2023-24 draft calendar scenarios to be reviewed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sticking with option D. Also known as basically the calendar we’ve been using.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sticking with option D. Also known as basically the calendar we’ve been using.

Option D, but with the slightly longer winter break.

[Anonymous]

Did anybody watch today's board meeting? What was discussed or decided for the calendar?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sticking with option D. Also known as basically the calendar we’ve been using.

+1

3/4 scenarios are different and move us away from what we've been doing. It seems like they want to move to an earlier start date. That makes sense to me; no learning happens after Memorial Day, and test scores right now are even more abysmal than normal.

[Anonymous]

Has the document been removed?

[Anonymous]

We moved from MoCo to a VA county that starts school in early/mid August and ends the Friday of Memorial Day weekend with a 2 and a half week Christmas break. We love the new calendar. The first week back in August felt like it was a little early, but starting summer with Memorial Day weekend was awesome and worth the trade off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did anybody watch today's board meeting? What was discussed or decided for the calendar?

I watched. They discussed a bunch of the components of each scenario, but didn't seem to have one that they all preferred. They'll be putting the calendars out for public comment through November, and also having community conversations. The December board meeting is when they're expected to vote to finalize it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sticking with option D. Also known as basically the calendar we’ve been using.

+1

3/4 scenarios are different and move us away from what we've been doing. It seems like they want to move to an earlier start date. That makes sense to me; no learning happens after Memorial Day, and test scores right now are even more abysmal than normal.

If they start early, and want to get learning in before Memorial Day, they should not consider extended winter, Thanksgiving, February breaks that eat the new days and cause school to end around June 15 as always.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sticking with option D. Also known as basically the calendar we’ve been using.

+1

3/4 scenarios are different and move us away from what we've been doing. It seems like they want to move to an earlier start date. That makes sense to me; no learning happens after Memorial Day, and test scores right now are even more abysmal than normal.

Right I agree. Don’t move the start date earlier and keep the end date the same! Nope nope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did anybody watch today's board meeting? What was discussed or decided for the calendar?

I watched. They discussed a bunch of the components of each scenario, but didn't seem to have one that they all preferred. They'll be putting the calendars out for public comment through November, and also having community conversations. The December board meeting is when they're expected to vote to finalize it.

Thanks for this info!

[Anonymous]

I am team February break although I couldn’t actually see that MCPS was considering this anywhere? In any case, where I have seen this implemented, there have been camps set up that week so it may be easier for working parents than other winter days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sticking with option D. Also known as basically the calendar we’ve been using.

+1

3/4 scenarios are different and move us away from what we've been doing. It seems like they want to move to an earlier start date. That makes sense to me; no learning happens after Memorial Day, and test scores right now are even more abysmal than normal.

If they start early, and want to get learning in before Memorial Day, they should not consider extended winter, Thanksgiving, February breaks that eat the new days and cause school to end around June 15 as always.

True, but separately, isn’t there a case to be made for slightly shorter summer vacations? The kids forget so much.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sticking with option D. Also known as basically the calendar we’ve been using.

+1

3/4 scenarios are different and move us away from what we've been doing. It seems like they want to move to an earlier start date. That makes sense to me; no learning happens after Memorial Day, and test scores right now are even more abysmal than normal.

If they start early, and want to get learning in before Memorial Day, they should not consider extended winter, Thanksgiving, February breaks that eat the new days and cause school to end around June 15 as always.

True, but separately, isn’t there a case to be made for slightly shorter summer vacations? The kids forget so much.

I am the outlier but I think a 10-11 week break is terrible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sticking with option D. Also known as basically the calendar we’ve been using.

+1

3/4 scenarios are different and move us away from what we've been doing. It seems like they want to move to an earlier start date. That makes sense to me; no learning happens after Memorial Day, and test scores right now are even more abysmal than normal.

If they start early, and want to get learning in before Memorial Day, they should not consider extended winter, Thanksgiving, February breaks that eat the new days and cause school to end around June 15 as always.

True, but separately, isn’t there a case to be made for slightly shorter summer vacations? The kids forget so much.

I watched the meeting and the superintendent herself responded to this and said yes, year round school is impactful (innovative calendar at two mcps schools) but moving the start date up one week here or there doesn’t really make any difference from an education standpoint. It’s just a matter of preference over whether ppl would rather start early in order to get a longer winter break type of trade off.

They also talked about how the Maryland Dept of Ed might allow them to add in some extra teacher professional days that count as days because students would complete asynchronous or virtual assignments or activities. I was against this until I found out it was instead of extra early release days. We are getting pretty far into the weeds, but that purple day on Indigenous/Columbus and the other one in the second semester may fall into this category if the state allows this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am team February break although I couldn’t actually see that MCPS was considering this anywhere? In any case, where I have seen this implemented, there have been camps set up that week so it may be easier for working parents than other winter days.

Scenario C has a five-day weekend in February around Presidents Day.