2026-2027 calendar updates

[Anonymous]

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You are bizarre and way too invested in this. DH's family is all down south, as are some of my relatives, and I've literally never heard them complain about going back to school at the end of July or early August. They're all sick of the summer weather by then and had nice less-crowded beach vacations while our kids were still in school. They are fine, truly. SImilarly my family up north that doesn't start school until after Labor Day are fine too. It's seemingly only the DMV that loses their mind about the potential shift in the calendar by a few days.

Who starts school in late July and is ALREADY sick of summer?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Changes to the 2026–2027 school calendar: Due to a Maryland State Board of Education requirement that public school systems end their school years by June 18, 2027, the Board of Education will need to amend the school calendar for 2026–2027. Changes could affect: religious observances, the shortening of winter and/or spring break, or potentially beginning the school year earlier in August.
The Board will take final action at their meeting on April 30

MSDE has lost its ever-loving mind!! What is the rationale for ending it by the 18th of June?!?!

If you don’t end by June 18 (and we do currently), then we have the situation we had this year when there’s three or more days of snow (which has happened 4 out of the past five years): (1) you run into Juneteenth and have to skip that; (2) you then are into the week after school was supppsed to end, and you might run into a primary election. So suddenly everyone is pushed deep into the week after school ends just to make up a few days. The schools then whine that nobody wants that, everyone’s angry, and really the whole mess could have been avoided if tje schools just had makeup days in spring when they are most likely to be used.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Changes to the 2026–2027 school calendar: Due to a Maryland State Board of Education requirement that public school systems end their school years by June 18, 2027, the Board of Education will need to amend the school calendar for 2026–2027. Changes could affect: religious observances, the shortening of winter and/or spring break, or potentially beginning the school year earlier in August.
The Board will take final action at their meeting on April 30

MSDE has lost its ever-loving mind!! What is the rationale for ending it by the 18th of June?!?!

If you don’t end by June 18 (and we do currently), then we have the situation we had this year when there’s three or more days of snow (which has happened 4 out of the past five years): (1) you run into Juneteenth and have to skip that; (2) you then are into the week after school was supppsed to end, and you might run into a primary election. So suddenly everyone is pushed deep into the week after school ends just to make up a few days. The schools then whine that nobody wants that, everyone’s angry, and really the whole mess could have been avoided if tje schools just had makeup days in spring when they are most likely to be used.

Everyone will be angry if MCPS extends the school year, regardless on which particular day the last scheduled day of school falls. More importantly, extending the school year has no educational value. It is just something MCPS has done this year and last year to comply with state law. They could have set up the calendar to allow for educationally meaningful makeup days, but they did not prioritize that for the 2024-25, 2025-26 or 2026-27 calendars.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Changes to the 2026–2027 school calendar: Due to a Maryland State Board of Education requirement that public school systems end their school years by June 18, 2027, the Board of Education will need to amend the school calendar for 2026–2027. Changes could affect: religious observances, the shortening of winter and/or spring break, or potentially beginning the school year earlier in August.
The Board will take final action at their meeting on April 30

MSDE has lost its ever-loving mind!! What is the rationale for ending it by the 18th of June?!?!

If you don’t end by June 18 (and we do currently), then we have the situation we had this year when there’s three or more days of snow (which has happened 4 out of the past five years): (1) you run into Juneteenth and have to skip that; (2) you then are into the week after school was supppsed to end, and you might run into a primary election. So suddenly everyone is pushed deep into the week after school ends just to make up a few days. The schools then whine that nobody wants that, everyone’s angry, and really the whole mess could have been avoided if tje schools just had makeup days in spring when they are most likely to be used.

Everyone will be angry if MCPS extends the school year, regardless on which particular day the last scheduled day of school falls. More importantly, extending the school year has no educational value. It is just something MCPS has done this year and last year to comply with state law. They could have set up the calendar to allow for educationally meaningful makeup days, but they did not prioritize that for the 2024-25, 2025-26 or 2026-27 calendars.

