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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I heard the waiver for the snow days was not approved so school will now be until Tuesday, June 17. Will Monday and Tuesday both be half days now?[/quote]

Howard County was denied roo. No surprise MCPS was also. I wish we would implement more half days as the last days. In MS and HS, the kids just want to use the last full days to run amok.[/quote]

With that attitude coming from their teachers, of course they are.

It's a pity we didn't use the far better make-up days that we had in the calendar. Taylor really screwed up here.[/quote]
It’s not Taylor’s fault. He has to work within the confines dictated by state law, staff employment contracts, and school board approval. He was hired into a situation where there were only two built-in snow days in the calendar and the dates named as potential make-up days for any additional closures were untenable for teachers. He didn’t make those decisions; he inherited them. We were unlikely to receive a waiver to avoid having to make up the last snow day, but there was no harm in asking for one. Since it wasn’t granted, he now has to decide which make-up day he will recommend to the school from a list of less-than-ideal options. Which stakeholders should he piss off?[/quote]

Except next year he's making the problem even worse by only building one snow day into the calendar. [/quote]
Is think he’s hamstrung by state law, employment contracts, and the school board’s historical expansion of days off coinciding with religious holidays. He can’t make the calendar work without starting school earlier or taking away a day off on a religious holiday or failing to build in snow days. I’d vote for starting school a week earlier, but by choosing to eliminate all but one snow day, he’s avoiding pissing off any one particular constituency or at least pissing off every constituency equally instead of picking just one. If he gets lucky and we have a mild winter, no one complains. I can’t blame the new guy for picking the path of least resistance.[/quote]

He took away a day to add a transition day that never existed before — kids who were transitioning to a new secondary school went to school for a half day the week before school started, and ES kids had an open house to meet their teacher. That came directly from him. He is moving in the wrong direction.[/quote]
The mistake here is that the transition day isn’t being counted as an instructional day, as it should be.[/quote]

Not everyone is going, and it is optional. If they want it to count, everyone would go, in which case it wouldn’t be a transition day. They should just go back to the offering any transition day the week before school starts. 
Starts. [/quote]

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