MCPS updated calendar is insane

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Anonymous wrote:By using religious holidays as contingency days, they are setting themselves up for problems. They either need to use non-religious days or plan to go til end of June.

If we only use non-religious days as the contingency plan, it would require using spring break as the contingency days. I am ok with that, but lots of people are not. The bottom line is that there is no way to fit in all the days that everyone wants to have off without going earlier at the start of the year or later at the end of the year. It is time to make some hard decisions for future years.

They could start earlier in the year and add more days into the calendar. And they could use the PD days like the end-of-quarter planning days, although some of these are already contingency days and MCPS refuses to use them too.

I guarantee the county would be upset if schools opened up while the Agricultural Fair is in session. They invest a TON of money into the fair and the fairgrounds and if everyone is in school they will lose a ton

So what? MCPS is not the county gov't.

They do not work independently of each other for the most part.

Sure they do. I was required to go to jury duty on the Thursday after the Sunday storm. County offices were open. Just not MCPS. If MCPS wants to be special, it shouldn’t care about the ag fair…

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Anonymous wrote:By using religious holidays as contingency days, they are setting themselves up for problems. They either need to use non-religious days or plan to go til end of June.

If we only use non-religious days as the contingency plan, it would require using spring break as the contingency days. I am ok with that, but lots of people are not. The bottom line is that there is no way to fit in all the days that everyone wants to have off without going earlier at the start of the year or later at the end of the year. It is time to make some hard decisions for future years.

They could start earlier in the year and add more days into the calendar. And they could use the PD days like the end-of-quarter planning days, although some of these are already contingency days and MCPS refuses to use them too.

+1. Start one week earlier in August and build in an appropriate number of snow days into the calendar, instead of just 1 so we don’t have this calendar chaos and half assed extra half days in June each year.

That is stupid. Literally just stop giving so many snow days off. That Monday off was ridiculous when all other counties in MD went to school. And if they want to keep giving weeks off for inadequate snow removal, or a day off for flurries, they need to have virtual options set up and in place. It's not that hard but MCPS is the most privileged and laziest county in Maryland

There will always be MCPS staffers who howl that someone will DIE if they go to school while there is ice on the ground and that anyone who thinks schools should be open hate their children and want them dead. Better to open a week earlier in August and build in more snow days since the risk tolerance in this district is so low.

Don’t forget the people who scream “school is not daycare” and “learn to parent your children” every time someone suggests that schools should be open 4 days after a snow storm.

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Anonymous wrote:By using religious holidays as contingency days, they are setting themselves up for problems. They either need to use non-religious days or plan to go til end of June.

If we only use non-religious days as the contingency plan, it would require using spring break as the contingency days. I am ok with that, but lots of people are not. The bottom line is that there is no way to fit in all the days that everyone wants to have off without going earlier at the start of the year or later at the end of the year. It is time to make some hard decisions for future years.

They could start earlier in the year and add more days into the calendar. And they could use the PD days like the end-of-quarter planning days, although some of these are already contingency days and MCPS refuses to use them too.

I guarantee the county would be upset if schools opened up while the Agricultural Fair is in session. They invest a TON of money into the fair and the fairgrounds and if everyone is in school they will lose a ton

So what? MCPS is not the county gov't.

They do not work independently of each other for the most part.

Sure they do. I was required to go to jury duty on the Thursday after the Sunday storm. County offices were open. Just not MCPS. If MCPS wants to be special, it shouldn’t care about the ag fair…

The county uses like 40 school busses for fair operation from like 10 am -10 pm. Thats going to go over well with school in session

[Anonymous]

MCPS is mismanaged. Is this a surprise? No, we will not be going. After AP exams, little teaching is done depending on the class.

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Anonymous wrote:By using religious holidays as contingency days, they are setting themselves up for problems. They either need to use non-religious days or plan to go til end of June.

If we only use non-religious days as the contingency plan, it would require using spring break as the contingency days. I am ok with that, but lots of people are not. The bottom line is that there is no way to fit in all the days that everyone wants to have off without going earlier at the start of the year or later at the end of the year. It is time to make some hard decisions for future years.

They could start earlier in the year and add more days into the calendar. And they could use the PD days like the end-of-quarter planning days, although some of these are already contingency days and MCPS refuses to use them too.

I guarantee the county would be upset if schools opened up while the Agricultural Fair is in session. They invest a TON of money into the fair and the fairgrounds and if everyone is in school they will lose a ton

So what? MCPS is not the county gov't.

They do not work independently of each other for the most part.

Sure they do. I was required to go to jury duty on the Thursday after the Sunday storm. County offices were open. Just not MCPS. If MCPS wants to be special, it shouldn’t care about the ag fair…

The issue is many of us couldn't get there safely but they could have done virtual.

