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

[Anonymous]

My niece goes to school in a district that gives about 8 weeks off in summer. 2 full weeks off at Christmas. 2 full weeks at Spring break. About a week October break. NO ONE needs 12 weeks off in summer. What a stupid calendar. Kids and adults need more frequent time off, not longer time off.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kids will be there but I would consider taking them out..I don't think much will go on.

Teacher have curriculum that expect students to be in school and need to deliver instruction on those days. Because too many parents think attendance is only necessary when personally convenient, teachers will also be expected to accommodate all the students that miss instruction. Many teachers will end up designing some type of lesson or task that is important, needs to be done, but could also be done as make-up work at home. Come to school? You get direct instruction and help with the task. Don't come? Task still has to be completed on your own.

Yep. I do flipped lessons on these days with videos of the direct instruction and then have the kids who come in work on the actual assignment and have kids who are traveling complete the work before they come back. It's the best way I've found to give real lessons to the kids who come but be understanding of the kids who are away.

Interestingly, the county is very specific with teachers that we are not to use personal days right before a break. So, looks like my kids will be in school.

[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!!!

What is your point? I don’t understand (truly)
-op

I did not post this, but it did make me laugh. I believe the poster is alluding to the South Park Underpants Gnome episode.

[Anonymous]

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Interestingly, the county is very specific with teachers that we are not to use personal days right before a break. So, looks like my kids will be in school.

Nothing to prevent teachers from calling in sick. It’s only 2 days so no doctor’s note can be required.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My niece goes to school in a district that gives about 8 weeks off in summer. 2 full weeks off at Christmas. 2 full weeks at Spring break. About a week October break. NO ONE needs 12 weeks off in summer. What a stupid calendar. Kids and adults need more frequent time off, not longer time off.

I would vote for the schedule above. For those with little ones who can't take off there would be camps (private, public and everything in between, just like summer), and for those who could take off you could travel farther, stay longer, and be refreshed/relaxed and ready to learn (and teach!).

PP, when are you running for office on the above platform?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kids will be there but I would consider taking them out..I don't think much will go on.

Arrgh. I hate this stupid Hogan calendar. Nearly every other district in the country gets a full week off in the spring.

Not Hogan’s calendar - the board of education selected a calendar within Hogan’s parameters. His parameters are not that difficult! When you review their calendar options, I think the board picked a calendar that would annoy people. It’s political. I also wonder if Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Eid, or Easter Monday should be mandatory holidays - would be nice to know the survey results, but I guess that will come in time.

For OP’s question - I’m not sure yet. We haven’t decided if we are going away for the whole week or just doing a long weekend somewhere.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids will be there but I would consider taking them out..I don't think much will go on.

Arrgh. I hate this stupid Hogan calendar. Nearly every other district in the country gets a full week off in the spring.

Not Hogan’s calendar - the board of education selected a calendar within Hogan’s parameters. His parameters are not that difficult! When you review their calendar options, I think the board picked a calendar that would annoy people. It’s political. I also wonder if Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Eid, or Easter Monday should be mandatory holidays - would be nice to know the survey results, but I guess that will come in time.

For OP’s question - I’m not sure yet. We haven’t decided if we are going away for the whole week or just doing a long weekend somewhere.

Hogan’s parameters are ridiculous and none of the options are good. You can’t blame the BOE.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kids will be there but I would consider taking them out..I don't think much will go on.

Arrgh. I hate this stupid Hogan calendar. Nearly every other district in the country gets a full week off in the spring.

Not Hogan’s calendar - the board of education selected a calendar within Hogan’s parameters. His parameters are not that difficult! When you review their calendar options, I think the board picked a calendar that would annoy people. It’s political. I also wonder if Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Eid, or Easter Monday should be mandatory holidays - would be nice to know the survey results, but I guess that will come in time.

For OP’s question - I’m not sure yet. We haven’t decided if we are going away for the whole week or just doing a long weekend somewhere.

Hogan’s parameters are ridiculous and none of the options are good. You can’t blame the BOE.

