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Anonymous wrote:I oppose any calendar that only has one snow day built in. This is ridiculous. We need at least 4 built in.

Get Maryland to drop the 180 calendar day requirement! With more religious holidays, hours is the remedy to have them and not extend the year!
Maryland requires 1080 hours at ES,MS 1170 hours at HS AND 180 separate calendar days. Keep the former which is ~half and hour for ES/MS, ~a full hour per day longer than other states and drop the latter and you are good. I don't think the transition day is needed but they start so early next year so it is ok.

nope, given how badly MCPS students are doing in the county, they need those days of school.

Makeup days in June are useless.

All days of school are useless if they are close to the beginning or end of a week.

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Anonymous wrote:I oppose any calendar that only has one snow day built in. This is ridiculous. We need at least 4 built in.

Get Maryland to drop the 180 calendar day requirement! With more religious holidays, hours is the remedy to have them and not extend the year!
Maryland requires 1080 hours at ES,MS 1170 hours at HS AND 180 separate calendar days. Keep the former which is ~half and hour for ES/MS, ~a full hour per day longer than other states and drop the latter and you are good. I don't think the transition day is needed but they start so early next year so it is ok.

nope, given how badly MCPS students are doing in the county, they need those days of school.

Makeup days in June are useless.

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Anonymous wrote:"Includes a total of 181 instructional days, including four contingency days."

Contingency days they won't use, because the union will throw a shit fit

They should use them and give the teachers that need those days off an excused absence. No point in listing makeup days and skipping over them!

Do you mean stidents could receive an excused absence and teachers could take leave without notice? Because there is no way they will say teachers can have the day off without taking leave. None would show up.

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Anonymous wrote:I oppose any calendar that only has one snow day built in. This is ridiculous. We need at least 4 built in.

Get Maryland to drop the 180 calendar day requirement! With more religious holidays, hours is the remedy to have them and not extend the year!
Maryland requires 1080 hours at ES,MS 1170 hours at HS AND 180 separate calendar days. Keep the former which is ~half and hour for ES/MS, ~a full hour per day longer than other states and drop the latter and you are good. I don't think the transition day is needed but they start so early next year so it is ok.

nope, given how badly MCPS students are doing in the county, they need those days of school.

Makeup days in June are useless.

Agree, so they should add more days into the calendar so they plan for 185. But the solution is not to go under 180.

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Anonymous wrote:"Includes a total of 181 instructional days, including four contingency days."

Contingency days they won't use, because the union will throw a shit fit

They should use them and give the teachers that need those days off an excused absence. No point in listing makeup days and skipping over them!

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Anonymous wrote:"Includes a total of 181 instructional days, including four contingency days."

Contingency days they won't use, because the union will throw a shit fit

Some of the contingency days are so early in the year they are unusable. How are we starting a week earlier and still ending on June 16? What a mess.

We're starting a day earlier, not a week earlier. This year: August 26-June 17. Next year: August 25-June 16.

That start date is two weeks before Labor Day - this year, the school year started one week before.

Yeah, but that's because Labor Day is a week later.

2020-21 went August 31-June 16 the last time Labor Day was September 7. Some of this is the 2 Muslim holidays but September 11 and April 21 are silly as Rosh Hashana is on a weekend and the day before Passover doesn't warrant a day off.

They were very clear in all the calendar sessions this year at the Board that they wanted to move it a week earlier. I definitely expected this calendar to pass.

Those additional holidays are the reasons why. Maryland law is way too inflexible!

Anonymous wrote:I oppose any calendar that only has one snow day built in. This is ridiculous. We need at least 4 built in.

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Anonymous wrote:I oppose any calendar that only has one snow day built in. This is ridiculous. We need at least 4 built in.

Get Maryland to drop the 180 calendar day requirement! With more religious holidays, hours is the remedy to have them and not extend the year!
Maryland requires 1080 hours at ES,MS 1170 hours at HS AND 180 separate calendar days. Keep the former which is ~half and hour for ES/MS, ~a full hour per day longer than other states and drop the latter and you are good. I don't think the transition day is needed but they start so early next year so it is ok.

nope, given how badly MCPS students are doing in the county, they need those days of school.

Makeup days in June are useless.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I oppose any calendar that only has one snow day built in. This is ridiculous. We need at least 4 built in.

Get Maryland to drop the 180 calendar day requirement! With more religious holidays, hours is the remedy to have them and not extend the year!
Maryland requires 1080 hours at ES,MS 1170 hours at HS AND 180 separate calendar days. Keep the former which is ~half and hour for ES/MS, ~a full hour per day longer than other states and drop the latter and you are good. I don't think the transition day is needed but they start so early next year so it is ok.

nope, given how badly MCPS students are doing in the county, they need those days of school.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I oppose any calendar that only has one snow day built in. This is ridiculous. We need at least 4 built in.

Get Maryland to drop the 180 calendar day requirement! With more religious holidays, hours is the remedy to have them and not extend the year!
Maryland requires 1080 hours at ES,MS 1170 hours at HS AND 180 separate calendar days. Keep the former which is ~half and hour for ES/MS, ~a full hour per day longer than other states and drop the latter and you are good. I don't think the transition day is needed but they start so early next year so it is ok.

Anonymous wrote:I oppose any calendar that only has one snow day built in. This is ridiculous. We need at least 4 built in.

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Anonymous wrote:Huh -- I just realized something. Usually the spring break is the week before Easter through Easter Monday. It looks like for 2027 they are doing the week AFTER easter.

I wonder why they did that. I had literally been looking forward to it for years, because it was the ONLY year that my oldest child's college spring break was going to align with MCPS break, and I thought we could take one last family vacation. MCPS manages to screw me again. Sigh.

I agree. I thought private and public schools would line up next year.

Anonymous wrote:I thought we could take one last family vacation. MCPS manages to screw me again. Sigh.

Anonymous wrote:"Includes a total of 181 instructional days, including four contingency days."

Contingency days they won't use, because the union will throw a shit fit