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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank goodness school is closed on Wednesday. MCPS was stupid not to schedule the day off from the beginning. They are not tethered to reality. My other kid is at private and has two days off this week and the whole week of thanksgiving off.[/quote]

I agree it was stupid to have the half day. But it is even worse to change the calendar with only 2 weeks notice. If they wanted to do this, they should have done it at the start of the school year.[/quote]

This is my point. I respect teachers, which means I think they have a "real" job. In a "real" job, sometimes you are not allowed to take vacation on a given day because your presence is required to fulfill your obligations to the client. In this case, MCPS had the opportunity to say no, as I have to sometimes as a manager, but they chose to just close school instead. [/quote]

What do you do, as a manager, when you deny leave, and instead of working that day, your report quits?[/quote]

Find a better employee while being thankful we won't get hit with higher unemployment insurance costs.[/quote]

Well, it's nice that you are able to find a better employee so quickly and easily, but surely you can understand that's not how things work with classroom teachers - right? There is no pool of better classroom teachers just waiting for a middle-of-the-year opportunity to get hired.[/quote]

Similarly, there aren't a lot of jobs willing to pay ~$100k over 10 months, with a pension and remarkably good health benefits, to someone with a masters of education degree.

Teachers can and do quit, but they're not going to quit because you wouldn't let them take a day off.[/quote]

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