Time for year round school

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

And most camps are in the summer so you’d be very limited.

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.

There are more camps than those and it would be an issue with older kids who sleep away or speciality camps, work, etc.

Why do people use this as an excuse. Plenty of districts have year round or modified year round schedules. Do you think all their kids are suffering. There are still weeks off during the traditional summer just not as many. Camps, classes, kids adjust.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

I'm confused. If you're broke come August, do you have the summer off? So your kids don't have to be in camp but you are paying for it anyway?

[Anonymous]

Year round school is still 180 days of school. You will still have 10 weeks of break, just not consecutively.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

And most camps are in the summer so you’d be very limited.

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.

There are more camps than those and it would be an issue with older kids who sleep away or speciality camps, work, etc.

Why do people use this as an excuse. Plenty of districts have year round or modified year round schedules. Do you think all their kids are suffering. There are still weeks off during the traditional summer just not as many. Camps, classes, kids adjust.

This area will not adjust due to the large number of private schools. Many camp locations would only be operable during the 10 weeks of summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Year round school is still 180 days of school. You will still have 10 weeks of break, just not consecutively.

Arcola ES has 207 days of school. They're the only "innovative calendar" school now.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/district/info/calendars/2024/calendar-2024-attachmentc.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

I’m so sad to see that’s a teacher had such poor reading comprehension skills that they couldn’t even read that OP is a teacher.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

And most camps are in the summer so you’d be very limited.

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.

There are more camps than those and it would be an issue with older kids who sleep away or speciality camps, work, etc.

Why do people use this as an excuse. Plenty of districts have year round or modified year round schedules. Do you think all their kids are suffering. There are still weeks off during the traditional summer just not as many. Camps, classes, kids adjust.

This area will not adjust due to the large number of private schools. Many camp locations would only be operable during the 10 weeks of summer.

Yes it will adjust. Businesses always do.

[Anonymous]

OP, the problem is different families have vastly different preferences. Wasn't there one ES with an innovative calendar where everyone disliked it so much they took the program away? And as others have mentioned they won't create more school days, just spread them out differently. So you'll have the same amount of money and the same need for child care.

[Anonymous]

No research shows that year round schooling is beneficial.

You’ll save money in camps for a few years but you’ll be paying a lot more taxes for the rest of your life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, the problem is different families have vastly different preferences. Wasn't there one ES with an innovative calendar where everyone disliked it so much they took the program away? And as others have mentioned they won't create more school days, just spread them out differently. So you'll have the same amount of money and the same need for child care.

That’s not a problem it’s just a reality that exist, even now. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try something different.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

And most camps are in the summer so you’d be very limited.

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.

There are more camps than those and it would be an issue with older kids who sleep away or speciality camps, work, etc.

Why do people use this as an excuse. Plenty of districts have year round or modified year round schedules. Do you think all their kids are suffering. There are still weeks off during the traditional summer just not as many. Camps, classes, kids adjust.

After elementary you will find out. Speciality and overnight are not year round. Plus teens work summers. They could not work with just two weeks.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

And most camps are in the summer so you’d be very limited.

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.

There are more camps than those and it would be an issue with older kids who sleep away or speciality camps, work, etc.

Why do people use this as an excuse. Plenty of districts have year round or modified year round schedules. Do you think all their kids are suffering. There are still weeks off during the traditional summer just not as many. Camps, classes, kids adjust.

This area will not adjust due to the large number of private schools. Many camp locations would only be operable during the 10 weeks of summer.

Yes it will adjust. Businesses always do.

It would only work if all schools including privates agreed to the same schedule.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Year round school is still 180 days of school. You will still have 10 weeks of break, just not consecutively.

Arcola ES has 207 days of school. They're the only "innovative calendar" school now.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/district/info/calendars/2024/calendar-2024-attachmentc.pdf

Don’t use Arcola as an example. Look at the schools around the country that have been year round for many years like those in NC. It’s the exact same number of school days spread over the full 12 months. MCPS can barely afford to pay teachers 180 days, no way they could afford to pay all teachers for 207

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Anonymous wrote: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.

And most camps are in the summer so you’d be very limited.

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.

There are more camps than those and it would be an issue with older kids who sleep away or speciality camps, work, etc.

Why do people use this as an excuse. Plenty of districts have year round or modified year round schedules. Do you think all their kids are suffering. There are still weeks off during the traditional summer just not as many. Camps, classes, kids adjust.

This area will not adjust due to the large number of private schools. Many camp locations would only be operable during the 10 weeks of summer.

Yes it will adjust. Businesses always do.

They will not. The DMV shuts down the entire month of August due to the Fed government schedule. Private schools house and run many of the camps sought after by public school parents. You will not get private schools to move to a year round model.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

And most camps are in the summer so you’d be very limited.

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.

There are more camps than those and it would be an issue with older kids who sleep away or speciality camps, work, etc.

Why do people use this as an excuse. Plenty of districts have year round or modified year round schedules. Do you think all their kids are suffering. There are still weeks off during the traditional summer just not as many. Camps, classes, kids adjust.

This area will not adjust due to the large number of private schools. Many camp locations would only be operable during the 10 weeks of summer.

Yes it will adjust. Businesses always do.

They will not. The DMV shuts down the entire month of August due to the Fed government schedule. Private schools house and run many of the camps sought after by public school parents. You will not get private schools to move to a year round model.

They run some, but certainly not most. The public school system dwarfs private schools. MCPS could do what it wants.