President's Day makeup day?

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Anonymous wrote:Im traveling that weekend so will have to get a sub if they make it a school day

And then MCPS will say they can't open school because not enough staff...just like these snow days. Or they could act more responsibly and add snow days to the calendar like a normal school district.

Orrrrr… md could just accept hours of instruction and this would all be a moot point.

We don't get through the curriculum as it is. Reducing the number of instructional days would just make that worse.

Sorry, your summer vacation plans are not more important than school.

I’d agree if the tack on days actually had instruction. I’m not cancelling my kid’s sleepaway camp so she can sit in school and watch movies.

I’m an elementary parent so it matters less but I know high schoolers are in the midst of prepping for APs and IBs. This especially impacts them.

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Anonymous wrote:But there are two days off that week. Presidents’ Day and Tuesday is also a day off for teacher development or something.


So McPS is going to use both of them to get back the snow days?

Tuesday is Lunar new year. If you want to respect religious holidays, you should respect lunar new year too.

They do, that's why it wasn't marked as a designated makeup day.

Asians didn't lobby much for Lunar New Year as a day off.

Teachers lobbied hard for additional teacher development days/grading days to be added into the schedule, and it was easier to add those in if you could say a certain ethnic group or religion was asking for additional days off to be on par with the Christians and the Jews.

Feb 17 is not a professional development or grading day. There's no school for students and teachers.

Tuesday Feb 17 is a non-instructional day. Why would they have Monday Feb 16 President's Day as a school day, but not have Feb 17 as an instructional day?

I don’t understand this. Why is it possible to designate a federal holiday as a makeup day but not the day after?

Yeah this is super weird. Also if we are going to go on a Federal holiday I think Juneteenth is one that I’d pick, not President’s Day, since I think finding teacher coverage for a major holiday in less than a month is going to be problematic.

Juneteenth is June 19. How much teaching do you think is going to go on at the end of marking period 4? Days should be added earlier if McPS is serious about instruction.

None, but you are wildly unrealistic if you think meaningful instruction will/can/should be conducted on President’s Day given the extreme lack of advance notice and the precedent that the day has always been off for everyone since the dawn of time. Don’t be like those posters who insist you shouldn’t plan a vacation the week after school ends in case it is extended, etc. President’s Day is a Federal holiday that has never been and is still not designated as a make up day. If they somehow negotiate to use this day, which is a long shot, it’ll be a throwaway day, not a meaningful instruction day.

Very few people take trips over Presidents' Day. Attendance would be fine. Certainly far higher than the days late in June, and probably much higher than days adjacent to major holiday breaks.

How on earth could you possibly know this information?

Wow... You really don't know?

I'd love to know your HHI and zip code...

You are making up statistics. My HHI and zipcode are irrelevant. We aren’t traveling that weekend but to boldly say very few people take trips that weekend is really extra. Flight data and AAA road data says otherwise.

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Anonymous wrote:But there are two days off that week. Presidents’ Day and Tuesday is also a day off for teacher development or something.


So McPS is going to use both of them to get back the snow days?

Tuesday is Lunar new year. If you want to respect religious holidays, you should respect lunar new year too.

They do, that's why it wasn't marked as a designated makeup day.

Asians didn't lobby much for Lunar New Year as a day off.

Teachers lobbied hard for additional teacher development days/grading days to be added into the schedule, and it was easier to add those in if you could say a certain ethnic group or religion was asking for additional days off to be on par with the Christians and the Jews.

Feb 17 is not a professional development or grading day. There's no school for students and teachers.

Tuesday Feb 17 is a non-instructional day. Why would they have Monday Feb 16 President's Day as a school day, but not have Feb 17 as an instructional day?

I don’t understand this. Why is it possible to designate a federal holiday as a makeup day but not the day after?

Yeah this is super weird. Also if we are going to go on a Federal holiday I think Juneteenth is one that I’d pick, not President’s Day, since I think finding teacher coverage for a major holiday in less than a month is going to be problematic.

