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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Back in the 90s mcps had 5 built in extra days. [/quote

Correct.  We also did not have all of the religious holidays we've added in recent years:
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur (we may have had those)
Diwali - new 
Lunar New Year
Eid (two separate days)
Passover

I realize we don't always have ALL of these days in a single year (depending on whether they fall on a weekend), but that is a total of seven added holidays.
In addition, there are two full teacher professional days (one in fall and one in spring) that have been added - I think they might be required by MD Blueprint? - they are definitely state mandated because 1/2 of the training on each of those days is mandated the state.

So that would be a total of nine days.
Then we added Transition Day, which automatically cut down on one school day (we had 182 days prior to last year when we started that).
So, you can see that if we returned to basing school closures only on operations (rather than religion), we could easily return to a 184 day school year.
Without Transition Day, we'd only be looking at 2-3 more days. 
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