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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Pretty much everyone I know in MoCo hates the Hogan calendar. It's the Ocean City people who like using the school calendar as a form of corporate welfare to their beach resorts.[/quote]

Yeah no. People hate what MCPS has done in response to the labor day opening. They don't hate ending mid June and starting after Labor Day. It comes down to whether you look at other counties and notice that "Hey wait, all those other counties  still have a normal spring break and winter break with the mid-June-labor day calendar, why can't MCPS do that" or if you just believe whatever BS MCPS gives you.

MCPS is a political beast. They intentionally made the calendar as screwy as possible combining it with the spin that they had no choice and just assuming no one would look at other counties. The intent was to get people in MoCo to push to give MCPS back control of the calendar.  We'll see if it works. [/quote]

This is just NOT TRUE.  Hogan gave Garrett and another mountain county exceptions - they start before Labor Day.  Howard County couldn’t fit the days into their schedules.  Lots of other counties have less than a week of spring break.  You are just WRONG.[/quote]

Garrett County first day of school, August 27. Allegany County first day of school, August 29. Well, how about that.

How come it's ok for Garrett County and Allegany County to start before Labor Day, but it's not ok for Montgomery County?[/quote]

Gee...how many snow days do those counties average vs. MoCo. This isn't hard.[/quote]

So it's ok for those counties to be allowed to set their own calendar for their own districts based on the individualities of their districts, because it's snowier, but it's not ok for Montgomery County to set its own calendar for its own district based on the individuality of its district, because...?[/quote]

It's apparently OK to allow earlier starts when days off are caused by the weather, but not when they are the result of religious holidays.  [/quote]

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