We’re in PG county and have a week and a day for break and I’m pretty sure Howard county does too. So Hogan’s parameters aren’t to blame.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thinking ahead to next Spring Break, how many people will be sending their kids Monday and Tuesday? I am willing to work around it but will be irritated to shorten a trip and then the days are worthless because so many kids are absent, the teachers plan nothing.

Doubtful that teachers plan nothing. Obviously, they won’t hold tests, but planning nothing would mean complete chaos.

Freshman year, during the last days before Christmas break, my kid watched Frozen in language class for 2 straight days. And no, he wasn't studying Arendellian or even Norwegian. At first, I assumed they were watching Frozen dubbed into Arabic, but no. It was in English.

I guess technically there is some planning involved in remembering to bring the DVD, or to pull up your Amazon account, but not a lot.

I should add that I'm a teacher, and I've done some movie watching when attendance is low, but it's been stuff like watching West Side story if we just finished Romeo and Juliet, or watching Schindler's list if the class is studying WW2.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kids will be there but I would consider taking them out..I don't think much will go on.

Arrgh. I hate this stupid Hogan calendar. Nearly every other district in the country gets a full week off in the spring.

Not Hogan’s calendar - the board of education selected a calendar within Hogan’s parameters. His parameters are not that difficult! When you review their calendar options, I think the board picked a calendar that would annoy people. It’s political. I also wonder if Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Eid, or Easter Monday should be mandatory holidays - would be nice to know the survey results, but I guess that will come in time.

For OP’s question - I’m not sure yet. We haven’t decided if we are going away for the whole week or just doing a long weekend somewhere.

Hogan’s parameters are ridiculous and none of the options are good. You can’t blame the BOE.

We’re in PG county and have a week and a day for break and I’m pretty sure Howard county does too. So Hogan’s parameters aren’t to blame.

When we lived in PGcounty, there wasn’t a large population of Jewish students and teachers. That accounts for at least a couple of the days. Does your calendar include Jewish holidays?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kids will be there but I would consider taking them out..I don't think much will go on.

Arrgh. I hate this stupid Hogan calendar. Nearly every other district in the country gets a full week off in the spring.

Not Hogan’s calendar - the board of education selected a calendar within Hogan’s parameters. His parameters are not that difficult! When you review their calendar options, I think the board picked a calendar that would annoy people. It’s political. I also wonder if Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Eid, or Easter Monday should be mandatory holidays - would be nice to know the survey results, but I guess that will come in time.

For OP’s question - I’m not sure yet. We haven’t decided if we are going away for the whole week or just doing a long weekend somewhere.

Hogan’s parameters are ridiculous and none of the options are good. You can’t blame the BOE.

We’re in PG county and have a week and a day for break and I’m pretty sure Howard county does too. So Hogan’s parameters aren’t to blame.

When we lived in PGcounty, there wasn’t a large population of Jewish students and teachers. That accounts for at least a couple of the days. Does your calendar include Jewish holidays?

PG county doesn’t close for Jewish holidays but Howard county does and they’re off for a full week of spring break.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kids will be there but I would consider taking them out..I don't think much will go on.

Arrgh. I hate this stupid Hogan calendar. Nearly every other district in the country gets a full week off in the spring.

Not Hogan’s calendar - the board of education selected a calendar within Hogan’s parameters. His parameters are not that difficult! When you review their calendar options, I think the board picked a calendar that would annoy people. It’s political. I also wonder if Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Eid, or Easter Monday should be mandatory holidays - would be nice to know the survey results, but I guess that will come in time.

For OP’s question - I’m not sure yet. We haven’t decided if we are going away for the whole week or just doing a long weekend somewhere.

Hogan’s parameters are ridiculous and none of the options are good. You can’t blame the BOE.

We’re in PG county and have a week and a day for break and I’m pretty sure Howard county does too. So Hogan’s parameters aren’t to blame.

When we lived in PGcounty, there wasn’t a large population of Jewish students and teachers. That accounts for at least a couple of the days. Does your calendar include Jewish holidays?

PG county doesn’t close for Jewish holidays but Howard county does and they’re off for a full week of spring break.

