Snow This Weekend - School Next Week?

[Anonymous]

It could be worse. We could still be doing that stupid school cant start until after Labor Day nonsense because Ocean City wanted an extra week of economic relevance

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Anonymous wrote:If schools will not open all next week - why can't kids have virtual school? Teachers should teach virtually like during covid.

I would love to do that, but the district didn’t offer us training or permission to do so.

The state changed the rules, and it's no longer an option except in extreme circumstances when all contingency days have been used up.

There is only 1 contingency day. lol
Sure April 15 could be another but knowing them they won't use that. There would have been 2 without the transition day, other than that Maryland law makes things hard. It requires 1080 hours (ES/MS), 1170 hours (HS) AND 180 days. With the way religious holidays fell the school year already went August 26-June 17 as opposed to August 26 or 27-June 13 the last two years. Having school the week of June 22 and then coming back the week of August 24 would make summer too short! Between religious holidays and some room for snow, Maryland law should be adjusted to be more flexible!

These are the remaining contingency days: March 20, April 15, June 18, June 22, June 23, June 24, June 25 and June 26, 2026. There is no possibility of virtual learning unless and until all of those days become instructional days.

So losing a week of summer on top of an already extended year. No thanks. Virginia doesn't have makeup days to worry about unless they lose many days.

I realize that sucks for teachers, and in my view, they should pressure the union to allow MCPS to use the contingency days.

It's not an issue for parents. Just don't send your kid to the slew of 1/2 days at the end. I certainly won't be.

It’s an issue for parents. We already booked flights for last week of school and now we are forced to miss a week of school?

It's not a real week of school. It will be half days of babysitting. I won't send my kids with camp already paid for. And you definitely shouldn't send your kids if you have a vacation planned.

How many days can we miss school in a calendar year?

What do you mean? You miss whatever days you miss. There is zero consequence - especially at the end of the year when it is 1/2 days of babysitting.

If we already missed 4-5 days for Thanksgiving half days and Christmas and then miss another 5-6 days for end of semester, would that trigger some punishment?

Maybe a letter sent home. Nothing else.

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Anonymous wrote:If schools will not open all next week - why can't kids have virtual school? Teachers should teach virtually like during covid.

I would love to do that, but the district didn’t offer us training or permission to do so.

The state changed the rules, and it's no longer an option except in extreme circumstances when all contingency days have been used up.

There is only 1 contingency day. lol
Sure April 15 could be another but knowing them they won't use that. There would have been 2 without the transition day, other than that Maryland law makes things hard. It requires 1080 hours (ES/MS), 1170 hours (HS) AND 180 days. With the way religious holidays fell the school year already went August 26-June 17 as opposed to August 26 or 27-June 13 the last two years. Having school the week of June 22 and then coming back the week of August 24 would make summer too short! Between religious holidays and some room for snow, Maryland law should be adjusted to be more flexible!

These are the remaining contingency days: March 20, April 15, June 18, June 22, June 23, June 24, June 25 and June 26, 2026. There is no possibility of virtual learning unless and until all of those days become instructional days.

So losing a week of summer on top of an already extended year. No thanks. Virginia doesn't have makeup days to worry about unless they lose many days.

I realize that sucks for teachers, and in my view, they should pressure the union to allow MCPS to use the contingency days.

It's not an issue for parents. Just don't send your kid to the slew of 1/2 days at the end. I certainly won't be.

It’s an issue for parents. We already booked flights for last week of school and now we are forced to miss a week of school?

That’s a you did a poor job scheduling problem.

Do you work for MCPS? Always try to gaslight parents on DCUrbanmom?

No, I’m not. I wouldn’t be dumb enough to schedule vacation so soon after the school year.

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Anonymous wrote:If schools will not open all next week - why can't kids have virtual school? Teachers should teach virtually like during covid.

I would love to do that, but the district didn’t offer us training or permission to do so.

The state changed the rules, and it's no longer an option except in extreme circumstances when all contingency days have been used up.

There is only 1 contingency day. lol
Sure April 15 could be another but knowing them they won't use that. There would have been 2 without the transition day, other than that Maryland law makes things hard. It requires 1080 hours (ES/MS), 1170 hours (HS) AND 180 days. With the way religious holidays fell the school year already went August 26-June 17 as opposed to August 26 or 27-June 13 the last two years. Having school the week of June 22 and then coming back the week of August 24 would make summer too short! Between religious holidays and some room for snow, Maryland law should be adjusted to be more flexible!

These are the remaining contingency days: March 20, April 15, June 18, June 22, June 23, June 24, June 25 and June 26, 2026. There is no possibility of virtual learning unless and until all of those days become instructional days.

So losing a week of summer on top of an already extended year. No thanks. Virginia doesn't have makeup days to worry about unless they lose many days.

