Comments on: Hogan orders schools to start after Labor Day and end by June 15

By: Kahlilah

Kahlilah — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 14:29:57 +0000

Does Governor Hogan have a child in public school?. Most likely not, if he did he would know how many days children can miss especially once winter snow rolls around, accompanied by insufficient heat in schools, not to mention a many of teacher professional development days.. The State knew full well when the school year would begin and simply were not prepared. PERIOD-
The Parents were ready, the Principles were ready, the Teachers were ready, the Children were ready!!. Do Your Job–

By: No Math Wiz But…...

No Math Wiz But…... — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 21:27:37 +0000

Please correct me if I’m wrong but I did a quick calculation. There are 204 weekdays between June 15th, 2017 and Labor Day, 2018. With Spring and Winter Break plus religious/national holidays adding up to about 21days that makes 183 days in which to meet the required 180 days of school. Giving school districts exactly 3 days of wiggle room to accommodate all the heat/snow closings and exactly 0 days for any grade marking time for teachers. I think you can see the problem here. Is my math way off because this seems like a highly unreasonable and undue burden for the Governor to put on school districts.

By: bcps parent

bcps parent — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 17:43:03 +0000

If Maryland stopped all of the testing and stopped using common core, even more could be accomplished in this smaller windows of time. And bonus- less stressed out students and school employees.

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 17:23:19 +0000

Wow!! Stunning! Wonder how it will all shake out…