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[quote=Anonymous]MCPS has a published policy for how they will handle extra snow days, which is to add them on to the end of the school year.  They publish this with their calendar before the school year starts (next year's calendar shows the same thing).

To all of you who think they should be canceling teacher workdays or spring break days, etc., I would suggest contacting the school board to advocate that this be the policy put in place for future years.  It seems like a perfectly reasonable (and perhaps preferable in terms of adding instructional time before final assessments) solution, but it isn't the solution that has been agreed to for this year. Other school districts do have published contingency plans that say that days off can be turned into school days to make up for snow days, so it makes sense they are following those policies.

To me, it makes sense that the school district should follow their published, previously agreed-to policy.  I'm glad the waiver denial pointed this out to MCPS. I will be annoyed if the district changes their policy (adding time to the school days, taking away Easter Monday, etc.) at the last minute.  I would not be annoyed if future years changed this policy and publicized it in advance.[/quote]

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