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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]By adding 3 half days at the end of the year when seniors are done, AP tests are long over, and camps will have begun, it's basically a big F** to the State (for not waiving) 2 days![/quote]

It’s a big FU at the parents.  They could have cancelled one of the professional development days after the snow days…[/quote]

No it’s not. If anything, the only people who really need to go Monday and Tuesday are teachers and they already sorta knew that when the year was previously extended to the Monday. If you need childcare coverage those half days, send your kid. If you don’t or it’s easier for you to arrange full day coverage elsewhere, don’t send them. If you want to travel that week, they’ve all but given their blessing to proceed with previously made plans. There will not be teaching and learning those days whether you send your kids or not. If you’re looking for childcare ideas there will be lots of 14/15 year olds who are kind of too old for camp but too young for jobs who would probably happily babysit your kids in the afternoon for some Apple cash. [/quote]

This isn't about childcare coverage you dismissive fool, it's about wanting kids to learn.  180 days a year is already less than what other countries provide their elementary/secondary students, and we lose so much of it with this half day garbage, testing for MAP, MCAP, in-school days when teachers are grading and turn on videos etc...[/quote]

NP. This argument is always funny to me given all the whining in this forum about how bad people think the education in MCPS is. "The food in this restaurant is terrible! And such small portions!"

So it looks like they reversed making 6/13 a full day, if I'm reading that letter right, and it's now a half day again. I suspect part of this is trying to give teachers time to close out their classrooms without having to add another professional day. I would bet part of that is $$$, utility bills and having to pay SEIU staff for days they didn't budget for, etc.

The whole thing is a farce but so are MSDE's rules. And a lot of the mandates they hand down behind the scenes have really messed with things (see arbitrary percentage targets for students in various LREs) so I'm not willing to declare them the arbiter of sanity and MCPS as the devil in this. [/quote]

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