Juneteenth is June 19. How much teaching do you think is going to go on at the end of marking period 4? Days should be added earlier if McPS is serious about instruction.

None, but you are wildly unrealistic if you think meaningful instruction will/can/should be conducted on President’s Day given the extreme lack of advance notice and the precedent that the day has always been off for everyone since the dawn of time. Don’t be like those posters who insist you shouldn’t plan a vacation the week after school ends in case it is extended, etc. President’s Day is a Federal holiday that has never been and is still not designated as a make up day. If they somehow negotiate to use this day, which is a long shot, it’ll be a throwaway day, not a meaningful instruction day.

Very few people take trips over Presidents' Day. Attendance would be fine. Certainly far higher than the days late in June, and probably much higher than days adjacent to major holiday breaks.

How on earth could you possibly know this information?

Because despite the Bethesda contingent here, most people don’t have the disposable income for a random trip every long weekend

I think you’d be very surprised to know many people who you consider poor do still save up money and travel.

Take your privilege goggles off. Sure they may be saving for one big trip. Maybe it’s scheduled for Presidents’ Day but for most it will be spring break or in the summer. The number of families who will be impacted by having school on Presidents Day is likely pretty small. And for those who it does, not a huge deal (we were going to go up to NY and see a show… but no big deal to reschedule)

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t mcps hold school over zoom this Wed and Thursday?

Have you missed all of the other posts addressing this?

MCPS doesn't have an approved virtual education plan.

Many students don't have chromebooks at home.

Many grades and subjects do not have lesson plans that are conducive to virtual instruction.

Many students do not have support at home to participate in virtual instruction.

The CBA with teachers requires advanced notice of virtual instruction to prepare lessons. That notice was not given.

If MCPS had some form of virtual instruction, they wouldn't be able to cover new material and would still need to use make-up days.

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I thought that because a State of Emergency was issued for this storm that the days didn't have to be made up?

Not sure how many that would affect, though.

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Anonymous wrote:But there are two days off that week. Presidents’ Day and Tuesday is also a day off for teacher development or something.


So McPS is going to use both of them to get back the snow days?

Tuesday is Lunar new year. If you want to respect religious holidays, you should respect lunar new year too.

They do, that's why it wasn't marked as a designated makeup day.

Asians didn't lobby much for Lunar New Year as a day off.

Teachers lobbied hard for additional teacher development days/grading days to be added into the schedule, and it was easier to add those in if you could say a certain ethnic group or religion was asking for additional days off to be on par with the Christians and the Jews.

Feb 17 is not a professional development or grading day. There's no school for students and teachers.

Tuesday Feb 17 is a non-instructional day. Why would they have Monday Feb 16 President's Day as a school day, but not have Feb 17 as an instructional day?

I don’t understand this. Why is it possible to designate a federal holiday as a makeup day but not the day after?

Yeah this is super weird. Also if we are going to go on a Federal holiday I think Juneteenth is one that I’d pick, not President’s Day, since I think finding teacher coverage for a major holiday in less than a month is going to be problematic.

Juneteenth is June 19. How much teaching do you think is going to go on at the end of marking period 4? Days should be added earlier if McPS is serious about instruction.

None, but you are wildly unrealistic if you think meaningful instruction will/can/should be conducted on President’s Day given the extreme lack of advance notice and the precedent that the day has always been off for everyone since the dawn of time. Don’t be like those posters who insist you shouldn’t plan a vacation the week after school ends in case it is extended, etc. President’s Day is a Federal holiday that has never been and is still not designated as a make up day. If they somehow negotiate to use this day, which is a long shot, it’ll be a throwaway day, not a meaningful instruction day.

Very few people take trips over Presidents' Day. Attendance would be fine. Certainly far higher than the days late in June, and probably much higher than days adjacent to major holiday breaks.

