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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This doesn't need to be such drama every year.  Do what many other school districts with snow do.  Add a certain number of days to the school year for calendar.  If you need to use them at the end of the year due to weather, you do, if not, school ends early.

Then you don't get parents whining that they've already paid for Larla's camp or teacher's complaining that the days cut into their summer job schedule.[/quote]

I'm pretty sure there would still be parents complaining if school ended earlier than planned.[/quote]
My kids are in high school. Most of the years they’ve been in MCPS, we had more than 2 extra days built in. When  we had a planned 184 day school year and didn’t use all 4 extra days, school didn’t end early.

Back in 2016, we had 5 or 6 consecutive snow days because we got 30” of snowfall from one storm, and maybe a couple other isolated snow days. MCPS applied for a waiver because we had so many days to make up. The state granted it, but not for all of the days. Back then, spring break was Good Friday through the Friday after Easter. At the time, it was standard for MCPS’s website to say that makeup days would be added to the end of the year if needed — except they didn’t add all of the makeup days to the end. They clawed back 1 or 2 days from the end of Spring break. People were extremely unhappy about that. Kids in families who already had vacation plans for that week didn’t attend.

There will never be a shortage of things to complain about.[/quote]

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