Anonymous
01/23/2025 00:36
Subject: MCPS Code Green Thursday On-Time Opening. Also open for activities Wednesday.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Hopefully we are done with snow days for the year and we can all move on. With everything going on in the world right now it is ridiculously to be arguing about this. You are fortunate if this is your biggest worry.
We still need a make-up day.
One’s already built into the schedule. It’s in June. Now you can stop worrying.
DP. They have a bunch to choose from. Not clear that they will go with the June one.
I am a teacher and we were informally told that the last student day is now June 16th (it is an early release). The last day for teachers is now June 17th. I haven't seen it in writing, but that is what we were told.
There are going to be a lot of (rightfully) unhappy parents if Taylor skips 3 make-up days in the calendar in order to add an early release day to its own week at the very end of the year.
Why would they be upset when that has been the SOP? MCPS has never prioritized a makeup day in January or February over the first makeup day in June.
That is not going to keep parents from being upset that they unnecessarily closed schools and are scheduling the make up as a half day the week after school is supposed to close.
Anonymous
01/23/2025 00:25
Subject: MCPS Code Green Thursday On-Time Opening. Also open for activities Wednesday.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Hopefully we are done with snow days for the year and we can all move on. With everything going on in the world right now it is ridiculously to be arguing about this. You are fortunate if this is your biggest worry.
We still need a make-up day.
One’s already built into the schedule. It’s in June. Now you can stop worrying.
DP. They have a bunch to choose from. Not clear that they will go with the June one.
I am a teacher and we were informally told that the last student day is now June 16th (it is an early release). The last day for teachers is now June 17th. I haven't seen it in writing, but that is what we were told.
There are going to be a lot of (rightfully) unhappy parents if Taylor skips 3 make-up days in the calendar in order to add an early release day to its own week at the very end of the year.
Why would they be upset when that has been the SOP? MCPS has never prioritized a makeup day in January or February over the first makeup day in June.
The 6th is the first make-up day in June, not the 16th. The (silly virtual) make-up day last year was earlier in the year.
We explicitly identified 1/29, 3/31, and 6/6 as make-up days. Why wouldn't we use them?
Anonymous
01/22/2025 22:49
Subject: MCPS Code Green Thursday On-Time Opening. Also open for activities Wednesday.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Hopefully we are done with snow days for the year and we can all move on. With everything going on in the world right now it is ridiculously to be arguing about this. You are fortunate if this is your biggest worry.
We still need a make-up day.
One’s already built into the schedule. It’s in June. Now you can stop worrying.
DP. They have a bunch to choose from. Not clear that they will go with the June one.
I am a teacher and we were informally told that the last student day is now June 16th (it is an early release). The last day for teachers is now June 17th. I haven't seen it in writing, but that is what we were told.
There are going to be a lot of (rightfully) unhappy parents if Taylor skips 3 make-up days in the calendar in order to add an early release day to its own week at the very end of the year.
Why would they be upset when that has been the SOP? MCPS has never prioritized a makeup day in January or February over the first makeup day in June.
Anonymous
01/22/2025 22:47
Subject: MCPS Code Green Thursday On-Time Opening. Also open for activities Wednesday.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Hopefully we are done with snow days for the year and we can all move on. With everything going on in the world right now it is ridiculously to be arguing about this. You are fortunate if this is your biggest worry.
We still need a make-up day.
One’s already built into the schedule. It’s in June. Now you can stop worrying.
DP. They have a bunch to choose from. Not clear that they will go with the June one.
I am a teacher and we were informally told that the last student day is now June 16th (it is an early release). The last day for teachers is now June 17th. I haven't seen it in writing, but that is what we were told.
+1
Historically, MCPS has gone in the order the makeup dates are stated. Not chronological order.
We are unlikely to get that 1/29 date that so many DCUM parents crave unless we have more snow days before MP2 ends on Tuesday.
