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Anonymous wrote:Let’s do Presidents’ Day and lunar new year. Then we’re only down to 2 left to make up.

MCPS could if it wanted to. MSDE just allowed Maryland schools to do so given the snow event. But I bet it doesn't want to and prefers to tack on half days in June so MCPS staff don't lose their long weekend.

Yes, it could. PG County has said it wants to use President's day, and it has more snow days built into its calendar than MCPS.

Anonymous wrote:Let’s do Presidents’ Day and lunar new year. Then we’re only down to 2 left to make up.

MCPS could if it wanted to. MSDE just allowed Maryland schools to do so given the snow event. But I bet it doesn't want to and prefers to tack on half days in June so MCPS staff don't lose their long weekend.

Let’s do Presidents’ Day and lunar new year. Then we’re only down to 2 left to make up.

Anonymous wrote:The why is the small
Print does it say if there are “three or more days” closed identified dates are…
They implies that they only have to start making up days after three missed days.

What? No they have to have 180 days, unless they get a waiver, which requires them to have used their identified make-up days. Since we only built one into the calendar, and Monday was already off for students, we have four days to make up.

Anonymous wrote:I hope soon. I want to make plans for the weekend of March 20th and need to know if i will be using leave for that Friday or not

I'm in the same situation.

Anonymous wrote:The why is the small
Print does it say if there are “three or more days” closed identified dates are…
They implies that they only have to start making up days after three missed days.

Because that language is left over from when they had built in more than one snow day in years past, and they never updated it.

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Anonymous wrote:There will be no make up days. This is an unusual situation and county will get a waiver. As will all the other counties in the DMV. It has happened in the past, in 2009.

Did we only have ONE built in snow day in 2009? There have to be some repercussions for such poor planning

Apparently not if you're MCPS. Anne Arundel have Baltimore have 3 snow days built into their calendar, and submitted their virtual learning plan to MSDE so they could offer online instruction last week.

MCPS is the slacker school district, despite its massive budget. It had a deficit of 3 snow days last year, yet...here we are with a deficit of 5 snow days this year.

Who could have predicted there might be snow?

Now compare the size of MCPS to Anne Arundel and Baltimore counties.

NYC is 10x larger than MCPS and managed to open every single day last week. And they have more than one snow day built into the calendar too. And school buses.

Actually they have ZERO! https://www.city-journal.org/article/zohran-mamdani-new-york-snow-day-teachers-contract

Unlike McPS, NYC schools don’t need them, since they didn’t miss a single day due to the snow. They had virtual for the Monday and in person every dance since.

So confusing that a city district without any rural areas would be open when MCPS isn’t.

If you step out of Manhattan and 5th avenue, you’d realize that NYC contains suburban areas with school buses just like MoCo.

I hope soon. I want to make plans for the weekend of March 20th and need to know if i will be using leave for that Friday or not

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Anonymous wrote:There will be no make up days. This is an unusual situation and county will get a waiver. As will all the other counties in the DMV. It has happened in the past, in 2009.

Did we only have ONE built in snow day in 2009? There have to be some repercussions for such poor planning

Apparently not if you're MCPS. Anne Arundel have Baltimore have 3 snow days built into their calendar, and submitted their virtual learning plan to MSDE so they could offer online instruction last week.

MCPS is the slacker school district, despite its massive budget. It had a deficit of 3 snow days last year, yet...here we are with a deficit of 5 snow days this year.

Who could have predicted there might be snow?

Now compare the size of MCPS to Anne Arundel and Baltimore counties.

NYC is 10x larger than MCPS and managed to open every single day last week. And they have more than one snow day built into the calendar too. And school buses.

Actually they have ZERO! https://www.city-journal.org/article/zohran-mamdani-new-york-snow-day-teachers-contract

Unlike McPS, NYC schools don’t need them, since they didn’t miss a single day due to the snow. They had virtual for the Monday and in person every dance since.

So confusing that a city district without any rural areas would be open when MCPS isn’t.

The why is the small
Print does it say if there are “three or more days” closed identified dates are…
They implies that they only have to start making up days after three missed days.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS should use Feb 16,17 and shorten spring break.. done. But they won’t do it. Cause they don’t do anything logical in the calendar.

We don't even need to cut into Spring Break. Use Feb 16/17 and the two make-up days designated in the calendar, 3/20 and 4/15. They could make them all half days if they wanted. Done.

Yeah why don’t you call the board of ed and get that done for us. McPS didn’t list Feb 16/17 as makeup days.

They listed 3/20, 4/15 and 6/18. But we need to make up 4 days so most likely we will have those three and they will not make up the 4th and ask Maryland to give the a waiver for not having enough instructional days.

It’s bad planning, but someone approved that calendar and I doubt there is a way to use Feb 16/17 just because you want to

I have seen articles referencing when FCPS and PGCS will make announcements about make-up days. MCPS should announce the timeline as soon as possible.

Anonymous wrote:MCPS should use Feb 16,17 and shorten spring break.. done. But they won’t do it. Cause they don’t do anything logical in the calendar.

We don't even need to cut into Spring Break. Use Feb 16/17 and the two make-up days designated in the calendar, 3/20 and 4/15. They could make them all half days if they wanted. Done.

MCPS should use Feb 16,17 and shorten spring break.. done. But they won’t do it. Cause they don’t do anything logical in the calendar.

Anonymous wrote:What about April 6? It’s the last day of spring break. Is that prohibited from being taken back because it’s Easter Monday?

I thought MCPS wanted spring break to coincide with Frederick?
Their break is April 3-10
Looks like they don't line up until next year.