Will your kids be attending 6/22-6/25?

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Anonymous wrote:If April 6 is allowed they should make March 20, April 6 and 15 as makeup days and end June 18 before the long weekend and an election day. If April 6 isn't allowed then they'd have to end June 22 but at least that beats June 25!

That ship has sailed. McPS Union doesn’t want to use April 15.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like the BOE needs to read this thread. Opening schools that week seems like a huge waste of money...

Would you rather they take Spring Break?

[Anonymous]

We have 4 kids in MCPS and each one (elementary, middle and high) watched movies in every class during the snow day make up days at the end of last year. And it was majority substitute teachers. Total waste of time. We have no need for free daycare - I would much rather take my kids on adventures and give them real world learning during that time so their last day will be 6/12.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids will be in school - I unfortunately dont have thousands to blow on my kids sleep away camps for that week.

You are allowed to send them. Consider it child care

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Anonymous wrote:Nope. We fly out for our vacation June 13th.

Will there be any consequence if a ES kid misses more than 5 days of school in a MP?

What consequence would there be? There is zero consequence anymore for attendance these days

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have 4 kids in MCPS and each one (elementary, middle and high) watched movies in every class during the snow day make up days at the end of last year. And it was majority substitute teachers. Total waste of time. We have no need for free daycare - I would much rather take my kids on adventures and give them real world learning during that time so their last day will be 6/12.

Teacher here. This. No teaching on the makeup days. Even if you want to, it is impossible to pull off because more than half the kids are missing. The remainder refuse to do work because they know you cannot give them an All Task assignment on the last few days especially with so many kids not there. Teachers and kids are also burned out by then. Kids come to school and just sit on their phones. And good luck trying to get them off the phones with MCPS’s lax cell phone policy. Send your kids for babysitting if you want but odds are high, not much will be going on. Many teachers will take leave and there will be substitutes

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Anonymous wrote:My kids will be in school - I unfortunately dont have thousands to blow on my kids sleep away camps for that week.

You are allowed to send them. Consider it child care

How obnoxious. You don’t know what individual teachers will do, and it sounds like you’re trying to discourage kids from getting an education. My kids went last year on the half days, and while they didn’t take tests it’s true-the activities their teachers did were far more than child care.

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Anonymous wrote:Nope. We fly out for our vacation June 13th.

Will there be any consequence if a ES kid misses more than 5 days of school in a MP?

What consequence would there be? There is zero consequence anymore for attendance these days

10 days absence = kid is expelled from school. This is 100% true. You would have to then reenroll your child. It might be a big deal if the child is at a special program (CES, magnet, etc.)

+ such a long absence might affect the grading and final grade report? I had this situation at the beginning of the year and my son was able to submit late homewirk and grades turned out ok.

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Anonymous wrote:Nope. We fly out for our vacation June 13th.

Will there be any consequence if a ES kid misses more than 5 days of school in a MP?

The only consequence is that if you miss 10 consecutive days you get disenrolled and have to go through some paperwork to re-enroll. Other than that you could miss dozens of days as long as they're not consecutive and the only impacts will be on learning and grades.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like the BOE needs to read this thread. Opening schools that week seems like a huge waste of money...

Based upon a bunch of privileged parents who booked sleepaway camps in January for the second school let out? Um, no. You need to go back to school and learn about biased samples, and corrupt data (it could be one angry teacher posting here over and over again).

My kids will attend. I knew from last year that there was a good possibility that school would be extended and didn't make summer camp plans yet for end June. They went last year, and said it was fun, and I'm happy for them to learn (and not pay for camp).

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Everyone can feel free to skip the last week of school- nobody cares. But if they are the same people who were begging for virtual school and critical of the snow days then they are ridiculous people.

There’s a huge difference between adding a school day back when instruction is actually happening and not closing school while teachers actually have lesson plans and tacking on extra meaningless days at the end of the year. With the number of kids who will be out and the number of teachers who are checked out, my kid will get no value out of those days. They’ll get far more value from the educational camp they’re signed up for. The thing I care most about is education, and tacking days at the end doesn’t do it.

And that’s fine. It’s just silly to give MCPS a bunch of grief saying we need virtual school just so we can check the box that we had an instructional day. Obviously everyone is moving on with their summer plans regardless

I'm happy to have my kids attend so they can have instructional time. Not everyone has the same opinion.

I highly doubt it will be serious instructional time. Last year my kids, both elementary schoolers then, skipped those extra half days and their friends who went reported only half the teachers showed and they just showed movies in the all-purpose room. But if it is instructional and they miss it, so be it. My kids won't have a problem making up whatever is learned in those 3 days.

