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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But there are two days off that week.  Presidents’ Day and Tuesday is also a day off for teacher development or something.

So McPS is going to use both of them to get back the snow days? [/quote]

Tuesday is Lunar new year. If you want to respect religious holidays, you should respect lunar new year too. [/quote]

They do, that's why it wasn't marked as a designated makeup day.[/quote]

Asians didn't lobby much for Lunar New Year as a day off.

Teachers lobbied hard for additional teacher development days/grading days to be added into the schedule, and it was easier to add those in if you could say a certain ethnic group or religion was asking for additional days off to be on par with the Christians and the Jews. [/quote]

Feb 17 is not a professional development or grading day. There's no school for students and teachers.[/quote]

Tuesday Feb 17 is a non-instructional day.  Why would they have Monday Feb 16 President's Day as a school day, but not have Feb 17 as an instructional day?[/quote]

I don’t understand this.  Why is it possible to designate a federal holiday as a makeup day but not the day after? [/quote]

Yeah this is super weird. Also if we are going to go on a Federal holiday I think Juneteenth is one that I’d pick, not President’s Day, since I think finding teacher coverage for a major holiday in less than a month is going to be problematic. [/quote]

Juneteenth is June 19. How much teaching do you think is going to go on at the end of marking period 4? Days should be added earlier if McPS is serious about instruction.[/quote]

None, but you are wildly unrealistic if you think meaningful instruction will/can/should be conducted on President’s Day given the extreme lack of advance notice and the precedent that the day has always been off for everyone since the dawn of time. Don’t be like those posters who insist you shouldn’t plan a vacation the week after school ends in case it is extended, etc. President’s Day is a Federal holiday that has never been and is still not designated as a make up day. If they somehow negotiate to use this day, which is a long shot, it’ll be a throwaway day, not a meaningful instruction day. [/quote]

Very few people take trips over Presidents' Day. Attendance would be fine. Certainly far higher than the days late in June, and probably much higher than days adjacent to major holiday breaks.[/quote]

How on earth could you possibly know this information? [/quote]

Wow... You really don't know?

I'd love to know your HHI and zip code...[/quote]

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