No. “Everyone” will not be angry at the change to extend the school year because opinions on this issue are not universal. Many parents are frustrated at MCPS’s inability to provide our kids with 180 school days and to shortchange kids the education they deserve because they have makeup days they refuse to use and want to close for more than a week after a snow storm ends, long after other school districts reopen.

I want my kids to have a full 180 days of school next year, and I’m fine with starting earlier in August so that happens.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Changes to the 2026–2027 school calendar: Due to a Maryland State Board of Education requirement that public school systems end their school years by June 18, 2027, the Board of Education will need to amend the school calendar for 2026–2027. Changes could affect: religious observances, the shortening of winter and/or spring break, or potentially beginning the school year earlier in August.
The Board will take final action at their meeting on April 30

MSDE has lost its ever-loving mind!! What is the rationale for ending it by the 18th of June?!?!

If you don’t end by June 18 (and we do currently), then we have the situation we had this year when there’s three or more days of snow (which has happened 4 out of the past five years): (1) you run into Juneteenth and have to skip that; (2) you then are into the week after school was supppsed to end, and you might run into a primary election. So suddenly everyone is pushed deep into the week after school ends just to make up a few days. The schools then whine that nobody wants that, everyone’s angry, and really the whole mess could have been avoided if tje schools just had makeup days in spring when they are most likely to be used.

Everyone will be angry if MCPS extends the school year, regardless on which particular day the last scheduled day of school falls. More importantly, extending the school year has no educational value. It is just something MCPS has done this year and last year to comply with state law. They could have set up the calendar to allow for educationally meaningful makeup days, but they did not prioritize that for the 2024-25, 2025-26 or 2026-27 calendars.

No. “Everyone” will not be angry at the change to extend the school year because opinions on this issue are not universal. Many parents are frustrated at MCPS’s inability to provide our kids with 180 school days and to shortchange kids the education they deserve because they have makeup days they refuse to use and want to close for more than a week after a snow storm ends, long after other school districts reopen.

I want my kids to have a full 180 days of school next year, and I’m fine with starting earlier in August so that happens.

Good luck with that. The proposed calendar is likely to lead to the exact same outcome as this year except that they can't mention Juneteenth in their excuses for an illegal waiver

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Many also start only after labor day.

Yes, like Maryland used to just a few years ago. People have the capacity to adjust to change (despite the drama llamas on this thread screaming that the sky is falling because we might start school a few days earlier in August.)

It's called lack of consideration for everyone involved. MCPS does not care about families who already have plans or for their employees who have plans, and expect everyone to change on a last minute whim because they didn't have their own sh*t together this year. So no-no one here is saying the sky is falling; we just expect better. You should too.

Meh. For two years in a row, MCPS failed to put in an adequate number of snow days and had to make changes to the school calendar first with adding half days in end June and encouraging students not to come, and even worse this year by asking the state of Maryland to validate its “dog ate my homework” planning and allow them to waive 3 required days of instructional time.


I do expect better from MCPS in terms of providing kids with the required instructional time and starting earlier in August will allow McPS to do that and still have its gazillion teacher development days, non-instructional days and religious holidays built in.

It’s unfortunate that they didn’t come to this conclusion earlier, but compared to their usual last minute changes, telling people 4 months in advance that the summer schedule is changing isn’t that bad.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Many also start only after labor day.

Yes, like Maryland used to just a few years ago. People have the capacity to adjust to change (despite the drama llamas on this thread screaming that the sky is falling because we might start school a few days earlier in August.)

It's called lack of consideration for everyone involved. MCPS does not care about families who already have plans or for their employees who have plans, and expect everyone to change on a last minute whim because they didn't have their own sh*t together this year. So no-no one here is saying the sky is falling; we just expect better. You should too.

Meh. For two years in a row, MCPS failed to put in an adequate number of snow days and had to make changes to the school calendar first with adding half days in end June and encouraging students not to come, and even worse this year by asking the state of Maryland to validate its “dog ate my homework” planning and allow them to waive 3 required days of instructional time.


I do expect better from MCPS in terms of providing kids with the required instructional time and starting earlier in August will allow McPS to do that and still have its gazillion teacher development days, non-instructional days and religious holidays built in.

