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[quote=Anonymous]Say it with me: no waiver!

And yes, I've been inconvenienced - and so have thousands of other working parents. If you are thrilled at yet another snow day, good for you - but you are hardly the norm from my interactions with parents in this area.

But inconvenience isn't the point here - the point is that if the state imposes a requirement for days of classes, it should not be routinely disregarded. If MCPS publishes an academic calendar, with policies for extensions based on a large volume of closures, it should adhere to the calendar and those policies, and the state shouldn't be facilitating efforts to knock off a week of classes. I'm not an MCPS basher by any stretch, but there's something screwed up about an educational system trying to duck its own (self-created) standards.

I have taught as an adjunct professor at 2 area universities - when there are snow cancellations, you better believe that there are required makeups. Why should elementary and secondary school be any different?[/quote]

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