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Anonymous wrote:I always wonder why there is not a week off for mid-winter break. Is that just for states near skiing areas?

They would not be able to do that in MCPS without starting a week earlier. There are just too many single days off during the year.

This is why NY schools generally start the week after Labor Day and go until the end of June. They have all of this coming week off.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I always wonder why there is not a week off for mid-winter break. Is that just for states near skiing areas?

They would not be able to do that in MCPS without starting a week earlier. There are just too many single days off during the year.

It would be great if McPS started earlier in August…but we have what we have.

We’d still have to take off 17 different days to honor Jewish holidays.

Fairfax county opens a week early but doesn’t take “17 days off” for Jewish holidays. But they’re smarter than MCPS because there are more than 1 snow day built into their calendar.

Smarter because they are located in a state that only requires 990 hours OR 180 days. Maryland requires 1080 (ES/MS)/1170 (HS) hours AND 180 days. I'm not fussing at half an hour or a full hour more per day because education is important, but that AND 180 days is the hard part!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I always wonder why there is not a week off for mid-winter break. Is that just for states near skiing areas?

They would not be able to do that in MCPS without starting a week earlier. There are just too many single days off during the year.

It would be great if McPS started earlier in August…but we have what we have.

We’d still have to take off 17 different days to honor Jewish holidays.

Fairfax county opens a week early but doesn’t take “17 days off” for Jewish holidays. But they’re smarter than MCPS because there are more than 1 snow day built into their calendar.

Anonymous wrote:Why would this be a holiday? Is this new? We are new to public school?

Do you not have the school year calendar or the ability to google like any other human? Look it up yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:That’s the question.

You know it was Lunar New Year or can google it. You are just a racist troll.

I googled it and it doesn’t come up, FU very much.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=what+date+is+february+17&t=iphone&ia=web

DP. See Montgomery County's designated Days of Commemoration:

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcg/commemorations.html

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Anonymous wrote:That’s the question.

You know it was Lunar New Year or can google it. You are just a racist troll.

I googled it and it doesn’t come up, FU very much.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=what+date+is+february+17&t=iphone&ia=web

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I always wonder why there is not a week off for mid-winter break. Is that just for states near skiing areas?

They would not be able to do that in MCPS without starting a week earlier. There are just too many single days off during the year.

It would be great if McPS started earlier in August…but we have what we have.

We’d still have to take off 17 different days to honor Jewish holidays.

These are regularly scheduled "non-instructional" days that the school system is considerate enough to work to schedule around various cultural holidays when possible.

Anonymous wrote:That’s the question.

You know it was Lunar New Year or can google it. You are just a racist troll.

I went to MCPS 30 years ago and we got off for Christmas and Easter, as well as Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah, but not Eid, Lunar New Year, or Diwali. But the demographics of MCPS were a lot different then.

It just means the school year ends later, like 6/17 this year. Our private ends on 6/4 and we started on 9/2. We usually head to the beach as soon as school ends since things aren't that crowded yet -- many kids are still in school.

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Anonymous wrote:I always wonder why there is not a week off for mid-winter break. Is that just for states near skiing areas?

They would not be able to do that in MCPS without starting a week earlier. There are just too many single days off during the year.

The places with Mid-Winter break do not have grading days after every quarter. The also tend to either have fewer single days off and/or a smaller requirement. Seattle, WA has a 2 week December winter break, a mid-winter February break AND a spring break in April but has NO other religious holidays off besides Christmas. Good Friday OR Easter Monday is only off either coincide with spring break (2nd full week of April).

In parts of New York they have this, but they also have a calendar that extends almost to the end of June, with 3-4 snow days built in ahead of time. MCPS has a lot of single teacher days scattered throughout the year, no snow days, and every year, it's so much drama about the calendar and school closures.

MCPS needs to prepare properly like other school districts.

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Anonymous wrote:I always wonder why there is not a week off for mid-winter break. Is that just for states near skiing areas?

They would not be able to do that in MCPS without starting a week earlier. There are just too many single days off during the year.

The places with Mid-Winter break do not have grading days after every quarter. The also tend to either have fewer single days off and/or a smaller requirement. Seattle, WA has a 2 week December winter break, a mid-winter February break AND a spring break in April but has NO other religious holidays off besides Christmas. Good Friday OR Easter Monday is only off either coincide with spring break (2nd full week of April).

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Anonymous wrote:I always wonder why there is not a week off for mid-winter break. Is that just for states near skiing areas?

They would not be able to do that in MCPS without starting a week earlier. There are just too many single days off during the year.

It would be great if McPS started earlier in August…but we have what we have.

School could go later in June, that is how it is in New England.

Anonymous wrote:I always wonder why there is not a week off for mid-winter break. Is that just for states near skiing areas?

They would not be able to do that in MCPS without starting a week earlier. There are just too many single days off during the year.