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Anonymous wrote:FYI. There is a huge misperception that MCPS must grant non-instructional days for religious holidays. Legally, they must grant a student excused absences.

Right. And admin cannot deny an employee leave for a religious holiday. So as long as the number of employees requesting leave for the religious holiday doesn’t put an undue burden on the substitute system, there is no reason to have a systemwide closure.

Says the person whose religious holidays are almost certainly still going to be protected.

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Anonymous wrote:By using religious holidays as contingency days, they are setting themselves up for problems. They either need to use non-religious days or plan to go til end of June.

If we only use non-religious days as the contingency plan, it would require using spring break as the contingency days. I am ok with that, but lots of people are not. The bottom line is that there is no way to fit in all the days that everyone wants to have off without going earlier at the start of the year or later at the end of the year. It is time to make some hard decisions for future years.

They could start earlier in the year and add more days into the calendar. And they could use the PD days like the end-of-quarter planning days, although some of these are already contingency days and MCPS refuses to use them too.

I guarantee the county would be upset if schools opened up while the Agricultural Fair is in session. They invest a TON of money into the fair and the fairgrounds and if everyone is in school they will lose a ton

So what? MCPS is not the county gov't.

They do not work independently of each other for the most part.

Sure they do. I was required to go to jury duty on the Thursday after the Sunday storm. County offices were open. Just not MCPS. If MCPS wants to be special, it shouldn’t care about the ag fair…

The issue is many of us couldn't get there safely but they could have done virtual.

No they couldn’t have. Because MCPS did not submit the virtual learning for weather emergency plan to the state of Maryland that it promised to do in 2024, like Baltimore and Anne Arundel counties did. MCPS is the slacker school district.

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Zero chance school will EVER start a week earlier than it already does.... UNLESS it ENDS a week earlier. Teachers unions are very strong and teachers DO NOT want to come back a week earlier. I'm trying to figure out how when Hogan was in office, we managed to start after Labor Day and end by June 15 while still going 180 days??? I think the BOE and Taylor need to review the old calendars from those 8 years.

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Anonymous wrote:By using religious holidays as contingency days, they are setting themselves up for problems. They either need to use non-religious days or plan to go til end of June.

If we only use non-religious days as the contingency plan, it would require using spring break as the contingency days. I am ok with that, but lots of people are not. The bottom line is that there is no way to fit in all the days that everyone wants to have off without going earlier at the start of the year or later at the end of the year. It is time to make some hard decisions for future years.

They could start earlier in the year and add more days into the calendar. And they could use the PD days like the end-of-quarter planning days, although some of these are already contingency days and MCPS refuses to use them too.

I guarantee the county would be upset if schools opened up while the Agricultural Fair is in session. They invest a TON of money into the fair and the fairgrounds and if everyone is in school they will lose a ton

So what? MCPS is not the county gov't.

They do not work independently of each other for the most part.

Sure they do. I was required to go to jury duty on the Thursday after the Sunday storm. County offices were open. Just not MCPS. If MCPS wants to be special, it shouldn’t care about the ag fair…

The issue is many of us couldn't get there safely but they could have done virtual.

No they couldn’t have. Because MCPS did not submit the virtual learning for weather emergency plan to the state of Maryland that it promised to do in 2024, like Baltimore and Anne Arundel counties did. MCPS is the slacker school district.

Because virtual days thrown together at the last minute in response to a winter storm would be awful. The virtual learning plan should be not to do it.

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Anonymous wrote:Who is sending their kids from June 22-25??? But with a day off on June 23? Who comes up with these idiotic decisions??

What's insane is the idiot who acts like they didn't know this was a possibility. The calendar was adopted on 12/5/24 and CLEARLY stated those dates as make-up dates. Honestly the fake outrage at EVERYTHING MCPS is tiring.

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Can anyone tell me why may 27th is a non instructional day? It's not a religious holiday as far as I can tell

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Anonymous wrote:Can anyone tell me why may 27th is a non instructional day? It's not a religious holiday as far as I can tell

Eid al-Adha

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Anonymous wrote:Why on earth would June 23rd be off, if we have to go until the 25th?

Primary Election Day

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Anonymous wrote:Can anyone tell me why may 27th is a non instructional day? It's not a religious holiday as far as I can tell

It is Eid.

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Anonymous wrote:It was an fing state of emergency for 2 if not 3 of those days! Wtf do they expect???

To use the makeup days in the calendar, which MCPS refuses to do.

It doesn't matter what the weather was. The language is clear that the school system must use 3 of its make-up days to apply for a waiver. MCPS consistently refuses to do that and applies for a waiver anyway. They are denied every year because of it. MCPS thinks they are better than everyone else and thinks they'll get away with it. The state is just showing them that they won't, which is perfectly justifiable. All they had to do was use the make-up days in the calendar - 3 of them- and they would have likely been granted a waiver for the rest.

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