Anonymous wrote:Thank god MSDE stepped up to the plate. MCPS was clearly misusing the allowance. This is why we can't have nice things.

To be fair, a lot of parents said they would not their children online for 4 hours of synchronous learning, so that's why asynchronous was chosen. Of course, it's pretty dubious to say that doing a paper packet or a few things on a choice board is the same thing as attending school all day

Anonymous wrote:Fairfax county always builds in more snow days. It’s fine.

Virginia counts by total hours per year, not days. This is how Loudoun County ends up with 15+ snow days, because their school day is slightly longer.

Thank god MSDE stepped up to the plate. MCPS was clearly misusing the allowance. This is why we can't have nice things.

I think this is a good plan. MCPS builds in 2 days. Designates am addition 8 days as potential in-person markup days. Has to use those first. If they go through all of those and STILL need an extra weather-related delay, than that day—and not a future day—can be used for synchronous virtual instruction, with at least 4 hours of synchronous virtual instruction required.

It seems like essentially this means that we will only have in-person makeup days except for extenuating circumstances, and then they will have to be synchronous.

Fairfax county always builds in more snow days. It’s fine.

Here is the memo: https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/D5BTY7799A4A/$file/2024-2025%20SY%20Virtual%20Education%20Plan%20240523.pdf

They aren’t building in 10 extra days. They are maintaining the two extra days and then identifying make-up days, up to 10 total.

The state rule change says that a synchronous day may be used if all the planned makeup days are exhausted. This is intended to be for some extended closure of schools (blizzard, pandemic) when it is clear that the school system can’t make-up all the missed days to get to 180 in- person days.

In practice this won’t happen. We will just have to use identified make-up days and attend school in-person.

Wait, they are going to build in 10 days? Can you post a link to the proposal?

How do they build in so many extra days? Will school be two extra weeks long? What if they don’t use 10 snow days? Will they end school earlier?

Anonymous wrote:They are building in 10 snow days.

What year will that be effective?

How will they find the $ to pay for the extra seven?

It was a waste of everyone's time, so who cares?

They can still have synchronous virtual days if they exhaust the snow days.

Kids don't do anything anyways.

They are building in 10 snow days.

Listening to the 5/23 BoE meeting and snow days is be in person. MSDE axed asynchronous make up days.