MCPS Brian Hill Dissembles

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:May I be excused for Ramadan or Lent, please?

An easy solution is to just ignore all religious holidays equally. All religious days off are excused so I don't see the problem.

It creates a hardship for students who want to celebrate their holiday, but cannot; whereas other religions' holidays ARE recognized. Thus, favoritism and discrimination.

Of course they can. They can celebrate all they want to and it will be an excused absence.

It’s systemic discrimination because other groups can celebrate their holidays without being absent

Wrong

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:May I be excused for Ramadan or Lent, please?

An easy solution is to just ignore all religious holidays equally. All religious days off are excused so I don't see the problem.

It creates a hardship for students who want to celebrate their holiday, but cannot; whereas other religions' holidays ARE recognized. Thus, favoritism and discrimination.

Of course they can. They can celebrate all they want to and it will be an excused absence.

It’s systemic discrimination because other groups can celebrate their holidays without being absent

Wrong

That’s established fact when the system impedes one group, but not another, that it’s systemic discrimination.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:May I be excused for Ramadan or Lent, please?

An easy solution is to just ignore all religious holidays equally. All religious days off are excused so I don't see the problem.

It creates a hardship for students who want to celebrate their holiday, but cannot; whereas other religions' holidays ARE recognized. Thus, favoritism and discrimination.

Of course they can. They can celebrate all they want to and it will be an excused absence.

It’s systemic discrimination because other groups can celebrate their holidays without being absent

Wrong

That’s established fact when the system impedes one group, but not another, that it’s systemic discrimination.

Citation needed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:May I be excused for Ramadan or Lent, please?

An easy solution is to just ignore all religious holidays equally. All religious days off are excused so I don't see the problem.

It creates a hardship for students who want to celebrate their holiday, but cannot; whereas other religions' holidays ARE recognized. Thus, favoritism and discrimination.

Of course they can. They can celebrate all they want to and it will be an excused absence.

It’s systemic discrimination because other groups can celebrate their holidays without being absent

Wrong

That’s established fact when the system impedes one group, but not another, that it’s systemic discrimination.

Citation needed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_discrimination

[Anonymous]

Fridays are essentially the sabbath for Pastafarians. I guess we better give those days off.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was so unhappy with MCPS that I moved my 3rd and 4th kids to private for high school, but, I also think kids have not missed that much school due to weather since we started back up after COVID.

It has just been a couple of days. MCPS is too large to pivot to virtual learning on a days notice. My kid's private doesn't go virtual due to weather (even though they are well-setup to do it. Do we all remember when our kids missed weeks of learning in MCPS in March/April/May of 2020? That was a s***show. This is just a couple of days. Kids will be fine.

Finally, a SANE voice of reason. All these parents screaming that the sky is falling are absolutely unhinged.

You're hearing from just a few people that are either very strongly personally invested in virtual (probably parents whose kids are already in VA), as well as a few parents/teachers that are worried their spring break/summer plans are going to be affected because they chose to make inflexible plans on scheduled make-up days.

It's weird. There are days identified in the calendar for snow days. We're in exactly the situation they were intended for. There shouldn't be great controversy over what to do.

You're probably the only person who didn't make Spring Break plans *solely* because they were listed as potential make-up days. You sound unhinged yourself.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was so unhappy with MCPS that I moved my 3rd and 4th kids to private for high school, but, I also think kids have not missed that much school due to weather since we started back up after COVID.

It has just been a couple of days. MCPS is too large to pivot to virtual learning on a days notice. My kid's private doesn't go virtual due to weather (even though they are well-setup to do it. Do we all remember when our kids missed weeks of learning in MCPS in March/April/May of 2020? That was a s***show. This is just a couple of days. Kids will be fine.

Finally, a SANE voice of reason. All these parents screaming that the sky is falling are absolutely unhinged.

You're hearing from just a few people that are either very strongly personally invested in virtual (probably parents whose kids are already in VA), as well as a few parents/teachers that are worried their spring break/summer plans are going to be affected because they chose to make inflexible plans on scheduled make-up days.

It's weird. There are days identified in the calendar for snow days. We're in exactly the situation they were intended for. There shouldn't be great controversy over what to do.

You're probably the only person who didn't make Spring Break plans *solely* because they were listed as potential make-up days. You sound unhinged yourself.

There are several very good options that wouldn't affect Spring Break. #January29

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:May I be excused for Ramadan or Lent, please?

