26/27 Calendar

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Anonymous wrote:"Includes a total of 181 instructional days, including four contingency days."

Contingency days they won't use, because the union will throw a shit fit

Some of the contingency days are so early in the year they are unusable. How are we starting a week earlier and still ending on June 16? What a mess.

We're starting a day earlier, not a week earlier. This year: August 26-June 17. Next year: August 25-June 16.

That start date is two weeks before Labor Day - this year, the school year started one week before.

Yeah, but that's because Labor Day is a week later.

2020-21 went August 31-June 16 the last time Labor Day was September 7. Some of this is the 2 Muslim holidays but September 11 and April 21 are silly as Rosh Hashana is on a weekend and the day before Passover doesn't warrant a day off.

They were very clear in all the calendar sessions this year at the Board that they wanted to move it a week earlier. I definitely expected this calendar to pass.

Those additional holidays are the reasons why. Maryland law is way too inflexible!

I think it's consistent to have the first day of school be the last Tuesday in August. Doesn't matter when Labor Day is.

Well come 2027-28 do you think the first day will be August 24 or 31? I would say it should be the latter but I'd bet on the former. The last time the schools opened later then the previous year was in 2017 due to Hogan. Outside of the Hogan requirement years it was 1 week before Labor Day but with the extra holidays it has to sometimes be 2 weeks or they'll end after Juneteenth.

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Anonymous wrote:"Includes a total of 181 instructional days, including four contingency days."

Contingency days they won't use, because the union will throw a shit fit

Some of the contingency days are so early in the year they are unusable. How are we starting a week earlier and still ending on June 16? What a mess.

We're starting a day earlier, not a week earlier. This year: August 26-June 17. Next year: August 25-June 16.

That start date is two weeks before Labor Day - this year, the school year started one week before.

Yeah, but that's because Labor Day is a week later.

2020-21 went August 31-June 16 the last time Labor Day was September 7. Some of this is the 2 Muslim holidays but September 11 and April 21 are silly as Rosh Hashana is on a weekend and the day before Passover doesn't warrant a day off.

They were very clear in all the calendar sessions this year at the Board that they wanted to move it a week earlier. I definitely expected this calendar to pass.

Those additional holidays are the reasons why. Maryland law is way too inflexible!

I think it's consistent to have the first day of school be the last Tuesday in August. Doesn't matter when Labor Day is.

Well come 2027-28 do you think the first day will be August 24 or 31? I would say it should be the latter but I'd bet on the former. The last time the schools opened later then the previous year was in 2017 due to Hogan. Outside of the Hogan requirement years it was 1 week before Labor Day but with the extra holidays it has to sometimes be 2 weeks or they'll end after Juneteenth.

DP. 31/“st is way too late given how many random days off we give over the year.

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Anonymous wrote:Huh -- I just realized something. Usually the spring break is the week before Easter through Easter Monday. It looks like for 2027 they are doing the week AFTER easter.

I wonder why they did that. I had literally been looking forward to it for years, because it was the ONLY year that my oldest child's college spring break was going to align with MCPS break, and I thought we could take one last family vacation. MCPS manages to screw me again. Sigh.

I agree. I thought private and public schools would line up next year.

Which private schools?

NAIS

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Anonymous wrote:I oppose any calendar that only has one snow day built in. This is ridiculous. We need at least 4 built in.

Get Maryland to drop the 180 calendar day requirement! With more religious holidays, hours is the remedy to have them and not extend the year!
Maryland requires 1080 hours at ES,MS 1170 hours at HS AND 180 separate calendar days. Keep the former which is ~half and hour for ES/MS, ~a full hour per day longer than other states and drop the latter and you are good. I don't think the transition day is needed but they start so early next year so it is ok.

nope, given how badly MCPS students are doing in the county, they need those days of school.

Makeup days in June are useless.

That's why we need to add more days to the calendar from the start.

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Anonymous wrote:I oppose any calendar that only has one snow day built in. This is ridiculous. We need at least 4 built in.

Get Maryland to drop the 180 calendar day requirement! With more religious holidays, hours is the remedy to have them and not extend the year!
Maryland requires 1080 hours at ES,MS 1170 hours at HS AND 180 separate calendar days. Keep the former which is ~half and hour for ES/MS, ~a full hour per day longer than other states and drop the latter and you are good. I don't think the transition day is needed but they start so early next year so it is ok.

That doesn't work. Everything is set up for lessons to go with days. You can't start the first half of the next math lesson while kids are still learning today's material.

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Anonymous wrote:I oppose any calendar that only has one snow day built in. This is ridiculous. We need at least 4 built in.

Get Maryland to drop the 180 calendar day requirement! With more religious holidays, hours is the remedy to have them and not extend the year!
Maryland requires 1080 hours at ES,MS 1170 hours at HS AND 180 separate calendar days. Keep the former which is ~half and hour for ES/MS, ~a full hour per day longer than other states and drop the latter and you are good. I don't think the transition day is needed but they start so early next year so it is ok.

nope, given how badly MCPS students are doing in the county, they need those days of school.

Makeup days in June are useless.

That's why we need to add more days to the calendar from the start.

That shortens summer too.

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Anonymous wrote:I oppose any calendar that only has one snow day built in. This is ridiculous. We need at least 4 built in.