How do they not end by June 15? The last day is June 17. And it looks like they had to revise the calendar to get there after they changed the inclement weather policy. But I don’t know because I don’t follow Howard county.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My niece goes to school in a district that gives about 8 weeks off in summer. 2 full weeks off at Christmas. 2 full weeks at Spring break. About a week October break. NO ONE needs 12 weeks off in summer. What a stupid calendar. Kids and adults need more frequent time off, not longer time off.

I would vote for the schedule above. For those with little ones who can't take off there would be camps (private, public and everything in between, just like summer), and for those who could take off you could travel farther, stay longer, and be refreshed/relaxed and ready to learn (and teach!).

PP, when are you running for office on the above platform?

NP here, amen to all of this and you'll have my vote.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kids will be there but I would consider taking them out..I don't think much will go on.

Arrgh. I hate this stupid Hogan calendar. Nearly every other district in the country gets a full week off in the spring.

Not Hogan’s calendar - the board of education selected a calendar within Hogan’s parameters. His parameters are not that difficult! When you review their calendar options, I think the board picked a calendar that would annoy people. It’s political. I also wonder if Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Eid, or Easter Monday should be mandatory holidays - would be nice to know the survey results, but I guess that will come in time.

For OP’s question - I’m not sure yet. We haven’t decided if we are going away for the whole week or just doing a long weekend somewhere.

Hogan’s parameters are ridiculous and none of the options are good. You can’t blame the BOE.

We’re in PG county and have a week and a day for break and I’m pretty sure Howard county does too. So Hogan’s parameters aren’t to blame.

When we lived in PGcounty, there wasn’t a large population of Jewish students and teachers. That accounts for at least a couple of the days. Does your calendar include Jewish holidays?

PG county doesn’t close for Jewish holidays but Howard county does and they’re off for a full week of spring break.

How do they not end by June 15? The last day is June 17. And it looks like they had to revise the calendar to get there after they changed the inclement weather policy. But I don’t know because I don’t follow Howard county.

They amended their already approved 18-19 calendar this spring once Hogan backtracked on his original executive order and allowed schools to go until June 22. They got a lot of negative feedback from schools and the community about the shortened spring break this year and the attendance on the 3 spring break days that wound up used as weather makeups was abysmal.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids will be there but I would consider taking them out..I don't think much will go on.

Arrgh. I hate this stupid Hogan calendar. Nearly every other district in the country gets a full week off in the spring.

Not Hogan’s calendar - the board of education selected a calendar within Hogan’s parameters. His parameters are not that difficult! When you review their calendar options, I think the board picked a calendar that would annoy people. It’s political. I also wonder if Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Eid, or Easter Monday should be mandatory holidays - would be nice to know the survey results, but I guess that will come in time.

For OP’s question - I’m not sure yet. We haven’t decided if we are going away for the whole week or just doing a long weekend somewhere.

Hogan’s parameters are ridiculous and none of the options are good. You can’t blame the BOE.

We’re in PG county and have a week and a day for break and I’m pretty sure Howard county does too. So Hogan’s parameters aren’t to blame.

When we lived in PGcounty, there wasn’t a large population of Jewish students and teachers. That accounts for at least a couple of the days. Does your calendar include Jewish holidays?

PG county doesn’t close for Jewish holidays but Howard county does and they’re off for a full week of spring break.

How do they not end by June 15? The last day is June 17. And it looks like they had to revise the calendar to get there after they changed the inclement weather policy. But I don’t know because I don’t follow Howard county.

They amended their already approved 18-19 calendar this spring once Hogan backtracked on his original executive order and allowed schools to go until June 22. They got a lot of negative feedback from schools and the community about the shortened spring break this year and the attendance on the 3 spring break days that wound up used as weather makeups was abysmal.

Hogan's parameters were ridiculous from the beginning, he refused to give waivers and now has backtracked. The only thing MCPS BOE hasn't done that Howard did was to revise the calendar after it was finalized. The whole mess is still Hogan's fault. Can you imagine the amount of time he wasted for the school board and the amount of drama in coming up with calendars that complied, and then he changes it?