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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]School should never art before Labor Day. I absolutely abhorred the years when it started the week before. Complete insanity. Nothing is wrong with shorter school year and less contact days. Longer spring and winter break too. It isn't about days is about teaching effectively. Prior to MCPS my kids attended British International School, started around 1st of September and ended by early June. Had over 2 weeks for Christmas breaks and almost as much for Easter. And learned a ton more But, unless government demanded this and that holiday must be no school days, kids went to school. [b]There were no random days off.[/b][/quote]

There were never any "random days off" in the MCPS calendar, either. There were reasons for each off the days off. You just didn't know what they were -- but you could easily have found out, had you looked.[/quote]

I looked. I fully support Jewish holiday days off in MCPS, and other federal holidays. I am fully against Professional Days. How could they start a school year, in 2016 and have a PD one week later?! If you look at 2016/17 calendar, they started on 29th of August, I believe, then had Labor Day off, then Monday the 12th they had PD. Why, how can that be justified? I think there were at least 4 more PD days. [/quote]

It was for Eid.  But they can't say that because we are a secular school system.    So now we are getting off for religious non-federal holidays that approx 5% of the school's population celebrate.  If we started Aug 28th this year, we would have been off Sept 1st for Eid as well.  [/quote]

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