Anonymous wrote:For anyone who wants to email state reps, here is the info:
Official Bill Number: HB1084 (2026)
Title: Montgomery County – County Board of Education – School Operation Requirements
Summary: Authorizes Montgomery County to meet either the minimum school day count or the minimum instructional hours requirement.

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Anonymous wrote:My rising senior has a job to start on 6/18 there’s no way she’s missing a week of work. This is going to screw up so many local summer camps who rely on high schoolers to work.

Oh the horror! That's a tragedy compared to students not getting the educational days they're supposed to get. Also, this happened last year, where days in June were tacked on because MCPS didn't plan in enough snow days.

It's not like this is unexpected. I didn't make summer camp plans for my kids for that week because I knew this could happen. There's no reason to book camps by February, for a week that is likely to have makeup days.

Your kids sound young and you sound insufferable. Some programs/camps/jobs only exist with a fixed start date that did not previously conflict with the school calendar, and given that this is the latest the school has been extended in an extremely long time, it was reasonable to book these plans. Many of these programs are already full, and had people waited until the end of snow season, they would have been shut out. MCPS identified 3 perfectly reasonable dates (3/20, 4/15, 6/18) that most people would have assumed they would have used first because those are among the dates they literally picked as options when making the calendar, making it far less likely that they would have boldly chosen to use the later June dates instead.

That's your opinion, and your magical powers of detecting the age of anonymous internet poster's kids aren't that good.

And you sound far more insufferable whining about your HS kid's summer job, when most MCPS kids don't have the money to go to camp, and a lot of smart MCPS parents held off on making plans because we know it snows, and we have experience with what happens last year.

And MCPS never wants to use its makeup days, so this was entirely predictable.

It is quite a level of hubris to say you can predict the decisions of MCPS when they are the most inconsistent decision makers around and no two years have been the same.

Well they did the same thing last year. So it doesn’t take a great mind to predict that the school year would extend further into June. Sorry your HS kid is so put out by shifting schedules that impact a summer camp job. Other kids are happy to have a place to go to get an education and meals.

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Anonymous wrote:Staff is going to expect to be paid if they have to work until June 25.

Don’t even think of goi g there with “well they got paid for the snowcrete days.”

Juneteenth is going to have to be a paid holiday.

This is gonna be expensive.

I don't think they need to pay them any more than previously negotiated. The contract is for a specific number of working days. They did not actually work the snow days.

But we got paid for them. So teachers will not get paid for the make up days.
So if you are a teacher who has summer job starting June 21, which are you going to do…work for free or earn a paycheck? Not a tough decision there.

Right. So you got paid for days you didn’t work. Then you can make up days where you won’t get paid.

That isn't how it works. You'll get over it.

Except it is how works

No, it isn't. Staff will get paid if they have to work those days. This notion that "they owe us days because they got paid before" isn't anything other than footstomping by some Mad Mommy of MoCo.

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Anonymous wrote:My rising senior has a job to start on 6/18 there’s no way she’s missing a week of work. This is going to screw up so many local summer camps who rely on high schoolers to work.

Oh the horror! That's a tragedy compared to students not getting the educational days they're supposed to get. Also, this happened last year, where days in June were tacked on because MCPS didn't plan in enough snow days.

It's not like this is unexpected. I didn't make summer camp plans for my kids for that week because I knew this could happen. There's no reason to book camps by February, for a week that is likely to have makeup days.

Your kids sound young and you sound insufferable. Some programs/camps/jobs only exist with a fixed start date that did not previously conflict with the school calendar, and given that this is the latest the school has been extended in an extremely long time, it was reasonable to book these plans. Many of these programs are already full, and had people waited until the end of snow season, they would have been shut out. MCPS identified 3 perfectly reasonable dates (3/20, 4/15, 6/18) that most people would have assumed they would have used first because those are among the dates they literally picked as options when making the calendar, making it far less likely that they would have boldly chosen to use the later June dates instead.

That's your opinion, and your magical powers of detecting the age of anonymous internet poster's kids aren't that good.