MCPS doesn't actually need it to be instructional to qualify. They just have to say they have full-time school those days and claim it's instructional. Half the stuff they do in regular class barely qualifies as instructional anyway - my sixth grader says after he finishes his homework in study hall, or if he finishes as class assignment early, the teachers encourage them to play on their Chromebooks. You'd think they could read a book but no. He gets more internet time at school than at home!

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like the BOE needs to read this thread. Opening schools that week seems like a huge waste of money...

Based upon a bunch of privileged parents who booked sleepaway camps in January for the second school let out? Um, no. You need to go back to school and learn about biased samples, and corrupt data (it could be one angry teacher posting here over and over again).

My kids will attend. I knew from last year that there was a good possibility that school would be extended and didn't make summer camp plans yet for end June. They went last year, and said it was fun, and I'm happy for them to learn (and not pay for camp).

+1

Everyone can feel free to skip the last week of school- nobody cares. But if they are the same people who were begging for virtual school and critical of the snow days then they are ridiculous people.

There’s a huge difference between adding a school day back when instruction is actually happening and not closing school while teachers actually have lesson plans and tacking on extra meaningless days at the end of the year. With the number of kids who will be out and the number of teachers who are checked out, my kid will get no value out of those days. They’ll get far more value from the educational camp they’re signed up for. The thing I care most about is education, and tacking days at the end doesn’t do it.

And that’s fine. It’s just silly to give MCPS a bunch of grief saying we need virtual school just so we can check the box that we had an instructional day. Obviously everyone is moving on with their summer plans regardless

I'm happy to have my kids attend so they can have instructional time. Not everyone has the same opinion.

I highly doubt it will be serious instructional time. Last year my kids, both elementary schoolers then, skipped those extra half days and their friends who went reported only half the teachers showed and they just showed movies in the all-purpose room. But if it is instructional and they miss it, so be it. My kids won't have a problem making up whatever is learned in those 3 days.

MCPS doesn't actually need it to be instructional to qualify. They just have to say they have full-time school those days and claim it's instructional. Half the stuff they do in regular class barely qualifies as instructional anyway - my sixth grader says after he finishes his homework in study hall, or if he finishes as class assignment early, the teachers encourage them to play on their Chromebooks. You'd think they could read a book but no. He gets more internet time at school than at home!

You can doubt all you want, but I sent my kids last year for the 3 June days and they told me what they did and I saw worksheets and project materials in their bags.

You want your kids to skip, go ahead. I will send mine.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like the BOE needs to read this thread. Opening schools that week seems like a huge waste of money...

Based upon a bunch of privileged parents who booked sleepaway camps in January for the second school let out? Um, no. You need to go back to school and learn about biased samples, and corrupt data (it could be one angry teacher posting here over and over again).

My kids will attend. I knew from last year that there was a good possibility that school would be extended and didn't make summer camp plans yet for end June. They went last year, and said it was fun, and I'm happy for them to learn (and not pay for camp).

+1

Everyone can feel free to skip the last week of school- nobody cares. But if they are the same people who were begging for virtual school and critical of the snow days then they are ridiculous people.

There’s a huge difference between adding a school day back when instruction is actually happening and not closing school while teachers actually have lesson plans and tacking on extra meaningless days at the end of the year. With the number of kids who will be out and the number of teachers who are checked out, my kid will get no value out of those days. They’ll get far more value from the educational camp they’re signed up for. The thing I care most about is education, and tacking days at the end doesn’t do it.

And that’s fine. It’s just silly to give MCPS a bunch of grief saying we need virtual school just so we can check the box that we had an instructional day. Obviously everyone is moving on with their summer plans regardless

I'm happy to have my kids attend so they can have instructional time. Not everyone has the same opinion.

I highly doubt it will be serious instructional time. Last year my kids, both elementary schoolers then, skipped those extra half days and their friends who went reported only half the teachers showed and they just showed movies in the all-purpose room. But if it is instructional and they miss it, so be it. My kids won't have a problem making up whatever is learned in those 3 days.

MCPS doesn't actually need it to be instructional to qualify. They just have to say they have full-time school those days and claim it's instructional. Half the stuff they do in regular class barely qualifies as instructional anyway - my sixth grader says after he finishes his homework in study hall, or if he finishes as class assignment early, the teachers encourage them to play on their Chromebooks. You'd think they could read a book but no. He gets more internet time at school than at home!

You can doubt all you want, but I sent my kids last year for the 3 June days and they told me what they did and I saw worksheets and project materials in their bags.

You want your kids to skip, go ahead. I will send mine.

Same. My kids didn't even notice a large number of classmates missing those days.

