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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd love a 2-week winter break.[/quote]

That would take away from so many other days we have off. I get antsy after a week off and would rather have other long weekends here and there. It's so expensive to travel that time of year, and the weather is junk that I don't want to sit around being cold and bored. [/quote]

It wouldn't have to take away from other days off if the first day of school was a week earlier. That was one of the questions on the survey.[/quote]

Ick that's a BIG no from me if that's the trade off. I was the one who said 2 week winter break is too long.

And yes, I'm sure it's based on what you're used to. My family is all in NY and every year they're confused why we can't plan something with them over mid winter/ Feb break. [/quote]

What two week winter break are you referring to? It's ten days. It's so short already. Plan better. Use that time to for break with your NY family. This isnt hard or difficult. [/quote]

I don't feel like it's too short. With it being expensive and crowded to travel Christmas week, I really don't want it to be any longer, which is one of the proposals. I find that it already drags on. I don't want extra days to be taken from the beginning or end of the year to make that longer.

And I wasn't complaining about not having Feb. My family who still gets Fed thinks it's weird that I don't. [/quote]

I agree with you totally. Winter Break is a terrible time weather-wise around here, it’s so expensive to travel basically anywhere, it seems to drag on forever. I definitely do not want to miss a week of summer or have school drag on later in June so I can have 3 extra gray cold December days to fill with antsy children on top of the 9 I already have.

Making winter break two weeks would mainly benefit students whose families travel overseas to their home countries over the holidays. I don’t know what percentage of families that is. Mcps should have worded the survey better, linking the longer winter break or whatnot to the idea that the school year would be extended. People are going to prefer longer breaks but are not going to be willing to add the days on either end, so the results will be useless and mcps will decide something no one is happy about!

I also don’t think it’s really fair for parents/community members to weigh in on whether minority holidays should be teacher work days. That’s between the school system and the teachers union. I don’t know how many teachers would be impacted if they suddenly had to work on Rosh Hashanah, Eid or Juneteenth. Who am I to say whether that’s reasonable? I think if we’ve decided the students are off, then it’s a bit inequitable to say teachers need to work. But maybe teachers would prefer this so they could have Veteran’s Day? Seems silly. [/quote]

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