Short Answer: When will schoool end?

[Anonymous]

Don't you all see the "if there are 6 snow days school will end on this date". "if there are 7 days school ends on this date." on the MCPS calendar???

You took a gamble on signing your kid up for a camp the second school gets done with no snow make-ups. The district should NOT change it and I want the make-ups. This winter has been a mess but the kids need the learning our taxes are paying for.

[Anonymous]

This. Agreed. The whole winter semester has been a debacle and way too much missed time due to days off and delayed openings. They should go the full extra week. Tough luck on camps.

[Anonymous]

They will apply for a waiver.

[Anonymous]

Updated memo:

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/press/index.aspx?page=showrelease&id=3485

[Anonymous]

Thanks for including the updated memo but it does not clarify anything, for example, why the school district would ask for a waiver. It should extend the school year as it has plans in place to do. No reason for a waiver at all.

[Anonymous]

Why fucking bother having the snow make-up days if they ask for a waiver EVERY year it goes over. I guess parents don't give a crap that their kid's education is less important than getting summer started for the employees.

[Anonymous]

I think the only MCPS parent that has input on the waiver is Dr Starr. No one has asked my opinion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the only MCPS parent that has input on the waiver is Dr Starr. No one has asked my opinion.

Do you always wait to offer an opinion until somebody has asked for it?

If you want MCPS to know your opinion, tell MCPS your opinion.

[Anonymous]

I hope they extend the school year too. But I think the reason they will ask for a waiver will be financial. If it isn't granted they will have to makes cuts elsewhere which no one will like.

[Anonymous]

Not sure what the financial costs would be. The main costs of running the schools are salaries that are already paid (teachers would not get extra money for teaching the snow day makeups since they did not teach during the snow days); buses were not run during the snow days and the buildings were closed. There might be some additional costs but they shouldn't be substantial unless I am missing something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure what the financial costs would be. The main costs of running the schools are salaries that are already paid (teachers would not get extra money for teaching the snow day makeups since they did not teach during the snow days); buses were not run during the snow days and the buildings were closed. There might be some additional costs but they shouldn't be substantial unless I am missing something.

You're missing the thousands of hourly employees (custodial staff, cafeteria staff, para educators, etc.) and the cost of air conditioning entire school buildings as opposed to just a wing or two. It would cost millions.

[Anonymous]

Don't understand -- wouldn't those costs have been saved when the schools were closed? I assume the hourly employees who did not work were not paid so the system would just be transferring the money saved to the new days, and the buildings would be air conditioned as opposed to heated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't understand -- wouldn't those costs have been saved when the schools were closed? I assume the hourly employees who did not work were not paid so the system would just be transferring the money saved to the new days, and the buildings would be air conditioned as opposed to heated.

Presumably the waiver application will explain MCPS's reasoning.

Right now everybody is just speculating.

[Anonymous]

There was an aritcle in the Post..there are extra costs. They do heat the schools to an extent even when there is no school (and fully when the admin foffices are open) and pay certain staff (maybe custodial?) Wish I could remember the details.