Why can't MCPS get it together like the other MD school districts?
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Anonymous
MCPS wanted to start 2 weeks before Labor Day right before the Hogan law. That is exactly what it will go back to. They don’t care what the public wants |
Anonymous
BY MAY THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS HAVE THE SAME AMOUNT OF DAYS ATTENDED WHETHER THEY START BEFORE LABOR DAY WITH TONS OF DAYS OFF OR AFTER LABOR DAY WITH MORE 5 DAY WEEKS. THERE IS ZERO DIFFERENCE TO AP’s. The top districts scoring the highest AP scores and standardized test scores, are all northeast/mid Atlantic. Almost all which start after Labor Day. Heck, most NE top boarding schools start the week after Labor Day. They are sure aren’t failing the AP’s. Florida starts in early August and they are idiots down there. |
Anonymous
Hogan is going to torch their funding to MCPS. The board are a bunch of idiots. It is embarrassing how much money they waste fighting useless things and how little time they make for better the system. |
Anonymous
THIS Do people truly believe MCPS had their hands tied on a shortened Spring Break? They CHOSE it. Political game. And you are dumb enough to believe it. |
Anonymous
How very Presidential of him. He had already cut funding to MoCo anyway but that’s because he’s a Republican and he likes to appease his rural and eastern shore voters and that’s how we ended up with stupid rule about Labor Day in the first place. So glad our schedule will return to sanity. |
Anonymous
Yeah whatever tinfoil hat lady. MCPS has a larger Jewish population than most of Maryland. Hogan’s schedule was overwhelmingly vetoed by our elected representatives because it’s unpopular. Move on. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
Howard County closes for Jewish holidays, Eid, and Lunar New Year, and have a full Spring Break. |
Anonymous
Hoco has a 180 school year. Moco has 182. It used to have 184. |
Anonymous
Well whose problem is that? Not Hogan |
Anonymous
Hogan cut MoCo education funding relative to other parts of state. But sure he has nothing todo with anything related to education. 
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Anonymous
But we needed all the various ethnic holidays teacher days and half days. It was spectacular. Come on peeps, you’re trying to blame Hogan for idiotic MCPS?!? Open your eyes. |
Anonymous
Nope. Pikesville grad |
Anonymous
Speaking as an elementary school teacher, most planning days are (unless they're taken up by professional development/ all staff meetings, give you a chance to actually plan with other professionals (ELL teachers, special education teachers, the rest of the teaching team, literacy coaches, etc.) that is usually incredibly challenging to find during the school day. Yes, you may have 20 minutes from 9:40-10:00 to work on your planning but that's no guarantee that the person who you need to talk to, coordinate with, get ideas from actually has time during that chunk of the day to plan with you. Planning days give you a better shot at the sort of collaboration that is so helpful in actually improving curriculum and instruction. Regarding the rest of your comment, unless you've lived it its pretty hard to conceptualize the ways in which time disappears during the school day. You may theoretically have time to plan during the day, but in my experience its very easy for IEP meetings, staff meetings, behavior challenges, being pulled to sub, tutoring students, meeting with parents, calling parents, paperwork, and countless other crises to make your 40 minutes (if that) that you theoretically receive in practice be pretty useless in terms of actually making progress on long-term planning. Also, in a way that is very different from a lot of other professional jobs where you have time in between meetings/presentations to answer emails, practice, do research, drink coffee, discuss issues with coworkers, etc. so much of the school day is spent actively working with children (and pretty much unable to multi-task effectively beyond that) that some time in the building without students to regroup and plan for the future is frankly, essential. |
Anonymous
Do you think that is “maybe” because MCPS overbuilds, but overspends. Then demands more $$. We are THE wealthiest county in the state. We build and tax like crazy. MC is on the hold for 70% of all funding. The state only 23%. Do you know how little MC gives to its own county public schools. Why should the state who only covers 33% have to make up the difference on a state who can’t manage its money. Ike is a f’ing idiot. Waste millions and then cuts $25 million from MCPS. But he is a democrat and black. So let’s blame Hogan https://www.google.com/amp/s/wtop.com/montgomery-county/2018/02/montgomery-council-cuts-53-million/amp/ |