Is Tuesday 12/23 a Half Day?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is so weird. I am on a group text with several other moms and we all thought that Monday and Tuesday were half days. I had marked it on my work calendar when I did the year mark up last spring. But obviously they are not half days…did we have some sort of group psychosis or was the calendar changed? The odds of us all getting confused by the Arcila calendar seem low.

One of you must have confused the others. The two days before Thanksgiving were half days so maybe you assumed these were too. I looked back to when the board adopted this calendar last year and they have always been full days.

No we did not! Everyone had separately thought these were half days. If it was just us the. I assume our school put out something with incorrect dates. We just got an email from the principal reminding all parents today is a full day of school so the confusion clearly spreads beyond my friends

NP

It's because MCPS always does two early release days on Monday and Tuesday the week of Thanksgiving. So as a parent I associate a two-day school week with two half days.

[Anonymous]

I think it's because there is a traditional calendar and an innovative calendar and they are different - https://publisher.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/pdf/2025-2026%20Traditional%20and%20Innovative%20School%20Year%20Calendars.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is so weird. I am on a group text with several other moms and we all thought that Monday and Tuesday were half days. I had marked it on my work calendar when I did the year mark up last spring. But obviously they are not half days…did we have some sort of group psychosis or was the calendar changed? The odds of us all getting confused by the Arcila calendar seem low.

One of you must have confused the others. The two days before Thanksgiving were half days so maybe you assumed these were too. I looked back to when the board adopted this calendar last year and they have always been full days.

No we did not! Everyone had separately thought these were half days. If it was just us the. I assume our school put out something with incorrect dates. We just got an email from the principal reminding all parents today is a full day of school so the confusion clearly spreads beyond my friends

NP

It's because MCPS always does two early release days on Monday and Tuesday the week of Thanksgiving. So as a parent I associate a two-day school week with two half days.

I do as well, but once I checked the actual MCPS calendar online, it is accurate and I knew I had not assumed correctly.

[Anonymous]

Ditto assuming the two days before break were half days

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ditto assuming the two days before break were half days

But the two days before Thanksgiving break were made into half days to allow for parent-teacher conferences.

[Anonymous]

I tutor kids in MoCo, and yesterday I Googled the MCPS calendar to see if kids had school (mine is out of the nest) and what I pulled up from the first link had half days today and tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I tutor kids in MoCo, and yesterday I Googled the MCPS calendar to see if kids had school (mine is out of the nest) and what I pulled up from the first link had half days today and tomorrow.

That’s for the innovative (year round ) schools only.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is so weird. I am on a group text with several other moms and we all thought that Monday and Tuesday were half days. I had marked it on my work calendar when I did the year mark up last spring. But obviously they are not half days…did we have some sort of group psychosis or was the calendar changed? The odds of us all getting confused by the Arcila calendar seem low.

One of you must have confused the others. The two days before Thanksgiving were half days so maybe you assumed these were too. I looked back to when the board adopted this calendar last year and they have always been full days.

No we did not! Everyone had separately thought these were half days. If it was just us the. I assume our school put out something with incorrect dates. We just got an email from the principal reminding all parents today is a full day of school so the confusion clearly spreads beyond my friends

NP

It's because MCPS always does two early release days on Monday and Tuesday the week of Thanksgiving. So as a parent I associate a two-day school week with two half days.

I do as well, but once I checked the actual MCPS calendar online, it is accurate and I knew I had not assumed correctly.

Good job!

[Anonymous]

It was a normal day in elementary school. They had homework tonight.