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[b]You have presented no compelling evidence that A) the majority of DCPS stakeholders are opposed to this calendar change (anonymous posts you’ve read on DCUM have no more credibility than DCPS’s survey results) or B) the results of the survey are so flawed as to be worthless or C) making this change to DCPS’s calendar will do nothing to help them attract and retain staff/have adequate staff levels around Easter.[/b] You’ve brought no facts to the discussion except that the dates on which Easter falls can vary by weeks — which was not among the assertions of yours that were in dispute. You don’t like a calendar change that DCPS made based on responses they received from their own stakeholders. [b]The people of MD had nothing to do with that, except for DCPS teachers who live in MD — but they are legitimate DCPS stakeholders who had a right to submit surveys.
You’re appealing to DCUM posters on the MCPS forum to change MCPS’s spring break calendar (which we don’t have the power to do), simply because you think the majority of us agree with you. You see this as an end run around DCPS to force them change their calendar back to the way it used to be in order to remain aligned to MCPS’s calendar. It is a fool’s errand.[/b]
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I just presented the evidence that almost nobody wants spring break shifting weeks from year to year. The results are flawed since if the teachers who are a small minority become the majority then it's obviously not valid since they voted over and over again. Even if only 5% of the students and parents of students voted that would still outnumber the teachers if all the teachers voted once. Easter is on a Sunday every year so there is no school anyways so that shouldn't create a problem.

Yes the teachers had a right to submit surveys and technically they didn't break any rule since I didn't see anything saying you could only vote once. They came up with a plan to multiply their votes AND few non-teachers took part in the survey so the teacher vote actually won.

No, you don't have the power to change MoCo's spring break calendar but this is the perfect opportunity to influence their 2026-27 calendar which is not out yet. Getting spring break 2027 to occur after Easter is a good thing for people to request given how early that is. Now maybe they'll choose March 26-April 2 or maybe April 12-16 with March 26 and 29 off but NOT March 22-29 if enough people on here bother to input that. You may or may not agree on when to hold spring break but most (though not all based on one teacher) don't want break floating weeks apart based on Easter. It's not a fools errand if people ACTUALLY bother to get the districts to hold spring break at a reasonable time.[/quote]

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