And you sound far more insufferable whining about your HS kid's summer job, when most MCPS kids don't have the money to go to camp, and a lot of smart MCPS parents held off on making plans because we know it snows, and we have experience with what happens last year.

And MCPS never wants to use its makeup days, so this was entirely predictable.

It is quite a level of hubris to say you can predict the decisions of MCPS when they are the most inconsistent decision makers around and no two years have been the same.

Well they did the same thing last year. So it doesn’t take a great mind to predict that the school year would extend further into June. Sorry your HS kid is so put out by shifting schedules that impact a summer camp job. Other kids are happy to have a place to go to get an education and meals.

Please report back what your kid learns on that last week. How old are they?

I don't need to justify the importance of a school day to a helicopter parent who only cares that their privileged HS kid may not be able to have her part-time job at a summer camp go as smoothly as plan. I sent both my kids last year (ES/MS) and they both said they learned and enjoyed spending time with their teacher and friends.

Sorry you don't value education or think your child's school is capable of adding value in June.

I'm not the poster you're replying to, but why are saying a high schooler with a summer job is necessarily privileged? Lots of kids have summer jobs; probably more common with working class than rich kids.

Possibly. But generally more likely that summer camps hire prior campers they're familiar with, or who have done CIT. These aren't the richest kids, but if you're been a regular summer camper throughout your life, you're certainly not poor.

For sleepaway camp, yes, that's generally affluent families that do that. But a lot of kids want or need retail/pool/day camp/etc summer jobs and they can't be in school until July and still be able to do them.

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Anonymous wrote:My rising senior has a job to start on 6/18 there’s no way she’s missing a week of work. This is going to screw up so many local summer camps who rely on high schoolers to work.

Oh the horror! That's a tragedy compared to students not getting the educational days they're supposed to get. Also, this happened last year, where days in June were tacked on because MCPS didn't plan in enough snow days.

It's not like this is unexpected. I didn't make summer camp plans for my kids for that week because I knew this could happen. There's no reason to book camps by February, for a week that is likely to have makeup days.

Your kids sound young and you sound insufferable. Some programs/camps/jobs only exist with a fixed start date that did not previously conflict with the school calendar, and given that this is the latest the school has been extended in an extremely long time, it was reasonable to book these plans. Many of these programs are already full, and had people waited until the end of snow season, they would have been shut out. MCPS identified 3 perfectly reasonable dates (3/20, 4/15, 6/18) that most people would have assumed they would have used first because those are among the dates they literally picked as options when making the calendar, making it far less likely that they would have boldly chosen to use the later June dates instead.

That's your opinion, and your magical powers of detecting the age of anonymous internet poster's kids aren't that good.

And you sound far more insufferable whining about your HS kid's summer job, when most MCPS kids don't have the money to go to camp, and a lot of smart MCPS parents held off on making plans because we know it snows, and we have experience with what happens last year.

And MCPS never wants to use its makeup days, so this was entirely predictable.

It is quite a level of hubris to say you can predict the decisions of MCPS when they are the most inconsistent decision makers around and no two years have been the same.

Well they did the same thing last year. So it doesn’t take a great mind to predict that the school year would extend further into June. Sorry your HS kid is so put out by shifting schedules that impact a summer camp job. Other kids are happy to have a place to go to get an education and meals.

Please report back what your kid learns on that last week. How old are they?

I don't need to justify the importance of a school day to a helicopter parent who only cares that their privileged HS kid may not be able to have her part-time job at a summer camp go as smoothly as plan. I sent both my kids last year (ES/MS) and they both said they learned and enjoyed spending time with their teacher and friends.

Sorry you don't value education or think your child's school is capable of adding value in June.

I'm not the poster you're replying to, but why are saying a high schooler with a summer job is necessarily privileged? Lots of kids have summer jobs; probably more common with working class than rich kids.

Possibly. But generally more likely that summer camps hire prior campers they're familiar with, or who have done CIT. These aren't the richest kids, but if you're been a regular summer camper throughout your life, you're certainly not poor.

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Anonymous wrote:My rising senior has a job to start on 6/18 there’s no way she’s missing a week of work. This is going to screw up so many local summer camps who rely on high schoolers to work.

