Anonymous
02/02/2026 13:31
Subject: When will makeup days be announced?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There will be no make up days. This is an unusual situation and county will get a waiver. As will all the other counties in the DMV. It has happened in the past, in 2009.
Did we only have ONE built in snow day in 2009? There have to be some repercussions for such poor planning
Apparently not if you're MCPS. Anne Arundel have Baltimore have 3 snow days built into their calendar, and submitted their virtual learning plan to MSDE so they could offer online instruction last week.
MCPS is the slacker school district, despite its massive budget. It had a deficit of 3 snow days last year, yet...here we are with a deficit of 5 snow days this year.
Who could have predicted there might be snow?
You all fail to see the problem. Other counties do not have Jewish holidays, Muslim holidays, lunar, diwali days off. Also those counties are much smaller. We have parents here who want to have religious holidays, don’t want to start earlier in August, and want to end in mid june and don’t want virtual learning. Too bad mcps is stuck with such parents who want everything and then complain when they cant.
Actually Fairfax County observes those same holidays, but starts a week earlier in August than MCPS. That way they don't consistently shortchange their kids 180 days the way MCPS does.
Anonymous
02/02/2026 13:30
Subject: When will makeup days be announced?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There will be no make up days. This is an unusual situation and county will get a waiver. As will all the other counties in the DMV. It has happened in the past, in 2009.
Did we only have ONE built in snow day in 2009? There have to be some repercussions for such poor planning
Apparently not if you're MCPS. Anne Arundel have Baltimore have 3 snow days built into their calendar, and submitted their virtual learning plan to MSDE so they could offer online instruction last week.
MCPS is the slacker school district, despite its massive budget. It had a deficit of 3 snow days last year, yet...here we are with a deficit of 5 snow days this year.
Who could have predicted there might be snow?
You all fail to see the problem. Other counties do not have Jewish holidays, Muslim holidays, lunar, diwali days off. Also those counties are much smaller. We have parents here who want to have religious holidays, don’t want to start earlier in August, and want to end in mid june and don’t want virtual learning. Too bad mcps is stuck with such parents who want everything and then complain when they cant.
Those days are not off because MCPS has a huge desire to celebrate them. They are non-instructional days because teachers wanted more grading days built into the calendar, and it was more palatable to add in Lunar New Year, Diwali etc. because they already had three Jewish holidays and several Christian holidays. If they weren't on those holidays, they would be non-instructional days elsewhere in the calendar.
Anonymous
02/02/2026 13:27
Subject: When will makeup days be announced?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There will be no make up days. This is an unusual situation and county will get a waiver. As will all the other counties in the DMV. It has happened in the past, in 2009.
Did we only have ONE built in snow day in 2009? There have to be some repercussions for such poor planning
Apparently not if you're MCPS. Anne Arundel have Baltimore have 3 snow days built into their calendar, and submitted their virtual learning plan to MSDE so they could offer online instruction last week.
MCPS is the slacker school district, despite its massive budget. It had a deficit of 3 snow days last year, yet...here we are with a deficit of 5 snow days this year.
Who could have predicted there might be snow?
You all fail to see the problem. Other counties do not have Jewish holidays, Muslim holidays, lunar, diwali days off. Also those counties are much smaller. We have parents here who want to have religious holidays, don’t want to start earlier in August, and want to end in mid june and don’t want virtual learning. Too bad mcps is stuck with such parents who want everything and then complain when they cant.
Anonymous
02/02/2026 13:23
Subject: When will makeup days be announced?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There will be no make up days. This is an unusual situation and county will get a waiver. As will all the other counties in the DMV. It has happened in the past, in 2009.
They need to add three days before they can seek a waiver.
They can add three half days at the end of June like last year and suggest families don't need to send their kids like last year. All the while claiming that MCPS is too good to offer virtual learning because it's inferior to the in-class instruction they'll offer our kids at the end of June where teachers turn on videos while cleaning out their classroom.
Anonymous
02/02/2026 13:19
Subject: When will makeup days be announced?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There will be no make up days. This is an unusual situation and county will get a waiver. As will all the other counties in the DMV. It has happened in the past, in 2009.
