Anonymous wrote:Wasn’t one of the reasons for extending the school year start into September (when it historically was the case) because a lot of schools don’t have air conditioning?

Anyway, a week here or a week there isn’t a big deal to me and is rather arbitrary. Nonetheless, I’m sensible enough to know that the people complaining about Hogan were never going to vote for him anyway and the arguments put forward against him aren’t convincing enough to persuade me not to vote for him. There’s definitely a few crockpots (at least one) on here who aren’t helping at all.

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Anonymous wrote:He's the only Republican I voted for in the last election where he was on the ballot. MD was getting out of control with taxing and spending. He has pushed forward on getting a rein in on that, and also furthering transpotation priorities and slowly making MD pro-business.

I don't see MD becoming more pro-business. He didn't lift a finger when Discovery left Silver Spring. The only people I see him trying to help is his voter base in Ocean City, with his ridiculous Labor Day to June 15 policy which means that Maryland schools don't have a spring break week this year.

That's the school's fault partially. They can just move their days off for teacher service days if they want to keep those breaks. The benefit of starting school after Labor Day is it's a big benefit to Ocean City and the MD taxpayer (tax revenue), for no additional taxpayer cost.

Sure big benefit to ocean city with no additional cost if you don’t count the learning outcomes for our children. I am not voting for Hogan either. He has been bad on education issues.

I'm still waiting for the study that says summer learning loss is fine for 9 weeks, but that 10th week is the killer.
Or fine for 10 weeks, but that 11th week is the killer.

Since it sounds like you have that information, please share it.

Summer slide, i.e. the loss in learning due to lengthy periods of time out of school is widely documented. Here's an article from Brookings. Google lists 529,000,000 other hits for summer slide, so you can education yourself. I'm still waiting for the evidence that having an extra week of having Maryland school children stay out of school is a big economic boon to Ocean City. Do you have that data?

Yes. Which week does the slide start? I bet it’s 2 or 3 not 9 or 10.

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Anonymous wrote:He's the only Republican I voted for in the last election where he was on the ballot. MD was getting out of control with taxing and spending. He has pushed forward on getting a rein in on that, and also furthering transpotation priorities and slowly making MD pro-business.

I don't see MD becoming more pro-business. He didn't lift a finger when Discovery left Silver Spring. The only people I see him trying to help is his voter base in Ocean City, with his ridiculous Labor Day to June 15 policy which means that Maryland schools don't have a spring break week this year.

That's the school's fault partially. They can just move their days off for teacher service days if they want to keep those breaks. The benefit of starting school after Labor Day is it's a big benefit to Ocean City and the MD taxpayer (tax revenue), for no additional taxpayer cost.

Sure big benefit to ocean city with no additional cost if you don’t count the learning outcomes for our children. I am not voting for Hogan either. He has been bad on education issues.

I'm still waiting for the study that says summer learning loss is fine for 9 weeks, but that 10th week is the killer.
Or fine for 10 weeks, but that 11th week is the killer.

Since it sounds like you have that information, please share it.

Summer slide, i.e. the loss in learning due to lengthy periods of time out of school is widely documented. Here's an article from Brookings. Google lists 529,000,000 other hits for summer slide, so you can education yourself. I'm still waiting for the evidence that having an extra week of having Maryland school children stay out of school is a big economic boon to Ocean City. Do you have that data?

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Anonymous wrote:He's the only Republican I voted for in the last election where he was on the ballot. MD was getting out of control with taxing and spending. He has pushed forward on getting a rein in on that, and also furthering transpotation priorities and slowly making MD pro-business.

I don't see MD becoming more pro-business. He didn't lift a finger when Discovery left Silver Spring. The only people I see him trying to help is his voter base in Ocean City, with his ridiculous Labor Day to June 15 policy which means that Maryland schools don't have a spring break week this year.

That's the school's fault partially. They can just move their days off for teacher service days if they want to keep those breaks. The benefit of starting school after Labor Day is it's a big benefit to Ocean City and the MD taxpayer (tax revenue), for no additional taxpayer cost.

Sure big benefit to ocean city with no additional cost if you don’t count the learning outcomes for our children. I am not voting for Hogan either. He has been bad on education issues.

I'm still waiting for the study that says summer learning loss is fine for 9 weeks, but that 10th week is the killer.
Or fine for 10 weeks, but that 11th week is the killer.

Since it sounds like you have that information, please share it.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/summer-learning-loss-what-is-it-and-what-can-we-do-about-it/
Summer slide, i.e. the loss in learning due to lengthy periods of time out of school is widely documented. Here's an article from Brookings. Google lists 529,000,000 other hits for summer slide, so you can education yourself. I'm still waiting for the evidence that having an extra week of having Maryland school children stay out of school is a big economic boon to Ocean City. Do you have that data?

