The legislature may end up reverting the makeup days...

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Anonymous wrote:The email adding April 15 was intentionally vague because they’re counting on this bill passing. They won’t officially say anything until the outcome is clear

There was nothing vague about the email. it clearly said school ends June 26

Although that won't be the case if they go April 15 and there's no more missed days. April 15 is a new add on, which should take the calendar back to June 25.....

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Y'all underestimate the power of the teacher's union. If their union is telling folks the last day will be June 18, then I believe it. Why would they put that out there to over 10,000 teachers if they didn't already know this to be true?

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Anonymous wrote:The email adding April 15 was intentionally vague because they’re counting on this bill passing. They won’t officially say anything until the outcome is clear

There was nothing vague about the email. it clearly said school ends June 26

Although that won't be the case if they go April 15 and there's no more missed days. April 15 is a new add on, which should take the calendar back to June 25.....

For heavens sake.

The News

We are making the following calendar adjustments now:

April 15, previously scheduled as a non-instructional day for teacher grading and planning at the end of the marking period, will now be an early-release day for students.

Impact on the Last Day of School
As you know, this winter’s severe weather forced us to close schools several times. Under current Maryland regulations, those missed days have to be made up either through designated make-up days in the calendar and, if necessary, by extending the school year. That is why we recently announced that our calendar had been adjusted to add days to the end of our school year, setting the last day of school to June 26.

June 26 includes having the Apr 15 make up day

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Wouldn’t MCPS be able to end 6/18 if they just made 1 of the Eid holidays a half day?

But they’re not willing to do that so teachers have to start their summer 8 days later??

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Anonymous wrote:Y'all underestimate the power of the teacher's union. If their union is telling folks the last day will be June 18, then I believe it. Why would they put that out there to over 10,000 teachers if they didn't already know this to be true?

To try to force the outcome that they want.

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Anonymous wrote:Wouldn’t MCPS be able to end 6/18 if they just made 1 of the Eid holidays a half day?

But they’re not willing to do that so teachers have to start their summer 8 days later??

Are teachers going to pay back the district for the contract days not worked?

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Anonymous wrote:The email adding April 15 was intentionally vague because they’re counting on this bill passing. They won’t officially say anything until the outcome is clear

There was nothing vague about the email. it clearly said school ends June 26

As much as I don’t want to go until June 26th, mcps should have some consequences for their stupidity and lack of planning.

But the consequences are on us. Do they really care about wasting 2 million dollars per day from tax dollars? Elrich is already calling for a 6% property tax hike.

The "consequences" are school days? I'm good with that.

No, the consequences are more taxes. You and me are paying for this stupidity and MCPS will not change a thing

You're saying it costs money to operate a public school system? Maybe we should just close the whole system down permanently!

For a meaningless week of school which doesn’t teach a thing? They’d be lucky to have 30% students showing up.

My kids had full classes last year.

Last year didn’t go to the last week of June.

You're grossly overestimating how much that matters. It sounds like you're a staff member that doesn't want to work.

No I’m a parent who already booked flight tickets and don’t want to miss school and trigger chronic absenteeism. We already missed 10+ days (most excused)

Unlikely, but if so, you should be prioritizing education more.

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Anonymous wrote:Wouldn’t MCPS be able to end 6/18 if they just made 1 of the Eid holidays a half day?

But they’re not willing to do that so teachers have to start their summer 8 days later??

Are teachers going to pay back the district for the contract days not worked?

Just reduce one of the bi-weekly payments to get that money back.

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Anonymous wrote:The email adding April 15 was intentionally vague because they’re counting on this bill passing. They won’t officially say anything until the outcome is clear

There was nothing vague about the email. it clearly said school ends June 26

As much as I don’t want to go until June 26th, mcps should have some consequences for their stupidity and lack of planning.

But the consequences are on us. Do they really care about wasting 2 million dollars per day from tax dollars? Elrich is already calling for a 6% property tax hike.

The "consequences" are school days? I'm good with that.

