DCPS Calendar - why can't they just leave things the way they were?

[Anonymous]

So, it looks like DCPS has posted a new calendar for this school year. I'm not talking about the "one month per page" one with the photos that they produce each year. That's there too. I'm talking about what WAS the one pager with color codes. Now that's gone and it's been replaced with some sort of "at a glance" calendar that is two pages. In looking at this new calendar can anyone tell me what the last day of school is? Or the first day of school? And if I'm reading the calendar correctly there is school until June 30 (since the number is in black text)? And it's completely confusing how they gray out dates of the incoming month leading one to believe that there is no school that day (since the key indicates that gray mean DCPS is closed). Look at the August calendar. Sept 1 and 2 are grayed out, so you think "no school?" but then when you look at the Sept calendar those dates are black, so "ok, yes, there's school." Anyway, what a mess. Glad I printed out the old one-pager. Why does DCPS insist on pouring resources and staff time into stuff like this, only to result with an inferior product when they really should be devoting their efforts to things that actually improve schools?

https://dcps.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcps/publication/attachments/SY22-23-AtAGlance-Calendar_English.pdf

[Anonymous]

Thanks for sharing. I didn't think they could make the calendar worse - but they figured out how to.

Congratulations DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Wow that is super confusing.

[Anonymous]

IMHO, you are way off base and seem to be looking for something to complain about. I just clicked the link and it seem pretty straightforward to me. It seems kind of limited of you not to be able to properly understand that the greyed out CIRCLE is when school is closed.

I find it quite easy to read.

[Anonymous]

And I tried printing out the fancier calendar with photos because it does appear to be more detailed and it is defaulted to print out as a poster, so that didn't work either. Useless.

PS: that fancier version with photos ISN'T the one month per page one that I thought it was. It's a two page poster, so even if you were willing to print out a twelve page calendar, you can't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:IMHO, you are way off base and seem to be looking for something to complain about. I just clicked the link and it seem pretty straightforward to me. It seems kind of limited of you not to be able to properly understand that the greyed out CIRCLE is when school is closed.

I find it quite easy to read.

so what's the first day of school and the last day of school, genius? And where are the built in snow days? And don't tell me to look at the other calendar, because if I have to reference another resource, then this at a glance one is useless.

[Anonymous]

Lol it doesn’t even mark the first day of school for PK students. What a mess

[Anonymous]

This is really bad. I had finally learned how to read the other calendar, which was also really bad.

[Anonymous]

I may be missing something, but is there any way to download the calendar directly to either Outlook or Google? This was an option last year (I think it was last year), but I cannot seem to find the link to make it happen this year. Thanks!!

[Anonymous]

I hope they also do an electronic version again. I synced it to my iCal and never had to look at their bad graphics.

[Anonymous]

This is the stuff I'm talking about! This would never fly in the corporate world. Garbage calendar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for sharing. I didn't think they could make the calendar worse - but they figured out how to.

Congratulations DCPS.

Right! LOL too many administrators.... gotta justify the paycheck

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, it looks like DCPS has posted a new calendar for this school year. I'm not talking about the "one month per page" one with the photos that they produce each year. That's there too. I'm talking about what WAS the one pager with color codes. Now that's gone and it's been replaced with some sort of "at a glance" calendar that is two pages. In looking at this new calendar can anyone tell me what the last day of school is? Or the first day of school? And if I'm reading the calendar correctly there is school until June 30 (since the number is in black text)? And it's completely confusing how they gray out dates of the incoming month leading one to believe that there is no school that day (since the key indicates that gray mean DCPS is closed). Look at the August calendar. Sept 1 and 2 are grayed out, so you think "no school?" but then when you look at the Sept calendar those dates are black, so "ok, yes, there's school." Anyway, what a mess. Glad I printed out the old one-pager. Why does DCPS insist on pouring resources and staff time into stuff like this, only to result with an inferior product when they really should be devoting their efforts to things that actually improve schools?

https://dcps.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcps/publication/attachments/SY22-23-AtAGlance-Calendar_English.pdf

I actually like the look and simplicity.. but how the hell do you miss out the most important items... start and end dates... I see they color coded some things, but they aren't in the legend.

[Anonymous]

If you don't like it you can always just leave DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you don't like it you can always just leave DC.

Such a wonderful response. You're right, DCPS is a private company that doesn't have to answer to anyone, like tax payers....wait. Your idiotic, flip response tells me you likely work for DC government.