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Anonymous wrote:According to the school calendar, March 20 (which is a professional development day for teachers) is marked as a contingency day for snow. Place your bets on whether MCPS uses that as a learning day….

I really wish they would. But bet the chances are slim to none….

Thanks for wishing away our holiday

Take your holiday. But let the rest of students who aren’t celebrating go to school and not have their summer taken away.

The effect is we have to decide between missing learning and scrambling to make up assignments when we take our holiday or not having our holiday. That’s effectively systemic discrimination.

What MCPS is learning is there is no reasonable way to close for every religious holiday and account for snow and still close by a reasonable date in the summer. I’m all for striking all — Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu — holidays from the calendar all together. Give a few days at the end of each term and be done with it…

State law requires schools close on Christian holidays and on the days adjacent to Christian holidays.

So much for separation of church and state.

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Anonymous wrote:According to the school calendar, March 20 (which is a professional development day for teachers) is marked as a contingency day for snow. Place your bets on whether MCPS uses that as a learning day….

I really wish they would. But bet the chances are slim to none….

Thanks for wishing away our holiday

Take your holiday. But let the rest of students who aren’t celebrating go to school and not have their summer taken away.

Listen, March 20 is not my holiday either. But when you decide to hold school on these holidays, not only do the kids who celebrate have an impossible choice between missing instruction and the complexity of having to make it up, juggling studying and hw with religious and family obligations, and extracurricular activities not allowing absence without consequence (sports coaches are notorious for this). Honestly it probably doesn’t matter for ES & MS, but for HS it can be tricky. I am not sure whether a half day would properly allow those who celebrate to do so, but if it would, I think that would be a good compromise.

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Anonymous wrote:According to the school calendar, March 20 (which is a professional development day for teachers) is marked as a contingency day for snow. Place your bets on whether MCPS uses that as a learning day….

I really wish they would. But bet the chances are slim to none….

Thanks for wishing away our holiday

Take your holiday. But let the rest of students who aren’t celebrating go to school and not have their summer taken away.

The effect is we have to decide between missing learning and scrambling to make up assignments when we take our holiday or not having our holiday. That’s effectively systemic discrimination.

What MCPS is learning is there is no reasonable way to close for every religious holiday and account for snow and still close by a reasonable date in the summer. I’m all for striking all — Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu — holidays from the calendar all together. Give a few days at the end of each term and be done with it…

State law requires schools close on Christian holidays and on the days adjacent to Christian holidays.

I just hope whatever day they use as make up is a half day. We have enough hours, no sense in making it a full day!

I'm all for the PD day being a half day make up day. Those PD's are no good. The county assigns one pd for everyone no matter grade or content; it's ridiculous. We should take notes from other counties and make a PD day that has each content and level meeting together for specific PD!

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Anonymous wrote:MCEA would never let him do that.

MCEA doesn’t have the power you think it does.

You're kidding. It isn't the teachers in general- it is just MCEA leadership. They're consulted before anyone else on decisions like this.

MCEA is a very weak union comparatively.

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Anonymous wrote:How many students or staff are affected by that holiday? Why take off for every holiday. So ridoc.

Next year let’s have school on Christmas so we can spread out who gets holidays off and who doesn’t.

Sounds good to me!

Anonymous wrote:How many students or staff are affected by that holiday? Why take off for every holiday. So ridoc.

Next year let’s have school on Christmas so we can spread out who gets holidays off and who doesn’t.

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Anonymous wrote:According to the school calendar, March 20 (which is a professional development day for teachers) is marked as a contingency day for snow. Place your bets on whether MCPS uses that as a learning day….

I really wish they would. But bet the chances are slim to none….

Thanks for wishing away our holiday

Take your holiday. But let the rest of students who aren’t celebrating go to school and not have their summer taken away.

The effect is we have to decide between missing learning and scrambling to make up assignments when we take our holiday or not having our holiday. That’s effectively systemic discrimination.

What MCPS is learning is there is no reasonable way to close for every religious holiday and account for snow and still close by a reasonable date in the summer. I’m all for striking all — Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu — holidays from the calendar all together. Give a few days at the end of each term and be done with it…

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to the school calendar, March 20 (which is a professional development day for teachers) is marked as a contingency day for snow. Place your bets on whether MCPS uses that as a learning day….

I really wish they would. But bet the chances are slim to none….

Thanks for wishing away our holiday

Take your holiday. But let the rest of students who aren’t celebrating go to school and not have their summer taken away.

The effect is we have to decide between missing learning and scrambling to make up assignments when we take our holiday or not having our holiday. That’s effectively systemic discrimination.

There are many religions' holidays throughout the year on school days.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to the school calendar, March 20 (which is a professional development day for teachers) is marked as a contingency day for snow. Place your bets on whether MCPS uses that as a learning day….

I really wish they would. But bet the chances are slim to none….

Thanks for wishing away our holiday

Take your holiday. But let the rest of students who aren’t celebrating go to school and not have their summer taken away.

The effect is we have to decide between missing learning and scrambling to make up assignments when we take our holiday or not having our holiday. That’s effectively systemic discrimination.

That’s a no. Union won’t allow it. Contingency days are not real. We will just go later into Kune with half days.

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Anonymous wrote:According to the school calendar, March 20 (which is a professional development day for teachers) is marked as a contingency day for snow. Place your bets on whether MCPS uses that as a learning day….

I really wish they would. But bet the chances are slim to none….

Thanks for wishing away our holiday

Take your holiday. But let the rest of students who aren’t celebrating go to school and not have their summer taken away.

Anonymous wrote:How many students or staff are affected by that holiday? Why take off for every holiday. So ridoc.

3% of the county as a whole. It may or may not be different representation as staff and students. If anything, it's likely higher for students than the county at large, though, as its a growing population.

Anonymous wrote:According to the school calendar, March 20 (which is a professional development day for teachers) is marked as a contingency day for snow. Place your bets on whether MCPS uses that as a learning day….

I really wish they would. But bet the chances are slim to none….

Thanks for wishing away our holiday

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCEA would never let him do that.

MCEA doesn’t have the power you think it does.

You're kidding. It isn't the teachers in general- it is just MCEA leadership. They're consulted before anyone else on decisions like this.