An easy solution is to just ignore all religious holidays equally. All religious days off are excused so I don't see the problem.

It creates a hardship for students who want to celebrate their holiday, but cannot; whereas other religions' holidays ARE recognized. Thus, favoritism and discrimination.

Of course they can. They can celebrate all they want to and it will be an excused absence.

It’s systemic discrimination because other groups can celebrate their holidays without being absent

Wrong

That’s established fact when the system impedes one group, but not another, that it’s systemic discrimination.

Citation needed.

It would be discrimination if they didn't allow excused absences for some religious holidays, but did for others. That is not the case here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:May I be excused for Ramadan or Lent, please?

An easy solution is to just ignore all religious holidays equally. All religious days off are excused so I don't see the problem.

It creates a hardship for students who want to celebrate their holiday, but cannot; whereas other religions' holidays ARE recognized. Thus, favoritism and discrimination.

Of course they can. They can celebrate all they want to and it will be an excused absence.

It’s systemic discrimination because other groups can celebrate their holidays without being absent

Wrong

That’s established fact when the system impedes one group, but not another, that it’s systemic discrimination.

Citation needed.

It would be discrimination if they didn't allow excused absences for some religious holidays, but did for others. That is not the case here.

No. It’s institutional bias because one religious group is favored over another. The impact is that it is more difficult to observe Eid than Christmas or Rosh Hashanah.

[Anonymous]

They should start by converting the Q2 and Q3 end-of-quarter planning days to 1/2 days — teachers would still get a few hours to grade, and the days would count as school days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They should start by converting the Q2 and Q3 end-of-quarter planning days to 1/2 days — teachers would still get a few hours to grade, and the days would count as school days.

Let's give MCEA a choice. Make January 29 a full instruction day, or make the Monday of spring break a full instruction day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They should start by converting the Q2 and Q3 end-of-quarter planning days to 1/2 days — teachers would still get a few hours to grade, and the days would count as school days.

Let's give MCEA a choice. Make January 29 a full instruction day, or make the Monday of spring break a full instruction day.

Spring break would not work for families who have plans. Virtual would have been better than this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:May I be excused for Ramadan or Lent, please?

An easy solution is to just ignore all religious holidays equally. All religious days off are excused so I don't see the problem.

It creates a hardship for students who want to celebrate their holiday, but cannot; whereas other religions' holidays ARE recognized. Thus, favoritism and discrimination.

Of course they can. They can celebrate all they want to and it will be an excused absence.

It’s systemic discrimination because other groups can celebrate their holidays without being absent

Wrong

That’s established fact when the system impedes one group, but not another, that it’s systemic discrimination.

Citation needed.

It would be discrimination if they didn't allow excused absences for some religious holidays, but did for others. That is not the case here.

No. It’s institutional bias because one religious group is favored over another. The impact is that it is more difficult to observe Eid than Christmas or Rosh Hashanah.

The institution is biased in favor of days when enough of its employees will report to work for the institution to be able to function.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should start by converting the Q2 and Q3 end-of-quarter planning days to 1/2 days — teachers would still get a few hours to grade, and the days would count as school days.

Let's give MCEA a choice. Make January 29 a full instruction day, or make the Monday of spring break a full instruction day.

Spring break would not work for families who have plans. Virtual would have been better than this.

If parents made inflexible plans, they can pull their kids out if school that day.

Regardless, most teachers would almost certainly prefer have January 29th as the make up day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:May I be excused for Ramadan or Lent, please?

An easy solution is to just ignore all religious holidays equally. All religious days off are excused so I don't see the problem.

It creates a hardship for students who want to celebrate their holiday, but cannot; whereas other religions' holidays ARE recognized. Thus, favoritism and discrimination.

Of course they can. They can celebrate all they want to and it will be an excused absence.

It’s systemic discrimination because other groups can celebrate their holidays without being absent

Wrong

That’s established fact when the system impedes one group, but not another, that it’s systemic discrimination.

Citation needed.

It would be discrimination if they didn't allow excused absences for some religious holidays, but did for others. That is not the case here.

No. It’s institutional bias because one religious group is favored over another. The impact is that it is more difficult to observe Eid than Christmas or Rosh Hashanah.

The institution is biased in favor of days when enough of its employees will report to work for the institution to be able to function.

Well, dang. Go and make sense. That's not the DCUM way!