MCPS closing/delaying on Monday?

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers get very few perks. This is a small one. Why take away something fun and spontaneous? Life has become over scheduled for everyone. Snow days are a chance to slow down. It is important to appreciate the wonder of nature

I am totally onboard with day 1 of a snow event being an unscheduled snow day, for the sake of kids having fun and teachers getting some time off, despite it being a pain for me personally as a parent of young kids. But maybe by day 2 and definitely by day 3, I'd rather them do a virtual day than risk messing up our summer plans by extending the school year. (And even if you don't think virtual is very effective-- I think it is for many kids, although I concede that in some cases it isn't-- it is certainly more effective than an extra half day or two tacked on at the end of the year when a big chunk of the kids have left and the teachers aren't teaching a darn thing...)

Now some of our hs kids are being given assignments without being taught the content.. People always think of their younger kids but this impacts HS kids. We have three classes continuing with assignments regardless of if the work is taught. (but no worries, one class has free videos instead).

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Anonymous wrote:What I am loving about this thread is that it shows MCPS cannot please everyone. We have people complaining that the school is closed, that there is not virtual option, and kids are missing a day of school work. And we have people complaining that teachers emails work assignments to students on a snow day—“contact the principal” someone suggested.

DCUM posters never fail to disappoint.

The consensus from parents seems to be that schools should quickly schedule a meaningful make-up day that occurs as soon as possible.

Really? OK, try getting a consensus on when the make up day should be. It is always the same. People complaining that the way things are being done is wrong, but so solutions offered.

We already picked the days. If people don't like them, take it up on next year's calendar. 1/29 is the obvious choice.

When is the final grading and report card stuff supposed to happen? Do you have an answer for that? MCPS knows that teachers do real work on 1/29. If they make it a school day, schools will probably house kids in the auditorium and show movies so teachers can get their shit done. That might be just fine with some folks who are looking for free babysitting

From a supervision standpoint, I don’t think middle schools will do that, but individual teachers may need to show movies in their classrooms. The fact that parents would rather have that on 1/29 than mid June is telling about priorities.

Neither day will be very meaningful, let's be real. MCPS could schedule more instructional days that everyone would plan for so that makeup days don't need to be used, but they chose not to. The need to do a makeup day is not because of parents. It is a legal obligation but MCPS could make it less onerous on everyone by not stubbornly fixating on doing the bare minimum.

They used to do that before Hogan added rules about when school had to begin and end. It was 184 days.
Parents complicated about that too. And

What? Those Hogan rules were reversed. And stop blaming "parents" for MCPS's poor decisionmaking. Last year's "asynchronous" day was a huge tell that MCPS DGAF about educating kids.

Chill out. It was one day. MCPS has lots of competing priorities and a majority of the budget is sucked up by special education. There is no perfect solution

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Anonymous wrote:What I am loving about this thread is that it shows MCPS cannot please everyone. We have people complaining that the school is closed, that there is not virtual option, and kids are missing a day of school work. And we have people complaining that teachers emails work assignments to students on a snow day—“contact the principal” someone suggested.

DCUM posters never fail to disappoint.

The consensus from parents seems to be that schools should quickly schedule a meaningful make-up day that occurs as soon as possible.

Really? OK, try getting a consensus on when the make up day should be. It is always the same. People complaining that the way things are being done is wrong, but so solutions offered.

We already picked the days. If people don't like them, take it up on next year's calendar. 1/29 is the obvious choice.

When is the final grading and report card stuff supposed to happen? Do you have an answer for that? MCPS knows that teachers do real work on 1/29. If they make it a school day, schools will probably house kids in the auditorium and show movies so teachers can get their shit done. That might be just fine with some folks who are looking for free babysitting

From a supervision standpoint, I don’t think middle schools will do that, but individual teachers may need to show movies in their classrooms. The fact that parents would rather have that on 1/29 than mid June is telling about priorities.

Neither day will be very meaningful, let's be real. MCPS could schedule more instructional days that everyone would plan for so that makeup days don't need to be used, but they chose not to. The need to do a makeup day is not because of parents. It is a legal obligation but MCPS could make it less onerous on everyone by not stubbornly fixating on doing the bare minimum.

They used to do that before Hogan added rules about when school had to begin and end. It was 184 days.
Parents complicated about that too. And

What? Those Hogan rules were reversed. And stop blaming "parents" for MCPS's poor decisionmaking. Last year's "asynchronous" day was a huge tell that MCPS DGAF about educating kids.

Chill out. It was one day. MCPS has lots of competing priorities and a majority of the budget is sucked up by special education. There is no perfect solution

Why are you making stuff up? This is just plain false. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, given the reputation of MCPS these days.

