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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everything the above poster said is true. Especially for HS students, AP's are long done and by adding those days onto June, nothing is accomplished...I hate to say that virutal may be the way to go in the future. I get "let kids have a snow day", but when extended or prolonged, virtual may be the only way to go.[/quote]

My NY friend says that for this snow storm, the first day was a snow day, and then every student was expected to be online the second day (except for really little kids maybe).  They just used the virtual learning set up they have from COVID and kids are expected to have their school laptops at home.

For a school district that is so dependent on Chromebooks, I'm surprised there's been no talk about using them...even if the elementary school younger years don't have them.[/quote]

I agree this would be reasonable for MS and HS for big storm events like this.  Tacking on days in June is useless.

I get what the PP is saying about changes in optics, politics, etc. but JFC officials really need to put that aside and use some common sense when building the calendar.  Other regions have more snow days built in even though when their capacity for dealing with snow is a lot higher and they don't always use them.  MCPS really just needs to start earlier and have at least 3 snow days built in with a couple additional potential make-up days that they are actually willing to use.  The current approach is not working.[/quote]

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