How many kids will be skipping the Mon and Tues of Spring Break?

[Anonymous]

We are skipping. ES and MS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No because school is not optional. I genuinely do not understand these parents who pull their kids out of school for vacation unless it is like, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. What kind of mindset is that instilling? And I’m not even a particularly neurotic parent. I just find it so disrespectful and snowflakey. The rules don’t apply to you right?

Education is not optional. Education does not have to occur in school. There is a lot to be learned and experienced in the world. It’s great if it coincides with the school vacation days but sometimes this is not possible.

How do you feel when teachers are absent?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:1) I'm so mad that public schools aren't teaching my kids anything!
2) I'm so mad that sending my kid to public school makes vacationing so hard!
3) ????
4) Profit!!!

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I went to private school, but (sadly) my kids are in mcps.

At the risk of stating the obvious, it actually is possible for schools to provide rigorous academic instruction AND provide winter and spring breaks. After all, that's how private schools function.

The mcps calendar is ridiculous.

My two cents: people will miss M-T for spring break trips. Any family who typically flies somewhere for a week or more over spring break will stick with their plan. Some families who typically drive or take short flights might scale back. Regardless, if you have kids in elementary or middle school, it's not a big deal to miss those two days. It's obviously more challenging in HS...where so many disgruntled teachers tend to take out their unhappiness on students.

Are you for real?

Have another glass, busy housewife.

Any teacher who schedules a test or quiz on the Monday or Tuesday leading into spring break is a jerk. It's completely unnecessary. But those who are miserable will do it.

If you haven't encountered this, then you are lucky.

We have had more than one HS teacher that specifically has pop quizzes on days that many kids miss-before Thanksgiving, day of gun control March, etc. It's fine, my kids are at school but it does make me wonder why they are so punitive.

[Anonymous]

Don't think of it as punitive but just a little extra credit for the kids that came. My DD had a quiz on the last day of school (HS).

[Anonymous]

This is a terrible viscous circle. Some parents assume there won't be content so they don't send their kids to school. Teachers realize kids won't be in school and so don't offer content. The next time around, more parents/kids skip, so more teachers stop giving content. Then the process creeps back to a day earlier and starts again. It's bad enough the week before winter break, the week before Tgiving, the end of the year. Let's not add two more days to the cycle.

Parents have a full year to figure out plans for next year's vacation, and a longer summer in which to go on vacation. Plan according to the published schedule.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1) I'm so mad that public schools aren't teaching my kids anything!
2) I'm so mad that sending my kid to public school makes vacationing so hard!
3) ????
4) Profit!!!

?

I went to private school, but (sadly) my kids are in mcps.

At the risk of stating the obvious, it actually is possible for schools to provide rigorous academic instruction AND provide winter and spring breaks. After all, that's how private schools function.

The mcps calendar is ridiculous.

My two cents: people will miss M-T for spring break trips. Any family who typically flies somewhere for a week or more over spring break will stick with their plan. Some families who typically drive or take short flights might scale back. Regardless, if you have kids in elementary or middle school, it's not a big deal to miss those two days. It's obviously more challenging in HS...where so many disgruntled teachers tend to take out their unhappiness on students.

Are you for real?

Have another glass, busy housewife.

Any teacher who schedules a test or quiz on the Monday or Tuesday leading into spring break is a jerk. It's completely unnecessary. But those who are miserable will do it.

If you haven't encountered this, then you are lucky.

We have had more than one HS teacher that specifically has pop quizzes on days that many kids miss-before Thanksgiving, day of gun control March, etc. It's fine, my kids are at school but it does make me wonder why they are so punitive.

No way learning should continue for those students who are present! Why did their parents bother to send them? The teacher should at least let them play on their phones the entire class.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kids always miss the Monday after Spring Break. We spend Easter with family in CA so we fly home on Monday.

Easter Monday is a holiday anyway, right? So there is no school. What school are they missing that day?

Yes, and it's the most infuriating thing about the schedule (and there are many). There are so many other mandatory holidays (both legitimate and not) in the schedule, and including a day off for no other reason that that some people who are religions may not want to travel on the previous day is absolutely ridiculous.

Monday after Easter is off. OP is referring to the previous Monday and Tuesday. Spring break will be 6 days, including the weekend. It's four fewer days than what's typical for MoCo.

[Anonymous]

My kids will likely be in school. Between this not well thought out decision plus the initiative to widen i270 in Rockville when traffic will still bottleneck when lanes are reduced towards Frederick and the beltway, Hogan will not get my vote in the next election. Not impressed.

[Anonymous]

My kids (HS) will be there - to hard to make up missed work. We will do a shortened college tour in New England over the brief spring break.

All you ES parents screaming about the random days off will regret this calendar when your kids are in HS. When your kids have multiple AP and/or, honors classes, it's hard to make up missed work. So when exactly are kids now supposed to visit colleges? There aren't many days left anymore...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids (HS) will be there - to hard to make up missed work. We will do a shortened college tour in New England over the brief spring break.

