MCPS is closing Wed 11/24, day before Thanksgiving

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Anonymous wrote:Because those conferences should happening right now, like they have every other year. These kids are basically getting a full week off of school. I thought they were really concerned about catching kids up from last year. That week is now a wash.

Right now they should be more concerned with teacher burnout. It's real. And while other surrounding counties are doing things to accommodate the mental health and well-being of their teachers, MCPS is piling on more responsibility.

DP

Is this for real? What do you think burnout is like in other professions? Nurses, truck drivers, law enforcement, retail, restaurant workers? Anyone who has been working in person during this pandemic. Are teachers somehow more ‘special’?

Teachers worked from home for over a year.

NP- Burn out is real is all those professions that you named and the folks responsible for employing them are having to make accommodations and do things in order to keep their employees happy and working. So its not that teachers are more special, its that teachers are the same, everyone takes their job for granted until they throw their hands up and say to hell with it, I’m taking my talents elsewhere. People forget that teachers are parents also. Teachers have lives outside also. So again, its not that teachers view themselves as more special, but that many a parent, especially here on DCUm seems to view themselves and their circumstances as more special.

DP, but I think part of what people are reacting to is that (1) unlike the other areas listed, teachers (at least here) did NOT work in-person for much of the pandemic and (2) parents were given SO little grace around having to work and simultaneously assist their kids with the hell that was Zoom school. So, frankly, there's not much left in the tank, especially not when teachers' unions actively worked to keep remote education as long as it was. I get that teachers are exhausted. We are ALL exhausted. It would have been great if we could have been more understanding a year ago instead of just screaming about how school wasn't daycare and we should watch our own [bleeping] kids.

That’s the fault of those parents’ employers, not teachers.

No, it's not. Teachers' unions added plenty of vitriol to the mix. Stop dodging the issue.

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Anonymous wrote:Good. They have a lot of extremely unhappy employees right now and I am shuddering to think of what the resignation rate is going to be at the end of this year. They needed to do something to at least pay lip service to it. Other districts have been doing things like adding monthly half days or closing the entire week of Thanksgiving so this is not out of line.

How does this help employees? The half-day would have counted toward the 180 requirement. They are just going to have to work another day. You know we will get through al our snow days and then some.

I’m wondering the same. Hopefully we don’t need both snow days.

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Anonymous wrote:Well there aren’t enough nannies/sitters to cover that day either. What to make your problem my problem, Board.

Schools are not child care, fool

This is such a stupid response to a real problem. What is the point in posting this? Is it your position that mothers should be sitting at home knitting booties just in case schools close?

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The three half days are silly. Good.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well there aren’t enough nannies/sitters to cover that day either. What to make your problem my problem, Board.

Schools are not child care, fool

This is such a stupid response to a real problem. What is the point in posting this? Is it your position that mothers should be sitting at home knitting booties just in case schools close?

Kids have two parents. Dad can sit home and knit booties if that makes you happier. There are child care programs at many of the schools that parents can use. Many private companies also offer child care. School is not child care. If its a problem, you now have a few weeks to plan for child care.

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Anonymous wrote:Today is the day to start booking those high school students for the half day. I’m sure a lot of them would like to make extra cash! College students might also be available. Two weeks is plenty of time to find somebody.

Yes college kids want to babysit when they’re home for five days
dentist poster will figure it out but it’s absolutely short notice.

Oh to be rich and privileged. Maybe just privileged and oblivious. Yes, many many college kids are happy to babysit because they need money. Not everybody has mom or dad paying or scholarships. Some of them have to work to pay tuition.

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Anonymous wrote:Good. They have a lot of extremely unhappy employees right now and I am shuddering to think of what the resignation rate is going to be at the end of this year. They needed to do something to at least pay lip service to it. Other districts have been doing things like adding monthly half days or closing the entire week of Thanksgiving so this is not out of line.

How does this help employees? The half-day would have counted toward the 180 requirement. They are just going to have to work another day. You know we will get through al our snow days and then some.

I’m wondering the same. Hopefully we don’t need both snow days.

They can probably do virtual for snow days if they need it.

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Anonymous wrote:It looks like they’re not planning to “make up” this day. They usually set aside two as a buffer for snow days. Now we’re down to one. Reading between the lines, they may throw the kids one snow day, and the rest may be virtual. Purely speculation but there it is.

MCPS doesn’t control the weather OR whether the state requires days to be made up in person.

But they do control whether they decide to close for a snow day and whether it will be a day off or a virtual day.

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Anonymous wrote:Today is the day to start booking those high school students for the half day. I’m sure a lot of them would like to make extra cash! College students might also be available. Two weeks is plenty of time to find somebody.

You take your reasonable plan of action and get off this site! We will have none of that here. This board is for trolling and baselessly insulting people. Arguing the same debate over and over is also acceptable.

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Anonymous wrote:Awesome. Thanks for the last minute notice, yet again, MCPS.

It’s great for us working moms who have to physically go into work.

As always, thanks for the adequate notice so that we can scramble to make arrangements.

It’s two weeks notice.

I’m a dentist. I blocked off the afternoon, knowing that the kids would be off and I could do pick up. Now, with two weeks notice, I have to call and reschedule all the people who took time out of their scheduled to make appointments that morning. Or, I scramble to find a sitter with short notice, just like everyone else who will also need to do so.

They could have decided this at the beginning of the year. Or in October. Two weeks notice is ridiculous.

