Why is MCPS closed on Tuesday, February 17?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That’s the question.

More threads on this? Already several threads. One is:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1312335.page

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Anonymous wrote:Why would this be a holiday? Is this new? We are new to public school?

Maybe you should go back to private school. We take loads of religious and cultural holidays off here.

For a particular race of people? That is not the case. If so, we’d never go to school. When did this start?

So you support us going to school on Christmas Day? Sign me up!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why would this be a holiday? Is this new? We are new to public school?

Maybe you should go back to private school. We take loads of religious and cultural holidays off here.

For a particular race of people? That is not the case. If so, we’d never go to school. When did this start?

It's been the case for some years now. You can check prior calendars. The have Diwali, Eid al Fitr, Lunar New Year, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and days off around Easter and Christmas.

NP. I would prefer they NOT tie spring break to Easter. Our family spends Easter as a religious holiday, but my kids also want a nice spring break vacation and the two don't work well together. Easter is a Sunday so school is not cancelled for it. Christmas is over "winter break."

I think Spring Break is tied to Easter because that is also when Passover happens.

Spring break is tied to Easter because Maryland state law requires Good Friday and Easter Monday to be off from school, not because of Passover.

Spring break isn't required to be tied to Easter but is so they can save a day off due to 180 days being required.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why would this be a holiday? Is this new? We are new to public school?

Maybe you should go back to private school. We take loads of religious and cultural holidays off here.

For a particular race of people? That is not the case. If so, we’d never go to school. When did this start?

So you support us going to school on Christmas Day? Sign me up!!!

2 hour delay so kids can open presents first. We aren't monsters

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why would this be a holiday? Is this new? We are new to public school?

What, you think only you should get your personal set of holidays off but no one else should?

Kind of what happens when you move to a new country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always wonder why there is not a week off for mid-winter break. Is that just for states near skiing areas?

They would not be able to do that in MCPS without starting a week earlier. There are just too many single days off during the year.

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School could go later in June, that is how it is in New England.

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Anonymous wrote:I always wonder why there is not a week off for mid-winter break. Is that just for states near skiing areas?

They would not be able to do that in MCPS without starting a week earlier. There are just too many single days off during the year.

It would be great if McPS started earlier in August…but we have what we have.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I always wonder why there is not a week off for mid-winter break. Is that just for states near skiing areas?

They would not be able to do that in MCPS without starting a week earlier. There are just too many single days off during the year.

The places with Mid-Winter break do not have grading days after every quarter. The also tend to either have fewer single days off and/or a smaller requirement. Seattle, WA has a 2 week December winter break, a mid-winter February break AND a spring break in April but has NO other religious holidays off besides Christmas. Good Friday OR Easter Monday is only off either coincide with spring break (2nd full week of April).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I always wonder why there is not a week off for mid-winter break. Is that just for states near skiing areas?

They would not be able to do that in MCPS without starting a week earlier. There are just too many single days off during the year.

The places with Mid-Winter break do not have grading days after every quarter. The also tend to either have fewer single days off and/or a smaller requirement. Seattle, WA has a 2 week December winter break, a mid-winter February break AND a spring break in April but has NO other religious holidays off besides Christmas. Good Friday OR Easter Monday is only off either coincide with spring break (2nd full week of April).

In parts of New York they have this, but they also have a calendar that extends almost to the end of June, with 3-4 snow days built in ahead of time. MCPS has a lot of single teacher days scattered throughout the year, no snow days, and every year, it's so much drama about the calendar and school closures.

MCPS needs to prepare properly like other school districts.

[Anonymous]

I went to MCPS 30 years ago and we got off for Christmas and Easter, as well as Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah, but not Eid, Lunar New Year, or Diwali. But the demographics of MCPS were a lot different then.

It just means the school year ends later, like 6/17 this year. Our private ends on 6/4 and we started on 9/2. We usually head to the beach as soon as school ends since things aren't that crowded yet -- many kids are still in school.

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Anonymous wrote:That’s the question.

You know it was Lunar New Year or can google it. You are just a racist troll.

[Anonymous]

These are regularly scheduled "non-instructional" days that the school system is considerate enough to work to schedule around various cultural holidays when possible.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I always wonder why there is not a week off for mid-winter break. Is that just for states near skiing areas?

They would not be able to do that in MCPS without starting a week earlier. There are just too many single days off during the year.

It would be great if McPS started earlier in August…but we have what we have.

We’d still have to take off 17 different days to honor Jewish holidays.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That’s the question.

You know it was Lunar New Year or can google it. You are just a racist troll.

I googled it and it doesn’t come up, FU very much.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=what+date+is+february+17&t=iphone&ia=web