Get Maryland to drop the 180 calendar day requirement! With more religious holidays, hours is the remedy to have them and not extend the year!
Maryland requires 1080 hours at ES,MS 1170 hours at HS AND 180 separate calendar days. Keep the former which is ~half and hour for ES/MS, ~a full hour per day longer than other states and drop the latter and you are good. I don't think the transition day is needed but they start so early next year so it is ok.

nope, given how badly MCPS students are doing in the county, they need those days of school.

Makeup days in June are useless.

That's why we need to add more days to the calendar from the start.

That shortens summer too.

Makeup days in June are useless because they occur too late to make up for lost learning earlier in the year. If they were in the calendar in the first place, teachers could plan for them better.

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Anonymous wrote:I oppose any calendar that only has one snow day built in. This is ridiculous. We need at least 4 built in.

Get Maryland to drop the 180 calendar day requirement! With more religious holidays, hours is the remedy to have them and not extend the year!
Maryland requires 1080 hours at ES,MS 1170 hours at HS AND 180 separate calendar days. Keep the former which is ~half and hour for ES/MS, ~a full hour per day longer than other states and drop the latter and you are good. I don't think the transition day is needed but they start so early next year so it is ok.

That doesn't work. Everything is set up for lessons to go with days. You can't start the first half of the next math lesson while kids are still learning today's material.

Well of course there are days this simply allows the last day of school to stay as the last day as long as they aren't under the hours. Last year there were no more lessons in mid June but schools had to "open" two days for requirement purposes.

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I think it's consistent to have the first day of school be the last Tuesday in August. Doesn't matter when Labor Day is.

Well come 2027-28 do you think the first day will be August 24 or 31? I would say it should be the latter but I'd bet on the former. The last time the schools opened later then the previous year was in 2017 due to Hogan. Outside of the Hogan requirement years it was 1 week before Labor Day but with the extra holidays it has to sometimes be 2 weeks or they'll end after Juneteenth.

DP. 31/“st is way too late given how many random days off we give over the year. So much for being consistent.

Wanna guess the next school year that begins later then the previous one? 2028-29? https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/calendar/2023-24_TraditionalCalendar.pdf
The secular calendar is the same as 2023-24 from August-February but unlike 2024, 2029 isn't a leap year so the end date would be June 14 if they have the same number of off days as 2023-24.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I oppose any calendar that only has one snow day built in. This is ridiculous. We need at least 4 built in.

Get Maryland to drop the 180 calendar day requirement! With more religious holidays, hours is the remedy to have them and not extend the year!
Maryland requires 1080 hours at ES,MS 1170 hours at HS AND 180 separate calendar days. Keep the former which is ~half and hour for ES/MS, ~a full hour per day longer than other states and drop the latter and you are good. I don't think the transition day is needed but they start so early next year so it is ok.

That doesn't work. Everything is set up for lessons to go with days. You can't start the first half of the next math lesson while kids are still learning today's material.

Well of course there are days this simply allows the last day of school to stay as the last day as long as they aren't under the hours. Last year there were no more lessons in mid June but schools had to "open" two days for requirement purposes.

My kids didn't get through everything last year.

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This means Taylor doesn't intend to call snow days, right?

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Hate the 8/24 start.

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Anonymous wrote:

I think it's consistent to have the first day of school be the last Tuesday in August. Doesn't matter when Labor Day is.

Well come 2027-28 do you think the first day will be August 24 or 31? I would say it should be the latter but I'd bet on the former. The last time the schools opened later then the previous year was in 2017 due to Hogan. Outside of the Hogan requirement years it was 1 week before Labor Day but with the extra holidays it has to sometimes be 2 weeks or they'll end after Juneteenth.

DP. 31/“st is way too late given how many random days off we give over the year.

So much for consistency. The first day-last scheduled day since 2016-17. Hogan Law (Post Labor Day-June 15) affected the 2017-18 through 2019-20 calendars.
2016-17 8/29-6/16
2017-18 9/5-6/12 HOGAN LAW
2018-19 9/4-6/13 HOGAN LAW-Spring break shortened
2019-20 9/3-6/15 HOGAN LAW
2020-21 8/31-6/16
2021-22 8/30-6/15
2022-23 8/29-6/16
2023-24 8/28-6/13
2024-25 8/26-6/13
2025-26 8/26-6/17 Year starts to extend too long
2026-27 8/25-6/16 Repeat length of previous (current) year

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Anonymous wrote:Just approved

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DP9T6T75E2A8/$file/Apprv%202026-2027%20SY%20Calendars%20251211.pdf

It's mostly good except those two wasted off days.
While they are starting two weeks before Labor Day for the first time in history (or decades) I blame that on Maryland law.

Not wasted days. Even people not celebrating appreciate a three day weekend to have a breather.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought we could take one last family vacation. MCPS manages to screw me again. Sigh.

What about summer?

It’s really hard with kids in college and HS. My college kid needs to do internships that usually run the first part of the summer, but my youngest needs to be back weeks before school starts due to fall sports tryouts bring in early August. So we really can’t take a summer vacation all thirteen. When my oldest got into college, I had looked at the four years of her spring break and was excited that one year would line up with McPS. I’m surprised that after decades of doing spring break the week before Easter, McPS is changing to after Easter for 2027.