How on earth could you possibly know this information?

Wow... You really don't know?

I'd love to know your HHI and zip code...

You are making up statistics. My HHI and zipcode are irrelevant. We aren’t traveling that weekend but to boldly say very few people take trips that weekend is really extra. Flight data and AAA road data says otherwise.

You think your HHI and zip code are irrelevant? That tells me all I need to know.

Get out of your bubble.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought that because a State of Emergency was issued for this storm that the days didn't have to be made up?

Not sure how many that would affect, though.

No. Why do people keep saying this? State regulations require districts to use their make up days prior to requesting a waiver. A state of emergency doesn't change that. Look at last year as an example.

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Anonymous wrote:But there are two days off that week. Presidents’ Day and Tuesday is also a day off for teacher development or something.


So McPS is going to use both of them to get back the snow days?

Tuesday is Lunar new year. If you want to respect religious holidays, you should respect lunar new year too.

They do, that's why it wasn't marked as a designated makeup day.

Asians didn't lobby much for Lunar New Year as a day off.

Teachers lobbied hard for additional teacher development days/grading days to be added into the schedule, and it was easier to add those in if you could say a certain ethnic group or religion was asking for additional days off to be on par with the Christians and the Jews.

Feb 17 is not a professional development or grading day. There's no school for students and teachers.

Tuesday Feb 17 is a non-instructional day. Why would they have Monday Feb 16 President's Day as a school day, but not have Feb 17 as an instructional day?

I don’t understand this. Why is it possible to designate a federal holiday as a makeup day but not the day after?

Yeah this is super weird. Also if we are going to go on a Federal holiday I think Juneteenth is one that I’d pick, not President’s Day, since I think finding teacher coverage for a major holiday in less than a month is going to be problematic.

Juneteenth is June 19. How much teaching do you think is going to go on at the end of marking period 4? Days should be added earlier if McPS is serious about instruction.

None, but you are wildly unrealistic if you think meaningful instruction will/can/should be conducted on President’s Day given the extreme lack of advance notice and the precedent that the day has always been off for everyone since the dawn of time. Don’t be like those posters who insist you shouldn’t plan a vacation the week after school ends in case it is extended, etc. President’s Day is a Federal holiday that has never been and is still not designated as a make up day. If they somehow negotiate to use this day, which is a long shot, it’ll be a throwaway day, not a meaningful instruction day.

Very few people take trips over Presidents' Day. Attendance would be fine. Certainly far higher than the days late in June, and probably much higher than days adjacent to major holiday breaks.

How on earth could you possibly know this information?

Because despite the Bethesda contingent here, most people don’t have the disposable income for a random trip every long weekend

I teach and i know for certain like 2/3 of my department is going out of town that weekend because we saw a chance at a long weekend without taking leave.

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Anonymous wrote:But there are two days off that week. Presidents’ Day and Tuesday is also a day off for teacher development or something.


So McPS is going to use both of them to get back the snow days?

Tuesday is Lunar new year. If you want to respect religious holidays, you should respect lunar new year too.

They do, that's why it wasn't marked as a designated makeup day.

Asians didn't lobby much for Lunar New Year as a day off.

Teachers lobbied hard for additional teacher development days/grading days to be added into the schedule, and it was easier to add those in if you could say a certain ethnic group or religion was asking for additional days off to be on par with the Christians and the Jews.

Feb 17 is not a professional development or grading day. There's no school for students and teachers.

Tuesday Feb 17 is a non-instructional day. Why would they have Monday Feb 16 President's Day as a school day, but not have Feb 17 as an instructional day?

I don’t understand this. Why is it possible to designate a federal holiday as a makeup day but not the day after?

Yeah this is super weird. Also if we are going to go on a Federal holiday I think Juneteenth is one that I’d pick, not President’s Day, since I think finding teacher coverage for a major holiday in less than a month is going to be problematic.

