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

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If I can persuade my high school child to skip two days, we are off to see grandma in Florida!

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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.

If you look at all of the actual reauirements, Hogan’s peeameters are very difficult to deal with. Many of the days off are required by state law and/or state constitution. Including Good Friday, Easter Monday, and Election Day at least.

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My kids will not be in school.

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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.

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?

Hogan is a disgrace of a Republican. The whole top down school calendar thing is a disaster. I have family all over the country. Some are in school districts that start mid-August, others start after Labor Day but they all have freedom to set their calendars so that there’s a spring break. Kids need it to recharge.

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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!
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4) Profit!!!

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I went to private school, but (sadly) my kids are in mcps.

At the risk of stating the obvious, it actually is possible for schools to provide rigorous academic instruction AND provide winter and spring breaks. After all, that's how private schools function.

The mcps calendar is ridiculous.

My two cents: people will miss M-T for spring break trips. Any family who typically flies somewhere for a week or more over spring break will stick with their plan. Some families who typically drive or take short flights might scale back. Regardless, if you have kids in elementary or middle school, it's not a big deal to miss those two days. It's obviously more challenging in HS...where so many disgruntled teachers tend to take out their unhappiness on students.

Are you for real?

Have another glass, busy housewife.

Any teacher who schedules a test or quiz on the Monday or Tuesday leading into spring break is a jerk. It's completely unnecessary. But those who are miserable will do it.

If you haven't encountered this, then you are lucky.

We have had more than one HS teacher that specifically has pop quizzes on days that many kids miss-before Thanksgiving, day of gun control March, etc. It's fine, my kids are at school but it does make me wonder why they are so punitive.

No way learning should continue for those students who are present! Why did their parents bother to send them? The teacher should at least let them play on their phones the entire class.

I didn't say learning should not occur and have to be made up by kids that don't attend. But I still believe it is punitive to give a quiz which ends up being a zero.

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I didn't say learning should not occur and have to be made up by kids that don't attend. But I still believe it is punitive to give a quiz which ends up being a zero.

Just to be clear, you think that giving a quiz during school hours is punitive?

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My kids will be skipping.

Time spent as a family is important too. We visit long-distance grandparents and we are not cutting the trip short this year.

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yes, skipping it or doing week off in March when our other child as her spring break. BFD

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Anonymous wrote:No because school is not optional. I genuinely do not understand these parents who pull their kids out of school for vacation unless it is like, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. What kind of mindset is that instilling? And I’m not even a particularly neurotic parent. I just find it so disrespectful and snowflakey. The rules don’t apply to you right?

So you go to work every business day of the year? You never take days off?

My parents yanked me out of school periodically to go on vacation, and they were incredible experiences that shaped who I am (museums, nature tours, historic homes/sites, etc.). IMO, taking the first two days of spring break if you have somewhere to go is nbd. Your kids will remember those experiences, not what they learned on that Monday (even if it was filled with content).

+1 Most schools around the country have a spring break, and it's useful for kids to recharge their batteries. Maryland has this bizarre Governor Hogan schedule where we must start after Labor Day and end by June 15 with very few holidays[u] in between. Along as we're an oddity among other states in not having a spring break, I'm happy to take my kids out for 2 days and go somewhere further away. And I also put my kids in academic camps for a week or two in the summer, because I think an 11 week break is way too long and I want to prevent summer slide. So yes, I am adjusting the MCPS calendar to one I think works better for my child.

FEW HOLIDAYS?? are you kidding?

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My kid will be there on Monday and Tuesday. But, in the event that MCPS needs to use Wednesday and Thursday as overflow makeup snow days, she will not be there. Eff that.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid will be there on Monday and Tuesday. But, in the event that MCPS needs to use Wednesday and Thursday as overflow makeup snow days, she will not be there. Eff that.

Isn’t this a non issue now that we can extend until June 20th for makeup snow days?

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College tours will be happening those days.

And I won't be voting of Hogan.

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We should get rid of all religious holidays and put together a sensible calendar. I don’t mind starting after Labot Day, it is what I grew up with so seems normal. The religious holidays are the real problem.

My kids will be in Monday and Tuesday, but won’t be in the Tuesday following Easter.

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Anonymous wrote:We should get rid of all religious holidays and put together a sensible calendar. I don’t mind starting after Labot Day, it is what I grew up with so seems normal. The religious holidays are the real problem.

My kids will be in Monday and Tuesday, but won’t be in the Tuesday following Easter.

That’s fine. My kids are free on Christmas Eve and Christmas. They usually have nothing to do.

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Anonymous wrote:College tours will be happening those days.

And I won't be voting of Hogan.

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