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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My rising senior has a job to start on 6/18 there’s no way she’s missing a week of work. This is going to screw up so many local summer camps who rely on high schoolers to work. [/quote]

Oh the horror! That's a tragedy compared to students not getting the educational days they're supposed to get.   Also, this happened last year, where days in June were tacked on because MCPS didn't plan in enough snow days.

It's not like this is unexpected.  I didn't make summer camp plans for my kids for that week because I knew this could happen.  There's no reason to book camps by February, for a week that is likely to have makeup days.[/quote]

Your kids sound young and you sound insufferable. Some programs/camps/jobs only exist with a fixed start date that did not previously conflict with the school calendar, and given that this is the latest the school has been extended in an extremely long time, it was reasonable to book these plans. Many of these programs are already full, and had people waited until the end of snow season, they would have been shut out. MCPS identified 3 perfectly reasonable dates (3/20, 4/15, 6/18) that most people would have assumed they would have used first because those are among the dates they literally picked as options when making the calendar, making it far less likely that they would have boldly chosen to use the later June dates instead. [/quote]

That's your opinion, and your magical powers of detecting the age of anonymous internet poster's kids aren't that good.

And you sound far more insufferable whining about your HS kid's summer job, when most MCPS kids don't have the money to go to camp, and a lot of smart MCPS parents held off on making plans because we know it snows, and we have experience with what happens last year.

And MCPS never wants to use its makeup days, so this was entirely predictable.[/quote]

It is quite a level of hubris to say you can predict the decisions of MCPS when they are the most inconsistent decision makers around and no two years have been the same. [/quote]

Well they did the same thing last year. So it doesn’t take a great mind to predict that the school year would extend further into June.   Sorry your HS kid is so put out by shifting schedules that impact a summer camp job.  Other kids are happy to have a place to go to get an education and meals.   [/quote]

+1  This happened last year.  MCPS never learns from its mistakes.[/quote]

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