Speak Out: Should MCPS End the School Year Early?
School districts in Maryland and Virginia are closing early for the year after using none of their built-in snow days.
While a mild winter and lack of snow left young students in Maryland without days off from school to sled and relax, they may be getting the last laugh. Students in Baltimore, Prince George’s, Anne Arundel, Howard and Carroll counties are likely to start their summer breaks a week early due to a mild winter that produced no snow days, according to a report by Savage-Guilford Patch. Frederick County Public Schools are also likely to close early, without having used any of their built-in snow days, an FCPS spokesperson told Patch. But Montgomery County Public Schools — with the last day scheduled for Tuesday, June 12 — has no current plans to wrap up early, MCPS spokesman Dana Tofig told Patch in an email. “I am not aware that this is being…
nancy edwards
5:39 pm on Thursday, April 19, 2012
If they closed the Friday before the kids would lose 1.5 days of signing yearbooks, helping teachers pack up classrooms, and busy work not instructional time. I think in many families it would just be finding child care for that Monday. Most families would have already made plans for the 1/2 day Tuesday. Teachers would still be in the buildings those days and in-school day care options would … more ›