It’s unfortunate that they didn’t come to this conclusion earlier, but compared to their usual last minute changes, telling people 4 months in advance that the summer schedule is changing isn’t that bad.

It will literally be the same as this year but shifted 3 days earlier

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Changes to the 2026–2027 school calendar: Due to a Maryland State Board of Education requirement that public school systems end their school years by June 18, 2027, the Board of Education will need to amend the school calendar for 2026–2027. Changes could affect: religious observances, the shortening of winter and/or spring break, or potentially beginning the school year earlier in August.
The Board will take final action at their meeting on April 30

MSDE has lost its ever-loving mind!! What is the rationale for ending it by the 18th of June?!?!

If you don’t end by June 18 (and we do currently), then we have the situation we had this year when there’s three or more days of snow (which has happened 4 out of the past five years): (1) you run into Juneteenth and have to skip that; (2) you then are into the week after school was supppsed to end, and you might run into a primary election. So suddenly everyone is pushed deep into the week after school ends just to make up a few days. The schools then whine that nobody wants that, everyone’s angry, and really the whole mess could have been avoided if tje schools just had makeup days in spring when they are most likely to be used.

Everyone will be angry if MCPS extends the school year, regardless on which particular day the last scheduled day of school falls. More importantly, extending the school year has no educational value. It is just something MCPS has done this year and last year to comply with state law. They could have set up the calendar to allow for educationally meaningful makeup days, but they did not prioritize that for the 2024-25, 2025-26 or 2026-27 calendars.

It is more annoying if you have to come back the following week, than if you just finish out the week. This year, school ended on a Wednesday. People are less annoyed about having to come Thursday and Friday, than having to come Thursday, skip Friday and return the following Monday. Or this year, doing that, returning Monday, then taking a day off for primary elections, then coming back Wednesday. It’s more likely people book camps starting the Monday after school ends than the Thursday. So yah, the State Board is right that ending before Juneteenth is better logistically.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

You are bizarre and way too invested in this. DH's family is all down south, as are some of my relatives, and I've literally never heard them complain about going back to school at the end of July or early August. They're all sick of the summer weather by then and had nice less-crowded beach vacations while our kids were still in school. They are fine, truly. SImilarly my family up north that doesn't start school until after Labor Day are fine too. It's seemingly only the DMV that loses their mind about the potential shift in the calendar by a few days.

Who starts school in late July and is ALREADY sick of summer?

+1

Like I care what people in the south are doing. We are all free to have our own opinions and preferences.

[Anonymous]

I'm down for an early August start date (and end by Memorial Day) but they have to decide that more in advance than mid-April, when camps, vacation plans, summer jobs, etc are already set for everybody, students and staff alike.

There are many good reasons to move in that direction, but we need some notice.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Changes to the 2026–2027 school calendar: Due to a Maryland State Board of Education requirement that public school systems end their school years by June 18, 2027, the Board of Education will need to amend the school calendar for 2026–2027. Changes could affect: religious observances, the shortening of winter and/or spring break, or potentially beginning the school year earlier in August.
The Board will take final action at their meeting on April 30

MSDE has lost its ever-loving mind!! What is the rationale for ending it by the 18th of June?!?!

If you don’t end by June 18 (and we do currently), then we have the situation we had this year when there’s three or more days of snow (which has happened 4 out of the past five years): (1) you run into Juneteenth and have to skip that; (2) you then are into the week after school was supppsed to end, and you might run into a primary election. So suddenly everyone is pushed deep into the week after school ends just to make up a few days. The schools then whine that nobody wants that, everyone’s angry, and really the whole mess could have been avoided if tje schools just had makeup days in spring when they are most likely to be used.

Everyone will be angry if MCPS extends the school year, regardless on which particular day the last scheduled day of school falls. More importantly, extending the school year has no educational value. It is just something MCPS has done this year and last year to comply with state law. They could have set up the calendar to allow for educationally meaningful makeup days, but they did not prioritize that for the 2024-25, 2025-26 or 2026-27 calendars.

