Short Spring Break

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They won’t do it because the teachers union would scream and they’re counting on the bill passing in the state legislature so they don’t have to extend the year.

I think more outrage would come from the parents than the teachers on this one

This. I am a teacher. Most of my friends are teachers. All my group chats agree we’d rather take from spring break than add in June. We hold zero power. Mcea is not what some imagine it to be.

[Anonymous]

I enjoy having a week off between winter break and the summer. Don’t shorten it.
Build more snow days into the calendar.

[Anonymous]

No one wants school in August or the end of June or when the sidewalks are not clear or when there is a religious holiday or when the calendar saud there would be no school. Something has to give.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think short spring would be worse than a few days less for summer. I’m a parent. I suspect many feel the same.

No, we don’t travel for spring break but we prepaid for expensive specialty camps that we cannot get our money back for and one kid has a job lined up. It’s only a spring break issue for the rich and privileged.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one wants school in August or the end of June or when the sidewalks are not clear or when there is a religious holiday or when the calendar saud there would be no school. Something has to give.

June is also an issue as not all schools have adequate ac.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They won’t do it because the teachers union would scream and they’re counting on the bill passing in the state legislature so they don’t have to extend the year.

I think more outrage would come from the parents than the teachers on this one

This. I am a teacher. Most of my friends are teachers. All my group chats agree we’d rather take from spring break than add in June. We hold zero power. Mcea is not what some imagine it to be.

Parents forget teachers work an extra few days packing up their classrooms and come in a week or two early (or more if they do sports/band or other things).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They won’t do it because the teachers union would scream and they’re counting on the bill passing in the state legislature so they don’t have to extend the year.

It’s parents they listen to, not the union. I saw a parent on Reddit say that cancelling part of Spring Break would harm the economy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They won’t do it because the teachers union would scream and they’re counting on the bill passing in the state legislature so they don’t have to extend the year.

I think more outrage would come from the parents than the teachers on this one

This. I am a teacher. Most of my friends are teachers. All my group chats agree we’d rather take from spring break than add in June. We hold zero power. Mcea is not what some imagine it to be.

+1

I only need Good Friday off and would take a personal day if I had to.

[Anonymous]

Note that the first 2 days of Passover (2 of the 4 important ones) occur during spring break this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My concern is that marking period will be over and AP exams will be over by original end of school year. What is the point of asking everyone to come to school for extended days? Satisfy whom and at what cost?

A. parents who want to “punish” teachers for having had snow days
B. parents who want their kids out of their house at all costs

C. $2 million

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think short spring would be worse than a few days less for summer. I’m a parent. I suspect many feel the same.

No, we don’t travel for spring break but we prepaid for expensive specialty camps that we cannot get our money back for and one kid has a job lined up. It’s only a spring break issue for the rich and privileged.

I said “many” and not “all” and didn’t try to speak for everyone. As a kid I never traveled for spring break and I still remember the year we lost spring break as really, really hard. I’ve traveled once with my kids that week as a parent (not planning to this year) and I still feel this way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My concern is that marking period will be over and AP exams will be over by original end of school year. What is the point of asking everyone to come to school for extended days? Satisfy whom and at what cost?

A. parents who want to “punish” teachers for having had snow days
B. parents who want their kids out of their house at all costs

C. $2 million

Totally agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My concern is that marking period will be over and AP exams will be over by original end of school year. What is the point of asking everyone to come to school for extended days? Satisfy whom and at what cost?

A. parents who want to “punish” teachers for having had snow days
B. parents who want their kids out of their house at all costs

C. $2 million

Totally agree.

That’s a pretty stupid set of options. Do you think the only students that matter or that exist in MCPS are the ones who take AP exams?

And in fact AP exams are in May, so they always are over well over the end of the school year.

It’s pretty sad to me that it doesn’t even occur to you that parents might actually care about students having instructional time to their kids can learn.

I hope you’re not a teacher because you shouldn’t be near kids with that level of brain power and bad attitude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My concern is that marking period will be over and AP exams will be over by original end of school year. What is the point of asking everyone to come to school for extended days? Satisfy whom and at what cost?

A. parents who want to “punish” teachers for having had snow days
B. parents who want their kids out of their house at all costs

C. $2 million

Totally agree.

That’s a pretty stupid set of options. Do you think the only students that matter or that exist in MCPS are the ones who take AP exams?

And in fact AP exams are in May, so they always are over well over the end of the school year.

It’s pretty sad to me that it doesn’t even occur to you that parents might actually care about students having instructional time to their kids can learn.

I hope you’re not a teacher because you shouldn’t be near kids with that level of brain power and bad attitude.

Tell me with all your big brains what kids will learn in the last 2 days of school.

[Anonymous]

If we could do “asynchronous” days during Covid where kids basically did nothing on Wednesdays and we called it school, why can’t we do the same over break or other days off and shave some time off the end of the year?