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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Over the years, a sort of vicious cycle has emerged.  Families leave early for vacation.  Teachers know a lot of kids will be gone so some don't plan important lessons.  Parents who otherwise wouldn't leave early then figure out that few classes. have  important lessons the few days before vacations (and the other teachers pretty much always plan for makeups) so they, themselves, leave early.  And the teachers that were holding out to doing substantive things those days face even smaller classes so plan easy-to-miss lessons, accordingly.

If anything, having teachers use their leave on these days where the collective has decided to eschew substantive work is optimal for everyone![/quote]

Yup this! Obviously teachers are entitled to take leave but it seemed like they didn’t miss as much school before the pandemic. Now my kids have subs pretty frequently and no learning happens when there is a sub. But I can understand where they are coming from when some parents pulled their kids for vacation in the middle of last week. It makes you feel like what is the point. Meanwhile we got multiple letters from MCPS last year furious about my son missing 11 days of school, every single one of which was for fever, vomiting or contagious pink eye. It’s all just insane [/quote]

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