Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, it was an unusual winter but that isn't an excuse to waive the missed days of school. Do the requirements say that days have to be made up, unless we have an unusual winter? Why have the rule that never gets followed?

No, the requirements say that the days have to be made up, unless the state grants a waiver.

The state always grants waivers. Time to change the requirements and stop speculation and time/resource waste.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, it was an unusual winter but that isn't an excuse to waive the missed days of school. Do the requirements say that days have to be made up, unless we have an unusual winter? Why have the rule that never gets followed?

No, the requirements say that the days have to be made up, unless the state grants a waiver.

Anonymous wrote:The waiver is a joke. My kid is in 4th grade. When he was in K, they had 9 snow days and 5 were excused. Then the next year they used the 4 planned days. The year after was like 2 days and I think last year was 0.

This year is 10. 5 are excused. The fact we are even making up ONE seems pretty incredible to me.

The Teacher's Union contract desperately needs to be changed so they can make up snow days on teacher workdays. I also support removing President's Day as a holiday, as Fairfax does, as part of their contingency plan.

Then write to your state legislators. Maryland law requires schools to be closed on President's Day.

It's called the Ocean City rule. The state super is under a lot of pressure from the Ocean City lobby to get school closed as early as possible so the families and teenagers can get down there and spend money.

Every day that kids are in school costs Ocean City tens of thousands of dollars.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A complete joke - I hate that they are using the excuse that this was an unusual winter. I thought the requirement was making school up after 5 days missed and if it is a rare event that a student would ever miss 5 days, tehn get rid of the requrement instead of wasting everyone's time and going thru the silly waiver request. I seriosuly hope they rewrite the requirements and honestly state that school days will not be made up, because we all know they never have and they never will. Don't pretend you care about the kids getting an education because you only care about the $$$. And please learn a lesson from the other smarter districts - build the makeup days into the school year. Tack on an extra 15 minutes school a day, lose the professional days in which many teachers don't even use to do whatever they need to do! Take a day away from spring break and allow the families with vacation plans to take some school work with them to make sure their kids keep up.

It actually was an unusual winter.

Yes, it was an unusual winter but that isn't an excuse to waive the missed days of school. Do the requirements say that days have to be made up, unless we have an unusual winter? Why have the rule that never gets followed?

The waiver is a joke. My kid is in 4th grade. When he was in K, they had 9 snow days and 5 were excused. Then the next year they used the 4 planned days. The year after was like 2 days and I think last year was 0.

This year is 10. 5 are excused. The fact we are even making up ONE seems pretty incredible to me.

The Teacher's Union contract desperately needs to be changed so they can make up snow days on teacher workdays. I also support removing President's Day as a holiday, as Fairfax does, as part of their contingency plan.

Absolutely it's been a freaky, unusual winter, but the PP makes a fair point. What's the point of having the requirement if they never intend to uphold it? It's silly to go through this charade.

It IS an unusual winter! My God, it's snowed all damn day in Olney...and it's freaking March 25th!!!

Anonymous wrote:A complete joke - I hate that they are using the excuse that this was an unusual winter. I thought the requirement was making school up after 5 days missed and if it is a rare event that a student would ever miss 5 days, tehn get rid of the requrement instead of wasting everyone's time and going thru the silly waiver request. I seriosuly hope they rewrite the requirements and honestly state that school days will not be made up, because we all know they never have and they never will. Don't pretend you care about the kids getting an education because you only care about the $$$. And please learn a lesson from the other smarter districts - build the makeup days into the school year. Tack on an extra 15 minutes school a day, lose the professional days in which many teachers don't even use to do whatever they need to do! Take a day away from spring break and allow the families with vacation plans to take some school work with them to make sure their kids keep up.

It actually was an unusual winter.

I'm giggling thinking about the uproar this will cause by the "MCPS is the worst school system" crew of parents who should spend one week in almost any other school system in this country to appreciate what we have here! Of course, there will be the group that blames this on laz teachers (you know...the ones working 60-70 hrs a week

I'm doing the Church Lady's I Told You So dance

So they will only go one extra day.

A complete joke - I hate that they are using the excuse that this was an unusual winter. I thought the requirement was making school up after 5 days missed and if it is a rare event that a student would ever miss 5 days, tehn get rid of the requrement instead of wasting everyone's time and going thru the silly waiver request. I seriosuly hope they rewrite the requirements and honestly state that school days will not be made up, because we all know they never have and they never will. Don't pretend you care about the kids getting an education because you only care about the $$$. And please learn a lesson from the other smarter districts - build the makeup days into the school year. Tack on an extra 15 minutes school a day, lose the professional days in which many teachers don't even use to do whatever they need to do! Take a day away from spring break and allow the families with vacation plans to take some school work with them to make sure their kids keep up.

this whole waiver thing is a joke go to f#%$%&^% school and work a few extra days.

fyi...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/md-board-of-education-to-allow-school-snow-day-waivers/2014/03/25/b320cc62-b3aa-11e3-b899-20667de76985_story.html