2022/23 calendar

[Anonymous]

Wednesday, October 5 is a day off? Why? Google tells me it’s world teachers day. Why not celebrate on a Monday or Friday rather than a Wednesday?

Nice long winter break and spring break.

Re: thanksgiving week - why not have a full day Monday and be off on Tuesday instead of having back to back half days?

[Anonymous]

Yom Kippur.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wednesday, October 5 is a day off? Why? Google tells me it’s world teachers day. Why not celebrate on a Monday or Friday rather than a Wednesday?

Nice long winter break and spring break.

Re: thanksgiving week - why not have a full day Monday and be off on Tuesday instead of having back to back half days?

Because half days count toward the 180-day requirement in MD, and teachers can use the other half of the day to hold parent-teacher conferences on M/T. If they take the full day off, it doesn't count toward the 180-day requirement.

Wed has always been a half day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wednesday, October 5 is a day off? Why? Google tells me it’s world teachers day. Why not celebrate on a Monday or Friday rather than a Wednesday?

Nice long winter break and spring break.

Re: thanksgiving week - why not have a full day Monday and be off on Tuesday instead of having back to back half days?

Because half days count toward the 180-day requirement in MD, and teachers can use the other half of the day to hold parent-teacher conferences on M/T. If they take the full day off, it doesn't count toward the 180-day requirement.

Wed has always been a half day.

If I read the calendar correctly, next year WED will be a day off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wednesday, October 5 is a day off? Why? Google tells me it’s world teachers day. Why not celebrate on a Monday or Friday rather than a Wednesday?

Nice long winter break and spring break.

Re: thanksgiving week - why not have a full day Monday and be off on Tuesday instead of having back to back half days?

Because half days count toward the 180-day requirement in MD, and teachers can use the other half of the day to hold parent-teacher conferences on M/T. If they take the full day off, it doesn't count toward the 180-day requirement.

Wed has always been a half day.

If I read the calendar correctly, next year WED will be a day off.

Yom Kippur

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wednesday, October 5 is a day off? Why? Google tells me it’s world teachers day. Why not celebrate on a Monday or Friday rather than a Wednesday?

Nice long winter break and spring break.

Re: thanksgiving week - why not have a full day Monday and be off on Tuesday instead of having back to back half days?

Because half days count toward the 180-day requirement in MD, and teachers can use the other half of the day to hold parent-teacher conferences on M/T. If they take the full day off, it doesn't count toward the 180-day requirement.

Wed has always been a half day.

If I read the calendar correctly, next year WED will be a day off.

Yom Kippur

Wed, Oct. 5th is Yom Kippur.

Wed. Nov. 23rd is the day before Thanksgiving, and is now a full day off.

[Anonymous]

A link to the calendar:

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/calendar/2022-2023%20Traditional%20School%20Year%20Calendar.pdf

[Anonymous]

Half days aren’t really “half,” they’re early release. Two consecutive early release days results in students being in school buildings for 8.5 total hours, compared to 6.75 hours on a typical day. So the “why not just have one day off instead of two early releases” isn’t really an argument.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Half days aren’t really “half,” they’re early release. Two consecutive early release days results in students being in school buildings for 8.5 total hours, compared to 6.75 hours on a typical day. So the “why not just have one day off instead of two early releases” isn’t really an argument.

Having two half days instead of one whole day is not a net gain of 1.75 hours of instruction though. Kids will have lunch each of those two days and time will be spent on morning announcements, taking attendance, etc., both days. PP is correct: half days counts as instructional days for the purpose of reaching 180 instructional days, so two half days count for twice as many instructional days as one full day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wednesday, October 5 is a day off? Why? Google tells me it’s world teachers day. Why not celebrate on a Monday or Friday rather than a Wednesday?

Nice long winter break and spring break.

Re: thanksgiving week - why not have a full day Monday and be off on Tuesday instead of having back to back half days?