[Anonymous]

How are total absences calculated? It seems the threshold for trouble/ risk of failing is 5 unexcused absences in a class. Is that per semester?

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like the BOE needs to read this thread. Opening schools that week seems like a huge waste of money...

Based upon a bunch of privileged parents who booked sleepaway camps in January for the second school let out? Um, no. You need to go back to school and learn about biased samples, and corrupt data (it could be one angry teacher posting here over and over again).

My kids will attend. I knew from last year that there was a good possibility that school would be extended and didn't make summer camp plans yet for end June. They went last year, and said it was fun, and I'm happy for them to learn (and not pay for camp).

+1

Everyone can feel free to skip the last week of school- nobody cares. But if they are the same people who were begging for virtual school and critical of the snow days then they are ridiculous people.

There’s a huge difference between adding a school day back when instruction is actually happening and not closing school while teachers actually have lesson plans and tacking on extra meaningless days at the end of the year. With the number of kids who will be out and the number of teachers who are checked out, my kid will get no value out of those days. They’ll get far more value from the educational camp they’re signed up for. The thing I care most about is education, and tacking days at the end doesn’t do it.

And that’s fine. It’s just silly to give MCPS a bunch of grief saying we need virtual school just so we can check the box that we had an instructional day. Obviously everyone is moving on with their summer plans regardless

I'm happy to have my kids attend so they can have instructional time. Not everyone has the same opinion.

I highly doubt it will be serious instructional time. Last year my kids, both elementary schoolers then, skipped those extra half days and their friends who went reported only half the teachers showed and they just showed movies in the all-purpose room. But if it is instructional and they miss it, so be it. My kids won't have a problem making up whatever is learned in those 3 days.

MCPS doesn't actually need it to be instructional to qualify. They just have to say they have full-time school those days and claim it's instructional. Half the stuff they do in regular class barely qualifies as instructional anyway - my sixth grader says after he finishes his homework in study hall, or if he finishes as class assignment early, the teachers encourage them to play on their Chromebooks. You'd think they could read a book but no. He gets more internet time at school than at home!

You can doubt all you want, but I sent my kids last year for the 3 June days and they told me what they did and I saw worksheets and project materials in their bags.

You want your kids to skip, go ahead. I will send mine.

That was with a June 17th end. This is (currently) June 25th and may become the 26th! This is not only officially summer but follows an extended weekend AND an election closure!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel like the BOE needs to read this thread. Opening schools that week seems like a huge waste of money...

Based upon a bunch of privileged parents who booked sleepaway camps in January for the second school let out? Um, no. You need to go back to school and learn about biased samples, and corrupt data (it could be one angry teacher posting here over and over again).

My kids will attend. I knew from last year that there was a good possibility that school would be extended and didn't make summer camp plans yet for end June. They went last year, and said it was fun, and I'm happy for them to learn (and not pay for camp).

+1

Everyone can feel free to skip the last week of school- nobody cares. But if they are the same people who were begging for virtual school and critical of the snow days then they are ridiculous people.

There’s a huge difference between adding a school day back when instruction is actually happening and not closing school while teachers actually have lesson plans and tacking on extra meaningless days at the end of the year. With the number of kids who will be out and the number of teachers who are checked out, my kid will get no value out of those days. They’ll get far more value from the educational camp they’re signed up for. The thing I care most about is education, and tacking days at the end doesn’t do it.

And that’s fine. It’s just silly to give MCPS a bunch of grief saying we need virtual school just so we can check the box that we had an instructional day. Obviously everyone is moving on with their summer plans regardless

I'm happy to have my kids attend so they can have instructional time. Not everyone has the same opinion.

I highly doubt it will be serious instructional time. Last year my kids, both elementary schoolers then, skipped those extra half days and their friends who went reported only half the teachers showed and they just showed movies in the all-purpose room. But if it is instructional and they miss it, so be it. My kids won't have a problem making up whatever is learned in those 3 days.

MCPS doesn't actually need it to be instructional to qualify. They just have to say they have full-time school those days and claim it's instructional. Half the stuff they do in regular class barely qualifies as instructional anyway - my sixth grader says after he finishes his homework in study hall, or if he finishes as class assignment early, the teachers encourage them to play on their Chromebooks. You'd think they could read a book but no. He gets more internet time at school than at home!

You can doubt all you want, but I sent my kids last year for the 3 June days and they told me what they did and I saw worksheets and project materials in their bags.

You want your kids to skip, go ahead. I will send mine.

Same. My kids didn't even notice a large number of classmates missing those days.

What happened last year WAS NOTHING compared to this year!