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Anonymous wrote:What I am loving about this thread is that it shows MCPS cannot please everyone. We have people complaining that the school is closed, that there is not virtual option, and kids are missing a day of school work. And we have people complaining that teachers emails work assignments to students on a snow day—“contact the principal” someone suggested.

DCUM posters never fail to disappoint.

The consensus from parents seems to be that schools should quickly schedule a meaningful make-up day that occurs as soon as possible.

Really? OK, try getting a consensus on when the make up day should be. It is always the same. People complaining that the way things are being done is wrong, but so solutions offered.

We already picked the days. If people don't like them, take it up on next year's calendar. 1/29 is the obvious choice.

When is the final grading and report card stuff supposed to happen? Do you have an answer for that? MCPS knows that teachers do real work on 1/29. If they make it a school day, schools will probably house kids in the auditorium and show movies so teachers can get their shit done. That might be just fine with some folks who are looking for free babysitting

From a supervision standpoint, I don’t think middle schools will do that, but individual teachers may need to show movies in their classrooms. The fact that parents would rather have that on 1/29 than mid June is telling about priorities.

Neither day will be very meaningful, let's be real. MCPS could schedule more instructional days that everyone would plan for so that makeup days don't need to be used, but they chose not to. The need to do a makeup day is not because of parents. It is a legal obligation but MCPS could make it less onerous on everyone by not stubbornly fixating on doing the bare minimum.

They used to do that before Hogan added rules about when school had to begin and end. It was 184 days.
Parents complicated about that too. And

What? Those Hogan rules were reversed. And stop blaming "parents" for MCPS's poor decisionmaking. Last year's "asynchronous" day was a huge tell that MCPS DGAF about educating kids.

Chill out. It was one day. MCPS has lots of competing priorities and a majority of the budget is sucked up by special education. There is no perfect solution

Why are you making stuff up? This is just plain false. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, given the reputation of MCPS these days.

I believe it is true for practically every school district. Especially when you include lawsuits and private placements

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Taylor’s snow day video was a hit. It even garnered a positive story in the Post. Smart move to boost his popularity

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They should shorten or eliminate spring break.

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Anonymous wrote:They should shorten or eliminate spring break.

Lol

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Anonymous wrote:Taylor’s snow day video was a hit. It even garnered a positive story in the Post. Smart move to boost his popularity

I'd rather him take the time to fix the problems in MCPS like he promised. He's been Superintendent since July and no big changes have happened, no transparency, and his fix is asking for more money, which will not fix anything.

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Anonymous wrote:What I am loving about this thread is that it shows MCPS cannot please everyone. We have people complaining that the school is closed, that there is not virtual option, and kids are missing a day of school work. And we have people complaining that teachers emails work assignments to students on a snow day—“contact the principal” someone suggested.

DCUM posters never fail to disappoint.

The consensus from parents seems to be that schools should quickly schedule a meaningful make-up day that occurs as soon as possible.

Really? OK, try getting a consensus on when the make up day should be. It is always the same. People complaining that the way things are being done is wrong, but so solutions offered.

We already picked the days. If people don't like them, take it up on next year's calendar. 1/29 is the obvious choice.

When is the final grading and report card stuff supposed to happen? Do you have an answer for that? MCPS knows that teachers do real work on 1/29. If they make it a school day, schools will probably house kids in the auditorium and show movies so teachers can get their shit done. That might be just fine with some folks who are looking for free babysitting

From a supervision standpoint, I don’t think middle schools will do that, but individual teachers may need to show movies in their classrooms. The fact that parents would rather have that on 1/29 than mid June is telling about priorities.

Neither day will be very meaningful, let's be real. MCPS could schedule more instructional days that everyone would plan for so that makeup days don't need to be used, but they chose not to. The need to do a makeup day is not because of parents. It is a legal obligation but MCPS could make it less onerous on everyone by not stubbornly fixating on doing the bare minimum.

They used to do that before Hogan added rules about when school had to begin and end. It was 184 days.
Parents complicated about that too. And

What? Those Hogan rules were reversed. And stop blaming "parents" for MCPS's poor decisionmaking. Last year's "asynchronous" day was a huge tell that MCPS DGAF about educating kids.

Chill out. It was one day. MCPS has lots of competing priorities and a majority of the budget is sucked up by special education. There is no perfect solution

They don't spend that much on special education. They might have better test scores if they did.

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I read the original post... then walked away, knowing how these things go. When I saw there were almost 40 pages, I was curious if there would be more foot stomping or fist clenching.

DCUM never disappoints.

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Anonymous wrote:What I am loving about this thread is that it shows MCPS cannot please everyone. We have people complaining that the school is closed, that there is not virtual option, and kids are missing a day of school work. And we have people complaining that teachers emails work assignments to students on a snow day—“contact the principal” someone suggested.

