best guess for winter break 2016-17

[Anonymous]

Easter is very late next year and the proposed spring break is the week after Easter.

[Anonymous]

Why can't they do a 5 year calendar? It's inane that every year they cannot get a calendar out until the end of the current school year.

[Anonymous]

DCPS doesn't do 5 years at a time. They do fits and starts depending on what polls best. Including their calendar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCPS doesn't do 5 years at a time. They do fits and starts depending on what polls best. Including their calendar.

Can't go out further than whatever contract WTU is under. Those dates are negotiated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's absurd to get out of school an entire WEEK before Christmas. Why can't they follow MoCo and just give the 6 days off instead of 11?

Also, see that spring break is nearly the end of April. That's a loooooong stretch between winter and spring break.

Agreed.

+1. The PARCC results for DCPS are atrocious and yet they want to give 2 weeks off? Plus do they realize that the week prior to the break and the week after they return are usually frittered away with non instructional activities. What a joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's absurd to get out of school an entire WEEK before Christmas. Why can't they follow MoCo and just give the 6 days off instead of 11?

Also, see that spring break is nearly the end of April. That's a loooooong stretch between winter and spring break.

I like that we have two weeks of Winter break.
I agree with you that end of April is too late for spring break !

Same here.

My kid needs the long Winter Break, and so do I.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's absurd to get out of school an entire WEEK before Christmas. Why can't they follow MoCo and just give the 6 days off instead of 11?

Also, see that spring break is nearly the end of April. That's a loooooong stretch between winter and spring break.

Agreed.

+1. The PARCC results for DCPS are atrocious and yet they want to give 2 weeks off? Plus do they realize that the week prior to the break and the week after they return are usually frittered away with non instructional activities. What a joke.

They go to school same as every other urban and suburban district. Oh and there's this thing called a union.

[Anonymous]

I wish it started a week later. High school kids have to be back a week before school for fall sport tryouts. Wish they would drop a week in December and start back on aug 28

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's absurd to get out of school an entire WEEK before Christmas. Why can't they follow MoCo and just give the 6 days off instead of 11?

Also, see that spring break is nearly the end of April. That's a loooooong stretch between winter and spring break.

Agreed.

Why because the kids don't need the time off or is it inconvenient for you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's absurd to get out of school an entire WEEK before Christmas. Why can't they follow MoCo and just give the 6 days off instead of 11?

Also, see that spring break is nearly the end of April. That's a loooooong stretch between winter and spring break.

Agreed.

+1. The PARCC results for DCPS are atrocious and yet they want to give 2 weeks off? Plus do they realize that the week prior to the break and the week after they return are usually frittered away with non instructional activities. What a joke.

They go to school same as every other urban and suburban district. Oh and there's this thing called a union.

Unions are the best! The DCPS teachers who are union are the best trained, best educated, most certified educators EVER. I read DCUM and I have learned that the problem is not the union, rather (i) non-union charter schools and (ii) DCPS administration. We should let DCPS teachers and the union make all decisions and everything would be better.