Place your bets… March 20

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Anonymous wrote:According to the school calendar, March 20 (which is a professional development day for teachers) is marked as a contingency day for snow. Place your bets on whether MCPS uses that as a learning day….

I really wish they would. But bet the chances are slim to none….

Thanks for wishing away our holiday

Take your holiday. But let the rest of students who aren’t celebrating go to school and not have their summer taken away.

The effect is we have to decide between missing learning and scrambling to make up assignments when we take our holiday or not having our holiday. That’s effectively systemic discrimination.

What MCPS is learning is there is no reasonable way to close for every religious holiday and account for snow and still close by a reasonable date in the summer. I’m all for striking all — Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu — holidays from the calendar all together. Give a few days at the end of each term and be done with it…

State law requires schools close on Christian holidays and on the days adjacent to Christian holidays.

Just some. Orthodox Easter and Good Friday are ignored.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:According to the school calendar, March 20 (which is a professional development day for teachers) is marked as a contingency day for snow. Place your bets on whether MCPS uses that as a learning day….

I really wish they would. But bet the chances are slim to none….

Thanks for wishing away our holiday

Take your holiday. But let the rest of students who aren’t celebrating go to school and not have their summer taken away.

The effect is we have to decide between missing learning and scrambling to make up assignments when we take our holiday or not having our holiday. That’s effectively systemic discrimination.

What MCPS is learning is there is no reasonable way to close for every religious holiday and account for snow and still close by a reasonable date in the summer. I’m all for striking all — Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu — holidays from the calendar all together. Give a few days at the end of each term and be done with it…

State law requires schools close on Christian holidays and on the days adjacent to Christian holidays.

Just some. Orthodox Easter and Good Friday are ignored.

Good Friday is required by the state.

[Anonymous]

In the past, MCPS used the days at the end of the year first as make-up days. Not sure what Thomas Taylor will do.

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Anonymous wrote:According to the school calendar, March 20 (which is a professional development day for teachers) is marked as a contingency day for snow. Place your bets on whether MCPS uses that as a learning day….

I really wish they would. But bet the chances are slim to none….

Thanks for wishing away our holiday

Take your holiday. But let the rest of students who aren’t celebrating go to school and not have their summer taken away.

The effect is we have to decide between missing learning and scrambling to make up assignments when we take our holiday or not having our holiday. That’s effectively systemic discrimination.

What MCPS is learning is there is no reasonable way to close for every religious holiday and account for snow and still close by a reasonable date in the summer. I’m all for striking all — Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu — holidays from the calendar all together. Give a few days at the end of each term and be done with it…

State law requires schools close on Christian holidays and on the days adjacent to Christian holidays.

Just some. Orthodox Easter and Good Friday are ignored.

Good Friday is required by the state.

Orthodox Good Friday is ignored.

[Anonymous]

Realistically, all instruction will done and graded assignments will be submitted by the original last day of school, if not before. So if they extend the school year, like last year, even the teachers will encourage the kids to stay home because they won't be teaching anything. And if you want to send your kids, great. Just don't expect much education on those days. I never plan anything for that week anyway for this reason and somehow, it all works out.

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Anonymous wrote:According to the school calendar, March 20 (which is a professional development day for teachers) is marked as a contingency day for snow. Place your bets on whether MCPS uses that as a learning day….

I really wish they would. But bet the chances are slim to none….

Thanks for wishing away our holiday

Take your holiday. But let the rest of students who aren’t celebrating go to school and not have their summer taken away.

The effect is we have to decide between missing learning and scrambling to make up assignments when we take our holiday or not having our holiday. That’s effectively systemic discrimination.

What MCPS is learning is there is no reasonable way to close for every religious holiday and account for snow and still close by a reasonable date in the summer. I’m all for striking all — Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu — holidays from the calendar all together. Give a few days at the end of each term and be done with it…

State law requires schools close on Christian holidays and on the days adjacent to Christian holidays.

Just some. Orthodox Easter and Good Friday are ignored.

Good Friday is required by the state.

Orthodox Good Friday is ignored.

Ohhh, duh that’s what you meant. ☺️

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Realistically, all instruction will done and graded assignments will be submitted by the original last day of school, if not before. So if they extend the school year, like last year, even the teachers will encourage the kids to stay home because they won't be teaching anything. And if you want to send your kids, great. Just don't expect much education on those days. I never plan anything for that week anyway for this reason and somehow, it all works out.

We already have camp booked. MCPS needs to use March 20 and April 15....