DCUM posters never fail to disappoint.

The consensus from parents seems to be that schools should quickly schedule a meaningful make-up day that occurs as soon as possible.

Really? OK, try getting a consensus on when the make up day should be. It is always the same. People complaining that the way things are being done is wrong, but so solutions offered.

We already picked the days. If people don't like them, take it up on next year's calendar. 1/29 is the obvious choice.

When is the final grading and report card stuff supposed to happen? Do you have an answer for that? MCPS knows that teachers do real work on 1/29. If they make it a school day, schools will probably house kids in the auditorium and show movies so teachers can get their shit done. That might be just fine with some folks who are looking for free babysitting

From a supervision standpoint, I don’t think middle schools will do that, but individual teachers may need to show movies in their classrooms. The fact that parents would rather have that on 1/29 than mid June is telling about priorities.

Neither day will be very meaningful, let's be real. MCPS could schedule more instructional days that everyone would plan for so that makeup days don't need to be used, but they chose not to. The need to do a makeup day is not because of parents. It is a legal obligation but MCPS could make it less onerous on everyone by not stubbornly fixating on doing the bare minimum.

They used to do that before Hogan added rules about when school had to begin and end. It was 184 days.
Parents complicated about that too. And

What? Those Hogan rules were reversed. And stop blaming "parents" for MCPS's poor decisionmaking. Last year's "asynchronous" day was a huge tell that MCPS DGAF about educating kids.

Chill out. It was one day. MCPS has lots of competing priorities and a majority of the budget is sucked up by special education. There is no perfect solution

Why are you making stuff up? This is just plain false. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, given the reputation of MCPS these days.

I believe it is true for practically every school district. Especially when you include lawsuits and private placements

Well if you believe it ..

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers get very few perks. This is a small one. Why take away something fun and spontaneous? Life has become over scheduled for everyone. Snow days are a chance to slow down. It is important to appreciate the wonder of nature

I am totally onboard with day 1 of a snow event being an unscheduled snow day, for the sake of kids having fun and teachers getting some time off, despite it being a pain for me personally as a parent of young kids. But maybe by day 2 and definitely by day 3, I'd rather them do a virtual day than risk messing up our summer plans by extending the school year. (And even if you don't think virtual is very effective-- I think it is for many kids, although I concede that in some cases it isn't-- it is certainly more effective than an extra half day or two tacked on at the end of the year when a big chunk of the kids have left and the teachers aren't teaching a darn thing...)

You are on board with this plan, but the state is not, so it's not an option.

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MCPS need to build in more snow days to the calendar. There were a few years with very little snow, but generally, we get at least one 4-6 inch snow event each winter, which is enough to close MCPS for at least 2-3 days (provided it doesn't fall on a weekend). And even 2 inches is enough to close for a day. It's pretty predictable that in an average DMV winter, MCPS will use more than 2 snow days.

My sister teaches in a suburban Boston district- an area that is much more adept to dealing with snow and does not have to close as long for these events- and they still build in 5 snow days to the calendar. If they don't use them, they end the school year earlier. I don't know wht we can't do something like that here. Would be better than all this unecessary drama about how to make the days up.

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Anonymous wrote:What I am loving about this thread is that it shows MCPS cannot please everyone. We have people complaining that the school is closed, that there is not virtual option, and kids are missing a day of school work. And we have people complaining that teachers emails work assignments to students on a snow day—“contact the principal” someone suggested.

DCUM posters never fail to disappoint.

The consensus from parents seems to be that schools should quickly schedule a meaningful make-up day that occurs as soon as possible.

Really? OK, try getting a consensus on when the make up day should be. It is always the same. People complaining that the way things are being done is wrong, but so solutions offered.

We already picked the days. If people don't like them, take it up on next year's calendar. 1/29 is the obvious choice.

When is the final grading and report card stuff supposed to happen? Do you have an answer for that? MCPS knows that teachers do real work on 1/29. If they make it a school day, schools will probably house kids in the auditorium and show movies so teachers can get their shit done. That might be just fine with some folks who are looking for free babysitting

From a supervision standpoint, I don’t think middle schools will do that, but individual teachers may need to show movies in their classrooms. The fact that parents would rather have that on 1/29 than mid June is telling about priorities.

Or they could teach.

Shut off the internet and have the principal and APs verifyiny there's no movie playing. Apparently we can't trust teachers to be professionals.

Are you slow? They’ll be doing the grading that was supposed to be taking place that day.

And who is “we?” Because you’ll be “shutting off” nothing.

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Anonymous wrote:They should shorten or eliminate spring break.

Haha. Keep dreaming.