Time for year round school
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Anonymous
| How much longer are we going to have 10 weeks breaks in the summer? As an MCPS parent and employee, I am tired of going into debt to pay for camp, tired of my kids sitting home alone all day during the weeks they don’t have camp, and I’m tired of being broke come August every year from not making enough, not saving enough, and spending too much to try to entertain and enjoy the summer. Am I missing the point of the long summer break? I’d much rather have those 10 weeks spread out over the 12 months. |
Anonymous
| No thanks. MCPS is educaiton, not child care. That might work for you but it doesn't work for many others. |
Anonymous
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Is that actually helpful from a childcare perspective?
I’m probably in the minority appreciating the idea of yearround school (for the educational benefits), but we don’t need the camps anyway. |
Anonymous
| Same!!!! I’m running on fumes. I finally got a permanent part-time job to help out. There always is an emergency that pops up when you are running on empty for sure! Trying to stick to my duty time at least this week but the work keeps piling up. I’d 100% be all for year round school, because then students would have more breathing room to learn, annd teachers would have more of an ability to properly plan and grade and do paperwork in a reasonable work day. But it will never happen so ….. wishful thinking. lol. |
Anonymous
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It would still be about 180 to 184 instructional days of school, so you'll be piecing together camps and other coverage, a week here, a week there.
Going to significantly more instructional days would take a truly epic budget increase. |
Anonymous
| Have you considered…teaching? I just had a great summer off with my baby and toddler. They are enrolled in 10 month care that coincides with the MCPS calendar. No tuition to pay over the summer and I sat on the beach the day my regular paycheck hit. If you’re really making so little that the summer is making you go broke you might seriously consider it. Year round school is a long time off if ever, so you’ll never benefit from it. |
Anonymous
And most camps are in the summer so you’d be very limited. |
Anonymous
The camps would adjust to the school calendar. The current after school programs like Bar-T and Kidsco already have camp/daycare on days with school closures and over longer breaks. They would just shift when that is. OP wouldn’t save money, just shift the timetable. |
Anonymous
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Clearly we should arrange children's schedules strictly for the convenience of teacher-parents.
If you want free summer camp, ask for free summer camp. If you want higher wages, ask for higher wages. |
Anonymous
| Did you miss the total uproar and revolt to the year-round model at Roscoe Nix Elementary? OP, what makes you think the majority would be interested in year-round school given the resounding rejection of that model at Roscoe Nix? |
Anonymous
| A lot of camps use college kids as counselors in the summer. They would have a hard time staffing camps when college kids are in school |
Anonymous
| Absolutely not. Summer is the only time for our children to rest, it would be a crazy race year round. 30 AP classes would become a new norm. No, thanks. |
Anonymous
There are more camps than those and it would be an issue with older kids who sleep away or speciality camps, work, etc. |
Anonymous
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Didn’t they just end the year round school experiment?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/05/13/roscoe-nix-elementary-innovative-learning-program/ |
Anonymous
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I don’t care either way. I went to school in England which is similar to the year round school concept here. But the reality is they go 180-184 days a year. So either way every 12 months they’re out of school the same amount of days whether it’s all together or broken up.
Financially from a childcare perspective it makes no difference. |