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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry but its not ridiculous. We grew up in the midwest with harsh winters thus the occasional snow day and school started after labor day. The fix us the teachers and administrators dont need so many admin days.
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I agree.  The only thing that is ridiculous is that the BOE will never stop whining to the state and cry to public about "oh no, what should we do?" about every little thing.  Just DO YOUR JOBS and get a calendar in place for next year.  I honestly don't give a crap what days are off or not so long as we keep the summer long and the constant 3-4 day school weeks to a minimum.   If I need to celebrate a holiday or take a vacation, my kids won't be in school those days.  They have survived before and will survive next year too.  And yes, I have a high schooler.  It doesn't matter.  Just make the f'ing calendar already.  [/quote]

This.  I don't understand what the issue is here.  I don't remember ever getting an email like this before bout planning the school calendar.  Even those years when/after we used up the snow days.  Why does this justify an email to every parent but the sexual predator incident at Richard Montgomery HS was not addressed by email??

Just set the calendar and move the f along.[/quote]

Because the MCPS BOE's hidden agenda is to convince the families to complain to the state to get what the BOE wants.  They did the same thing with the budget saying the state decreased it.  It did not.  It just wouldn't increase to the percentage MCPS wanted even though Montgomery County pays for 60% of the budget.  If MC wants to keep building and taxing, THEY need to ask the country to increase, but it did not ask them to increase the same monetary increase of the state.  They didn't mention that in their PR department.  Just that "the state is cutting our budget and we will lose teachers!!"  Not the stupid free parenting workshops, not the bloated administration, or their stupid PR department.  Their immediate jerk reaction was to PR the potential lose of teachers so the parents would blast the state with emails.

How about the snow days 2 years ago?  We were the only district that had a contingency plan we never attempted to use to make up snow days prior to the end of the year, and then ask the state for a waiver?  Mind you the BOE was dumb enough to end the school year on a Friday too.  When they said no, the BOE cried a river and PR went in an uproar asking parents to complain because the school year was moving into the following week.  All along it is the stupid BOE that ended the school year on a Friday, didn't use their contingency plan, and wanted the state to waive 3 days.  I was so glad the state told them to shove it.  The only other county that asked was PG county and they already made up 1 day on a teacher day, was ending on a Thurs, were willing to make up another that Friday and the state waived the last day.  You work with them, they work with you.  MCPS BOE is just absolutely entitled, wastes tax payers money with this constant back and forth, meetings, multiple ideas, complaints etc...

This calendar will be another 2 months in the making.  Wasting tax payers money one day at a time.  Remember the millions wasted on a 2 year study that ended up being a 20min freaking change for the high schoolers and tier 2 ES schools coming off busses at 4:30pm.  Ugh, don't even get me started.  [/quote]

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