Time for year round school

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Sounds like a you problem.

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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.

Good deal, lets raise taxes 20% to be able to pay for it. Nothing's free.

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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.

+1. Public schools dwarf private schools in terms of available students. Businesses absolutely would adjust to have camps, classes, programs etc during other times. The DMV does not shut down in August. Clearly you don’t live in the DMV if you think that. Camps run into the 1st or 2nd week of Aug currently.

Rec centers and community program facilities would be the first to adjust to any new schedule that the school district changes. Various businesses would be next and then some private schools would think about adjusting their schedules because their staff would also be talking about the benefits of the change and so would some of their parents.

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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.

Who would staff these camps? Camps work in the summer due to college and high school students having the same break.

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Hard disagree. Long live summer breaks!

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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.

Who would staff these camps? Camps work in the summer due to college and high school students having the same break.

Exactly! . Next they’ll cry about winter break or spring break being too long!

think about how these camps would switch from running 6-8 weeks consecutively to 2-3 weeks at a time multiple times a year. It would likely raise the costs of camp and maybe even change what is offered. Sure, the local karate camp will adjust but those small programs are not enough to meet demand.

Even with year round school, MCPS will still need to provide free summer school during breaks to Title 1 schools. Many HS students in McPS rely on the summer to take Health and other classes they can’t fit into their school schedule. Those won’t work on multiple short breaks in year round school. What happens to all of the students in dual enrollment programs at MC? MC will not change to fit the MCPS schedule.

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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.

OP said MCPS employee.

You should put down that stone and re-read the OP.

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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

+1 not going to happen and 207 still leaves a lot of work days to be covered.

I think what might help OP more is more funding for publicly run camps.

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Anonymous wrote:Hard disagree. Long live summer breaks!

Agree, summers are the best! Sleep in hang out by the pool, and occasionally have a family vacation that does not include camping or the grandparents.