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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He's the only Republican I voted for in the last election where he was on the ballot. MD was getting out of control with taxing and spending. He has pushed forward on getting a rein in on that, and also furthering transpotation priorities and slowly making MD pro-business.[/quote]

I don't see MD becoming more pro-business.  He didn't lift a finger when Discovery left Silver Spring.  The only people I see him trying to help is his voter base in Ocean City, with his ridiculous Labor Day to June 15 policy which means that Maryland schools don't have a spring break week this year.[/quote]

That's the school's fault partially. They can just move their days off for teacher service days if they want to keep those breaks. The benefit of starting school after Labor Day is it's a big benefit to Ocean City and the MD taxpayer (tax revenue), for no additional taxpayer cost.[/quote]

Sure big benefit to ocean city with no additional cost if you don’t count the learning outcomes for our children.  I am not voting for Hogan either.  He has been bad on education issues.[/quote]

I'm still waiting for the study that says summer learning loss is fine for 9 weeks, but that 10th week is the killer.
Or fine for 10 weeks, but that 11th week is the killer.

Since it sounds like you have that information, please share it.[/quote]

Summer slide, i.e. the loss in learning due to lengthy periods of time out of school is widely documented.  Here's an article from Brookings.  Google lists 529,000,000 other hits for summer slide, so you can education yourself.   I'm still  waiting for the evidence that having an extra week of having Maryland school children stay out of school is a big economic boon to Ocean City.  Do you have that data?    [/quote]

Yes. Which week does the slide start? I bet it’s 2 or 3 not 9 or 10. [/quote]

Where do you see studies stating that?  The Brookings study cited above notes that summer slide increases with the number of weeks away from the classroom.  To say you refuse to believe anything unless there’s a specific trial testing the increase from 10 to 11 weeks seems like willfull blindness.  So where’s that data on the Ocean City boom and how do you rationalize prioritizing the economic well being of a tiny group of Republican voters over educational outcomes? [/quote]

Yes, it increases, so after 3 weeks the loss is greater than 2. After 5 weeks, greater than 4. And so on.

But nothing that says 9 or 10 weeks is reasonable, but the 10th or 11th week accelerates into unacceptability.

You're not arguing for year round schooling, which would eliminate summer learning loss. You're arguing that N weeks is fine, but N+1 weeks is not. You need to demonstrate that something happens in that additional week that makes it unacceptable.[/quote]

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