Where is the limit??

[Anonymous]

Where does it stop? What is the cap for when it is too late in the summer for MCPS to add makeup days? Will my kiddo be sitting in algebra 2 on the thirteenth of August?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where does it stop? What is the cap for when it is too late in the summer for MCPS to add makeup days? Will my kiddo be sitting in algebra 2 on the thirteenth of August?

I guess the limit is winter is not forever, so there can only be so many snow days to make up.

Bigger problem is that next year's calendar sets up the county for the same potential problem.

[Anonymous]

Teachers contracts end on a certain date. 6/30?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where does it stop? What is the cap for when it is too late in the summer for MCPS to add makeup days? Will my kiddo be sitting in algebra 2 on the thirteenth of August?

The approved calendar allows makeup dates through Friday June 26. That is the limit. If it is too late for you, please tell the Board of Ed that when the calendar is initially being approved. No one bothers to testify on these things when the decisions are actually being made, and just complain later.

[Anonymous]

if the school year goes too late for your liking, you don’t have to send your kids. they won’t be missing anything. i promise.

[Anonymous]

Teachers don’t want to work the June make up days when the “contingency days” aren’t even being used.
Don’t put out contingency days if you don’t actually intend to use them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where does it stop? What is the cap for when it is too late in the summer for MCPS to add makeup days? Will my kiddo be sitting in algebra 2 on the thirteenth of August?

The approved calendar allows makeup dates through Friday June 26. That is the limit. If it is too late for you, please tell the Board of Ed that when the calendar is initially being approved. No one bothers to testify on these things when the decisions are actually being made, and just complain later.

A lot of people (including in this thread) are actually noting right now that this will likely be an issue next year as well, with a single snow day also being planned and contingency days that are either too early or that MCPS will probably not use.

[Anonymous]

OP,

Can you get it through your thick, thick head, that there will not be instruction during those extra days?

Your kid will not be sitting in Algebra. Your kid will have childcare. Most teachers will very likely allow everyone to get their phones.

You don't need to get angry about this. This is what MCPS has done forever. Just proceed with your summer plans as usual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP,

Can you get it through your thick, thick head, that there will not be instruction during those extra days?

Your kid will not be sitting in Algebra. Your kid will have childcare. Most teachers will very likely allow everyone to get their phones.

You don't need to get angry about this. This is what MCPS has done forever. Just proceed with your summer plans as usual.

I think they should just cancel the extra days. They’re the toppings on a sundae that no one wants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:if the school year goes too late for your liking, you don’t have to send your kids. they won’t be missing anything. i promise.

Why don't you put your name and email here, and we'll have MCPS call you when kids are marked with too many absences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where does it stop? What is the cap for when it is too late in the summer for MCPS to add makeup days? Will my kiddo be sitting in algebra 2 on the thirteenth of August?

The approved calendar allows makeup dates through Friday June 26. That is the limit. If it is too late for you, please tell the Board of Ed that when the calendar is initially being approved. No one bothers to testify on these things when the decisions are actually being made, and just complain later.

Yup. People complain about many issues but the calendar and school dates should not be one of them as there are many times they can give input /complete survey. Mcps needs to revise next year's school calendar asap so not to have more discussions next school year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP,

Can you get it through your thick, thick head, that there will not be instruction during those extra days?

Your kid will not be sitting in Algebra. Your kid will have childcare. Most teachers will very likely allow everyone to get their phones.

You don't need to get angry about this. This is what MCPS has done forever. Just proceed with your summer plans as usual.

You sound both stupid and obnoxious. A dangerous combination. My kids went to the extra June days and they did in fact learn. Many teachers are professionals. You don't sound like one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP,

Can you get it through your thick, thick head, that there will not be instruction during those extra days?

Your kid will not be sitting in Algebra. Your kid will have childcare. Most teachers will very likely allow everyone to get their phones.

You don't need to get angry about this. This is what MCPS has done forever. Just proceed with your summer plans as usual.

You sound both stupid and obnoxious. A dangerous combination. My kids went to the extra June days and they did in fact learn. Many teachers are professionals. You don't sound like one.

PP you replied to. I'm a parent, not a teacher, and my kids are in college and high school. My kids have spent their K-12 in MCPS, and we can all attest that there is usually no meaningful instruction during extra days. No one is going to curtail vacation or camp for a few hours of extra algebra, and if those extra hours somehow change your kids' lives, then you were doing something wrong to begin with.

So all this discussion is ENTIRELY MOOT.

[Anonymous]

The only reason to be mad is that taxpayer money is being used to pay for extra days that hardly anyone is going to use, because they already have plans, in which there's going to be no instruction whatsoever.

It's a huge waste of resources.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP,

Can you get it through your thick, thick head, that there will not be instruction during those extra days?

Your kid will not be sitting in Algebra. Your kid will have childcare. Most teachers will very likely allow everyone to get their phones.

You don't need to get angry about this. This is what MCPS has done forever. Just proceed with your summer plans as usual.

You sound both stupid and obnoxious. A dangerous combination. My kids went to the extra June days and they did in fact learn. Many teachers are professionals. You don't sound like one.

PP you replied to. I'm a parent, not a teacher, and my kids are in college and high school. My kids have spent their K-12 in MCPS, and we can all attest that there is usually no meaningful instruction during extra days. No one is going to curtail vacation or camp for a few hours of extra algebra, and if those extra hours somehow change your kids' lives, then you were doing something wrong to begin with.

So all this discussion is ENTIRELY MOOT.

What evidence do you have of this? Do you have magical powers that put you in every classroom, watching every teacher on those June half days last year? Just because you put your words in ALL CAPS, doesn't make you any less IGNORANT.