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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From today's e-mail:

"At present, per state law, we need to make up four instructional days. There are two days that we have identified in the calendar that will be changed from non-instructional days to instructional days: March 20th will be a full instructional day. June 18th will be an early release instructional day and the new last day of the school year for students and staff. Other potential make up days are also being considered and some of those days may require additional approvals before being announced - none of those potential days are in February.

Like other localities in Maryland, we will be requesting a waiver from the state of some of the missed instructional days. Pending the outcome of that waiver, we will update our Make-Up plan and share that with you as soon as we know."[/quote]

They can't get the waiver without using all their makeup days. They know this. They are just playing for time so that they have an excuse to add another two half days later in June. It's ridiculous. The last day of school will be June 23, 2026, if there are no more snow days. June 17, 18, 22, and 23 will be half-days.[/quote]

No one wants to go later in June except the 12 month employees who work all year. [/quote]

Then the union should be pressuring MCPS to use the earlier days. The waiver is not coming, as the conditions for approving a waiver are clear - all designated makeup days must have been used.

Summer break, which was already short, is going to be especially short this year.[/quote]

[b]Our summer break is one week longer than FCPS which has similar numbers of non-instructional days and an appropriate amount of snow days built into the calendar.  We need to start earlier in August and avoid this chaos every year over inclement weather.[/b][/quote] FCPS has an insane number of off days so no they don't have a similar number of days off during the year but 7 more. They started 6 weekdays earlier and had 180 days scheduled, but because they have SOOOOOOOOO MANY days off they have the longest non-year round school year I've ever heard of TEN SOLID MONTHS August 18-June 17. As for snow days they are in Virginia which has far more luxury in it's law then Maryland does.
The 2026 summer break is only a day longer at this time not a week as FCPS 26-27 calendar goes August 24-June 17 while MC is August 25-June 16.
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Starting with the 2026-27 school year Maryland law needs to be revised to hours only and if that happens the teachers start gets moved from August 17 to 24 and the students August 24/25 to August 31/September 1. Summer is getting too short to fit in more holidays and still be required 180 days. I can't blame people for wanting their days off so simply go to hours to maintain instruction time and have a full summer.[/quote]

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