MCPS is closing Wed 11/24, day before Thanksgiving

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cool, so can Monday and Tuesday go back to being full days of school then?

Only if you want to cancel all of the parent teacher conferences?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Note that the proposed calendars for next year all have the same Thanksgiving week schedule with three half-days on Monday-Wednesday. Seems like this issue might occur again next year, and it might be worth noting that in comments to the Board about the calendar options if you don't want another last-minute decision made next year. See here for info and feedback options: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/calendar/proposed-calendar-2022-23.aspx

Do you think the sub situation will improve?

[Anonymous]

Because those conferences should happening right now, like they have every other year. These kids are basically getting a full week off of school. I thought they were really concerned about catching kids up from last year. That week is now a wash.

[Anonymous]

You can have two of the three:

Plenty of subs
Cheap subs
Decent subs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good. They have a lot of extremely unhappy employees right now and I am shuddering to think of what the resignation rate is going to be at the end of this year. They needed to do something to at least pay lip service to it. Other districts have been doing things like adding monthly half days or closing the entire week of Thanksgiving so this is not out of line.

Some aren't going to make it that far...

- teacher in her 15th year in MCPS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because those conferences should happening right now, like they have every other year. These kids are basically getting a full week off of school. I thought they were really concerned about catching kids up from last year. That week is now a wash.

Right now they should be more concerned with teacher burnout. It's real. And while other surrounding counties are doing things to accommodate the mental health and well-being of their teachers, MCPS is piling on more responsibility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because those conferences should happening right now, like they have every other year. These kids are basically getting a full week off of school. I thought they were really concerned about catching kids up from last year. That week is now a wash.

Last year the conferences were also the Monday and Tuesday before Thanksgiving.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because those conferences should happening right now, like they have every other year. These kids are basically getting a full week off of school. I thought they were really concerned about catching kids up from last year. That week is now a wash.

Right now they should be more concerned with teacher burnout. It's real. And while other surrounding counties are doing things to accommodate the mental health and well-being of their teachers, MCPS is piling on more responsibility.

They also need to be concerned about the learning loss issue from staying virtual for 9 months.

[Anonymous]

Interesting how most employers can deny leave if there's not enough coverage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because those conferences should happening right now, like they have every other year. These kids are basically getting a full week off of school. I thought they were really concerned about catching kids up from last year. That week is now a wash.

Nope. Conferences last year were also later than Veterans’ Day week.

[Anonymous]

Oh my bad, every other year the kids were actually in the schools.

2018-2019
November 12 Early release day for all students
November 13 Early release day for all students

2019-2020
November 11 and 12 Early release day for all students

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because those conferences should happening right now, like they have every other year. These kids are basically getting a full week off of school. I thought they were really concerned about catching kids up from last year. That week is now a wash.

Right now they should be more concerned with teacher burnout. It's real. And while other surrounding counties are doing things to accommodate the mental health and well-being of their teachers, MCPS is piling on more responsibility.

You know, while I agree that MCPS needs to be concerned about the mental health and well-being of their teachers, that's a little rich given neither they nor the teacher's unions gave a damn about the mental health and well-being of their *students* last year. "KIDS ARE RESILIENT!!!" "SCHOOL ISN'T DAYCARE!!!!"

No one who actually knows anything about kids and/or mental health is surprised right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because those conferences should happening right now, like they have every other year. These kids are basically getting a full week off of school. I thought they were really concerned about catching kids up from last year. That week is now a wash.

Right now they should be more concerned with teacher burnout. It's real. And while other surrounding counties are doing things to accommodate the mental health and well-being of their teachers, MCPS is piling on more responsibility.

They also need to be concerned about the learning loss issue from staying virtual for 9 months.

Ahhhhh learning loss....love to see how DCUM never changes.

Imagine how much learning loss there will be with the mass exodus of educators from the profession without qualified people to fill those positions? Who really wants to be a teacher right now when deciding on their future career? One need only look at the attitudes on this board to see it might not be worth it, no matter how much the students matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because those conferences should happening right now, like they have every other year. These kids are basically getting a full week off of school. I thought they were really concerned about catching kids up from last year. That week is now a wash.

Right now they should be more concerned with teacher burnout. It's real. And while other surrounding counties are doing things to accommodate the mental health and well-being of their teachers, MCPS is piling on more responsibility.

You know, while I agree that MCPS needs to be concerned about the mental health and well-being of their teachers, that's a little rich given neither they nor the teacher's unions gave a damn about the mental health and well-being of their *students* last year. "KIDS ARE RESILIENT!!!" "SCHOOL ISN'T DAYCARE!!!!"

No one who actually knows anything about kids and/or mental health is surprised right now.

So you know every teacher in MCPS, and you know in fact that none of them cared about their students' mental health? None of them made accommodations for their students because they care and realized we were living through a pandemic?

TF out of here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because those conferences should happening right now, like they have every other year. These kids are basically getting a full week off of school. I thought they were really concerned about catching kids up from last year. That week is now a wash.

Right now they should be more concerned with teacher burnout. It's real. And while other surrounding counties are doing things to accommodate the mental health and well-being of their teachers, MCPS is piling on more responsibility.

You know, while I agree that MCPS needs to be concerned about the mental health and well-being of their teachers, that's a little rich given neither they nor the teacher's unions gave a damn about the mental health and well-being of their *students* last year. "KIDS ARE RESILIENT!!!" "SCHOOL ISN'T DAYCARE!!!!"

No one who actually knows anything about kids and/or mental health is surprised right now.

So you know every teacher in MCPS, and you know in fact that none of them cared about their students' mental health? None of them made accommodations for their students because they care and realized we were living through a pandemic?

TF out of here.

I said teachers' unions, not every teacher in MCPS*. And if you think "accommodations" last year were some kind of benevolent gift to kids who were struggling remotely on their own, you're the one who needs to get out of here.

*teachers unions are made of teachers, of course, and I think it's disingenuous to keep insisting that teachers as a whole had nothing to do with the length of remote instruction. If the vast majority of them were that concerned about the students, why didn't they push to get back in classrooms sooner?