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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no point in having school on Christmas or New Year's. Too many teachers and students would not show up. It would be a useless day just like the days tacked on at the end. And that's also an issue for the Jewish holidays. I don't understand why anyone is proposing this as a solution.[/quote]

Winter break can still be winter break. Get rid of Good Friday and Easter Monday. Yes I know “state requirement” but that’s a bill I could support — making those available for makeup days. [/quote]
Yes, why don't you get right on that with your advocacy of changing that law that has been there for generations.

Or you could write the BOE and tell them it's important that MCPS put in more than 1 snow day into the calendar, and that it puts makeup days on the calendar that it intends to use.  And that it submits the virtual learning plan for snow emergencies that it promised the BOE it would prepare in 2024.  These 3 actions are more attainable.[/quote]

Why not all of the above? Getting to a calendar with more actual makeup days and actual snow days will require going up some days off somewhere in the calendar. The reason why we have so many seemingly random days off is because we’re trying to accommodate everyone. There isn’t a way to accomplish your ask without taking holidays…[/quote]

Fairfax County has similarly diverse holidays accomodated, but starts one week earlier than MCPS in August.  Fine with me.  Anything would better of this status quo of having kids not get 180 days of instructional time each year because MCPS refuses to put in snow days.

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Lol whats with hitting this magical 180 days? Hint: IT'S MADE UP. Some states have 160. Some have 178. Some have 175. Some have no requirements at all when it comes to days. It's an imaginary number. It doesn't magically make learning happen. I can't believe this has to be explained to grown adults.[/quote]

Most states have 180. "The most common way that states regulate instructional time is to set a minimum number of days for the school year; 38 states and the District of Columbia do so. The majority of those states (27 of 38), along with D.C., mandate 180 instructional days, making it the closest thing the country has to a national norm."

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/09/07/in-the-u-s-180-days-of-school-is-most-common-but-length-of-school-day-varies-by-state/[/quote]

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