Oh the horror! That's a tragedy compared to students not getting the educational days they're supposed to get. Also, this happened last year, where days in June were tacked on because MCPS didn't plan in enough snow days.

It's not like this is unexpected. I didn't make summer camp plans for my kids for that week because I knew this could happen. There's no reason to book camps by February, for a week that is likely to have makeup days.

Your kids sound young and you sound insufferable. Some programs/camps/jobs only exist with a fixed start date that did not previously conflict with the school calendar, and given that this is the latest the school has been extended in an extremely long time, it was reasonable to book these plans. Many of these programs are already full, and had people waited until the end of snow season, they would have been shut out. MCPS identified 3 perfectly reasonable dates (3/20, 4/15, 6/18) that most people would have assumed they would have used first because those are among the dates they literally picked as options when making the calendar, making it far less likely that they would have boldly chosen to use the later June dates instead.

That's your opinion, and your magical powers of detecting the age of anonymous internet poster's kids aren't that good.

And you sound far more insufferable whining about your HS kid's summer job, when most MCPS kids don't have the money to go to camp, and a lot of smart MCPS parents held off on making plans because we know it snows, and we have experience with what happens last year.

And MCPS never wants to use its makeup days, so this was entirely predictable.

It is quite a level of hubris to say you can predict the decisions of MCPS when they are the most inconsistent decision makers around and no two years have been the same.

Well they did the same thing last year. So it doesn’t take a great mind to predict that the school year would extend further into June. Sorry your HS kid is so put out by shifting schedules that impact a summer camp job. Other kids are happy to have a place to go to get an education and meals.

Please report back what your kid learns on that last week. How old are they?

I don't need to justify the importance of a school day to a helicopter parent who only cares that their privileged HS kid may not be able to have her part-time job at a summer camp go as smoothly as plan. I sent both my kids last year (ES/MS) and they both said they learned and enjoyed spending time with their teacher and friends.

Sorry you don't value education or think your child's school is capable of adding value in June.

I'm not the poster you're replying to, but why are saying a high schooler with a summer job is necessarily privileged? Lots of kids have summer jobs; probably more common with working class than rich kids.

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Anonymous wrote:My rising senior has a job to start on 6/18 there’s no way she’s missing a week of work. This is going to screw up so many local summer camps who rely on high schoolers to work.

Oh the horror! That's a tragedy compared to students not getting the educational days they're supposed to get. Also, this happened last year, where days in June were tacked on because MCPS didn't plan in enough snow days.

It's not like this is unexpected. I didn't make summer camp plans for my kids for that week because I knew this could happen. There's no reason to book camps by February, for a week that is likely to have makeup days.

Your kids sound young and you sound insufferable. Some programs/camps/jobs only exist with a fixed start date that did not previously conflict with the school calendar, and given that this is the latest the school has been extended in an extremely long time, it was reasonable to book these plans. Many of these programs are already full, and had people waited until the end of snow season, they would have been shut out. MCPS identified 3 perfectly reasonable dates (3/20, 4/15, 6/18) that most people would have assumed they would have used first because those are among the dates they literally picked as options when making the calendar, making it far less likely that they would have boldly chosen to use the later June dates instead.

That's your opinion, and your magical powers of detecting the age of anonymous internet poster's kids aren't that good.

And you sound far more insufferable whining about your HS kid's summer job, when most MCPS kids don't have the money to go to camp, and a lot of smart MCPS parents held off on making plans because we know it snows, and we have experience with what happens last year.

And MCPS never wants to use its makeup days, so this was entirely predictable.

It is quite a level of hubris to say you can predict the decisions of MCPS when they are the most inconsistent decision makers around and no two years have been the same.

Well they did the same thing last year. So it doesn’t take a great mind to predict that the school year would extend further into June. Sorry your HS kid is so put out by shifting schedules that impact a summer camp job. Other kids are happy to have a place to go to get an education and meals.

Please report back what your kid learns on that last week. How old are they?

I don't need to justify the importance of a school day to a helicopter parent who only cares that their privileged HS kid may not be able to have her part-time job at a summer camp go as smoothly as plan. I sent both my kids last year (ES/MS) and they both said they learned and enjoyed spending time with their teacher and friends.