I realize that sucks for teachers, and in my view, they should pressure the union to allow MCPS to use the contingency days.

It's not an issue for parents. Just don't send your kid to the slew of 1/2 days at the end. I certainly won't be.

It’s an issue for parents. We already booked flights for last week of school and now we are forced to miss a week of school?

They always extend the school year. That’s on you.

They always don’t build in enough snow days in calendar. That’s on them! Extending a whole week of school is ridiculous? How can families plan for vacation and summer camps?

This year is a special circumstance because of Juneteenth being a mandatory day off so if they have to extend the year by more than one day it will send us into the following week.

We went two days into the week after school ended in 2025. They will have no problem making MCPS make up these days. They denied the waiver last time because we didn't use the contingency days. They need to be ACTUAL contingency days, not in paper only.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It could be worse. We could still be doing that stupid school cant start until after Labor Day nonsense because Ocean City wanted an extra week of economic relevance

I wish MCPS started after Labor Day.

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Anonymous wrote:If schools will not open all next week - why can't kids have virtual school? Teachers should teach virtually like during covid.

I would love to do that, but the district didn’t offer us training or permission to do so.

The state changed the rules, and it's no longer an option except in extreme circumstances when all contingency days have been used up.

There is only 1 contingency day. lol
Sure April 15 could be another but knowing them they won't use that. There would have been 2 without the transition day, other than that Maryland law makes things hard. It requires 1080 hours (ES/MS), 1170 hours (HS) AND 180 days. With the way religious holidays fell the school year already went August 26-June 17 as opposed to August 26 or 27-June 13 the last two years. Having school the week of June 22 and then coming back the week of August 24 would make summer too short! Between religious holidays and some room for snow, Maryland law should be adjusted to be more flexible!

These are the remaining contingency days: March 20, April 15, June 18, June 22, June 23, June 24, June 25 and June 26, 2026. There is no possibility of virtual learning unless and until all of those days become instructional days.

So losing a week of summer on top of an already extended year. No thanks. Virginia doesn't have makeup days to worry about unless they lose many days.

I realize that sucks for teachers, and in my view, they should pressure the union to allow MCPS to use the contingency days.

It's not an issue for parents. Just don't send your kid to the slew of 1/2 days at the end. I certainly won't be.

It’s an issue for parents. We already booked flights for last week of school and now we are forced to miss a week of school?

They always extend the school year. That’s on you.

They always don’t build in enough snow days in calendar. That’s on them! Extending a whole week of school is ridiculous? How can families plan for vacation and summer camps?

This year is a special circumstance because of Juneteenth being a mandatory day off so if they have to extend the year by more than one day it will send us into the following week.

We went two days into the week after school ended in 2025. They will have no problem making MCPS make up these days. They denied the waiver last time because we didn't use the contingency days. They need to be ACTUAL contingency days, not in paper only.

DP. Yes you’re right although many people would find it worse to extend this year because our calendar is already going into a later week in June than it did last year. Last year the original last day was Friday June 13.

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Anonymous wrote:The make up days are:
October 17
November 3
January 26
March 20
April 15
June 18
June 22-26

I find this fascinating for a few reasons. I think Taylor picked more strategically this year. Two are in Fall and you can’t retroactively be expected to use them. January 26 is obviously a wash in this particular storm. He didn’t touch Feb 17, which was an option, nor did he touch spring break, so that is safe. I think he also got the BOE to vote something about if we are in a state of emergency at the last meeting. I think this is a game of chess. He will make March 20 and April 15 half days (and could consider making March 19 and April 14 also half days so teachers get the same professional development and grading hours). Then he will ask for a waiver for the rest under the state of emergency and multi-day snow event situation. If we get a future storm with more days off, we might be in trouble but this one may squeak by without extending the year.

They can't get a waiver unless they use all the remaining days, which includes the ones in June.

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Anonymous wrote:If schools will not open all next week - why can't kids have virtual school? Teachers should teach virtually like during covid.

I would love to do that, but the district didn’t offer us training or permission to do so.

The state changed the rules, and it's no longer an option except in extreme circumstances when all contingency days have been used up.

There is only 1 contingency day. lol
Sure April 15 could be another but knowing them they won't use that. There would have been 2 without the transition day, other than that Maryland law makes things hard. It requires 1080 hours (ES/MS), 1170 hours (HS) AND 180 days. With the way religious holidays fell the school year already went August 26-June 17 as opposed to August 26 or 27-June 13 the last two years. Having school the week of June 22 and then coming back the week of August 24 would make summer too short! Between religious holidays and some room for snow, Maryland law should be adjusted to be more flexible!

These are the remaining contingency days: March 20, April 15, June 18, June 22, June 23, June 24, June 25 and June 26, 2026. There is no possibility of virtual learning unless and until all of those days become instructional days.

