School Calendar 2023-2024
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Anonymous
| final selection? |
Anonymous
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Given their report on the latest survey, it appears that only Blue and Purple are in the running, and Purple is the more likely of the two. I've never heard how purple gets away with only 177 days of school. Kind of ironic too b/c after the pandemic, we know many kids have fallen behind due to lack of adequate instructional time... yet, here we have our SB looking to lock in LESS instructional time??? They should be doing more time, right?
There are some very odd/undesirable aspects to these calendars in the end of Oct/into November and end of Mar/into April. In Oct/Nov., you have two days off in the first week, two non-consecutive days off the next week, then a full week, then a week with three days off. In Mar./April, you have a full week off for Spring Break, then come back for 4.5 days, then another break with 3.5 days off (plus a weekend). It's essentially going to be like having a double spring break. Purple has the same issues. Honestly, I've been an advocate for public school forever. But, I can't help get the message that the SB cares more about finding more days OFF than actually educating kids. I can see how these private-school voucher programs are gaining traction in a lot of states. Public schools are giving the impression that they care about a million things OTHER THAN education. I have two more years to get through... then it's someone else's problem. I just hate to see the SB flushing the little bit of good reputation FCPS had down the drain. If you look at 24-25 Blue and Purple Options, it's nuts. AT the end of Oct., kids go 1.5 days in the last week. The rest of the week is off. They supposedly come back to school for a Mon., then have Tues. off, three days back at school, then a 3-day weekend... I mean, how can anyone take this seriously? This is NOT a calendar that anyone who cares about ACADEMIC learning would create. |
Anonymous
Anonymous
| DO WE REALLY NEED THREE DIFFERENT THREADS ABOUT THE SAME THING???? |
Anonymous
| These are the stupidest calendar options. If they made winter break a week and a half, then they could tie spring break to the end of the quarter. We are planning on taking two weeks off at spring break right now. |
Anonymous
Stop being so angry and screaming. |
Anonymous
Spring. Break. Has. Nothing. To. Do. With. Anything. Other. Than. Matching. Surrounding. Counties. How many times does this have to be stated? In case you didn't notice, all the calendars had the same spring break regardless of how long winter break was. |
Anonymous
| MCPS starts next school year 8/28, a whole week after we’ll likely start, but still gets out 6/13. Can’t we just copy their calendar? https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedF...ditionalCalendar.pdf |
Anonymous
I'm in APS and I agree, I like the MCPS calendar. My sister has kids in MCPS and I am always jealous that they are in school when my kids are home! |
Anonymous
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Prince William has a good calendar too. There were options for FCPS, but they insist on screwing up the soup by inviting 300k cooks into the kitchen.
https://www.pwcs.edu/departments/accountabili...lendar/index#2023-24 https://www.pwcs.edu/news/2022/11/23-24_calendar_released |
Anonymous
I feel like MCPS has done a better job of consolidating the holidays with teacher work days and that’s their main difference. By consolidating better they shaved a whole week off the school year for students. If we could do that we could start 8/21 but get out sometime in the first full week of June and that would be awesome. |
Anonymous
OP: when is final selection expected? and where will it posted (link)? |
Anonymous
| FCPS goes hundreds of hours longer than required by the state. They could actually do something like 150 days keeping the current length of the day. Expect it to keep dropping in an attempt to retain staff since they won't pay them a decent wage. |
Anonymous
Supposedly they are voting today. Supposedly. |
Anonymous
NO |