When will makeup days be announced?

[Anonymous]

Taylor has to use the Makeup Days at this point, especially if he refuses to do virtual learning. When will those be announced? And do we think there's any chance he pulls back President's Day (since the state passed emergency waiver to use it), Lunar New Year, or Eid (March 20)?

[Anonymous]

This is the question. Closures are
done. So what will happen with makeups?

[Anonymous]

Will they please revisit next year’s calendar with one extra day again? Any chance?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will they please revisit next year’s calendar with one extra day again? Any chance?

No, too many days off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is the question. Closures are
done. So what will happen with makeups?

There’s still a whole lot of February and March to have more weather related closures. MCPS just looks like a teenager which hasn’t done their homework and isn’t well prepared to deal with the outcome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the question. Closures are
done. So what will happen with makeups?

There’s still a whole lot of February and March to have more weather related closures. MCPS just looks like a teenager which hasn’t done their homework and isn’t well prepared to deal with the outcome.

Especially when they thought they could reschedule the professional day for tomorrow but then discovered oh actually that wasn’t an option? I thought it was a creative idea but I guess the unions disagreed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the question. Closures are
done. So what will happen with makeups?

There’s still a whole lot of February and March to have more weather related closures. MCPS just looks like a teenager which hasn’t done their homework and isn’t well prepared to deal with the outcome.

Especially when they thought they could reschedule the professional day for tomorrow but then discovered oh actually that wasn’t an option? I thought it was a creative idea but I guess the unions disagreed?

Far easier for McPS to ask the state of Maryland for a waiver on providing 180 days of instruction. Better to shortchange the kids by 3 days rather than angering the unions.

[Anonymous]

Last year the makeup for the closure on January 8th was announced on January 24. The makeup for the February 12 closure was announced April 9th, but given that they had already skipped over the makeup days before the end of the year, it was pretty much for a foregone conclusion.

Hopefully they move faster this year and use the makeup days that are before June.

[Anonymous]

We're gonna need a lot of makeup days. I anticipate losing some days in spring break.

[Anonymous]

I hope spring break is not on the table. Can the county not get a waiver after 3 days?


I would personally vote for April 15, May 27, June 18. But I don’t think May 27 is even on the table.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope spring break is not on the table. Can the county not get a waiver after 3 days?


I would personally vote for April 15, May 27, June 18. But I don’t think May 27 is even on the table.

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/calendar/pdfs/2025/2025-26_TRADITIONAL_SchoolCalendar.pdf

Take a look at this calendar. The only days they can use are those with the double asterisk next to them. So that's March 20, April 15, June 18 & 22-26.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope spring break is not on the table. Can the county not get a waiver after 3 days?


I would personally vote for April 15, May 27, June 18. But I don’t think May 27 is even on the table.

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/calendar/pdfs/2025/2025-26_TRADITIONAL_SchoolCalendar.pdf

Take a look at this calendar. The only days they can use are those with the double asterisk next to them. So that's March 20, April 15, June 18 & 22-26.

Don’t we already have 4 snow days to makeup with two months of winter remaining? So we have march 20, April 15 and two useless half days in June where teachers play videos and schools encourage students not to attend.

It’s negligent that MCPS didn’t build more than one snow day into the calendar. It’s not like we don’t have days off for inclement weather every year.

And whatever lazy a** department who couldn’t be bothered to submit a virtual learning plan to MSDE so that we had options to educate our kids should be fired.

So many other school districts managed this storm much better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope spring break is not on the table. Can the county not get a waiver after 3 days?


I would personally vote for April 15, May 27, June 18. But I don’t think May 27 is even on the table.

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/calendar/pdfs/2025/2025-26_TRADITIONAL_SchoolCalendar.pdf

Take a look at this calendar. The only days they can use are those with the double asterisk next to them. So that's March 20, April 15, June 18 & 22-26.

Don’t we already have 4 snow days to makeup with two months of winter remaining? So we have march 20, April 15 and two useless half days in June where teachers play videos and schools encourage students not to attend.

It’s negligent that MCPS didn’t build more than one snow day into the calendar. It’s not like we don’t have days off for inclement weather every year.

And whatever lazy a** department who couldn’t be bothered to submit a virtual learning plan to MSDE so that we had options to educate our kids should be fired.

So many other school districts managed this storm much better.

I think only one snow day on the calendar was one of the sillier errors MCPS made. We should have had 4 days built in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope spring break is not on the table. Can the county not get a waiver after 3 days?


I would personally vote for April 15, May 27, June 18. But I don’t think May 27 is even on the table.

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/calendar/pdfs/2025/2025-26_TRADITIONAL_SchoolCalendar.pdf

Take a look at this calendar. The only days they can use are those with the double asterisk next to them. So that's March 20, April 15, June 18 & 22-26.

Don’t we already have 4 snow days to makeup with two months of winter remaining? So we have march 20, April 15 and two useless half days in June where teachers play videos and schools encourage students not to attend.

It’s negligent that MCPS didn’t build more than one snow day into the calendar. It’s not like we don’t have days off for inclement weather every year.

And whatever lazy a** department who couldn’t be bothered to submit a virtual learning plan to MSDE so that we had options to educate our kids should be fired.

So many other school districts managed this storm much better.

I think only one snow day on the calendar was one of the sillier errors MCPS made. We should have had 4 days built in.

But it’s easier to fail to plan and then ask Maryland to give a waiver so MCPS doesn’t have to teach the required number of days.

And it’s easier to not submit a virtual learning plan to the state like other school districts, because then you won’t have to make the effort and can sip cocoa at home while kids, half of whom are already not meeting basic standards for reading and writing proficiency, fall further and further behind.

[Anonymous]

There will be no make up days. This is an unusual situation and county will get a waiver. As will all the other counties in the DMV. It has happened in the past, in 2009.