PP, I'm sorry for your predicament, but really, I would expect a dentist to be familiar with the idea of last-minute changes in schedules.

A. You're not sorry for his predicament.
B. Switch dentist with fry cook or any other occupation that doesn't have the luxury of time to post on an internet message board and run your sardonic comment once again.

This. Such privilege and obnoxiousness.

Do people have any idea what life is like outside of their cushy telework universe?

It’s the day before Thanksgiving. My neighbor works for Wegmans. Now, she has to pay for a sitter that afternoon. Because, surely, you can see ho it might be difficult for her to ask for off the Wednesday before Thanksgiving with only two weeks notice. Glad to see all the teachers celebrating the news on FB though.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Awesome. Thanks for the last minute notice, yet again, MCPS.

It’s great for us working moms who have to physically go into work.

As always, thanks for the adequate notice so that we can scramble to make arrangements.

It’s two weeks notice.

I’m a dentist. I blocked off the afternoon, knowing that the kids would be off and I could do pick up. Now, with two weeks notice, I have to call and reschedule all the people who took time out of their scheduled to make appointments that morning. Or, I scramble to find a sitter with short notice, just like everyone else who will also need to do so.

They could have decided this at the beginning of the year. Or in October. Two weeks notice is ridiculous.

Don’t you have an office your kids can sit in with an iPad for four hours?

I really find it hard to believe that you have that many dental appointments for the day before Thanksgiving.

Are you kidding? LOL. Our office is booked weeks out. Pretty much any medical provider is booked solid over this past year. Lots of dentists retired and demand for appointments has been up.

Who’s going to pick the kids up from the bus stop and bring them to the office?

PP, for someone who thinks she has all the answers, you’re actually pretty out of touch with reality, aren’t you.

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Anonymous wrote:Today is the day to start booking those high school students for the half day. I’m sure a lot of them would like to make extra cash! College students might also be available. Two weeks is plenty of time to find somebody.

Yeah, that works for me. But might not work for everyone.

I mean, when you work at Target and have a monthly budget to stick to - an additional unexpected expense for a sitter can be a bit stressful.

For all the BS that MCPS likes to talk about ‘equity’, this is surely not something that helps struggling working parents. Though, I guess it’s been clear this past year that MCPS doesn’t care all that much about what happens to our kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Awesome. Thanks for the last minute notice, yet again, MCPS.

It’s great for us working moms who have to physically go into work.

As always, thanks for the adequate notice so that we can scramble to make arrangements.

It’s two weeks notice.

I’m a dentist. I blocked off the afternoon, knowing that the kids would be off and I could do pick up. Now, with two weeks notice, I have to call and reschedule all the people who took time out of their scheduled to make appointments that morning. Or, I scramble to find a sitter with short notice, just like everyone else who will also need to do so.

They could have decided this at the beginning of the year. Or in October. Two weeks notice is ridiculous.

PP, I'm sorry for your predicament, but really, I would expect a dentist to be familiar with the idea of last-minute changes in schedules.

A. You're not sorry for his predicament.
B. Switch dentist with fry cook or any other occupation that doesn't have the luxury of time to post on an internet message board and run your sardonic comment once again.

This. Such privilege and obnoxiousness.

Do people have any idea what life is like outside of their cushy telework universe?

It’s the day before Thanksgiving. My neighbor works for Wegmans. Now, she has to pay for a sitter that afternoon. Because, surely, you can see ho it might be difficult for her to ask for off the Wednesday before Thanksgiving with only two weeks notice. Glad to see all the teachers celebrating the news on FB though.

You could be a great neighbor and offer to take her kids. Problem solved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Today is the day to start booking those high school students for the half day. I’m sure a lot of them would like to make extra cash! College students might also be available. Two weeks is plenty of time to find somebody.

Yeah, that works for me. But might not work for everyone.

I mean, when you work at Target and have a monthly budget to stick to - an additional unexpected expense for a sitter can be a bit stressful.

For all the BS that MCPS likes to talk about ‘equity’, this is surely not something that helps struggling working parents. Though, I guess it’s been clear this past year that MCPS doesn’t care all that much about what happens to our kids.

Do you work at Target and have a tight budget? Do you never get babysitters (we don't - never ever had one)?

Lets be real. Its usually the comfortable families complaining because the ones who are working at Target know this can be an issue and simply figure it out.

Or, if the reason is they cannot get enough subs for the teachers who request off, maybe you can sign up to be a sub and work that day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Today is the day to start booking those high school students for the half day. I’m sure a lot of them would like to make extra cash! College students might also be available. Two weeks is plenty of time to find somebody.

Yeah, that works for me. But might not work for everyone.

I mean, when you work at Target and have a monthly budget to stick to - an additional unexpected expense for a sitter can be a bit stressful.

For all the BS that MCPS likes to talk about ‘equity’, this is surely not something that helps struggling working parents. Though, I guess it’s been clear this past year that MCPS doesn’t care all that much about what happens to our kids.

Do you work at Target and have a tight budget? Do you never get babysitters (we don't - never ever had one)?

Lets be real. Its usually the comfortable families complaining because the ones who are working at Target know this can be an issue and simply figure it out.

Or, if the reason is they cannot get enough subs for the teachers who request off, maybe you can sign up to be a sub and work that day.

DP, and ah, yes, the romanticizing of poverty. "They have it all figured out"--is that how you rationalize this kind of crap? Figuring it out for many families means kids unsupervised. You know that, right?