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[quote=Anonymous]1.  FCPS -- save money by reducing the people needed to make the decision to close the schools.  Just follow MCPS!  Whatever they do, we do.  They seem to be getting it right.  If it turns out the call is wrong -- oh well, MCPS (another big school) will share the heat.
2.  THERE AREN'T 13 "BUILT IN" SNOW DAYS.  They "built in" 10 of those days by using an accounting trick.  They are now counting an extra 20min. per day as instructional time just b/c kids are walking to or from the buses.  You and I both know this is NOT instructional time.  It's akin to lunch and recess (which the state says cannot be counted).  The state wasn't smart enough to foretell that FCPS would try to count walking to and from the bus as instructional time -- so they didn't exclude that.  In a nutshell, FCPS is no longer giving your kids 180 days of instruction.  After the third snow day -- your kid is getting days taken off the required 180.  (And for those who think the snow days were "built in" from the Monday afternoons -- wrong.  Those are accounted for by the extra long Xmas break, the extra 2 hr. early dismissals, and the extra days off throughout the year -- Sept., April, etc.)

We're getting short changed... but the school board doesn't think we're smart enough to figure it out.  [/quote]

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