Anonymous
01/22/2025 22:28
Subject: MCPS Code Green Thursday On-Time Opening. Also open for activities Wednesday.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If anyone wants to understand why these threads typically criticize teachers, look at the MoCo Snow facebook page. All of the people complaining about this are teachers. They don't care when students' and parents' lives are upended by last-minute delays, but god forbid they're given 20-hours notice that they'll need to come in at their regularly scheduled time.
I'm going to call you out on this. I just took the time to look at those comments, and I don't see what you see... because it isn't there.
What I see is a couple of teachers who were frustrated because they changed their lesson plans to "accommodate [their] students only to be told 'never mind'". Another said it was a "major disruption to classroom plans." I did see ONE teacher write that it "reduces morale" and that the county "gave a gift and then took it away." That was ONE teacher. ONE. Overall? There are teachers who already spent time accommodating a delay who now have to throw away that wasted work. Yes, that's a frustration... and it happened because teachers worked ahead to help YOUR child have a useful day on a 2-hour delay.
I'm done letting DCUM posters insult my profession. I will not allow you to say that teachers "don't care". I won't allow you to imply that we are lazy and don't want to come in at our "regularly scheduled time."
Too many of us work too hard for this disrespect.
Thank you. Not once in my 15 years of teaching have I ever been asked my opinion on the condition of the roads but somehow we get blamed for these decisions.
Anonymous
01/22/2025 22:22
Subject: MCPS Code Green Thursday On-Time Opening. Also open for activities Wednesday.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If anyone wants to understand why these threads typically criticize teachers, look at the MoCo Snow facebook page. All of the people complaining about this are teachers. They don't care when students' and parents' lives are upended by last-minute delays, but god forbid they're given 20-hours notice that they'll need to come in at their regularly scheduled time.
I'm going to call you out on this. I just took the time to look at those comments, and I don't see what you see... because it isn't there.
What I see is a couple of teachers who were frustrated because they changed their lesson plans to "accommodate [their] students only to be told 'never mind'". Another said it was a "major disruption to classroom plans." I did see ONE teacher write that it "reduces morale" and that the county "gave a gift and then took it away." That was ONE teacher. ONE. Overall? There are teachers who already spent time accommodating a delay who now have to throw away that wasted work. Yes, that's a frustration... and it happened because teachers worked ahead to help YOUR child have a useful day on a 2-hour delay.
I'm done letting DCUM posters insult my profession. I will not allow you to say that teachers "don't care". I won't allow you to imply that we are lazy and don't want to come in at our "regularly scheduled time."
Too many of us work too hard for this disrespect.
Girl, this is DCUM, everybody gets disrespected and attacked. They aren't going to stop. You getting angry just eggs them on.
Anonymous
01/22/2025 22:20
Subject: MCPS Code Green Thursday On-Time Opening. Also open for activities Wednesday.
Anonymous wrote:Hopefully we are done with snow days for the year and we can all move on. With everything going on in the world right now it is ridiculously to be arguing about this. You are fortunate if this is your biggest worry.
It's January 22nd. There will be more snow days.
Anonymous
01/22/2025 21:50
Subject: MCPS Code Green Thursday On-Time Opening. Also open for activities Wednesday.
Anonymous wrote:If anyone wants to understand why these threads typically criticize teachers, look at the MoCo Snow facebook page. All of the people complaining about this are teachers. They don't care when students' and parents' lives are upended by last-minute delays, but god forbid they're given 20-hours notice that they'll need to come in at their regularly scheduled time.
I'm going to call you out on this. I just took the time to look at those comments, and I don't see what you see... because it isn't there.
What I see is a couple of teachers who were frustrated because they changed their lesson plans to "accommodate [their] students only to be told 'never mind'". Another said it was a "major disruption to classroom plans." I did see ONE teacher write that it "reduces morale" and that the county "gave a gift and then took it away." That was ONE teacher. ONE. Overall? There are teachers who already spent time accommodating a delay who now have to throw away that wasted work. Yes, that's a frustration... and it happened because teachers worked ahead to help YOUR child have a useful day on a 2-hour delay.
