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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I haven't read this whole thread but-MCPS was denied the ability to waive 4 of the 180 required teaching days and they did not modify the calendar to add 4 days to the end of the year. All they gotta do is extend the school year like they do when there's lots of snow days. I would think everyone would be happy the state is protecting every single teaching day possible. [/quote]

The issue with just adding days to the calendar is that you then have to pay teachers for those additional days, which haven't been budgeted for or negotiated about.  Regardless of what the days are used for (additional teaching or time to set up the room or a combination of both), you can't ask any professional to work additional days without pay.  [b]You might think that the teachers SHOULD work without pay, but that's not going to happen.
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Instead a compromise needs to be made, waive 2 of the required 180 teaching days? find money in the budget to pay for teachers for a few extra days?  mandate that teachers cannot have required meetings a few Wednesdays in row so they can go in and set up?[/quote]

But yet they were paid for a few weeks to do nothing last March, correct?  [/quote]

You are aware that not working for the two weeks last March wasn't a teacher decision?  That came from MCPS Admin not individual teachers who decided not to work randomly.[/quote]

Teachers didn’t have off for two weeks in March. They were in meetings and trainings the first week and the second week, the days were made up over spring break and in May and June. The state gave a waiver for 1 or 2 of those days.[/quote]

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