Juneteenth is June 19. How much teaching do you think is going to go on at the end of marking period 4? Days should be added earlier if McPS is serious about instruction.

None, but you are wildly unrealistic if you think meaningful instruction will/can/should be conducted on President’s Day given the extreme lack of advance notice and the precedent that the day has always been off for everyone since the dawn of time. Don’t be like those posters who insist you shouldn’t plan a vacation the week after school ends in case it is extended, etc. President’s Day is a Federal holiday that has never been and is still not designated as a make up day. If they somehow negotiate to use this day, which is a long shot, it’ll be a throwaway day, not a meaningful instruction day.

Very few people take trips over Presidents' Day. Attendance would be fine. Certainly far higher than the days late in June, and probably much higher than days adjacent to major holiday breaks.

How on earth could you possibly know this information?

Wow... You really don't know?

I'd love to know your HHI and zip code...

You are making up statistics. My HHI and zipcode are irrelevant. We aren’t traveling that weekend but to boldly say very few people take trips that weekend is really extra. Flight data and AAA road data says otherwise.

Bet you think the emergency food distribution schools are having today is unnecessary too because grocery stores show record profits….

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Anonymous wrote:But there are two days off that week. Presidents’ Day and Tuesday is also a day off for teacher development or something.


So McPS is going to use both of them to get back the snow days?

Tuesday is Lunar new year. If you want to respect religious holidays, you should respect lunar new year too.

They do, that's why it wasn't marked as a designated makeup day.

Asians didn't lobby much for Lunar New Year as a day off.

Teachers lobbied hard for additional teacher development days/grading days to be added into the schedule, and it was easier to add those in if you could say a certain ethnic group or religion was asking for additional days off to be on par with the Christians and the Jews.

Feb 17 is not a professional development or grading day. There's no school for students and teachers.

Tuesday Feb 17 is a non-instructional day. Why would they have Monday Feb 16 President's Day as a school day, but not have Feb 17 as an instructional day?

I don’t understand this. Why is it possible to designate a federal holiday as a makeup day but not the day after?

Yeah this is super weird. Also if we are going to go on a Federal holiday I think Juneteenth is one that I’d pick, not President’s Day, since I think finding teacher coverage for a major holiday in less than a month is going to be problematic.

Juneteenth is June 19. How much teaching do you think is going to go on at the end of marking period 4? Days should be added earlier if McPS is serious about instruction.

None, but you are wildly unrealistic if you think meaningful instruction will/can/should be conducted on President’s Day given the extreme lack of advance notice and the precedent that the day has always been off for everyone since the dawn of time. Don’t be like those posters who insist you shouldn’t plan a vacation the week after school ends in case it is extended, etc. President’s Day is a Federal holiday that has never been and is still not designated as a make up day. If they somehow negotiate to use this day, which is a long shot, it’ll be a throwaway day, not a meaningful instruction day.

Very few people take trips over Presidents' Day. Attendance would be fine. Certainly far higher than the days late in June, and probably much higher than days adjacent to major holiday breaks.

How on earth could you possibly know this information?

Because despite the Bethesda contingent here, most people don’t have the disposable income for a random trip every long weekend

I teach and i know for certain like 2/3 of my department is going out of town that weekend because we saw a chance at a long weekend without taking leave.

Teachers and student families are not one and the same. Teachers may well be required to cancel…

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Anonymous wrote:But there are two days off that week. Presidents’ Day and Tuesday is also a day off for teacher development or something.


So McPS is going to use both of them to get back the snow days?

Tuesday is Lunar new year. If you want to respect religious holidays, you should respect lunar new year too.

They do, that's why it wasn't marked as a designated makeup day.

Asians didn't lobby much for Lunar New Year as a day off.

Teachers lobbied hard for additional teacher development days/grading days to be added into the schedule, and it was easier to add those in if you could say a certain ethnic group or religion was asking for additional days off to be on par with the Christians and the Jews.

