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Anonymous wrote:Easy solution: move the teacher "admin days" from during the school year to the summer.

The reason the union opposes it is that it cuts into the teachers' (paid) summer vacation.

Why is it good for all professional training to happen before the school year starts or after the school year ends?

What's wrong with that? I"m in private industry, and just about all our professional conferences are in the summer since people are too busy the rest of the year. Just about all industries seem to work fine with people being trained once a year, so surely teachers can handle it also.

As for having time to input grades and so on, indeed teachers may have to work more than an 8-hour day on those days... just like we do in private industry during busy times of year.

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Anonymous wrote:Easy solution: move the teacher "admin days" from during the school year to the summer.

The reason the union opposes it is that it cuts into the teachers' (paid) summer vacation.

Why is it good for all professional training to happen before the school year starts or after the school year ends?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm fine with school starting after Labor Day. The day everyone should petition the state to change is Easter Monday. That is not a holiday. No one goes to church that day or celebrates. That day could easily be reallocated elsewhere. Also, they could push back the end date in June a few days too.

You don't know much about local history. Easter Monday is a traditional African American day at the National Zoo and has been for many years (I just checked, this started in 1891). It's packed. This was started in the days when African Americans were not welcome at traditional Easter celebrations including Easter at the White House. It's still a big annual event for many black families from the metro region. It's often been called the Black Easter.

https://www.theroot.com/for-dc-easter-monday-at-the-national-zoo-is-an-african-1790859364

DC public schools aren't even off April 2nd. Are you kidding me with this?

DCPS has been off for Easter Monday every year. Go back and check:

April 17, 2017 https://dcps.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcps/publication/attachments/DCPS_Calendar_2016_English.pdf
March 28, 2016 https://dcps.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcps/publication/attachments/DCPS%20Calendar%20School%20Year%202015-2016%20Large%20Version.pdf
April 6, 2015 https://dcps.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcps/publication/attachments/REVISED%20School%20Year%202014-2015%20Full%20Calendar%20update.pdf
April 21, 2014 http://www.nctq.org/docs/DC_2013-2014-Calendar.pdf
April 1, 2013 https://dcps.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcps/publication/attachments/DCPS%20School%20Calendar%202012-2013.pdf

...and so on. DCPS has always had that day off. Some years, they schedule Spring Break to overlap. Other years, Spring Break is separate, but they still schedule Easter Monday off.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm fine with school starting after Labor Day. The day everyone should petition the state to change is Easter Monday. That is not a holiday. No one goes to church that day or celebrates. That day could easily be reallocated elsewhere. Also, they could push back the end date in June a few days too.

You don't know much about local history. Easter Monday is a traditional African American day at the National Zoo and has been for many years (I just checked, this started in 1891). It's packed. This was started in the days when African Americans were not welcome at traditional Easter celebrations including Easter at the White House. It's still a big annual event for many black families from the metro region. It's often been called the Black Easter.

https://www.theroot.com/for-dc-easter-monday-at-the-national-zoo-is-an-african-1790859364

DC public schools aren't even off April 2nd. Are you kidding me with this?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm fine with school starting after Labor Day. The day everyone should petition the state to change is Easter Monday. That is not a holiday. No one goes to church that day or celebrates. That day could easily be reallocated elsewhere. Also, they could push back the end date in June a few days too.

You don't know much about local history. Easter Monday is a traditional African American day at the National Zoo and has been for many years (I just checked, this started in 1891). It's packed. This was started in the days when African Americans were not welcome at traditional Easter celebrations including Easter at the White House. It's still a big annual event for many black families from the metro region. It's often been called the Black Easter.

https://www.theroot.com/for-dc-easter-monday-at-the-national-zoo-is-an-african-1790859364

Anonymous wrote:I'm fine with school starting after Labor Day. The day everyone should petition the state to change is Easter Monday. That is not a holiday. No one goes to church that day or celebrates. That day could easily be reallocated elsewhere. Also, they could push back the end date in June a few days too.

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Not only political but the BOE is making it seem like you either have to be for Jewish holidays or for Spring Break. But then again, I think that was their point to start the complaints.

You’re right.

OK, so propose an alternative that preserves spring break and closing for the Jewish high holidays. It's easy to say, "MCPS IS DOING IT WRONG!!!" It's not so easy to propose a better alternative.

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Anonymous wrote: If Anthony Brown had won and this was his calendar proposal everybody would be singing his praises and about how he cares about Maryland small businesses in Ocean City etc.

EXACTLY!!!

Anonymous wrote: If Anthony Brown had won and this was his calendar proposal everybody would be singing his praises and about how he cares about Maryland small businesses in Ocean City etc.

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Anonymous wrote:I just don't see what the big deal is.... it will be what it will be. And we'll figure out if we need to take DD out of school a day or two here or there. Done.

Agree. It’s not a big deal! People are just pissed at Hogan so they’re making it a way bigger deal than need be.

Anonymous wrote:I just don't see what the big deal is.... it will be what it will be. And we'll figure out if we need to take DD out of school a day or two here or there. Done.

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Anonymous wrote:

Not only political but the BOE is making it seem like you either have to be for Jewish holidays or for Spring Break. But then again, I think that was their point to start the complaints.

You’re right.

OK, so propose an alternative that preserves spring break and closing for the Jewish high holidays. It's easy to say, "MCPS IS DOING IT WRONG!!!" It's not so easy to propose a better alternative.