Sorry you don't value education or think your child's school is capable of adding value in June.

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Anonymous wrote:My rising senior has a job to start on 6/18 there’s no way she’s missing a week of work. This is going to screw up so many local summer camps who rely on high schoolers to work.

Oh the horror! That's a tragedy compared to students not getting the educational days they're supposed to get. Also, this happened last year, where days in June were tacked on because MCPS didn't plan in enough snow days.

It's not like this is unexpected. I didn't make summer camp plans for my kids for that week because I knew this could happen. There's no reason to book camps by February, for a week that is likely to have makeup days.

Your kids sound young and you sound insufferable. Some programs/camps/jobs only exist with a fixed start date that did not previously conflict with the school calendar, and given that this is the latest the school has been extended in an extremely long time, it was reasonable to book these plans. Many of these programs are already full, and had people waited until the end of snow season, they would have been shut out. MCPS identified 3 perfectly reasonable dates (3/20, 4/15, 6/18) that most people would have assumed they would have used first because those are among the dates they literally picked as options when making the calendar, making it far less likely that they would have boldly chosen to use the later June dates instead.

That's your opinion, and your magical powers of detecting the age of anonymous internet poster's kids aren't that good.

And you sound far more insufferable whining about your HS kid's summer job, when most MCPS kids don't have the money to go to camp, and a lot of smart MCPS parents held off on making plans because we know it snows, and we have experience with what happens last year.

And MCPS never wants to use its makeup days, so this was entirely predictable.

It is quite a level of hubris to say you can predict the decisions of MCPS when they are the most inconsistent decision makers around and no two years have been the same.

Well they did the same thing last year. So it doesn’t take a great mind to predict that the school year would extend further into June. Sorry your HS kid is so put out by shifting schedules that impact a summer camp job. Other kids are happy to have a place to go to get an education and meals.

Please report back what your kid learns on that last week. How old are they?

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Anonymous wrote:My rising senior has a job to start on 6/18 there’s no way she’s missing a week of work. This is going to screw up so many local summer camps who rely on high schoolers to work.

Oh the horror! That's a tragedy compared to students not getting the educational days they're supposed to get. Also, this happened last year, where days in June were tacked on because MCPS didn't plan in enough snow days.

It's not like this is unexpected. I didn't make summer camp plans for my kids for that week because I knew this could happen. There's no reason to book camps by February, for a week that is likely to have makeup days.

Your kids sound young and you sound insufferable. Some programs/camps/jobs only exist with a fixed start date that did not previously conflict with the school calendar, and given that this is the latest the school has been extended in an extremely long time, it was reasonable to book these plans. Many of these programs are already full, and had people waited until the end of snow season, they would have been shut out. MCPS identified 3 perfectly reasonable dates (3/20, 4/15, 6/18) that most people would have assumed they would have used first because those are among the dates they literally picked as options when making the calendar, making it far less likely that they would have boldly chosen to use the later June dates instead.

That's your opinion, and your magical powers of detecting the age of anonymous internet poster's kids aren't that good.

And you sound far more insufferable whining about your HS kid's summer job, when most MCPS kids don't have the money to go to camp, and a lot of smart MCPS parents held off on making plans because we know it snows, and we have experience with what happens last year.

And MCPS never wants to use its makeup days, so this was entirely predictable.

It is quite a level of hubris to say you can predict the decisions of MCPS when they are the most inconsistent decision makers around and no two years have been the same.

Well they did the same thing last year. So it doesn’t take a great mind to predict that the school year would extend further into June. Sorry your HS kid is so put out by shifting schedules that impact a summer camp job. Other kids are happy to have a place to go to get an education and meals.

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Anonymous wrote:My rising senior has a job to start on 6/18 there’s no way she’s missing a week of work. This is going to screw up so many local summer camps who rely on high schoolers to work.

Oh the horror! That's a tragedy compared to students not getting the educational days they're supposed to get. Also, this happened last year, where days in June were tacked on because MCPS didn't plan in enough snow days.