It is more annoying if you have to come back the following week, than if you just finish out the week. This year, school ended on a Wednesday. People are less annoyed about having to come Thursday and Friday, than having to come Thursday, skip Friday and return the following Monday. Or this year, doing that, returning Monday, then taking a day off for primary elections, then coming back Wednesday. It’s more likely people book camps starting the Monday after school ends than the Thursday. So yah, the State Board is right that ending before Juneteenth is better logistically.

The MCPS Superintendent is proposing that school end on June 11 which is a Thursday. If the school year is extended by more than one day, he will be making people come back the following week.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Changes to the 2026–2027 school calendar: Due to a Maryland State Board of Education requirement that public school systems end their school years by June 18, 2027, the Board of Education will need to amend the school calendar for 2026–2027. Changes could affect: religious observances, the shortening of winter and/or spring break, or potentially beginning the school year earlier in August.
The Board will take final action at their meeting on April 30

MSDE has lost its ever-loving mind!! What is the rationale for ending it by the 18th of June?!?!

If you don’t end by June 18 (and we do currently), then we have the situation we had this year when there’s three or more days of snow (which has happened 4 out of the past five years): (1) you run into Juneteenth and have to skip that; (2) you then are into the week after school was supppsed to end, and you might run into a primary election. So suddenly everyone is pushed deep into the week after school ends just to make up a few days. The schools then whine that nobody wants that, everyone’s angry, and really the whole mess could have been avoided if tje schools just had makeup days in spring when they are most likely to be used.

Everyone will be angry if MCPS extends the school year, regardless on which particular day the last scheduled day of school falls. More importantly, extending the school year has no educational value. It is just something MCPS has done this year and last year to comply with state law. They could have set up the calendar to allow for educationally meaningful makeup days, but they did not prioritize that for the 2024-25, 2025-26 or 2026-27 calendars.

It is more annoying if you have to come back the following week, than if you just finish out the week. This year, school ended on a Wednesday. People are less annoyed about having to come Thursday and Friday, than having to come Thursday, skip Friday and return the following Monday. Or this year, doing that, returning Monday, then taking a day off for primary elections, then coming back Wednesday. It’s more likely people book camps starting the Monday after school ends than the Thursday. So yah, the State Board is right that ending before Juneteenth is better logistically.

The MCPS Superintendent is proposing that school end on June 11 which is a Thursday. If the school year is extended by more than one day, he will be making people come back the following week.

Sorry June 11 2027 is a Friday. Any extension to the school year means people have to come back the following week

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Changes to the 2026–2027 school calendar: Due to a Maryland State Board of Education requirement that public school systems end their school years by June 18, 2027, the Board of Education will need to amend the school calendar for 2026–2027. Changes could affect: religious observances, the shortening of winter and/or spring break, or potentially beginning the school year earlier in August.
The Board will take final action at their meeting on April 30

MSDE has lost its ever-loving mind!! What is the rationale for ending it by the 18th of June?!?!

If you don’t end by June 18 (and we do currently), then we have the situation we had this year when there’s three or more days of snow (which has happened 4 out of the past five years): (1) you run into Juneteenth and have to skip that; (2) you then are into the week after school was supppsed to end, and you might run into a primary election. So suddenly everyone is pushed deep into the week after school ends just to make up a few days. The schools then whine that nobody wants that, everyone’s angry, and really the whole mess could have been avoided if tje schools just had makeup days in spring when they are most likely to be used.

Everyone will be angry if MCPS extends the school year, regardless on which particular day the last scheduled day of school falls. More importantly, extending the school year has no educational value. It is just something MCPS has done this year and last year to comply with state law. They could have set up the calendar to allow for educationally meaningful makeup days, but they did not prioritize that for the 2024-25, 2025-26 or 2026-27 calendars.

It is more annoying if you have to come back the following week, than if you just finish out the week. This year, school ended on a Wednesday. People are less annoyed about having to come Thursday and Friday, than having to come Thursday, skip Friday and return the following Monday. Or this year, doing that, returning Monday, then taking a day off for primary elections, then coming back Wednesday. It’s more likely people book camps starting the Monday after school ends than the Thursday. So yah, the State Board is right that ending before Juneteenth is better logistically.

