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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No chance they open the week of 6/22. Staffing will be low, attendance will be low, and cost to do all of this will be high. Remember, 6/23 is election day (Tuesday no school), so opening only for Monday makes no sense (in their eyes).
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They had several options to avoid it.

We had half days on Monday/Tuesday last year.[/quote]

+1 yes poor planning does cost money, if there weren't consequences there would be no incentive to plan better[/quote]
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Starting a week earlier costs money too, so either way the more days that must be held the more money that must be spent to open the schools.[/quote]

Everything costs money if you're intent on providing 180 days of instructional time as the law requires.   Massachussetts schedules 185 days thinking that snow days will knock out some and they'll end up with 180.  MCPS schedules 181 and looks surprised if it snows, and gets upset and accuses us of not caring about the lives of children if someone suggests they open 7 days after a snowstorm because there's ice on the ground someone in MoCo.

MCPS can not continue to close days after other school districts in the area open, and also schedule only 1 snow day.  It's screwing out kids out of many instructional days per year, and meanwhile 2/3 of MCPS students can't do math at grade level and 1/2 can't read at grade level.  
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