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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The same families who complain about the lack of available snow days are the ones who are booking vacations for the entirety of winter and spring break and the day after school gets out.

Where are we supposed to find these days without cutting into established breaks and holidays?[/quote]

What's your source of data for your assertion that the parents complaining have this excessive vacation day taking pattern?

You sound like you're making up things to fit your desired narrative that there's no possible solution that would allow students to get 180 days of education per year.[/quote] There is no solution to get 180 separate calendar days with a full summer and religious holidays and a day off after every quarter and that is without snow days. 
The way certain states do it with 990 hours being equivalent to 180 days is best so breaks stay intact and the students still get their time.
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The problem in NoVA isn't the law but all the random staff workday closures.[/quote]

It would be very easy to do:
- Get rid of transition day (go back to 1/2 day orientation the week before school starts)
- Religious holidays become 1/2 days unless they impact 15% or more of MCPS students and teachers (we didn't use to have religious holidays at all that didn't meet this threshold - this would include Eid, Diwali, and Lunar New Year, for sure)
- All teacher work days become 1/2 days.

At a minimum, this would provide at least 7 days (to be used to shorten length of time it takes to get to 180 and/or to add a few snow days).  Done.  
I'm a teacher, and it really bothers me that the majority of the time we do not go to school five days a week.  People underestimate how much this impacts the learning momentum of our students.  We spend a lot of time just reviewing where we were the last time we saw each other because we're always off.  Let's just start and end school at a reasonable time but actually go to school steadily during the year for the most part.[/quote]

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