Feb 17 is not a professional development or grading day. There's no school for students and teachers.

Tuesday Feb 17 is a non-instructional day. Why would they have Monday Feb 16 President's Day as a school day, but not have Feb 17 as an instructional day?

I don’t understand this. Why is it possible to designate a federal holiday as a makeup day but not the day after?

Yeah this is super weird. Also if we are going to go on a Federal holiday I think Juneteenth is one that I’d pick, not President’s Day, since I think finding teacher coverage for a major holiday in less than a month is going to be problematic.

Juneteenth is June 19. How much teaching do you think is going to go on at the end of marking period 4? Days should be added earlier if McPS is serious about instruction.

None, but you are wildly unrealistic if you think meaningful instruction will/can/should be conducted on President’s Day given the extreme lack of advance notice and the precedent that the day has always been off for everyone since the dawn of time. Don’t be like those posters who insist you shouldn’t plan a vacation the week after school ends in case it is extended, etc. President’s Day is a Federal holiday that has never been and is still not designated as a make up day. If they somehow negotiate to use this day, which is a long shot, it’ll be a throwaway day, not a meaningful instruction day.

Very few people take trips over Presidents' Day. Attendance would be fine. Certainly far higher than the days late in June, and probably much higher than days adjacent to major holiday breaks.

How on earth could you possibly know this information?

Because despite the Bethesda contingent here, most people don’t have the disposable income for a random trip every long weekend

I think you’d be very surprised to know many people who you consider poor do still save up money and travel.

Take your privilege goggles off. Sure they may be saving for one big trip. Maybe it’s scheduled for Presidents’ Day but for most it will be spring break or in the summer. The number of families who will be impacted by having school on Presidents Day is likely pretty small. And for those who it does, not a huge deal (we were going to go up to NY and see a show… but no big deal to reschedule)

Broadway shows do not run on Mondays, hon, nor do they do Tuesday matinees.

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Anonymous wrote:Im traveling that weekend so will have to get a sub if they make it a school day

And then MCPS will say they can't open school because not enough staff...just like these snow days. Or they could act more responsibly and add snow days to the calendar like a normal school district.

Orrrrr… md could just accept hours of instruction and this would all be a moot point.

We don't get through the curriculum as it is. Reducing the number of instructional days would just make that worse.

Sorry, your summer vacation plans are not more important than school.

I’d agree if the tack on days actually had instruction. I’m not cancelling my kid’s sleepaway camp so she can sit in school and watch movies.

I’m an elementary parent so it matters less but I know high schoolers are in the midst of prepping for APs and IBs. This especially impacts them.

How does cutting instructional days help high schools prepping for AP tests? That's even more reason to pressure MCPS into using the earlier make up days already in the calendar.

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Anonymous wrote:But there are two days off that week. Presidents’ Day and Tuesday is also a day off for teacher development or something.


So McPS is going to use both of them to get back the snow days?

That Tuesday is Lunar New Year and the start of Ramadan. Many students will be absent.

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Anonymous wrote:But there are two days off that week. Presidents’ Day and Tuesday is also a day off for teacher development or something.


So McPS is going to use both of them to get back the snow days?

Tuesday is Lunar new year. If you want to respect religious holidays, you should respect lunar new year too.

They do, that's why it wasn't marked as a designated makeup day.

Asians didn't lobby much for Lunar New Year as a day off.

Teachers lobbied hard for additional teacher development days/grading days to be added into the schedule, and it was easier to add those in if you could say a certain ethnic group or religion was asking for additional days off to be on par with the Christians and the Jews.

Feb 17 is not a professional development or grading day. There's no school for students and teachers.

Tuesday Feb 17 is a non-instructional day. Why would they have Monday Feb 16 President's Day as a school day, but not have Feb 17 as an instructional day?

I don’t understand this. Why is it possible to designate a federal holiday as a makeup day but not the day after?

