When will 2023-24 calendar be finalized?

[Anonymous]

I am planning for 2023 summer camp and vacation. Anyone knows when will 2023-24 calendar be finalized? There are 4 possible options making this summer either 7.5 weeks to 10 weeks, and i need full time childcare.

[Anonymous]

There is a board meeting next week on December 6th where they may vote to finalize it.

[Anonymous]

Would they seriously considering starting school early (like August 23rd? Wasn't that the proposed early date?)

Camps already have their schedules out and I see some camps are offering camp that week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would they seriously considering starting school early (like August 23rd? Wasn't that the proposed early date?)

Camps already have their schedules out and I see some camps are offering camp that week.

Yes, starting that week is still under consideration.

[Anonymous]

It’s ridiculous that they do this so late. They need to have this decided much earlier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s ridiculous that they do this so late. They need to have this decided much earlier.

It is always done at this time of year. The policy says they need to finalize the following year's calendar by the end of December.

[Anonymous]

They need to start deciding earlier. This is getting to be too late.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s ridiculous that they do this so late. They need to have this decided much earlier.

It is always done at this time of year. The policy says they need to finalize the following year's calendar by the end of December.

There needs to be some consistency in the start week from year to year so that families and MCPS staff can plan. Didn't we just go back to a pre-Labor day start a couple years ago? December is fine for rubber-stamping a calendar consistent with the current school year, but if admin and the BOE favor an earlier start, this sort of change should be decided earlier or they should take this opportunity to give everyone a heads-up that this is what they would be favoring for the 2024/25 school year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s ridiculous that they do this so late. They need to have this decided much earlier.

It is always done at this time of year. The policy says they need to finalize the following year's calendar by the end of December.

There needs to be some consistency in the start week from year to year so that families and MCPS staff can plan. Didn't we just go back to a pre-Labor day start a couple years ago? December is fine for rubber-stamping a calendar consistent with the current school year, but if admin and the BOE favor an earlier start, this sort of change should be decided earlier or they should take this opportunity to give everyone a heads-up that this is what they would be favoring for the 2024/25 school year.

I think that could definitely happen. They'd stick with starting on the 28th in 2023, with a tentative plan to start the week before that in 2024.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s ridiculous that they do this so late. They need to have this decided much earlier.

It is always done at this time of year. The policy says they need to finalize the following year's calendar by the end of December.

There needs to be some consistency in the start week from year to year so that families and MCPS staff can plan. Didn't we just go back to a pre-Labor day start a couple years ago? December is fine for rubber-stamping a calendar consistent with the current school year, but if admin and the BOE favor an earlier start, this sort of change should be decided earlier or they should take this opportunity to give everyone a heads-up that this is what they would be favoring for the 2024/25 school year.

I think that could definitely happen. They'd stick with starting on the 28th in 2023, with a tentative plan to start the week before that in 2024.

I really don’t understand why they’d start a week earlier in 2024. Survey results revealed there wasn’t a lot of preference for that, one week isn’t going to make that much difference for the “kids taking APs” folks. They basically did a giant exercise in exploring what various interest groups and constituents want and discovered that there isn’t a huge appetite for shifting the calendar much at all. Even starting on the 23rd in 2023 wouldn’t accomplish much other than possibly include a brief Feb break and appear like a compromise to Smondrowski and the small group of early-start advocates. I don’t think a half week shift is doing squat for kids taking APs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s ridiculous that they do this so late. They need to have this decided much earlier.

It is always done at this time of year. The policy says they need to finalize the following year's calendar by the end of December.

There needs to be some consistency in the start week from year to year so that families and MCPS staff can plan. Didn't we just go back to a pre-Labor day start a couple years ago? December is fine for rubber-stamping a calendar consistent with the current school year, but if admin and the BOE favor an earlier start, this sort of change should be decided earlier or they should take this opportunity to give everyone a heads-up that this is what they would be favoring for the 2024/25 school year.

This. It’s ridiculous that they potentially start school in August 2023, but we won’t even know until essentially January 2023.

[Anonymous]

Because of when various holidays will occur in 2024-25, and because of Election Day, they will likely have to start or end earlier that year in order to accommodate the same kind of schedule they're working on now for 2023-24.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s ridiculous that they do this so late. They need to have this decided much earlier.

It is always done at this time of year. The policy says they need to finalize the following year's calendar by the end of December.

There needs to be some consistency in the start week from year to year so that families and MCPS staff can plan. Didn't we just go back to a pre-Labor day start a couple years ago? December is fine for rubber-stamping a calendar consistent with the current school year, but if admin and the BOE favor an earlier start, this sort of change should be decided earlier or they should take this opportunity to give everyone a heads-up that this is what they would be favoring for the 2024/25 school year.

This. It’s ridiculous that they potentially start school in August 2023, but we won’t even know until essentially January 2023.

I don't think there's any question about them starting in August 2023. There has been no talk at all of starting in September.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s ridiculous that they do this so late. They need to have this decided much earlier.

It is always done at this time of year. The policy says they need to finalize the following year's calendar by the end of December.

There needs to be some consistency in the start week from year to year so that families and MCPS staff can plan. Didn't we just go back to a pre-Labor day start a couple years ago? December is fine for rubber-stamping a calendar consistent with the current school year, but if admin and the BOE favor an earlier start, this sort of change should be decided earlier or they should take this opportunity to give everyone a heads-up that this is what they would be favoring for the 2024/25 school year.

I think that could definitely happen. They'd stick with starting on the 28th in 2023, with a tentative plan to start the week before that in 2024.

I really don’t understand why they’d start a week earlier in 2024. Survey results revealed there wasn’t a lot of preference for that, one week isn’t going to make that much difference for the “kids taking APs” folks. They basically did a giant exercise in exploring what various interest groups and constituents want and discovered that there isn’t a huge appetite for shifting the calendar much at all. Even starting on the 23rd in 2023 wouldn’t accomplish much other than possibly include a brief Feb break and appear like a compromise to Smondrowski and the small group of early-start advocates. I don’t think a half week shift is doing squat for kids taking APs.

They seem to be wanting to add in additional professional development days; there are 5 this year, and all of the proposed options had between 7 and 9 for next year. Doesn't seem to be much appetite for that in the survey, but it might be something the administration values enough to keep pushing for an earlier start to accommodate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s ridiculous that they do this so late. They need to have this decided much earlier.

It is always done at this time of year. The policy says they need to finalize the following year's calendar by the end of December.

There needs to be some consistency in the start week from year to year so that families and MCPS staff can plan. Didn't we just go back to a pre-Labor day start a couple years ago? December is fine for rubber-stamping a calendar consistent with the current school year, but if admin and the BOE favor an earlier start, this sort of change should be decided earlier or they should take this opportunity to give everyone a heads-up that this is what they would be favoring for the 2024/25 school year.

I think that could definitely happen. They'd stick with starting on the 28th in 2023, with a tentative plan to start the week before that in 2024.

I really don’t understand why they’d start a week earlier in 2024. Survey results revealed there wasn’t a lot of preference for that, one week isn’t going to make that much difference for the “kids taking APs” folks. They basically did a giant exercise in exploring what various interest groups and constituents want and discovered that there isn’t a huge appetite for shifting the calendar much at all. Even starting on the 23rd in 2023 wouldn’t accomplish much other than possibly include a brief Feb break and appear like a compromise to Smondrowski and the small group of early-start advocates. I don’t think a half week shift is doing squat for kids taking APs.

And they didn't even float a longer February break as an option (right?), which I think a lot of people would support!