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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But there are two days off that week.  Presidents’ Day and Tuesday is also a day off for teacher development or something.

So McPS is going to use both of them to get back the snow days? [/quote]

Tuesday is Lunar new year. If you want to respect religious holidays, you should respect lunar new year too. [/quote]

Lunar New Year is NOT a religious holiday, and families traditionally celebrate it the weekend BEFORE the holiday.  My family and I are of Chinese descent and we and others of similar backgrounds have no idea why MCPS has decided to make this a school holiday.  Making up a snow day on Lunar New Year causes no inconvenience whatsoever, and those who have made plans to travel can take a day off.[/quote]

Thank you!  Those who are advocating for having school on holidays such as Lunar New Year, Diwali, or Eid are in no way minimizing the importance of those holidays. MCPS policy allows both students and staff to take excused absences on religious/cultural holidays and emphasizes excusing or not assigning key assessments or other assignments on those days.  Those who celebrate should make plans and take excused absences accordingly.

Because the percentage of students who will be absent if we have school on those dates is far, far less than the percent of students who will not attend school on June 23-27, we should prioritize having school on those dates.

We will NEVER be able to create a school calendar that honors the holidays of every culture and every religion, so we really need to reimplement the former policy that only included such holidays if absenteeism exceeded 15% of students and staff.[/quote]

This. 100% This.

How do we get this message to the Board? [/quote]

The problem is that this creates systemic inequity. A student has to decide whether taking the holiday creates too much work making up missed work from a day where they received no instruction. For many, that is too much to overcome, especially if they had a recent illness. SO the excused absence is effectively a major disadvantage.[/quote]

So because some students may be negatively impacted, that means all students miss out. Race to the bottom, indeed. [/quote]

No. Because there is a better way without creating systemic bias. Just extend the year and build in more days[/quote]

But as has been said throughout this thread, tacking on days is going to do absolutely nothing to help learning. Like last year teachers are done. Kids will be watching movies for 3 days. As opposed to adding days now when kids will actually learn something. [/quote]

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