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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Grading and planning days are essential. You can get rid of them if you want but it will be to the detriment of students. Having the day off means we can carefully go through grades and make sure there are no mistakes. It also gives us a few hours to grade stuff. Finally it gives teachers time to reflect and do some planning for future lessons. Take it away and many of us will just hastily throw something together for planning purposes. Think of some of your kids teachers who you like and who do a good job. Good teaching doesn’t just happen. It takes a lot of planning and effort. And trying new things. [/quote]

In HS there are 8 periods. Teachers have classes for 5-6 periods at most. The school day is exactly 7.5hrs.

Most salary employees work 9-10hrs a day. Many catch up at night too.

I think teachers do not get paid well enough and I would argue for more half days for grading. But full days off are not productive in my opinion.[b] You just had 4 days off. There will be a long Spring Break in late March/early April. Being against April 15th is absolutely ridiculous. Could have made it half day easily.

When the teachers and MCPS are not flexible, why should the state be?[/b] [/quote]

Agree 100%

If MCPS actually went to school 5 days a week, I may have more sympathy for teachers and their need for full days off to grade.  But they don't because they are off for every known holiday and then also when it flurries.  As well as morning delays and other half days.  Do teachers not understand that OTHER working parents that are not teachers, do not have that luxury and struggle with finding daycare, camps, babysitters for all of these days off and snow days and delayed openings, etc... I feel like kids are never in school.  So your union denying April 15th after all these days off and after a long Spring Break seems a bit much, no?  [/quote]

Teacher here:  Do you not understand that the teachers are NOT involved in the poor calendar planning? The MCPS calendar is absurd.  We hardly ever have a full week of school at this point due to all of the days off.  Teachers, probably more than anyone, want to return to a time when the school year starts and ends at a reasonable time but that continues at a steady pace for the school year's duration.  The communities that are advocating to have every religious holiday off and the state and local powers that be that want days and days of professional development have no idea that the inconsistency of the calendar is contributing to how much our students are falling behind.  We had four days off last weekend, which requires me to spend time just reactivating my students' thinking about that we covered a handful of days ago.  If we'd go to school regularly and really get into a routine, we have to do far less of this and could keep the learning going at a steadier pace and in a more effective way.  It is NOT the teachers who are advocating for endless days off during the year.[/quote]

It's your teacher's union that is blocking the use of April 15 makeup day, which was submitted to BOE as part of the official calendar to BE a make-up day.  And now your union is reneging on the official calendar,[b] so you can enjoy teaching until July this year[/b].[/quote]

You’re such a snot. You sound like an ill-raised 13-year-old girl. And no, many teachers will use their accumulated days and NOT “teach until July” and your kids will be stuffed in with unqualified subs. But we all know you don’t care, as long as they’re not in your house, or in childcare you had to pay for or arrange.[/quote]

That’s your opinion.  Not a fact.  Which is something even most 13 year old girls can recognize.   It is a fact that the McPS teacher’s union blocked the use of the April 15 makeup day that they had agreed to include on the calendar as a makeup day.

And because of that selfishness, McPS  kids are losing losing out on education while you are calling people “snot” and enjoying your vacation thinking gleefully about unqualified subs educating the kids you’re supposed to care about.  [/quote]

I have no idea if the union advocated to not use April 15 as make up. The teachers i know want to use it. As for agreeing to calendar decisions, teachers unions are not allowed to negotiate the calendar in MD[/quote]

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