Anonymous wrote:Added instruction on March 20th, June 18th. The rest they will seek waiver. Why not Feb 16th and 17th? Why always short change the kids MCPS? We pay your salary Taylor, would you accept not getting your goods after you pay for them? You do one meaningless study after another to justify your fat salary, but fail to teach the kids. Disgraceful.

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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

Luckily you aren’t in charge, despite all your delusions to the contrary.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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 wrote:I've been lurking on this thread for quite some time..... Does anyone HONESTLY think that by kids missing 4 days of school this semester, that they are going to fall behind or be at a disadvantage? This was a HIGHLY unusual situation that happens once every 10 years. No, it wasn't a blizzard, but the type of precipitation that fell, coupled with the extreme low temps made this very difficult. That being said..... If snow days are a MUST.... adding at the end of the year is no different than skipping the make up days altogether.

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Anonymous wrote:How feasible would it be to pivot snow days to virtual professional learning for teachers?

That would not really gain you anything. The pushback isn't that teachers are getting less professional days, it's having school on a holiday that was designed to overlap with the professional day. (And then the other possible makeup days are teacher grading days which there is generally pushback on taking away, but those happen at specific times between marking periods.)

Teachers can catch up on grading on snow days.

That's like telling kids to use snow days to catch up on homework that hasn't been assigned yet and requires knowledge of content that hasn't yet been taught

Anonymous wrote:You all love to blame the teachers but the reality is none of you understand the massive amount of work that would need to be done to open schools on such short notice. Its a heck of a lot more than just getting kids and teachers in buildings. Anyone who has ever had any sort of managerial role understands all the logistical and behind the scenes decisions that would go into it

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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!