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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There will be no make up days. This is an unusual situation and county will get a waiver. As will all the other counties in the DMV. It has happened in the past, in 2009.[/quote]

Did we only have ONE built in snow day in 2009? There have to be some repercussions for such poor planning [/quote]

Apparently not if you're MCPS.  Anne Arundel have Baltimore have 3 snow days built into their calendar, and submitted their virtual learning plan to MSDE so they could offer online instruction last week.

MCPS is the slacker school district, despite its massive budget. It had a deficit of 3 snow days last year, yet...here we are with a deficit of 5 snow days this year.

Who could have predicted there might be snow?[/quote]

You all fail to see the problem. Other counties do not have Jewish holidays, Muslim holidays, lunar, diwali days off. Also those counties are much smaller. We have parents here who want to have religious holidays, don’t want to start earlier in August, and want to end in mid june and don’t want virtual learning. Too bad mcps is stuck with such parents who want everything and then complain when they cant. [/quote]

Those days are not off because MCPS has a huge desire to celebrate them.  They are non-instructional days because teachers wanted more grading days built into the calendar, and it was more palatable to add in Lunar New Year, Diwali etc. because they already had three Jewish holidays and several Christian holidays.  If they weren't on those holidays, they would be non-instructional days elsewhere in the calendar.[/quote]

This is absolutely not true.  The teacher's union did not have a hand in this one.  It was the school board that wanted to cater to every greasy wheel who wanted a holiday celebrated.  That is not meant to minimize these holidays, as they are important to those who celebrate them.  But in a county that allows students and staff to take excused absences for all applicable religious/cultural holidays, we should NOT be cancelling school for holidays where fewer than 15% of the student/staff population celebrate.  It's ridiculous and the largest problem in our school calendar.  This had NOTHING to do with teacher workdays.[/quote]

Of course it does.  Teachers require a certain number of non-instructional days per year.  Why not use those days to give groups a day off on their holiday?  If teachers didn't have those non-instructional days, MCPS wouldn't have included Eid and Diwali and Lunar New Year in the calendar.  They wouldn't have had the space to do it.[/quote]

Then we have to be okay that when we legitimately need to use one of those days as makeup from snow events that we're not "taking someone's holiday away"[/quote]

I'm fine with it.  Take away Eid, Lunar New Year and Easter Monday while you're at it.  You could take away Diwali and the three Jewish holidays last year, but they're already completed and I don't have a time machine.[/quote]

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