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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For all of you moaning about learning loss, I'm looking at other counties and they start later than MoCo AND get out earlier. Garrett- Start: Sept. 6 End: June 7 Harford: Sept 6-June 13 Queen Anne's August 29-June 8..Somerset August 29-June 8th, Wicomico- Sept 6-June 14, Worcester: September 6-June 13....so they have the right idea of what a school year should look like. MoCo insists on extra days where no work is actually done because students are more than checked out at that point. Common sense, which not a shocker, but MoCo residents tend not to have. [/quote]

Some of them have basically a long weekend for Spring Break and don’t take into consideration any other non-Christian holidays because they have a much less diverse population of students and staff. They also don’t have many teacher workdays so I don’t know how teachers are getting trained or getting time for planning/grading. [/quote]

Hint: "Teacher training" aka professional development is a joke 99.9% of the time and if teachers had the chance at longer summers vs a few extra hours to grade on a half day, they'd gladly take the longer summer. [/quote]

I’m a teacher and I disagree. The long hours I spend 4-5 days a week grading at home are stressing me out and disrupting my family life in a way that a couple extra weeks of summer (at most) will not fix.  I’d rather have a half day once a week like the school system I grew up in. Every Wed was a half day. Teachers had meetings and planning time. Nearly every student went to the free or low cost rec center programs until the normal dismissal time. [/quote]

So many schools all over the country have one half day a week (and have a regular 180 day schedule)...Sane people resides there. That would never happen here. Can you imagine? The MoCo parents would lose their minds..LEARNING LOSS! They have absolutely no critical thinking skills outside of what they think is best and ignore what other schools all over the country do as standard practices. They'd just blame MCEA and teachers like they always do. [/quote]

Oh such a good point!  We just moved here and my daughter starts K next year.  I was shocked there was no short day, when I first noticed.[/quote]

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