It's not like this is unexpected. I didn't make summer camp plans for my kids for that week because I knew this could happen. There's no reason to book camps by February, for a week that is likely to have makeup days.

Your kids sound young and you sound insufferable. Some programs/camps/jobs only exist with a fixed start date that did not previously conflict with the school calendar, and given that this is the latest the school has been extended in an extremely long time, it was reasonable to book these plans. Many of these programs are already full, and had people waited until the end of snow season, they would have been shut out. MCPS identified 3 perfectly reasonable dates (3/20, 4/15, 6/18) that most people would have assumed they would have used first because those are among the dates they literally picked as options when making the calendar, making it far less likely that they would have boldly chosen to use the later June dates instead.

That's your opinion, and your magical powers of detecting the age of anonymous internet poster's kids aren't that good.

And you sound far more insufferable whining about your HS kid's summer job, when most MCPS kids don't have the money to go to camp, and a lot of smart MCPS parents held off on making plans because we know it snows, and we have experience with what happens last year.

And MCPS never wants to use its makeup days, so this was entirely predictable.

It is quite a level of hubris to say you can predict the decisions of MCPS when they are the most inconsistent decision makers around and no two years have been the same.

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Anonymous wrote:Staff is going to expect to be paid if they have to work until June 25.

Don’t even think of goi g there with “well they got paid for the snowcrete days.”

Juneteenth is going to have to be a paid holiday.

This is gonna be expensive.

1. I would rather have no snow and be off in June.
2. Working without a paycheck is a hardship for some people. If you are fortunate enough that this isn’t you, try to be grateful.

Thanks so much for your very pleasant attitude.


I don't think they need to pay them any more than previously negotiated. The contract is for a specific number of working days. They did not actually work the snow days.

But we got paid for them. So teachers will not get paid for the make up days.
So if you are a teacher who has summer job starting June 21, which are you going to do…work for free or earn a paycheck? Not a tough decision there.

How lovely. Hope you enjoyed your extra week of snow days vacation while the rest of Maryland went to work.

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Anonymous wrote:My rising senior has a job to start on 6/18 there’s no way she’s missing a week of work. This is going to screw up so many local summer camps who rely on high schoolers to work.

Oh the horror! That's a tragedy compared to students not getting the educational days they're supposed to get. Also, this happened last year, where days in June were tacked on because MCPS didn't plan in enough snow days.

It's not like this is unexpected. I didn't make summer camp plans for my kids for that week because I knew this could happen. There's no reason to book camps by February, for a week that is likely to have makeup days.

Your kids sound young and you sound insufferable. Some programs/camps/jobs only exist with a fixed start date that did not previously conflict with the school calendar, and given that this is the latest the school has been extended in an extremely long time, it was reasonable to book these plans. Many of these programs are already full, and had people waited until the end of snow season, they would have been shut out. MCPS identified 3 perfectly reasonable dates (3/20, 4/15, 6/18) that most people would have assumed they would have used first because those are among the dates they literally picked as options when making the calendar, making it far less likely that they would have boldly chosen to use the later June dates instead.

That's your opinion, and your magical powers of detecting the age of anonymous internet poster's kids aren't that good.

And you sound far more insufferable whining about your HS kid's summer job, when most MCPS kids don't have the money to go to camp, and a lot of smart MCPS parents held off on making plans because we know it snows, and we have experience with what happens last year.

And MCPS never wants to use its makeup days, so this was entirely predictable.

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Anonymous wrote:Staff is going to expect to be paid if they have to work until June 25.

Don’t even think of goi g there with “well they got paid for the snowcrete days.”

Juneteenth is going to have to be a paid holiday.

This is gonna be expensive.

I don't think they need to pay them any more than previously negotiated. The contract is for a specific number of working days. They did not actually work the snow days.

But we got paid for them. So teachers will not get paid for the make up days.
So if you are a teacher who has summer job starting June 21, which are you going to do…work for free or earn a paycheck? Not a tough decision there.

Right. So you got paid for days you didn’t work. Then you can make up days where you won’t get paid.

That isn't how it works. You'll get over it.

Except it is how works