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Anonymous wrote:He's the only Republican I voted for in the last election where he was on the ballot. MD was getting out of control with taxing and spending. He has pushed forward on getting a rein in on that, and also furthering transpotation priorities and slowly making MD pro-business.

I don't see MD becoming more pro-business. He didn't lift a finger when Discovery left Silver Spring. The only people I see him trying to help is his voter base in Ocean City, with his ridiculous Labor Day to June 15 policy which means that Maryland schools don't have a spring break week this year.

That's the school's fault partially. They can just move their days off for teacher service days if they want to keep those breaks. The benefit of starting school after Labor Day is it's a big benefit to Ocean City and the MD taxpayer (tax revenue), for no additional taxpayer cost.

Sure big benefit to ocean city with no additional cost if you don’t count the learning outcomes for our children. I am not voting for Hogan either. He has been bad on education issues.

I'm still waiting for the study that says summer learning loss is fine for 9 weeks, but that 10th week is the killer.
Or fine for 10 weeks, but that 11th week is the killer.

Since it sounds like you have that information, please share it.

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Anonymous wrote:He's the only Republican I voted for in the last election where he was on the ballot. MD was getting out of control with taxing and spending. He has pushed forward on getting a rein in on that, and also furthering transpotation priorities and slowly making MD pro-business.

I don't see MD becoming more pro-business. He didn't lift a finger when Discovery left Silver Spring. The only people I see him trying to help is his voter base in Ocean City, with his ridiculous Labor Day to June 15 policy which means that Maryland schools don't have a spring break week this year.

That's the school's fault partially. They can just move their days off for teacher service days if they want to keep those breaks. The benefit of starting school after Labor Day is it's a big benefit to Ocean City and the MD taxpayer (tax revenue), for no additional taxpayer cost.

Sure big benefit to ocean city with no additional cost if you don’t count the learning outcomes for our children. I am not voting for Hogan either. He has been bad on education issues.

1 week later start is going to have a drastic effect on learning outcomes?

So it’s ok to sacrifice kids’ learning outcomes for the sake of putting extra $ in the pocket of few Hogan friendly voters? By the way, I’ve never seen evidence that this extra week out of school for Marylanders has an impact on Ocean City revenues, have you?

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Anonymous wrote:He's the only Republican I voted for in the last election where he was on the ballot. MD was getting out of control with taxing and spending. He has pushed forward on getting a rein in on that, and also furthering transpotation priorities and slowly making MD pro-business.

I don't see MD becoming more pro-business. He didn't lift a finger when Discovery left Silver Spring. The only people I see him trying to help is his voter base in Ocean City, with his ridiculous Labor Day to June 15 policy which means that Maryland schools don't have a spring break week this year.

That's the school's fault partially. They can just move their days off for teacher service days if they want to keep those breaks. The benefit of starting school after Labor Day is it's a big benefit to Ocean City and the MD taxpayer (tax revenue), for no additional taxpayer cost.

Sure big benefit to ocean city with no additional cost if you don’t count the learning outcomes for our children. I am not voting for Hogan either. He has been bad on education issues.

Anonymous wrote:Hogan lied in that interview. I called his office and talked about the impact of the Muslim ban on my household as a Maryland constituent and his staff dismissed me. I’m sure many other Marylands called as well so for him to say that it didn’t affect Marylanders is a lie. Also, some may remember that he was sued for removing comments asking him to speak out on the Muslim ban from his public Facebook page (ie suppressing free speech) and lost the lawsuit and was told he had to allow a diversity of viewpoints on his website. But if you want to ignore his stance on social issues and call him “practically a Democrat”, you’ve got some serious cognitive dissonance going on.

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Anonymous wrote:He's the only Republican I voted for in the last election where he was on the ballot. MD was getting out of control with taxing and spending. He has pushed forward on getting a rein in on that, and also furthering transpotation priorities and slowly making MD pro-business.

I don't see MD becoming more pro-business. He didn't lift a finger when Discovery left Silver Spring. The only people I see him trying to help is his voter base in Ocean City, with his ridiculous Labor Day to June 15 policy which means that Maryland schools don't have a spring break week this year.

That's the school's fault partially. They can just move their days off for teacher service days if they want to keep those breaks. The benefit of starting school after Labor Day is it's a big benefit to Ocean City and the MD taxpayer (tax revenue), for no additional taxpayer cost.

Sure big benefit to ocean city with no additional cost if you don’t count the learning outcomes for our children. I am not voting for Hogan either. He has been bad on education issues.

1 week later start is going to have a drastic effect on learning outcomes?

Anonymous wrote:The mandatory school calendar idea is very un-Republican, when the Republican party has traditionally been about local control. Let each county determine its educational needs and plan accordingly.

It's not just about starting after Labor Day, remember. It's also about not being allowed to go too far into June. He and Franchot are extending summer break to benefit business, not children.