Anonymous
02/21/2026 12:16
Subject: MCPS seeking waiver yet again!!!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Not all of the country has a 180 day requirement and many of those that do allow 180 days to count as 990-1080 hours. It's only Maryland, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts that have a strict 180 calendar day makeup day requirement.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Call/email your state legislature/general assembly. They have the power to allow the hours to count vs. the 180 day requirement. They need to hear from their constituents who think this is nonsense.
Some of us actually want our kids to have 180 days of school, like students in the rest of the country. If you haven't notice, half of MCPS students can't read or do math at grade level.
And these are all states with better educational outcomes than Maryland. Massachusetts requires school districts to schedule 185 days of school a year for a minimum of 180 days.
Because it snows there too, and they don’t shortchange kids instructional time the way Maryland does.
You do not know what you are talking about. "The most common way that states regulate instructional time is to set a minimum number of days for the school year; 38 states and the District of Columbia do so. The majority of those states (27 of 38), along with D.C., mandate 180 instructional days, making it the closest thing the country has to a national norm."
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/09/07/in-the-u-s-180-days-of-school-is-most-common-but-length-of-school-day-varies-by-state/
Anonymous
02/21/2026 12:15
Subject: MCPS seeking waiver yet again!!!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Call/email your state legislature/general assembly. They have the power to allow the hours to count vs. the 180 day requirement. They need to hear from their constituents who think this is nonsense.
This.
No thanks. The problem is that MCPS isn't scheduling its calendar properly. That's what needs to be fixed. Kids in this district in particular need time in school.
Oh look a Mad Mommy of MoCo is Big Mad and wants to micromanage MCPS like a Karen.
That's right, asking a large school district to competently schedule a calendar is so entitled!
Anonymous
02/21/2026 09:47
Subject: MCPS seeking waiver yet again!!!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Not all of the country has a 180 day requirement and many of those that do allow 180 days to count as 990-1080 hours. It's only Maryland, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts that have a strict 180 calendar day makeup day requirement.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Call/email your state legislature/general assembly. They have the power to allow the hours to count vs. the 180 day requirement. They need to hear from their constituents who think this is nonsense.
Some of us actually want our kids to have 180 days of school, like students in the rest of the country. If you haven't notice, half of MCPS students can't read or do math at grade level.
And these are all states with better educational outcomes than Maryland. Massachusetts requires school districts to schedule 185 days of school a year for a minimum of 180 days.
Because it snows there too, and they don’t shortchange kids instructional time the way Maryland does.
+1 I think MCPS's blatant efforts to provide as little instructional time and work hours as possible within legal constraints (repeatedly building in only one snow day after repeatedly needing more, meeting the state requirements with useless half days at the end of the year, giving office staff an entire week off for a snow storm when most workers were back after 2 days) are indicative of an entitled bureaucracy that exists to serve itself and nobody else. No surprise they are constantly changing the curricula so whoever is in charge can take credit for something and laser focused on creating new specialized programs when they have utterly failed at properly implementing and supporting the programs they have in place. The people in charge at MCPS are sociopaths and they DGAF that the majority of students are not graduating at a baseline level of proficiency in math and science.
Sorry that should say math and literacy
Anonymous
02/21/2026 09:46
Subject: MCPS seeking waiver yet again!!!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Not all of the country has a 180 day requirement and many of those that do allow 180 days to count as 990-1080 hours. It's only Maryland, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts that have a strict 180 calendar day makeup day requirement.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Call/email your state legislature/general assembly. They have the power to allow the hours to count vs. the 180 day requirement. They need to hear from their constituents who think this is nonsense.
Some of us actually want our kids to have 180 days of school, like students in the rest of the country. If you haven't notice, half of MCPS students can't read or do math at grade level.
And these are all states with better educational outcomes than Maryland. Massachusetts requires school districts to schedule 185 days of school a year for a minimum of 180 days.
Because it snows there too, and they don’t shortchange kids instructional time the way Maryland does.
+1 I think MCPS's blatant efforts to provide as little instructional time and work hours as possible within legal constraints (repeatedly building in only one snow day after repeatedly needing more, meeting the state requirements with useless half days at the end of the year, giving office staff an entire week off for a snow storm when most workers were back after 2 days) are indicative of an entitled bureaucracy that exists to serve itself and nobody else. No surprise they are constantly changing the curricula so whoever is in charge can take credit for something and laser focused on creating new specialized programs when they have utterly failed at properly implementing and supporting the programs they have in place. The people in charge at MCPS are sociopaths and they DGAF that the majority of students are not graduating at a baseline level of proficiency in math and science.
Anonymous
02/21/2026 09:44
Subject: MCPS seeking waiver yet again!!!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This family won't be there on the last 2 half-days after the election day off. This planning is ridiculous. I hope none of the advanced courses will try and give tests on these days.
Can't speak for all advanced classes, but the AP exams will have been over more than a month before this. Doubt they will have any tests on those last few make up days.
Some teachers who don’t have mostly seniors do other stuff. We had one history teacher do a section on financial literacy.
My MS kid did some “cool science experiments” during the June half days last year. I wish MCPS had planned better and learned its lesson last year rather than pulling this lazy BS trying to short change kids from instructional time with a waiver each year, but it’s not fair to say no one is teaching. Some teachers certainly do. They’re professionals after all.
