Anonymous
Post 10/04/2017 21:05     Subject: How to fit school days into Gov Larry Hogan's ridiculous policy on school start and stop dates
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:When Larry Hogan gets voted out next year, what can we do to get one of those sweet NY/NJ school calendars?

I'm all for a fall break, xmas break, winter break and a spring break!


Hogan has fixed the budget, increased tourism, made sure purple line started, and is widening 270 and the beltway on the MD side. All while having cancer. He isn't going anywhere and I say that as a Dem.


Maryland constitution requires a balanced budget, and Sen. Rich Madaleno and others helped to make Hogan's budget less Trumpian. Haven't seen any numbers saying that tourism has increased. There is no way Hogan gets credit for the purple line which many have had a hand in (mostly citizen activists). Widening of 270 might happen, but never 49. Never happening.

Voting for Hogan is a vote against the needs of citizens in MoCo and PG counties.


The needs of the citizens or the needs of the political class? I'm a Dem but not a reflex voter . O'Malley sucked, I'll vote for Hogan over another clown like that.
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2017 20:38     Subject: How to fit school days into Gov Larry Hogan's ridiculous policy on school start and stop dates
Anonymous wrote:23 out of 24 school districts are opposed to the executive order.


You mean the administration? The union? Clearly, many parents support it.
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2017 20:33     Subject: How to fit school days into Gov Larry Hogan's ridiculous policy on school start and stop dates
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:When Larry Hogan gets voted out next year, what can we do to get one of those sweet NY/NJ school calendars?

I'm all for a fall break, xmas break, winter break and a spring break!


Hogan has fixed the budget, increased tourism, made sure purple line started, and is widening 270 and the beltway on the MD side. All while having cancer. He isn't going anywhere and I say that as a Dem.


Maryland constitution requires a balanced budget, and Sen. Rich Madaleno and others helped to make Hogan's budget less Trumpian. Haven't seen any numbers saying that tourism has increased. There is no way Hogan gets credit for the purple line which many have had a hand in (mostly citizen activists). Widening of 270 might happen, but never 49. Never happening.

Voting for Hogan is a vote against the needs of citizens in MoCo and PG counties.
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2017 20:27     Subject: How to fit school days into Gov Larry Hogan's ridiculous policy on school start and stop dates
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:When Larry Hogan gets voted out next year, what can we do to get one of those sweet NY/NJ school calendars?

I'm all for a fall break, xmas break, winter break and a spring break!


Hogan has fixed the budget, increased tourism, made sure purple line started, and is widening 270 and the beltway on the MD side. All while having cancer. He isn't going anywhere and I say that as a Dem.


This +1

Also a Dem who will most likely be voting for Hogan.


+100 I will vote for him again.

I won't vote blindly for a (D).
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2017 20:04     Subject: How to fit school days into Gov Larry Hogan's ridiculous policy on school start and stop dates
23 out of 24 school districts are opposed to the executive order.
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2017 19:35     Subject: How to fit school days into Gov Larry Hogan's ridiculous policy on school start and stop dates
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:When Larry Hogan gets voted out next year, what can we do to get one of those sweet NY/NJ school calendars?

I'm all for a fall break, xmas break, winter break and a spring break!


Hogan has fixed the budget, increased tourism, made sure purple line started, and is widening 270 and the beltway on the MD side. All while having cancer. He isn't going anywhere and I say that as a Dem.


There are a lot of Democrats who are not going to vote for anybody with an R after their name in 2018, even if they are otherwise ok with that person.
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2017 19:35     Subject: How to fit school days into Gov Larry Hogan's ridiculous policy on school start and stop dates
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:When Larry Hogan gets voted out next year, what can we do to get one of those sweet NY/NJ school calendars?

I'm all for a fall break, xmas break, winter break and a spring break!


Hogan has fixed the budget, increased tourism, made sure purple line started, and is widening 270 and the beltway on the MD side. All while having cancer. He isn't going anywhere and I say that as a Dem.


This +1

Also a Dem who will most likely be voting for Hogan.
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2017 19:34     Subject: Re:How to fit school days into Gov Larry Hogan's ridiculous policy on school start and stop dates
Anonymous wrote:Most people go away for Easter to visit family or on a real vacation. Before we began traveling for spring break, I used to work on those days and my office was a ghost town...ya know, since most families with school age kids travel for spring break. If you don't want to travel, then just take your kid to the office with you...nobody will be there to notice.


Where do you get this idea from? Nobody I know goes away for Easter. There, now we have two anecdotes.
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2017 19:32     Subject: How to fit school days into Gov Larry Hogan's ridiculous policy on school start and stop dates
Anonymous wrote:When Larry Hogan gets voted out next year, what can we do to get one of those sweet NY/NJ school calendars?

I'm all for a fall break, xmas break, winter break and a spring break!


Hogan has fixed the budget, increased tourism, made sure purple line started, and is widening 270 and the beltway on the MD side. All while having cancer. He isn't going anywhere and I say that as a Dem.
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2017 19:31     Subject: How to fit school days into Gov Larry Hogan's ridiculous policy on school start and stop dates
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:When Larry Hogan gets voted out next year, what can we do to get one of those sweet NY/NJ school calendars?

I'm all for a fall break, xmas break, winter break and a spring break!


I would not hold your breath on that one. Other than a handful of voters in MoCo this decision is very popular statewide and he still has over 60% approval rating. He will have to do something very wrong between now and then to risk being voted out and then ONLY if the Democrats come up with a viable candidate that has statewide support and not just the various one-county candidates that have shown interest so far.


That doesn't necessarily mean that people will vote for him, though.
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2017 18:51     Subject: How to fit school days into Gov Larry Hogan's ridiculous policy on school start and stop dates
Anonymous wrote:When Larry Hogan gets voted out next year, what can we do to get one of those sweet NY/NJ school calendars?

I'm all for a fall break, xmas break, winter break and a spring break!


I would not hold your breath on that one. Other than a handful of voters in MoCo this decision is very popular statewide and he still has over 60% approval rating. He will have to do something very wrong between now and then to risk being voted out and then ONLY if the Democrats come up with a viable candidate that has statewide support and not just the various one-county candidates that have shown interest so far.
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2017 18:03     Subject: How to fit school days into Gov Larry Hogan's ridiculous policy on school start and stop dates
When Larry Hogan gets voted out next year, what can we do to get one of those sweet NY/NJ school calendars?

I'm all for a fall break, xmas break, winter break and a spring break!
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2017 17:18     Subject: How to fit school days into Gov Larry Hogan's ridiculous policy on school start and stop dates
Anonymous wrote:Yet another perspective...

Well I do get the elementary school families and the child care issue of the random days off, it was really good for high schoolers to do college visits those days. Now they have to miss instruction to go visiting schools.



That may be the dumbest reason ever. There are so many days off regardless. And weekends. And Spring Break, and Summer.
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2017 17:14     Subject: How to fit school days into Gov Larry Hogan's ridiculous policy on school start and stop dates
Anonymous wrote:I don't get the Easter Monday thing. Good Friday is a solemn day on which many people fast, but I don't know of a religion that has particular religious observances on Easter Monday.

Fairfax county doesn't get off on Easter Monday. Why does Montgomery county include it?


Go back and read pages 11-12.
Anonymous
Post 10/04/2017 17:14     Subject: How to fit school days into Gov Larry Hogan's ridiculous policy on school start and stop dates
MCPS closes on the Monday after Easter because they are required to by state law.