No, the consequences are more taxes. You and me are paying for this stupidity and MCPS will not change a thing

You're saying it costs money to operate a public school system? Maybe we should just close the whole system down permanently!

For a meaningless week of school which doesn’t teach a thing? They’d be lucky to have 30% students showing up.

My kids had full classes last year.

Last year didn’t go to the last week of June.

You're grossly overestimating how much that matters. It sounds like you're a staff member that doesn't want to work.

No I’m a parent who already booked flight tickets and don’t want to miss school and trigger chronic absenteeism. We already missed 10+ days (most excused)

Unlikely, but if so, you should be prioritizing education more.

There is no education occurring on June 22-26. Just potential quota days to say that school was open 180 days.

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Sounds like a strike to me

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Why can't they use 6/19? They have school on other federal holidays such as Veterans Day.

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Anonymous wrote:The email adding April 15 was intentionally vague because they’re counting on this bill passing. They won’t officially say anything until the outcome is clear

There was nothing vague about the email. it clearly said school ends June 26

As much as I don’t want to go until June 26th, mcps should have some consequences for their stupidity and lack of planning.

But the consequences are on us. Do they really care about wasting 2 million dollars per day from tax dollars? Elrich is already calling for a 6% property tax hike.

The "consequences" are school days? I'm good with that.

+1 MCPS pulled this same garbage last year with the June days and the snow days. And they still didn't fix the calendar to add more snow days in or do its virtual learning plan for weather emergencies.

Let them pay. Maybe the BOE and the state legislature will do more than smack them on the wrist this year.

Agree. Consequences of having to hold school are fine by me. And they should be doing better planning so they are not in this position again. But did they? Nope, next year's calendar has the same problem.

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Anonymous wrote:The email adding April 15 was intentionally vague because they’re counting on this bill passing. They won’t officially say anything until the outcome is clear

There was nothing vague about the email. it clearly said school ends June 26

As much as I don’t want to go until June 26th, mcps should have some consequences for their stupidity and lack of planning.

But the consequences are on us. Do they really care about wasting 2 million dollars per day from tax dollars? Elrich is already calling for a 6% property tax hike.

The "consequences" are school days? I'm good with that.

No, the consequences are more taxes. You and me are paying for this stupidity and MCPS will not change a thing

You're saying it costs money to operate a public school system? Maybe we should just close the whole system down permanently!

For a meaningless week of school which doesn’t teach a thing? They’d be lucky to have 30% students showing up.

That's why they need to plan better. And they won't do that if they aren't forced to actually offer school. Same goes for the union.

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Anonymous wrote:The email adding April 15 was intentionally vague because they’re counting on this bill passing. They won’t officially say anything until the outcome is clear

There was nothing vague about the email. it clearly said school ends June 26

As much as I don’t want to go until June 26th, mcps should have some consequences for their stupidity and lack of planning.

But the consequences are on us. Do they really care about wasting 2 million dollars per day from tax dollars? Elrich is already calling for a 6% property tax hike.

The "consequences" are school days? I'm good with that.

No, the consequences are more taxes. You and me are paying for this stupidity and MCPS will not change a thing

You're saying it costs money to operate a public school system? Maybe we should just close the whole system down permanently!

For a meaningless week of school which doesn’t teach a thing? They’d be lucky to have 30% students showing up.

My kids had full classes last year.

Last year didn’t go to the last week of June.

You're grossly overestimating how much that matters. It sounds like you're a staff member that doesn't want to work.

No I’m a parent who already booked flight tickets and don’t want to miss school and trigger chronic absenteeism. We already missed 10+ days (most excused)

Then don't send your kid. They are not going to care. But that's not a reason to prevent MCPS from offering the mandated 180 days of school.

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Anonymous wrote:Y'all underestimate the power of the teacher's union. If their union is telling folks the last day will be June 18, then I believe it. Why would they put that out there to over 10,000 teachers if they didn't already know this to be true?

To try to force the outcome that they want.

Exactly this.