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Realistically, all instruction will done and graded assignments will be submitted by the original last day of school, if not before. So if they extend the school year, like last year, even the teachers will encourage the kids to stay home because they won't be teaching anything. And if you want to send your kids, great. Just don't expect much education on those days. I never plan anything for that week anyway for this reason and somehow, it all works out.

We already have camp booked. MCPS needs to use March 20 and April 15....

That's my point. Send them to camp. It won't matter. Anything they need to be in school for will be done and submitted by June 17. June 19 at the latest.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Realistically, all instruction will done and graded assignments will be submitted by the original last day of school, if not before. So if they extend the school year, like last year, even the teachers will encourage the kids to stay home because they won't be teaching anything. And if you want to send your kids, great. Just don't expect much education on those days. I never plan anything for that week anyway for this reason and somehow, it all works out.

We already have camp booked. MCPS needs to use March 20 and April 15....

That's my point. Send them to camp. It won't matter. Anything they need to be in school for will be done and submitted by June 17. June 19 at the latest.

Right. Not arguing with you at all... its all just theatrics. I'd rather have days where my kid might actually learn something...

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Anonymous wrote:Definitely should but questionable if they will because of Eid.

Why bother having contingency days if there's always some reason not to use them when we need them?

Exactly. They aren’t real if they won’t be used.

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Anonymous wrote:According to the school calendar, March 20 (which is a professional development day for teachers) is marked as a contingency day for snow. Place your bets on whether MCPS uses that as a learning day….

I really wish they would. But bet the chances are slim to none….

Thanks for wishing away our holiday

Take your holiday. But let the rest of students who aren’t celebrating go to school and not have their summer taken away.

The effect is we have to decide between missing learning and scrambling to make up assignments when we take our holiday or not having our holiday. That’s effectively systemic discrimination.

What MCPS is learning is there is no reasonable way to close for every religious holiday and account for snow and still close by a reasonable date in the summer. I’m all for striking all — Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu — holidays from the calendar all together. Give a few days at the end of each term and be done with it…

State law requires schools close on Christian holidays and on the days adjacent to Christian holidays.

Just some. Orthodox Easter and Good Friday are ignored.

Good Friday is required by the state.

As the made-up holiday of “Easter Monday.”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to the school calendar, March 20 (which is a professional development day for teachers) is marked as a contingency day for snow. Place your bets on whether MCPS uses that as a learning day….

I really wish they would. But bet the chances are slim to none….

Thanks for wishing away our holiday

Take your holiday. But let the rest of students who aren’t celebrating go to school and not have their summer taken away.

The effect is we have to decide between missing learning and scrambling to make up assignments when we take our holiday or not having our holiday. That’s effectively systemic discrimination.

What MCPS is learning is there is no reasonable way to close for every religious holiday and account for snow and still close by a reasonable date in the summer. I’m all for striking all — Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu — holidays from the calendar all together. Give a few days at the end of each term and be done with it…

State law requires schools close on Christian holidays and on the days adjacent to Christian holidays.

Just some. Orthodox Easter and Good Friday are ignored.

Good Friday is required by the state.

As the made-up holiday of “Easter Monday.”

The language the state uses is "The Friday before Easter and from then through the Monday after Easter."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCEA would never let him do that.

Why does MCEA have any say? The established calendar has a contingency day there, so if the school system decides it needs that, get into the classroom.

[Anonymous]

Now that there will be 4-5 snow days, they have to use the contingency days. Otherwise kids will be in school until almost July.

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Anonymous wrote:According to the school calendar, March 20 (which is a professional development day for teachers) is marked as a contingency day for snow. Place your bets on whether MCPS uses that as a learning day….

I really wish they would. But bet the chances are slim to none….

Thanks for wishing away our holiday

Take your holiday. But let the rest of students who aren’t celebrating go to school and not have their summer taken away.

The effect is we have to decide between missing learning and scrambling to make up assignments when we take our holiday or not having our holiday. That’s effectively systemic discrimination.

What MCPS is learning is there is no reasonable way to close for every religious holiday and account for snow and still close by a reasonable date in the summer. I’m all for striking all — Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu — holidays from the calendar all together. Give a few days at the end of each term and be done with it…

State law requires schools close on Christian holidays and on the days adjacent to Christian holidays.

Just some. Orthodox Easter and Good Friday are ignored.

Good Friday is required by the state.

As the made-up holiday of “Easter Monday.”

The language the state uses is "The Friday before Easter and from then through the Monday after Easter."

Not applied to Orthodox Easter which is also Easter