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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, it's a vicious cycle.  A bunch of kids skip school those days, so teachers learn to not cover anything.  Other parents learn of this from one year to another, and so keep their kids out of school, also.  So the teachers cover even less the next year.  We're now at year one-million of the process and few teachers cover anything at all (that's why, I think, they scheduled half-days for those days).

I had my kids double check before we finalized plans.  3 of 7 teachers will have subs.  And her hard classes (math/science) will be doing review problems (frankly, this is quite useful for the kids so kudos to those teachers).  [/quote]

Half days are always like this. Schools shouldn't be able to count half days as instructional days.[/quote]

Nor should they ding the kids for 2 full days of absence when they're half days.[/quote]

If half-days didn't count as instructional days, then MCPS would have to have real school days. Half days are just a way to offer MCEA a day off while still getting paid as a work day.

And the new MCEA board members are going to try to add more. [/quote]

I’m not an MCPS teacher, but I know many and I teach in a neighboring county.

Guess what half days are to most of us? Full work days. Students go home early, but we stay and grade and plan.

And then we go home and grade/plan more. And then we wake up on Saturdays to grade/plan. And then we wake up on Sundays to grade/plan.

I just looked at a calendar. I haven’t had a day without work in 28 days.

So I’m going to take offense when you accuse teachers of laziness.[/quote]

Then make it a non-instructional workday, since meaningful classes aren't going to happen.[/quote]

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