Because half days count toward the 180-day requirement in MD, and teachers can use the other half of the day to hold parent-teacher conferences on M/T. If they take the full day off, it doesn't count toward the 180-day requirement.

Wed has always been a half day.

If I read the calendar correctly, next year WED will be a day off.

Yom Kippur

Wed, Oct. 5th is Yom Kippur.

Wed. Nov. 23rd is the day before Thanksgiving, and is now a full day off.

Oh good I’m glad they just did the full day off before thanksgiving. We probably would have pulled our kid that day anyway as would others, but it really sucks for the teachers. My sister teaches in another district that always does half days on the Wednesday and it’s become so hard for them to travel at thanksgiving.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wednesday, October 5 is a day off? Why? Google tells me it’s world teachers day. Why not celebrate on a Monday or Friday rather than a Wednesday?

Nice long winter break and spring break.

Re: thanksgiving week - why not have a full day Monday and be off on Tuesday instead of having back to back half days?

Think about what the calendar really looks like if BOE would implement this approach.
Sat and Sun (Nov 19-20) - no school.
Monday (Nov 21) - full day of school.
Tuesday - Sun (Nov 22-27) - no school.


How many parents would send their kids to school for a Monday only? How many teachers would take 1 day of leave, which would therefore create a total of 9 consecutive days off?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Half days aren’t really “half,” they’re early release. Two consecutive early release days results in students being in school buildings for 8.5 total hours, compared to 6.75 hours on a typical day. So the “why not just have one day off instead of two early releases” isn’t really an argument.

Having two half days instead of one whole day is not a net gain of 1.75 hours of instruction though. Kids will have lunch each of those two days and time will be spent on morning announcements, taking attendance, etc., both days. PP is correct: half days counts as instructional days for the purpose of reaching 180 instructional days, so two half days count for twice as many instructional days as one full day.

But they don't have recess on half days in ES, so there's some time there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wednesday, October 5 is a day off? Why? Google tells me it’s world teachers day. Why not celebrate on a Monday or Friday rather than a Wednesday?

Nice long winter break and spring break.

Re: thanksgiving week - why not have a full day Monday and be off on Tuesday instead of having back to back half days?

Think about what the calendar really looks like if BOE would implement this approach.
Sat and Sun (Nov 19-20) - no school.
Monday (Nov 21) - full day of school.
Tuesday - Sun (Nov 22-27) - no school.


How many parents would send their kids to school for a Monday only? How many teachers would take 1 day of leave, which would therefore create a total of 9 consecutive days off?

Are they allowed to take off that week? I thought there was some sort of restriction to taking leave right before a holiday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Half days aren’t really “half,” they’re early release. Two consecutive early release days results in students being in school buildings for 8.5 total hours, compared to 6.75 hours on a typical day. So the “why not just have one day off instead of two early releases” isn’t really an argument.

Having two half days instead of one whole day is not a net gain of 1.75 hours of instruction though. Kids will have lunch each of those two days and time will be spent on morning announcements, taking attendance, etc., both days. PP is correct: half days counts as instructional days for the purpose of reaching 180 instructional days, so two half days count for twice as many instructional days as one full day.

But they don't have recess on half days in ES, so there's some time there.

They could pull those days from winter break or spring break, but I suspect people would complain about that also.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Half days aren’t really “half,” they’re early release. Two consecutive early release days results in students being in school buildings for 8.5 total hours, compared to 6.75 hours on a typical day. So the “why not just have one day off instead of two early releases” isn’t really an argument.

Having two half days instead of one whole day is not a net gain of 1.75 hours of instruction though. Kids will have lunch each of those two days and time will be spent on morning announcements, taking attendance, etc., both days. PP is correct: half days counts as instructional days for the purpose of reaching 180 instructional days, so two half days count for twice as many instructional days as one full day.

But they don't have recess on half days in ES, so there's some time there.

You still don’t add a full 1.75 hours of instructional time, even for ES students, and the majority of MCPS students (grades 6-12) don’t have recess, so that’s not factored into the equation.