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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]Here's 2018-2019: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://teacherquality.nctq.org/dmsView/0285_18_2018-19_SchoolCalendar&ved=2ahUKEwjQ7LaSmeiSAxVXFlkFHR48GuQQFnoECBAQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2Bv9-dJpYrnJ4juwux-MaD[/quote]

Looks like they used to have half days for end of quarter grading/planning instead of full. [/quote]
They need to go back to that.[/quote]

Yes, we can't have BOTH full-day grading days and take off every single religious holiday. I don't care which we get rid of, but it has to be one.[/quote]

Or you start one week earlier in August like FCPS dose, and which also has a lot of religious holidays built in (and 3 snow days, unlike stupid MCPS which only puts in 1).  There are a lot of options here that are preferrable to this annual chaos around MCPS snow days.

Where I grew up we had 3 snow days.  If they weren't used, school ended earlier.  If there were more than 3 snow days, they were added on in June.  There wasn't this drama and constantly shifting calendars like MCPS does.   [/quote]

I hate MCPS but FCPS goes by hours so they have a lot of flexibility in their schedule. They added 30min to every day about 10 years ago and didn't have to make up a week of snow days[/quote]

Going by hours makes so much sense. Why don’t we do that? [/quote]

[b]Because the rest of the country does 180 days in school and because half the kids in MCPS can't read or do math at grade level.  But if we're following FCPS as an example, can we start 1 week earlier in August than MCPS currently does like they do?  FCPS has several snow days built into their calendar.[/b] [/quote] Actually only a few states ACTUALLY require 180 separate calendar days. Maryland is one so is New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Others allow a specific amount of hours to count as equivalent of 180 days.[/quote]

NJ, CT and MA have among the highest performing states in education.  I would rather my kids have 180 days like their residents than this hours BS.  Also, NJ, CT and MA all have snow but seem to manage doing 180 days without all the chaos of MCPS.[/quote]

They have later start times for HS and stricter cell phone rules but let’s conveniently ignore everything else and fixate on number of days in school. Sitting in school for extra days half asleep or on your phone helps no one [/quote]

Sure it does. It helps lazy parents.[/quote]

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