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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think 8 weeks of summer break are more than enough. We take 2 weeks vacation and six weeks of camp. My kids get sick of camp and look forward to getting back to school. Hogan is nuts! We vacationed at Cape Cod this year to protest Hogan’s mandate. No way am I giving Ocean City money for this idiocy. [/quote]

While there may be a number of Montgomery County folks who protest by going elsewhere, the fact is that OC, Baltimore and Annapolis had far busier weeks that were more like typical summer days instead of school year days.  Many people from out of state came (the Washington Post interviewed families from NC and elsewhere that came to the Eastern shore because they heard of the extended summer week) there as well.  And while you may protest, there only need to be a few thousand families from the eastern seaboard coming to MD for the "last week of summer" for it to be a financially successful decision and by all reports to date, it has been.

But the real point is that even in Montgomery County, polls show about 60% of residents approved of the decision (as opposed to about 75% elsewhere in the state).  The decision was popular state-wide except by a small portion of Montgomery County, mostly the rich W school population.[/quote]

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