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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We used to have 184 days scheduled, with additional days at the end as snow days. Most years we only used one or two, and everyone wished school ended sooner (hated the 2days the following week pattern.) The couple of times we had huge storms, it was a state emergency and they waived making up extra days beyond the 4.

Then came Hogan and his mandate that schools start after Labor Day and end by 6/15. Some years it barely fit and end of quarter grading became half days, pd became half days. As part of that process they dropped extra days not mandated by law and got creative around where to put makeup days. After the assembly made a law giving start date decisions back to school systems and we were post pandemic, they never went back, partly because climate change has really switched weather patterns and partly because it’s less expensive to not open the buildings unnecessarily.[/quote]

Hogan and his Eastern shore tourism priorities are long gone.  Just start school a week earlier in August.  It’s good for kids in AP classes to get that extra week in before May exams.  [/quote]

I agree, but unfortunately I doubt people in this county are willing to tolerate starting a little earlier in August.  Did you hear how much people complained about starting one whole day earlier this year than last year?  Now imagine if someone told them school had to start on-- *gasp*-- August 20th?  The horror! 
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I don't see any evidence for that.  Most parents in MCPS can't take off 9 weeks of holidays from their jobs.  Maybe the summer camp lobby complains, and maybe the MCPS teachers complain, but not the parents. 
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+1. This is not something most parents would complain about. A lot of Virginia already starts earlier than MCPS.

But on a different thread a teacher said “if you want to take away one of my 9 weeks of summer holiday, you better pay me more.”  The teachers are better with this fiction that there’s only one snow day a year in MoCo because then there aren’t 180 days of actual teaching time built into the calendar. [/quote]

I seriously doubt that was a real MCPS teacher. The most we ever get is 8 weeks between our last duty day and the first.

Teachers work more than 180 days, but we have no control over how many of those 180 are available for instruction. This year, we lost a day to transition. My school does testing and state-mandated surveys in a time-inefficient way because we don’t have enough staff for the number of students with extended time and small testing group accommodations.[/quote]

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