Yeah this is super weird. Also if we are going to go on a Federal holiday I think Juneteenth is one that I’d pick, not President’s Day, since I think finding teacher coverage for a major holiday in less than a month is going to be problematic.

Juneteenth is June 19. How much teaching do you think is going to go on at the end of marking period 4? Days should be added earlier if McPS is serious about instruction.

None, but you are wildly unrealistic if you think meaningful instruction will/can/should be conducted on President’s Day given the extreme lack of advance notice and the precedent that the day has always been off for everyone since the dawn of time. Don’t be like those posters who insist you shouldn’t plan a vacation the week after school ends in case it is extended, etc. President’s Day is a Federal holiday that has never been and is still not designated as a make up day. If they somehow negotiate to use this day, which is a long shot, it’ll be a throwaway day, not a meaningful instruction day.

Very few people take trips over Presidents' Day. Attendance would be fine. Certainly far higher than the days late in June, and probably much higher than days adjacent to major holiday breaks.

How on earth could you possibly know this information?

Because despite the Bethesda contingent here, most people don’t have the disposable income for a random trip every long weekend

I teach and i know for certain like 2/3 of my department is going out of town that weekend because we saw a chance at a long weekend without taking leave.

Yes but some lady with Broadway show tickets thinks you’re sitting at home with no plans on a rare 4 day weekend.

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Anonymous wrote:But there are two days off that week. Presidents’ Day and Tuesday is also a day off for teacher development or something.


So McPS is going to use both of them to get back the snow days?

Tuesday is Lunar new year. If you want to respect religious holidays, you should respect lunar new year too.

They do, that's why it wasn't marked as a designated makeup day.

Asians didn't lobby much for Lunar New Year as a day off.

Teachers lobbied hard for additional teacher development days/grading days to be added into the schedule, and it was easier to add those in if you could say a certain ethnic group or religion was asking for additional days off to be on par with the Christians and the Jews.

Feb 17 is not a professional development or grading day. There's no school for students and teachers.

Tuesday Feb 17 is a non-instructional day. Why would they have Monday Feb 16 President's Day as a school day, but not have Feb 17 as an instructional day?

I don’t understand this. Why is it possible to designate a federal holiday as a makeup day but not the day after?

Yeah this is super weird. Also if we are going to go on a Federal holiday I think Juneteenth is one that I’d pick, not President’s Day, since I think finding teacher coverage for a major holiday in less than a month is going to be problematic.

Juneteenth is June 19. How much teaching do you think is going to go on at the end of marking period 4? Days should be added earlier if McPS is serious about instruction.

None, but you are wildly unrealistic if you think meaningful instruction will/can/should be conducted on President’s Day given the extreme lack of advance notice and the precedent that the day has always been off for everyone since the dawn of time. Don’t be like those posters who insist you shouldn’t plan a vacation the week after school ends in case it is extended, etc. President’s Day is a Federal holiday that has never been and is still not designated as a make up day. If they somehow negotiate to use this day, which is a long shot, it’ll be a throwaway day, not a meaningful instruction day.

Very few people take trips over Presidents' Day. Attendance would be fine. Certainly far higher than the days late in June, and probably much higher than days adjacent to major holiday breaks.

How on earth could you possibly know this information?

Because despite the Bethesda contingent here, most people don’t have the disposable income for a random trip every long weekend

I think you’d be very surprised to know many people who you consider poor do still save up money and travel.

Take your privilege goggles off. Sure they may be saving for one big trip. Maybe it’s scheduled for Presidents’ Day but for most it will be spring break or in the summer. The number of families who will be impacted by having school on Presidents Day is likely pretty small. And for those who it does, not a huge deal (we were going to go up to NY and see a show… but no big deal to reschedule)

Broadway shows do not run on Mondays, hon, nor do they do Tuesday matinees.

We go to a Sunday matinee and travel on Monday. And I’m not your hon, hon.