

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Anonymous wrote:If school gets extended in June and they don't use Juneteenth, but make us go into the following week, I think people will go NUTS!

Did you already forget last year? People are apparently fine with incompetence.

Last year still ended before Juneteenth even for teachers but this year is nearly a week longer. The students didn't come after June 13 but teachers had to come on June 16 and 17. This year extending the year by 2 or more days puts the year after Juneteenth because there were 3 more days off than last year.

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Anonymous wrote:If school gets extended in June and they don't use Juneteenth, but make us go into the following week, I think people will go NUTS!

Did you already forget last year? People are apparently fine with incompetence.

Last year still ended before Juneteenth even for teachers but this year is nearly a week longer. The students didn't come after June 13 but teachers had to come on June 16 and 17. This year extending the year by 2 or more days puts the year after Juneteenth because there were 3 more days off than last year.

The make up days at the end of last year were worthless. It will be even worse this year because no one is returning to school, after Juneteenth, on the 23-27 of June. People can complain all they want about how awful virtual learning is, but it's far superior to adding days to the end of the year.