I agree with this. They should not have any contingency days that pull them into the following week. So really they should wrap up the year by the 11th.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Changes to the 2026–2027 school calendar: Due to a Maryland State Board of Education requirement that public school systems end their school years by June 18, 2027, the Board of Education will need to amend the school calendar for 2026–2027. Changes could affect: religious observances, the shortening of winter and/or spring break, or potentially beginning the school year earlier in August.
The Board will take final action at their meeting on April 30

MSDE has lost its ever-loving mind!! What is the rationale for ending it by the 18th of June?!?!

If you don’t end by June 18 (and we do currently), then we have the situation we had this year when there’s three or more days of snow (which has happened 4 out of the past five years): (1) you run into Juneteenth and have to skip that; (2) you then are into the week after school was supppsed to end, and you might run into a primary election. So suddenly everyone is pushed deep into the week after school ends just to make up a few days. The schools then whine that nobody wants that, everyone’s angry, and really the whole mess could have been avoided if tje schools just had makeup days in spring when they are most likely to be used.

Everyone will be angry if MCPS extends the school year, regardless on which particular day the last scheduled day of school falls. More importantly, extending the school year has no educational value. It is just something MCPS has done this year and last year to comply with state law. They could have set up the calendar to allow for educationally meaningful makeup days, but they did not prioritize that for the 2024-25, 2025-26 or 2026-27 calendars.

It is more annoying if you have to come back the following week, than if you just finish out the week. This year, school ended on a Wednesday. People are less annoyed about having to come Thursday and Friday, than having to come Thursday, skip Friday and return the following Monday. Or this year, doing that, returning Monday, then taking a day off for primary elections, then coming back Wednesday. It’s more likely people book camps starting the Monday after school ends than the Thursday. So yah, the State Board is right that ending before Juneteenth is better logistically.

I agree with this. They should not have any contingency days that pull them into the following week. So really they should wrap up the year by the 11th.

They aren't planning any usable makeup days before June 11 so unless the weather is pretty mild that is what will happen.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Changes to the 2026–2027 school calendar: Due to a Maryland State Board of Education requirement that public school systems end their school years by June 18, 2027, the Board of Education will need to amend the school calendar for 2026–2027. Changes could affect: religious observances, the shortening of winter and/or spring break, or potentially beginning the school year earlier in August.
The Board will take final action at their meeting on April 30

MSDE has lost its ever-loving mind!! What is the rationale for ending it by the 18th of June?!?!

If you don’t end by June 18 (and we do currently), then we have the situation we had this year when there’s three or more days of snow (which has happened 4 out of the past five years): (1) you run into Juneteenth and have to skip that; (2) you then are into the week after school was supppsed to end, and you might run into a primary election. So suddenly everyone is pushed deep into the week after school ends just to make up a few days. The schools then whine that nobody wants that, everyone’s angry, and really the whole mess could have been avoided if tje schools just had makeup days in spring when they are most likely to be used.

Everyone will be angry if MCPS extends the school year, regardless on which particular day the last scheduled day of school falls. More importantly, extending the school year has no educational value. It is just something MCPS has done this year and last year to comply with state law. They could have set up the calendar to allow for educationally meaningful makeup days, but they did not prioritize that for the 2024-25, 2025-26 or 2026-27 calendars.

It is more annoying if you have to come back the following week, than if you just finish out the week. This year, school ended on a Wednesday. People are less annoyed about having to come Thursday and Friday, than having to come Thursday, skip Friday and return the following Monday. Or this year, doing that, returning Monday, then taking a day off for primary elections, then coming back Wednesday. It’s more likely people book camps starting the Monday after school ends than the Thursday. So yah, the State Board is right that ending before Juneteenth is better logistically.

I agree with this. They should not have any contingency days that pull them into the following week. So really they should wrap up the year by the 11th.

They aren't planning any usable makeup days before June 11 so unless the weather is pretty mild that is what will happen.

I think people might be especially grumpy about going into the week of June 14 if the 27-28 calendar is also scheduled to start around Aug 20. That's barely 2 months for summer.