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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Until Busch and or Miller are gone from Annapolis, Montgomery County will never get its fair share from the state, and any requests made by Montgomery County will be denied. As far as Fairfax, and other schiols in Virginia, their laws say they have to go to school XX number of hours, while Montgomery County Schools have to go to school 180 days. Virginia had the King's Dominion law for years, and recently repealed it, so schools could start earlier. Montgomery County is going backwards with the Ocean City law.

I got the child care issues in elementary school. In the past couple of years, those random days off we're always on Fridays or Mondays, which was a huge Improvement that when my kids were in school, and those days were mid-week. Sure, the holidays that you don't count as holidays, but Jewish people do, were/are sometimes midweek.  And the county recently did a study on that, I found that more than 15% of students and teachers would be absent, and that they would not have enough substitute teachers to keep schools open on those days. Suck it up, and get child care like other working parents have for decades. The kids and the teachers need a break. This long slog from January till June, is rough on everyone.
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So don't blame Montgomery County. The state is responsible for the calendar the past couple years, including this lousy one, with a short spring break.[/b] Montgomery County has to abide by the laws of the state, saying 180 days of school are mandatory, starting after Labor Day, and ending by June 15th. Luckily, that is going to change when they override the governor's veto today.

I would like to see the state get rid of Easter Monday as a holiday. That's not a holiday, it's a travel day.  If that's the case, we should also have off January 2nd and a day after all other holidays too.[/quote]

How is Montgomery County not to blame for the shortened break?  They decide their schedule, not the state.  HCPS has a full Spring Break.  So does PG county.  The county decides the schedule and the county can ask the state for help.  MCPS took the break away as a ploy tactic and purposely didn't ask for an extension so they could make a big deal about "the struggle."  Nothing more.  You are too gullible to see it.    [/quote]

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