I'm done letting DCUM posters insult my profession. I will not allow you to say that teachers "don't care". I won't allow you to imply that we are lazy and don't want to come in at our "regularly scheduled time."
Too many of us work too hard for this disrespect.
Anonymous
01/22/2025 21:49
Subject: MCPS Code Green Thursday On-Time Opening. Also open for activities Wednesday.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Hopefully we are done with snow days for the year and we can all move on. With everything going on in the world right now it is ridiculously to be arguing about this. You are fortunate if this is your biggest worry.
We still need a make-up day.
One’s already built into the schedule. It’s in June. Now you can stop worrying.
DP. They have a bunch to choose from. Not clear that they will go with the June one.
I am a teacher and we were informally told that the last student day is now June 16th (it is an early release). The last day for teachers is now June 17th. I haven't seen it in writing, but that is what we were told.
There are going to be a lot of (rightfully) unhappy parents if Taylor skips 3 make-up days in the calendar in order to add an early release day to its own week at the very end of the year.
Anonymous
01/22/2025 21:45
Subject: MCPS Code Green Thursday On-Time Opening. Also open for activities Wednesday.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Hopefully we are done with snow days for the year and we can all move on. With everything going on in the world right now it is ridiculously to be arguing about this. You are fortunate if this is your biggest worry.
We still need a make-up day.
One’s already built into the schedule. It’s in June. Now you can stop worrying.
The next available one in the calendar is 3/31 (accepting that it is now too late to use 1/29). That would be better than waiting until the end of the year. (yes, one week before the last day of class is the end of the year)
Anonymous
01/22/2025 21:44
Subject: MCPS Code Green Thursday On-Time Opening. Also open for activities Wednesday.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Hopefully we are done with snow days for the year and we can all move on. With everything going on in the world right now it is ridiculously to be arguing about this. You are fortunate if this is your biggest worry.
We still need a make-up day.
One’s already built into the schedule. It’s in June. Now you can stop worrying.
DP. They have a bunch to choose from. Not clear that they will go with the June one.
I am a teacher and we were informally told that the last student day is now June 16th (it is an early release). The last day for teachers is now June 17th. I haven't seen it in writing, but that is what we were told.
Anonymous
01/22/2025 21:43
Subject: MCPS Code Green Thursday On-Time Opening. Also open for activities Wednesday.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Hopefully we are done with snow days for the year and we can all move on. With everything going on in the world right now it is ridiculously to be arguing about this. You are fortunate if this is your biggest worry.
We still need a make-up day.
One’s already built into the schedule. It’s in June. Now you can stop worrying.
DP. They have a bunch to choose from. Not clear that they will go with the June one.
Anonymous
01/22/2025 21:42
Subject: MCPS Code Green Thursday On-Time Opening. Also open for activities Wednesday.
If anyone wants to understand why these threads typically criticize teachers, look at the MoCo Snow facebook page. All of the people complaining about this are teachers. They don't care when students' and parents' lives are upended by last-minute delays, but god forbid they're given 20-hours notice that they'll need to come in at their regularly scheduled time.
Anonymous
01/22/2025 21:41
Subject: MCPS Code Green Thursday On-Time Opening. Also open for activities Wednesday.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Hopefully we are done with snow days for the year and we can all move on. With everything going on in the world right now it is ridiculously to be arguing about this. You are fortunate if this is your biggest worry.
We still need a make-up day.
One’s already built into the schedule. It’s in June. Now you can stop worrying.
Anonymous
01/22/2025 21:38
Subject: MCPS Code Green Thursday On-Time Opening. Also open for activities Wednesday.
Anonymous wrote:Hopefully we are done with snow days for the year and we can all move on. With everything going on in the world right now it is ridiculously to be arguing about this. You are fortunate if this is your biggest worry.
We still need a make-up day.