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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are a lot of people who work in Central Office in operations, IT, etc. whose job it is to figure out how to pull off a pivot to virtual (either synchronous or asynchronous) if the school system is in a weather situation where it needs to be considered. Alternatively, these people can do the hard work and research to determine that there are barriers that cannot be overcome and that code purple cannot and will not ever be on the table. But pretending winter doesn’t exist and just covering your eyes and kicking the can is not doing their jobs. It is amazing to me how many MCPS employees, particularly at the highest levels, just shrug and don’t do their jobs and find solutions to problems. [/quote]

There's already a solution. There are already days **in the 2023-3024 calendar** intended to be used as make-up days. There's no great challenge to solve. We just need to pick the day. We should probably decide what will be the second day, given we'll almost certainly have another snow day and we don't want to go through this again.[/quote]

+1 This! The calendar committee should publish the priority order of make-up days when they issue the calendar.  Selecting Nov 1 as a potential makeup day was not a great move, unless we're expecting multi-day closures for hurricanes.  Ruling out 1/29 as too soon, and Spring Break as "not happening," MCPS should select one of 4/10 or 4/22 as the first make-up day.  Then if we need another day, they should announce in advance that the other will be a make up day; a 3rd make up day should be Friday 6/14.  Then, G-d forbid, 6/17 or 6/18.

But whether it is code purple or late June make-up days, let's be honest that this is a calendar game - it is not really about learning anything on those days.[/quote]

January 29th really shouldn't be too soon... but MCPS is pretty incompetent at decision making. Considering we'll probably need to add a couple more, they really shouldn't skip over that one.[/quote]

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