Reply to MCPS Brian Hill Dissembles

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "MCPS Brian Hill Dissembles"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If parents only knew what a cluster today was for school admin trying to prep for a potential virtual day tomorrow. The lack of communication from central, rumors, various offices sending out conflicting information. etc.  His email at the end of the day was a nice slap in the face. Just bold face lies. [/quote]

I think we can imagine but I’m really sorry you ran around like that and then got gaslit. [/quote]

To be fair, it was predictable. Anyone familiar with elementary schools knew they couldn't do virtual. And the central office was never going to fess up to their incompetence.[/quote]

What needs to be done besides taking home your Chromebook from the cart and a charger? Some younger kids may need password help. Are they set up with the right program for the online learning (zoom? Canvas? Other?)? Seems like the start of the next quarter would be a good time to make sure everyone is set up for this. [/quote]

Or make sure there are make-up days in the calendar.

Oh great! We already did that one![/quote]

You're obsessed with make-up days. Posting in every thread you can...there are other options and they should be used. [/quote]

Right. Per the district's plans, there are 8 options built into the 2023-2024 calendar. Some are better than others. January 29th seems like the best one, but we'll see if the district can get its act together. Plus we'll probably need to use April 10th as well. These probably won't be the only snow days this year.[/quote]

As I’ve said before, 4/10 should be a near-last resort. It’s a religious holiday and disenfranchises a group already experiencing hostility from MCPS. 4/22 and 6/14 should be used before 4/10.[/quote]

4/22 is a religious holiday as well. [/quote]

Passover begins at sundown. It's fine to have school that day.[/quote]

Yes, either 4/10 or 4/22 would work fine. We'll probably need both of them.[/quote]

The prep for a Passover Seder ain’t easy and requires more than a days work. That matzo ball soup don’t cook itself. I’m sure Eid and lunar New Year are the same. If we open one of those days then excused absences should be given to students and teachers alike. It’s a relatively simple solution[/quote]

Religious observances have long been excused absences. That is nothing new.[/quote]

Excused absences are still a hardship because students have to weigh the difficulty of making up work against their own religious celebrations that are being suppressed on importance by you[/quote]

There is no way for MCPS to avoid having school on any day that may be a religious celebration. Allowing excused absences is all that is needed.[/quote]

What they can do is avoid having 1 religion with 3 or 4 holidays while another with similar student impact has 0. That's discrimination.[/quote]

It's based on operational impact, such as the number of staff and substitutes that would be out on a given day.[/quote]

Whether a practice is discriminatory is based on both the intent and the impact. It can still be discrimination [/quote]

It sounds like the options are:
 - School must be in session on any day there is a religious holiday. In fact there should be school Saturdays and Sundays because it is not fair to the Muslim students that they can't have Friday off while Jews have Saturday and Christians have Sunday; or
- No school on any religious holiday. For example, in Eastern Christianity today is the Epiphany. Forget about the snow, today should never have been a school day.[/quote]

You don't get it. No.[/quote]

Okay tell me how I am wrong[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics