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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a lose lose topic.... If they have unused snowdays, people are mad that schoold didn't end earlier. If we go over, people want more snowdays added. For 5 years we didn't use a single snowday. It all evens out. People need to calm down and realize that situations like this are once every 10 years or so. Hopefully MCPS will use the contingency days before adding useless 1//2 days at the end of June.[/quote]

That doesn’t make sense.  If you don’t use the snow days, you don’t go to school on those days marked as snow day makeup on the calendar.  That’s the way my school district worked growing up. Since snow typically ends in February (maybe March in some years), you have months to adjust plans to whatever the definitive calendar for snow is.

Students get 180 days, and you don’t get shortchanged instructional time like this half days in June mess we had last years.

And I disagree that this is a once in 10 years snow event.  We had 4 unplanned for snow days last year and MCPS only budgeted for one in its calendar.  All our neighboring counties have more than one snow day built into their calendar (FCPS, DCPS, Baltimore County, Anne Arundel etc). [/quote]

That's not how it works here. If they put 184 days on the calendar like they used to, then it was theoretically possible to go to school 184 days.

While I'm sure there were some outliers, I don't remember anyone seriously complaining about that. Just the usual kids complaining, and a little bit from teachers about a long school year.[/quote]

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