Anonymous
02/21/2026 09:30
Subject: MCPS seeking waiver yet again!!!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This family won't be there on the last 2 half-days after the election day off. This planning is ridiculous. I hope none of the advanced courses will try and give tests on these days.
Can't speak for all advanced classes, but the AP exams will have been over more than a month before this. Doubt they will have any tests on those last few make up days.
Some teachers who don’t have mostly seniors do other stuff. We had one history teacher do a section on financial literacy.
Anonymous
02/21/2026 09:28
Subject: MCPS seeking waiver yet again!!!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Call/email your state legislature/general assembly. They have the power to allow the hours to count vs. the 180 day requirement. They need to hear from their constituents who think this is nonsense.
This.
No thanks. The problem is that MCPS isn't scheduling its calendar properly. That's what needs to be fixed. Kids in this district in particular need time in school.
Oh look a Mad Mommy of MoCo is Big Mad and wants to micromanage MCPS like a Karen.
Micromanagement is needed when MCPS is failing kids
Anonymous
02/21/2026 09:24
Subject: MCPS seeking waiver yet again!!!
Anonymous wrote:Not all of the country has a 180 day requirement and many of those that do allow 180 days to count as 990-1080 hours. It's only Maryland, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts that have a strict 180 calendar day makeup day requirement.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Call/email your state legislature/general assembly. They have the power to allow the hours to count vs. the 180 day requirement. They need to hear from their constituents who think this is nonsense.
Some of us actually want our kids to have 180 days of school, like students in the rest of the country. If you haven't notice, half of MCPS students can't read or do math at grade level.
Repeating that claim over and over again doesn't make it true. California also requires 180 days in addition to meeting instructional time requirements. Illinois requires 176 days without allowing districts to satisfy it with a hour-based equivalent. Michigan requires 180 days while also requiring 1098 hours.
I didn't check others, but it certainly isn't just those 4 states that have instructional day minimums.
Anonymous
02/21/2026 06:55
Subject: MCPS seeking waiver yet again!!!
Anonymous wrote:Not all of the country has a 180 day requirement and many of those that do allow 180 days to count as 990-1080 hours. It's only Maryland, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts that have a strict 180 calendar day makeup day requirement.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Call/email your state legislature/general assembly. They have the power to allow the hours to count vs. the 180 day requirement. They need to hear from their constituents who think this is nonsense.
Some of us actually want our kids to have 180 days of school, like students in the rest of the country. If you haven't notice, half of MCPS students can't read or do math at grade level.
And these are all states with better educational outcomes than Maryland. Massachusetts requires school districts to schedule 185 days of school a year for a minimum of 180 days.
Because it snows there too, and they don’t shortchange kids instructional time the way Maryland does.
Anonymous
02/21/2026 01:38
Subject: MCPS seeking waiver yet again!!!
Not all of the country has a 180 day requirement and many of those that do allow 180 days to count as 990-1080 hours. It's only Maryland, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts that have a strict 180 calendar day makeup day requirement.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Call/email your state legislature/general assembly. They have the power to allow the hours to count vs. the 180 day requirement. They need to hear from their constituents who think this is nonsense.
Some of us actually want our kids to have 180 days of school, like students in the rest of the country. If you haven't notice, half of MCPS students can't read or do math at grade level.
Anonymous
02/20/2026 07:58
Subject: MCPS seeking waiver yet again!!!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Call/email your state legislature/general assembly. They have the power to allow the hours to count vs. the 180 day requirement. They need to hear from their constituents who think this is nonsense.
This.
No thanks. The problem is that MCPS isn't scheduling its calendar properly. That's what needs to be fixed. Kids in this district in particular need time in school.
Oh look a Mad Mommy of MoCo is Big Mad and wants to micromanage MCPS like a Karen.
Anonymous
02/19/2026 22:16
Subject: MCPS seeking waiver yet again!!!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Call/email your state legislature/general assembly. They have the power to allow the hours to count vs. the 180 day requirement. They need to hear from their constituents who think this is nonsense.
Some of us actually want our kids to have 180 days of school, like students in the rest of the country. If you haven't notice, half of MCPS students can't read or do math at grade level.
+1. The state should require MCPS to have more days in the calendar since they are unwilling to use contingency days before June.
Anonymous
02/19/2026 21:51
Subject: MCPS seeking waiver yet again!!!
Anonymous wrote:Well I hope we’re all glad that our kids didn’t have virtual learning now.
Because I’m sure those days of school will be well-attended days of substantive study.
Seriously. Is MCPS finally going to submit the virtual learning for weather emergency plans it told its Board it would do in 2024? I wish I could be an MCPS employee, so I could also be 2 years late with my work.
Anonymous
02/19/2026 21:50
Subject: MCPS seeking waiver yet again!!!
Anonymous wrote:Call/email your state legislature/general assembly. They have the power to allow the hours to count vs. the 180 day requirement. They need to hear from their constituents who think this is nonsense.
Some of us actually want our kids to have 180 days of school, like students in the rest of the country. If you haven't notice, half of MCPS students can't read or do math at grade level.
Anonymous
02/19/2026 21:45
Subject: MCPS seeking waiver yet again!!!
Anonymous wrote:This family won't be there on the last 2 half-days after the election day off. This planning is ridiculous. I hope none of the advanced courses will try and give tests on these days.
Can't speak for all advanced classes, but the AP exams will have been over more than a month before this. Doubt they will have any tests on those last few make up days.