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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's political because the Board of Ed sends out info to inform their constituency about a change that will affect them/the school calendar?  Get a grip!  If they sent nothing and just made the change you'd consider them corrupt for not making the process public.

[b]What exactly would you preferred they have done, given that the calendar will change considerably next year?[/b][/quote]

I would also like people to answer that question. Would you have preferred for the Board of Education to not inform you about the calendar?

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+1 There are multiple calendars under consideration, and MCPS gave you a chance to weigh in and comment. This is a step forward. [/quote]

[b]Since when has the BOE ever cared what the public thinks in regard to the calendar?  I have lived her all my life.  They moved it back to August without opinion.  They added Eid without public opinion.  They make the calendar every year without opinion.   You are fooling yourself if you think they are actually are looking for public input to make a decision.  If not, why not send it out to an actual vote instead of a random email? Put it on the Nov elections if needed.   Because hands down the Spring Break off and religious holidays back in school would win out because it is such a small minority that celebrate.  BUT... the BOE also knows it would be a media shit storm and they would have all the minority religious leaders in their meetings from here until the end of the year.

This is a ploy to show the state they are just "frazzled" to get all of their days in. A way for people to complain to the state by saying it can only be minority holidays or Spring Break, we just can't figure another way because Hogan is so mean (even though this was O'Malley who moved this forward.)   No other school districts sent out these letters because they can figure it out.  
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How about taking away President's Day for a possible snow day if needed, like other counties including PG and HC.  How about writing to the state to ask if they can use Easter Monday as a potential make-up days.  Or running school until June 14th and putting back in whole day teacher days.  Having June 15 as a possible snow day, President's Day, and the 3rd quarter professional day moved back to half day if needed.  I mean this is not rocket science.  The options the BOE put out are either religious holidays OR Spring Break.  You can do this and still offer both but they rather getting everyone up in arms instead.  It is really pathetic how many people fall for it instead of looking at other county calendars and seeing how it is possible, write a letter to the BOE and say "DO YOUR JOBS AND GET IT DONE!!"  [/quote]

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This is exactly how I feel.

And to answer the other PP, it’s basically what I wrote in their comment box,  I don’t care what they do, I just want the BOE to make a decision and get it done.  Get the calendar out with plenty of notice so that people can plan.

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