Do all MCPS high schools hold Back to School Night the same night (tonight)?

[Anonymous]

I can't even find info about when TPMS' is.

[Anonymous]

There is no way to make all people happy. I have twins in the same school but they obviously have different teachers/schedules and I can’t follow both simultaneously. Many families have multiple children. I think the best MCPS can do is have the clusters not schedule on the same night as feeder schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't even find info about when TPMS' is.

Thursday 9/14

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no way to make all people happy. I have twins in the same school but they obviously have different teachers/schedules and I can’t follow both simultaneously. Many families have multiple children. I think the best MCPS can do is have the clusters not schedule on the same night as feeder schools.

And yet, they don’t even attempt that.

[Anonymous]

It’s odd that MCPS and even some parents think that the solution to not being able to schedule every BTSN at a different date/time is to make no effort to maximize the number of BTSNs that can be attended.

[Anonymous]

PTA meetings are always on a Tues too.
My kid is in private now but back to school night is tonight too.

[Anonymous]

Our cluster coordinates in Aug every year, so the HS, MS, and the ES dates never conflict. I could see why the magnet school could throw a wrench into the BTSN mix.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our cluster did the MS and HS Parent Info night in the same night last week.

Same cluster!

Ours did elem and middle on the same night! Totally whacky. You don't think there are a ton of parents with a 4th grader and a 6th grader?

I recognize they can't coordinate across the whole district, but it shouldn't be too much to ask within the cluster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our cluster
coordinates in Aug every year, so the HS, MS, and the ES dates never conflict. I could see why the magnet school could throw a wrench into the BTSN mix.

Not every cluster is so clear cut. NEC, DCC, etc

[Anonymous]

Our Elementary school had back to school last week, before school started.

[Anonymous]

MCPS schedules BTSNs so that there are not conflicts within a cluster. There is also some sort of rotation over the years between which school is early and which school is later.

If you have kids in more than one cluster due to a COSA (which includes various programs) then it’s random chance if you end up with a conflict. They can’t possibly avoid all conflicts and also hold BTSN for 200+ schools in a 2 week period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS schedules BTSNs so that there are not conflicts within a cluster. There is also some sort of rotation over the years between which school is early and which school is later.

If you have kids in more than one cluster due to a COSA (which includes various programs) then it’s random chance if you end up with a conflict. They can’t possibly avoid all conflicts and also hold BTSN for 200+ schools in a 2 week period.

Wait! That's way too rational for the MCPS we all know and loathe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS schedules BTSNs so that there are not conflicts within a cluster. There is also some sort of rotation over the years between which school is early and which school is later.

If you have kids in more than one cluster due to a COSA (which includes various programs) then it’s random chance if you end up with a conflict. They can’t possibly avoid all conflicts and also hold BTSN for 200+ schools in a 2 week period.

It’s like you posted without having read this measly 2 page thread. There *are* conflicts within clusters. MCPS may not be able to prevent all scheduling conflicts, but they don’t need to create unnecessary conflicts either. On page 1 a poster proposed a schedule that would minimize conflicts. At bare minimum, the conflicts within individual clusters should be eliminated.