Anonymous wrote:Nope. We fly out for our vacation June 13th.

Will there be any consequence if a ES kid misses more than 5 days of school in a MP?

If April 6 is allowed they should make March 20, April 6 and 15 as makeup days and end June 18 before the long weekend and an election day. If April 6 isn't allowed then they'd have to end June 22 but at least that beats June 25!

Nope, vacation is already booked. And I am a teacher so I will not be there either.

Anonymous wrote:Yup. Kids in elementary. Happy to save a several hundreds in camp fees we really can’t afford that week.

True that. As an elementary parent I do not care if the school year runs long.

Yup. Kids in elementary. Happy to save a several hundreds in camp fees we really can’t afford that week.

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Anonymous wrote:I did not yet have camp booked for that week so my elementary schooler and high schooler will be in school.

Maybe they can watch all 8 of the "main" Harry Potter movies and possibly others!

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Or they can make a car and race it in the classroom in an activity that involves math and science and do word puzzles in teams.

You seem to want to think that teachers are going out of their way to actively not teach. Lots of kids attended my kids' classes last year on the June half days.

Lady, it’s great that your small children had teachers who came up with crafts and puzzles your kids enjoyed. My high schooler is not missing a week of an important program to do “word puzzles” and race Legos in late June.

Did anyone ask about your HS student and their "important program"? Tell your kid to skip school if that's what you want to do. No one is telling you what to do. School is available for those who want it.

NP. Noted. But the subject of the thread is "will your kids be attending" and people are responding that they will not. You can send your kids, fine, but others are responding with their response. You seem insistent that there will be actual instruction when there will not be. At least at the MS and HS level when kids are old enough to just stay home.

Not sure who the "you" you're addressing is. Or how you know that no actual instruction will take place. Do you have magical powers?

DP, but after we all lived through the lack of instruction during the add-on week last year, it's not hard to guess it will happen again.

Speak for yourself. My kids definitely came home with worksheets and projects that would require “instruction.” Let’s not forget that there are 150,000 kids in McPS. Your experience isn’t universal.

In what grade?

No. 8th grader is signed up for a high school readiness class that week. I’ll let the 10th grader decide if he goes to school or not. I’m guessing he won’t have any real work to do.

We have an out of town family commitment. I used my personal days for my religious holidays, so I’m using sick days.

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Anonymous wrote:Nope already paid for camp.

Same.

We didn’t. Didn’t seem to make sense given what happened last year with the snow days so we waited. For us the makeup days are fine. We’ll send our kids. They had fun last year.

Anonymous wrote:Nope already paid for camp.

Same.

Nope.

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Anonymous wrote:I did not yet have camp booked for that week so my elementary schooler and high schooler will be in school.

Maybe they can watch all 8 of the "main" Harry Potter movies and possibly others!

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Or they can make a car and race it in the classroom in an activity that involves math and science and do word puzzles in teams.

You seem to want to think that teachers are going out of their way to actively not teach. Lots of kids attended my kids' classes last year on the June half days.

Lady, it’s great that your small children had teachers who came up with crafts and puzzles your kids enjoyed. My high schooler is not missing a week of an important program to do “word puzzles” and race Legos in late June.

Did anyone ask about your HS student and their "important program"? Tell your kid to skip school if that's what you want to do. No one is telling you what to do. School is available for those who want it.

NP. Noted. But the subject of the thread is "will your kids be attending" and people are responding that they will not. You can send your kids, fine, but others are responding with their response. You seem insistent that there will be actual instruction when there will not be. At least at the MS and HS level when kids are old enough to just stay home.

Not sure who the "you" you're addressing is. Or how you know that no actual instruction will take place. Do you have magical powers?

DP, but after we all lived through the lack of instruction during the add-on week last year, it's not hard to guess it will happen again.

Speak for yourself. My kids definitely came home with worksheets and projects that would require “instruction.” Let’s not forget that there are 150,000 kids in McPS. Your experience isn’t universal.

#JuatMy2CNT$ 30yrs in thia Public Education "System". K-College Athletics. This is all a test run for year round school. Do the math. Run the numbers. And calculate the outcome of having the current school year end 2 weeks before Summer School and 3 weeks before for start of the '26-'27 school year. We're worrying about the wrong things. Demand to know how the curriculum will be extended. Will there be experiential learning opportunities? What about staff pay? The new system is all A.I based pre-calculations. Will staff be paid past June 18th? Start thinking outside of the box, folks. #realtalk

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Anonymous wrote:I did not yet have camp booked for that week so my elementary schooler and high schooler will be in school.

Maybe they can watch all 8 of the "main" Harry Potter movies and possibly others!

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Or they can make a car and race it in the classroom in an activity that involves math and science and do word puzzles in teams.

You seem to want to think that teachers are going out of their way to actively not teach. Lots of kids attended my kids' classes last year on the June half days.

Lady, it’s great that your small children had teachers who came up with crafts and puzzles your kids enjoyed. My high schooler is not missing a week of an important program to do “word puzzles” and race Legos in late June.

Did anyone ask about your HS student and their "important program"? Tell your kid to skip school if that's what you want to do. No one is telling you what to do. School is available for those who want it.

NP. Noted. But the subject of the thread is "will your kids be attending" and people are responding that they will not. You can send your kids, fine, but others are responding with their response. You seem insistent that there will be actual instruction when there will not be. At least at the MS and HS level when kids are old enough to just stay home.

Not sure who the "you" you're addressing is. Or how you know that no actual instruction will take place. Do you have magical powers?

DP, but after we all lived through the lack of instruction during the add-on week last year, it's not hard to guess it will happen again.

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Anonymous wrote:I did not yet have camp booked for that week so my elementary schooler and high schooler will be in school.

Maybe they can watch all 8 of the "main" Harry Potter movies and possibly others!

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Or they can make a car and race it in the classroom in an activity that involves math and science and do word puzzles in teams.

You seem to want to think that teachers are going out of their way to actively not teach. Lots of kids attended my kids' classes last year on the June half days.

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What do you think is going to happen on June 22 onwards?
What happened last year was NOTHING compared to this oh and BTW winter isn't over yet! March 20 apparently was reversed to be closed and they are too stubborn to use April 15 which could have at least avoided the weird election day "hopeover" and limited the "dead week" to one day. If Monday or anything else is bad weather will they finally go virtual? Or will they go to June 26 or daresay June 29 and 30?

McPS can’t go virtual if a snowstorm happens next week because they never submitted the required virtual learning during weather emergency plan that they said they would do in 2024. They can’t do it without state of Maryland authorization.

Whoopsie.

That's not a mistake. Virtual would be a mistake.

Virtual is better then ending less than a week before July!