So losing a week of summer on top of an already extended year. No thanks. Virginia doesn't have makeup days to worry about unless they lose many days.

I realize that sucks for teachers, and in my view, they should pressure the union to allow MCPS to use the contingency days.

It's not an issue for parents. Just don't send your kid to the slew of 1/2 days at the end. I certainly won't be.

It’s an issue for parents. We already booked flights for last week of school and now we are forced to miss a week of school?

That’s a you did a poor job scheduling problem.

Do you work for MCPS? Always try to gaslight parents on DCUrbanmom?

No, I’m not. I wouldn’t be dumb enough to schedule vacation so soon after the school year.

You don’t understand for some people June is the only time they could travel to see their families. And you’re obviously not that smart.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The make up days are:
October 17
November 3
January 26
March 20
April 15
June 18
June 22-26

I find this fascinating for a few reasons. I think Taylor picked more strategically this year. Two are in Fall and you can’t retroactively be expected to use them. January 26 is obviously a wash in this particular storm. He didn’t touch Feb 17, which was an option, nor did he touch spring break, so that is safe. I think he also got the BOE to vote something about if we are in a state of emergency at the last meeting. I think this is a game of chess. He will make March 20 and April 15 half days (and could consider making March 19 and April 14 also half days so teachers get the same professional development and grading hours). Then he will ask for a waiver for the rest under the state of emergency and multi-day snow event situation. If we get a future storm with more days off, we might be in trouble but this one may squeak by without extending the year.

They can't get a waiver unless they use all the remaining days, which includes the ones in June.

This is just simply not true. They have issued waivers in the past. Yes that’s what’s supposed to happen but they also have discretion to issue one even if the days are not all used.

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Anonymous wrote:If schools will not open all next week - why can't kids have virtual school? Teachers should teach virtually like during covid.

I would love to do that, but the district didn’t offer us training or permission to do so.

The state changed the rules, and it's no longer an option except in extreme circumstances when all contingency days have been used up.

There is only 1 contingency day. lol
Sure April 15 could be another but knowing them they won't use that. There would have been 2 without the transition day, other than that Maryland law makes things hard. It requires 1080 hours (ES/MS), 1170 hours (HS) AND 180 days. With the way religious holidays fell the school year already went August 26-June 17 as opposed to August 26 or 27-June 13 the last two years. Having school the week of June 22 and then coming back the week of August 24 would make summer too short! Between religious holidays and some room for snow, Maryland law should be adjusted to be more flexible!

These are the remaining contingency days: March 20, April 15, June 18, June 22, June 23, June 24, June 25 and June 26, 2026. There is no possibility of virtual learning unless and until all of those days become instructional days.

So losing a week of summer on top of an already extended year. No thanks. Virginia doesn't have makeup days to worry about unless they lose many days.

I realize that sucks for teachers, and in my view, they should pressure the union to allow MCPS to use the contingency days.

It's not an issue for parents. Just don't send your kid to the slew of 1/2 days at the end. I certainly won't be.

It’s an issue for parents. We already booked flights for last week of school and now we are forced to miss a week of school?

That’s a you did a poor job scheduling problem.

Do you work for MCPS? Always try to gaslight parents on DCUrbanmom?

No, I’m not. I wouldn’t be dumb enough to schedule vacation so soon after the school year.

You don’t understand for some people June is the only time they could travel to see their families. And you’re obviously not that smart.

Told my football players that they could go on vacation but they owe me 100 burpies for each day they miss during the summer and won’t be allowed to practice until they get them done.

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Anonymous wrote:If schools will not open all next week - why can't kids have virtual school? Teachers should teach virtually like during covid.

I would love to do that, but the district didn’t offer us training or permission to do so.

The state changed the rules, and it's no longer an option except in extreme circumstances when all contingency days have been used up.

There is only 1 contingency day. lol
Sure April 15 could be another but knowing them they won't use that. There would have been 2 without the transition day, other than that Maryland law makes things hard. It requires 1080 hours (ES/MS), 1170 hours (HS) AND 180 days. With the way religious holidays fell the school year already went August 26-June 17 as opposed to August 26 or 27-June 13 the last two years. Having school the week of June 22 and then coming back the week of August 24 would make summer too short! Between religious holidays and some room for snow, Maryland law should be adjusted to be more flexible!

These are the remaining contingency days: March 20, April 15, June 18, June 22, June 23, June 24, June 25 and June 26, 2026. There is no possibility of virtual learning unless and until all of those days become instructional days.

So losing a week of summer on top of an already extended year. No thanks. Virginia doesn't have makeup days to worry about unless they lose many days.

I realize that sucks for teachers, and in my view, they should pressure the union to allow MCPS to use the contingency days.