Did we only have ONE built in snow day in 2009? There have to be some repercussions for such poor planning
Apparently not if you're MCPS. Anne Arundel have Baltimore have 3 snow days built into their calendar, and submitted their virtual learning plan to MSDE so they could offer online instruction last week.
MCPS is the slacker school district, despite its massive budget. It had a deficit of 3 snow days last year, yet...here we are with a deficit of 5 snow days this year.
Who could have predicted there might be snow?
Anonymous
02/02/2026 12:18
Subject: When will makeup days be announced?
We need to start earlier and stop taking off for every single holiday. We need to get out of the mindset that if some students need to miss, all students need to miss. It just doesn't work.
Anonymous
02/02/2026 11:40
Subject: When will makeup days be announced?
Anonymous wrote:MCPS definitely needs to start school in the 2nd week of August to add built in snow days as well as to compensate for all the religious holidays we get off in order to get 180 days of instruction. Or just get rid of all the religious holidays.
I don't think this will would pass, but I don't know why you think starting school the second week of August wouldn't work because that's when band/sports starts. Everything starts at the same time, just earlier.
Anonymous
02/02/2026 10:39
Subject: When will makeup days be announced?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MCPS definitely needs to start school in the 2nd week of August to add built in snow days as well as to compensate for all the religious holidays we get off in order to get 180 days of instruction. Or just get rid of all the religious holidays.
Sports and band start then. Not going to work.
School sports/activities can't run during the school year? You seem confused.
Anonymous
02/02/2026 10:38
Subject: When will makeup days be announced?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There will be no make up days. This is an unusual situation and county will get a waiver. As will all the other counties in the DMV. It has happened in the past, in 2009.
Did we only have ONE built in snow day in 2009? There have to be some repercussions for such poor planning
MCPS has always been good about getting the days waived.. so maybe that explains the poor planning on their part.
The regulations changed 7 years ago. MSDE doesn't provide waivers unless districts first use make up days.
Anonymous
02/02/2026 10:37
Subject: When will makeup days be announced?
Anonymous wrote:MCPS definitely needs to start school in the 2nd week of August to add built in snow days as well as to compensate for all the religious holidays we get off in order to get 180 days of instruction. Or just get rid of all the religious holidays.
Sports and band start then. Not going to work.
Anonymous
02/02/2026 10:35
Subject: When will makeup days be announced?
MCPS definitely needs to start school in the 2nd week of August to add built in snow days as well as to compensate for all the religious holidays we get off in order to get 180 days of instruction. Or just get rid of all the religious holidays.
Anonymous
02/02/2026 10:30
Subject: When will makeup days be announced?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There will be no make up days. This is an unusual situation and county will get a waiver. As will all the other counties in the DMV. It has happened in the past, in 2009.
Did we only have ONE built in snow day in 2009? There have to be some repercussions for such poor planning
MCPS has always been good about getting the days waived.. so maybe that explains the poor planning on their part.
Anonymous
02/02/2026 10:29
Subject: When will makeup days be announced?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There will be no make up days. This is an unusual situation and county will get a waiver. As will all the other counties in the DMV. It has happened in the past, in 2009.
Did we only have ONE built in snow day in 2009? There have to be some repercussions for such poor planning
I am sure we had more than 1 built in snow day in 2009. But we had no school for 2 weeks. Definitely did not have 10 built in snow days. I don’t recall any of the make up days being used back then either.
Anonymous
02/02/2026 10:29
Subject: When will makeup days be announced?
Anonymous wrote:There will be no make up days. This is an unusual situation and county will get a waiver. As will all the other counties in the DMV. It has happened in the past, in 2009.
They need to add three days before they can seek a waiver.
Anonymous
02/02/2026 10:27
Subject: When will makeup days be announced?
Anonymous wrote:There will be no make up days. This is an unusual situation and county will get a waiver. As will all the other counties in the DMV. It has happened in the past, in 2009.
Did we only have ONE built in snow day in 2009? There have to be some repercussions for such poor planning