All you ES parents screaming about the random days off will regret this calendar when your kids are in HS. When your kids have multiple AP and/or, honors classes, it's hard to make up missed work. So when exactly are kids now supposed to visit colleges? There aren't many days left anymore...

Same boat, same plan. We’ll have to limit the number of colleges we visit and pay to fly so we can maximize time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No because school is not optional. I genuinely do not understand these parents who pull their kids out of school for vacation unless it is like, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. What kind of mindset is that instilling? And I’m not even a particularly neurotic parent. I just find it so disrespectful and snowflakey. The rules don’t apply to you right?

So you go to work every business day of the year? You never take days off?

My parents yanked me out of school periodically to go on vacation, and they were incredible experiences that shaped who I am (museums, nature tours, historic homes/sites, etc.). IMO, taking the first two days of spring break if you have somewhere to go is nbd. Your kids will remember those experiences, not what they learned on that Monday (even if it was filled with content).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No because school is not optional. I genuinely do not understand these parents who pull their kids out of school for vacation unless it is like, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. What kind of mindset is that instilling? And I’m not even a particularly neurotic parent. I just find it so disrespectful and snowflakey. The rules don’t apply to you right?

So you go to work every business day of the year? You never take days off?

My parents yanked me out of school periodically to go on vacation, and they were incredible experiences that shaped who I am (museums, nature tours, historic homes/sites, etc.). IMO, taking the first two days of spring break if you have somewhere to go is nbd. Your kids will remember those experiences, not what they learned on that Monday (even if it was filled with content).

+1 Most schools around the country have a spring break, and it's useful for kids to recharge their batteries. Maryland has this bizarre Governor Hogan schedule where we must start after Labor Day and end by June 15 with very few holidays in between. Along as we're an oddity among other states in not having a spring break, I'm happy to take my kids out for 2 days and go somewhere further away. And I also put my kids in academic camps for a week or two in the summer, because I think an 11 week break is way too long and I want to prevent summer slide. So yes, I am adjusting the MCPS calendar to one I think works better for my child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No because school is not optional. I genuinely do not understand these parents who pull their kids out of school for vacation unless it is like, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. What kind of mindset is that instilling? And I’m not even a particularly neurotic parent. I just find it so disrespectful and snowflakey. The rules don’t apply to you right?

So you go to work every business day of the year? You never take days off?

My parents yanked me out of school periodically to go on vacation, and they were incredible experiences that shaped who I am (museums, nature tours, historic homes/sites, etc.). IMO, taking the first two days of spring break if you have somewhere to go is nbd. Your kids will remember those experiences, not what they learned on that Monday (even if it was filled with content).

why not do all this during the summer? Unless your cherished spring break vacation is weather dependent, why wouldn't you just do all this when kids are.off? and 6 days off seems like ample time to travel. it baffles me the level of entitlement, hypocrisy and cluelessness some people have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No because school is not optional. I genuinely do not understand these parents who pull their kids out of school for vacation unless it is like, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. What kind of mindset is that instilling? And I’m not even a particularly neurotic parent. I just find it so disrespectful and snowflakey. The rules don’t apply to you right?

So you go to work every business day of the year? You never take days off?

My parents yanked me out of school periodically to go on vacation, and they were incredible experiences that shaped who I am (museums, nature tours, historic homes/sites, etc.). IMO, taking the first two days of spring break if you have somewhere to go is nbd. Your kids will remember those experiences, not what they learned on that Monday (even if it was filled with content).

why not do all this during the summer? Unless your cherished spring break vacation is weather dependent, why wouldn't you just do all this when kids are.off? and 6 days off seems like ample time to travel. it baffles me the level of entitlement, hypocrisy and cluelessness some people have.

Do you have a job? Not everyone can take off a ton of time at once (i.e. 11 weeks). But I can take a week here and there throughout the year. And yes, for Easter, some people do travel to relatives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No because school is not optional. I genuinely do not understand these parents who pull their kids out of school for vacation unless it is like, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. What kind of mindset is that instilling? And I’m not even a particularly neurotic parent. I just find it so disrespectful and snowflakey. The rules don’t apply to you right?

So you go to work every business day of the year? You never take days off?

My parents yanked me out of school periodically to go on vacation, and they were incredible experiences that shaped who I am (museums, nature tours, historic homes/sites, etc.). IMO, taking the first two days of spring break if you have somewhere to go is nbd. Your kids will remember those experiences, not what they learned on that Monday (even if it was filled with content).

why not do all this during the summer? Unless your cherished spring break vacation is weather dependent, why wouldn't you just do all this when kids are.off? and 6 days off seems like ample time to travel. it baffles me the level of entitlement, hypocrisy and cluelessness some people have.

Do you have jobs to plan around? Relatives in different areas of the country? Kids in high school sports? Moco sports started aug 11, so once your kids are in high school, it’s not 11 weeks if they do sports. I’m the OP and we didn’t do anything this summer because my husband was deployed since April, so I would like something bigger for spring break. There are a whole lot of reasons, not all of which are entitled or clueless.