It's not an issue for parents. Just don't send your kid to the slew of 1/2 days at the end. I certainly won't be.

It’s an issue for parents. We already booked flights for last week of school and now we are forced to miss a week of school?

It's not a real week of school. It will be half days of babysitting. I won't send my kids with camp already paid for. And you definitely shouldn't send your kids if you have a vacation planned.

How many days can we miss school in a calendar year?

What do you mean? You miss whatever days you miss. There is zero consequence - especially at the end of the year when it is 1/2 days of babysitting.

If we already missed 4-5 days for Thanksgiving half days and Christmas and then miss another 5-6 days for end of semester, would that trigger some punishment?

No. MCPS will talk a big game about attendance but never actually punish anyone for it. When i lived in Jefferson County WV they sent out bench warrants to parents when kids hit like 10 absences.

This. Why do they even bother taking attendance when they do nothing about absenteeism?

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Anonymous wrote:If schools will not open all next week - why can't kids have virtual school? Teachers should teach virtually like during covid.

I would love to do that, but the district didn’t offer us training or permission to do so.

The state changed the rules, and it's no longer an option except in extreme circumstances when all contingency days have been used up.

There is only 1 contingency day. lol
Sure April 15 could be another but knowing them they won't use that. There would have been 2 without the transition day, other than that Maryland law makes things hard. It requires 1080 hours (ES/MS), 1170 hours (HS) AND 180 days. With the way religious holidays fell the school year already went August 26-June 17 as opposed to August 26 or 27-June 13 the last two years. Having school the week of June 22 and then coming back the week of August 24 would make summer too short! Between religious holidays and some room for snow, Maryland law should be adjusted to be more flexible!

These are the remaining contingency days: March 20, April 15, June 18, June 22, June 23, June 24, June 25 and June 26, 2026. There is no possibility of virtual learning unless and until all of those days become instructional days.

So losing a week of summer on top of an already extended year. No thanks. Virginia doesn't have makeup days to worry about unless they lose many days.

I realize that sucks for teachers, and in my view, they should pressure the union to allow MCPS to use the contingency days.

It's not an issue for parents. Just don't send your kid to the slew of 1/2 days at the end. I certainly won't be.

It’s an issue for parents. We already booked flights for last week of school and now we are forced to miss a week of school?

They always extend the school year. That’s on you.

They always don’t build in enough snow days in calendar. That’s on them! Extending a whole week of school is ridiculous? How can families plan for vacation and summer camps?

This year is a special circumstance because of Juneteenth being a mandatory day off so if they have to extend the year by more than one day it will send us into the following week.

We went two days into the week after school ended in 2025. They will have no problem making MCPS make up these days. They denied the waiver last time because we didn't use the contingency days. They need to be ACTUAL contingency days, not in paper only.

DP. Yes you’re right although many people would find it worse to extend this year because our calendar is already going into a later week in June than it did last year. Last year the original last day was Friday June 13.

Yeah it’s already a 9 week summer instead of 10 or 11 like it had previously been. An 8 week summer will not be well received popular with families or staff.

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Anonymous wrote:The make up days are:
October 17
November 3
January 26
March 20
April 15
June 18
June 22-26

I find this fascinating for a few reasons. I think Taylor picked more strategically this year. Two are in Fall and you can’t retroactively be expected to use them. January 26 is obviously a wash in this particular storm. He didn’t touch Feb 17, which was an option, nor did he touch spring break, so that is safe. I think he also got the BOE to vote something about if we are in a state of emergency at the last meeting. I think this is a game of chess. He will make March 20 and April 15 half days (and could consider making March 19 and April 14 also half days so teachers get the same professional development and grading hours). Then he will ask for a waiver for the rest under the state of emergency and multi-day snow event situation. If we get a future storm with more days off, we might be in trouble but this one may squeak by without extending the year.

They can't get a waiver unless they use all the remaining days, which includes the ones in June.

This is just simply not true. They have issued waivers in the past. Yes that’s what’s supposed to happen but they also have discretion to issue one even if the days are not all used.

The law was changed. That is why their waiver was denied in 2025.

Here it is. It includes the following: "(b) The local school system has modified its calendar by scheduling school on the make-up days provided in the original calendar and by extending the school year 3 days beyond the previously scheduled closing date."

https://dsd.maryland.gov/regulations/Pages/13A.02.01.04.aspx

[Anonymous]

Also the law says this - so MCPS will have to tell the state how it plans to make them up: "C. Whether or not a school system plans to apply for a waiver, after any school system closure, it must provide notice to the Maryland State Department of Education, within 10 days of reopening, of its plan to make up the missed school days, including the dates of the make-up days."

[Anonymous]

I thought if we’re in a state of emergency, then there can be a waiver granted.