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[quote=Anonymous]Teacher professional days and religious holidays should be half days unless 15% of the MCPS population is impacted (this used to be the case and is why the county started observing Jewish holidays).  Half days count toward the 180 requirement.  MCPS honors all religious observances by excusing student absences and assignments, so there is no need to have full days off for holidays that do not have a significant impact on attendance.

Lunar New Year is not even a religious holiday (I'm Asian and we celebrate it).

The transition day was worthless and should be eliminated because it doesn't count.

If MCPS would use the built in snow make-up days that are posted in the calendar each year rather than tacking on the end, we could keep the last day of school intact except in the rare occurrence having 5+ snow days. When a snow day occurs, we should automatically make it up on the NEXT POSTED MAKE-UP-DAY on the calendar.  Adding make-up days in June is worthless - AP Exams are over and kids are entirely checked out.

If they made these changes, we could easily start and end school in a reasonable amount of time and also maximize instructional time before AP Exams in the spring.

This trend toward dragging out the school year as much as possible just makes no sense.

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