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Anonymous wrote:Schools have closure dates within the 180 mandated school dates. The district chooses days off. Sorry they choose reasonable days off? MCPS is terrible in many ways, but not this. If this is your concern, then all you really care about is childcare.

No, I believe in the separation of church and state. Public schools should not close for anyone’s religious holiday.

They're not closing for religious reasons.

They're closing because people missing school for religious holidays make teaching continuity difficult for both students and staff.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools have closure dates within the 180 mandated school dates. The district chooses days off. Sorry they choose reasonable days off? MCPS is terrible in many ways, but not this. If this is your concern, then all you really care about is childcare.

No, I believe in the separation of church and state. Public schools should not close for anyone’s religious holiday.

And then we can stop pretending that school is about educating children, and acknowledge it's about childcare and scoring political points for our team.

Wasting large amounts of financial resources on subs, and converting instructional days into days of babysitting by subs, only makes sense if you don't actually care about children's learning.

Anonymous wrote:So with Eid, Divali, Rosh Hasannah, Yom Kippur, Chinese New Year, Easter and Christmas off….whew… does that mean your kids are in school until July so they have enough days of school as is required by Maryland law?

What a pointless comment. Obviously there are 180 days of school. Mcps chose their days off carefully. All you had to do was look at a calendar. I never expect the best and brightest on DCUM though. Thanks for being consistent at least.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools have closure dates within the 180 mandated school dates. The district chooses days off. Sorry they choose reasonable days off? MCPS is terrible in many ways, but not this. If this is your concern, then all you really care about is childcare.

No, I believe in the separation of church and state. Public schools should not close for anyone’s religious holiday.

Cool! Then MCPS can have days off with no teachers/no students all for a for predictable absence days. Lets instead have random day off Tuesday in March then.Again, you realize there are 180 mandatd school days, right? (You probably don't) Districts choose which days to take off within those days. I'm not religious either, but I have a functioning brain. I hope you get one soon,

Anonymous wrote:Schools have closure dates within the 180 mandated school dates. The district chooses days off. Sorry they choose reasonable days off? MCPS is terrible in many ways, but not this. If this is your concern, then all you really care about is childcare.

No, I believe in the separation of church and state. Public schools should not close for anyone’s religious holiday.

Schools have closure dates within the 180 mandated school dates. The district chooses days off. Sorry they choose reasonable days off? MCPS is terrible in many ways, but not this. If this is your concern, then all you really care about is childcare.

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Anonymous wrote:How would you feel if they did this for December 24-26? Would you be OK with just holding your kid out while instruction kept happening? Having them catch up a little in-between opening their presents and having a slice of Yule log?

NP but yes, I would be completely ok with this. I don’t think the public schools should close for any religious holidays.

Because absences are so easy on everyone?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Professional days, as the name suggests, are not holidays.

What professional activities occur? Most teachers use these as vacation days.

Plenty of work needs doing when kids aren't around. And all the planning time is getting sucked up with compulsory subbing for absent teachers.

Anonymous wrote:How would you feel if they did this for December 24-26? Would you be OK with just holding your kid out while instruction kept happening? Having them catch up a little in-between opening their presents and having a slice of Yule log?

NP but yes, I would be completely ok with this. I don’t think the public schools should close for any religious holidays.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Professional days, as the name suggests, are not holidays.

What professional activities occur? Most teachers use these as vacation days.

Wow. Please stop embarrassing yourself.

At least some schools required teachers to stay on campus on the recent half day. And brand new teachers are almost always required to stay rather than telecommute.

What are you talking about? You clearly are not MCPS.

I’m a veteran teacher. I didn’t have to stay, but colleagues at a different school were told they could not work from home that afternoon regardless of whether or not they were veterans.

So with Eid, Divali, Rosh Hasannah, Yom Kippur, Chinese New Year, Easter and Christmas off….whew… does that mean your kids are in school until July so they have enough days of school as is required by Maryland law?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Professional days, as the name suggests, are not holidays.

What professional activities occur? Most teachers use these as vacation days.

Wow. Please stop embarrassing yourself.

At least some schools required teachers to stay on campus on the recent half day. And brand new teachers are almost always required to stay rather than telecommute.

What are you talking about? You clearly are not MCPS.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Professional days, as the name suggests, are not holidays.

What professional activities occur? Most teachers use these as vacation days.

Wow. Please stop embarrassing yourself.

At least some schools required teachers to stay on campus on the recent half day. And brand new teachers are almost always required to stay rather than telecommute.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Moco schools hav closed for Rosh Hoshana and Yom Kippur for over 60 years. Move on.

The demographics of the county and school system have changed considerably over that period of time.

Apparently not enough to make it worthwhile to stay open. Instead it's been worthwhile to close additional days for non-Christian holidays. The horror. Get over it.

Anonymous wrote:Moco schools hav closed for Rosh Hoshana and Yom Kippur for over 60 years. Move on.

The demographics of the county and school system have changed considerably over that period of time.