DCPS starting on 8/31 next school year

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Anonymous wrote:I think they will drop the Feb. break with this late start.

If DCPS is going to announce the 2020 start date, they should just go ahead and release the entire calendar. how hard is this for them to figure out two years in advance.

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Anonymous wrote:What am I Missing? This is consistent with last year: the Monday before Labor Day (which is late next year, Sept. 7, 2019).

And if the last day is June 19, then it's a 10-week summer, not an 11-week summer....

Let me try that again without the typos....

What am I missing? This is consistent with last year: the Monday before Labor Day (which is late next year, Sept. 7, 2020).

And if the last day is June 19, then it's a 10-week summer, not an 11-week summer....

Argh, you're right. 10-week summer. Carry on.

Actually, I'm not. PP is right; it's an 11-week summer. Well that sucks.

Last day of school is June 19 (assuming no snow-day makeups), so the following M-Fs will be summer break:

June 22-26
June 29-July 3
July 6-10
July 13-17
July 20-24
July 27-31
Aug. 3-7
Aug. 10-14
Aug. 17-21
Aug. 24-28

I count 10.

That’s what I count

[Anonymous]

They have started a week before Labor Day. This is the same. Chill people chill. I am thankful they are calling it so early!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think they will drop the Feb. break with this late start.

I pray they don’t. This is our Christmas and Spring break vacationing time.

[Anonymous]

Hopefully the summer camp options will adjust and leave us hanging 1-2 weeks and not 3. Hey summer camps! Stop trying to send mothers back to the kitchen, we have jobs!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think they will drop the Feb. break with this late start.

I pray they don’t. This is our Christmas and Spring break vacationing time.

Agree. We love the Feb break.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they will drop the Feb. break with this late start.

I pray they don’t. This is our Christmas and Spring break vacationing time.

Agree. We love the Feb break.

NP. I don't think we should have both. Either Feb or Spring break. I'm a high school parent. The more breaks before May 1 is detrimental to students who are taking AP classes and exams; those exams are the first week of May. Pushing 10 hours of instruction past the tests makes little sense.

For younger students, especially for those who are below grade level, it probably affects PARCC scores as well.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they will drop the Feb. break with this late start.

I pray they don’t. This is our Christmas and Spring break vacationing time.

Agree. We love the Feb break.

NP. I don't think we should have both. Either Feb or Spring break. I'm a high school parent. The more breaks before May 1 is detrimental to students who are taking AP classes and exams; those exams are the first week of May. Pushing 10 hours of instruction past the tests makes little sense.

For younger students, especially for those who are below grade level, it probably affects PARCC scores as well.

I'm a former DCPS parent, and my kid's current private has Feb. and April breaks--actually, the April break is two weeks. I haven't heard that these breaks impact academics (although yes, can see the case for summer slide with a 2-3 month break, particularly for kids that are struggling).

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Anonymous wrote:I think they will drop the Feb. break with this late start.

I pray they don’t. This is our Christmas and Spring break vacationing time.

Agree. We love the Feb break.

NP. I don't think we should have both. Either Feb or Spring break. I'm a high school parent. The more breaks before May 1 is detrimental to students who are taking AP classes and exams; those exams are the first week of May. Pushing 10 hours of instruction past the tests makes little sense.

For younger students, especially for those who are below grade level, it probably affects PARCC scores as well.

These breaks were happening before, just at different times. It all works out at the end. I think it just depends on if you prefer more 3/4 day weekends or an extra full week off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully the summer camp options will adjust and leave us hanging 1-2 weeks and not 3. Hey summer camps! Stop trying to send mothers back to the kitchen, we have jobs!

Why can’t the fathers be in the kitchen? Your post calling out sexism is sexist.

[Anonymous]

Could you please point to the actual tweet where you read this?

It's not on the website and I don't see it on the twitter feed (I checked both twitter and the twitter feed on the website and I don't see it either place.)

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Anonymous wrote:I think they will drop the Feb. break with this late start.

I pray they don’t. This is our Christmas and Spring break vacationing time.

Agree. We love the Feb break.

NP. I don't think we should have both. Either Feb or Spring break. I'm a high school parent. The more breaks before May 1 is detrimental to students who are taking AP classes and exams; those exams are the first week of May. Pushing 10 hours of instruction past the tests makes little sense.

For younger students, especially for those who are below grade level, it probably affects PARCC scores as well.

These breaks were happening before, just at different times. It all works out at the end. I think it just depends on if you prefer more 3/4 day weekends or an extra full week off.

Yep, the February break only started last school year, I believe, after parents complained about the ludicrous number of three-day weekends (I recall that during one recent school year, kids went to school on a Friday exactly once between Halloween and Christmas).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Could you please point to the actual tweet where you read this?

It's not on the website and I don't see it on the twitter feed (I checked both twitter and the twitter feed on the website and I don't see it either place.)

https://twitter.com/dcpublicschools/status/1186311945252753408

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Could you please point to the actual tweet where you read this?

It's not on the website and I don't see it on the twitter feed (I checked both twitter and the twitter feed on the website and I don't see it either place.)

https://twitter.com/dcpublicschools/status/1186311945252753408

Thank you.

[Anonymous]

GREAT. They need to eliminate the completely pointless week in Feb and give them a longer summer.