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Anonymous
We could get rid of the Christian holidays like Easter. |
Anonymous
Especially Easter Monday... which isn't even a holiday. |
Anonymous
No they changed last Monday to "code red." MCPS staff weren't supposed to work. Today, I think was grading day. Anyway, MCPS is just going to add some stupid half days in June when teachers are done teaching. Don't you remember last year? They changed a full school day in June to a half day so they could get the required number of days, but teachers could still get non-instructional time. We had three half days in a row, and some schools were discouraging students from attending. |
Anonymous
Or we could just start 1 week earlier in August like Fairfax County does. Since MCPS seems to think it's optimal to include only 1 snow day in the year, that might be less disruptive than requiring kids to come in on a Sunday, or changing the state law that requires a holiday for Easter Monday. |
Anonymous
I agree with that as well. No religious holidays at all |
Anonymous
I'm Catholic and I don't even know why Easter Monday is a holiday. But that's a state issue, not on the county. |
Anonymous
| Federal holidays only. |
Anonymous
The group that MCPS is catering to is teachers. They require the non-instructional days. That they've scattered them onto Eid and Lunar New Year was just to make them more palatable so that people blame the Asians and Muslims for school being closed, when it would be closed anyway on a random Monday, because the teachers get those days off. |
Anonymous
So obvious. Yet, too practical for MCPS. They prefer to have fewer instructional days and this annual drama about snow days where they manage to unite everyone is their unhappiness about MCPS performance. |
Anonymous
But it also makes it that much harder to actually use them as the makeup days they're designated as. You've already seen the posters here cry equity at suggesting they use March 20 which MCPS has already indicated as a makeup day. |
Anonymous
| I can't understand why there are teachers who haven't finished grading yet. (My high schooler has a couple of big projects that haven't been graded.) What's the deal? They've had plenty of time! |
Anonymous
Procrastination... and claiming they're not paid enough to work on a day they get "off" |
Anonymous
There’s not fewer instructional days. 180 just like everyone else. Moco parents would lose their minds when if they found out other states have even less days required. Get a grip. |
Anonymous
Those are the incompetent ones. In my two kids' many years in MCPS, they each had one such teacher. My daughter's physics teacher in particular is... abysmal at teaching, and abysmal at grading, and just the worst teacher I have ever seen in my life. But since it's physics, they can't easily replace him. Thankfully my kids have had way more excellent teachers than incompetent ones. Some of them really go above and beyond. One of them, during the pandemic, held daily meetings with my kid with special needs and an IEP to help him through AP US Gov, and we were so grateful. |
Anonymous
I mean, I'm sorry to my Muslim friends, but you're never going to make 100% of people happy when you take away something that was planned. You make the best of a bad situation. I was pretty unhappy about those afterthought June days last year--my kids just watched videos. I would rather my kid get some more instructional time in March. |