Hogan's executive order on school start date

[Anonymous]

So how will this work next year if PG schools start two weeks later and end a week earlier?

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-school-labor-day-20160831-story.html

[Anonymous]

Not sure, but time will tell. I have kids in both private and pgcps. I'm wondering how breaks will line up because I know the private won't follow that schudule.

[Anonymous]

His order says school will start after Labor Day and end by June 15. That's about 205 weekdays. If the school years needs to be 180 days, that leave 25 days available for days off. I counted 29 days off and 4 two-hour early dismissal days in this school year's calendar. That's a problem.

And will school districts need to increase summer school services in order to keeps some kids from falling behind during the summer? That's would require more money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:His order says school will start after Labor Day and end by June 15. That's about 205 weekdays. If the school years needs to be 180 days, that leave 25 days available for days off. I counted 29 days off and 4 two-hour early dismissal days in this school year's calendar. That's a problem.

And will school districts need to increase summer school services in order to keeps some kids from falling behind during the summer? That's would require more money.

School day should be one hour longer, at least.

Problem solved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:His order says school will start after Labor Day and end by June 15. That's about 205 weekdays. If the school years needs to be 180 days, that leave 25 days available for days off. I counted 29 days off and 4 two-hour early dismissal days in this school year's calendar. That's a problem.

And will school districts need to increase summer school services in order to keeps some kids from falling behind during the summer? That's would require more money.

School day should be one hour longer, at least.

Problem solved.

I believe this is how they have solved this problem in other districts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:His order says school will start after Labor Day and end by June 15. That's about 205 weekdays. If the school years needs to be 180 days, that leave 25 days available for days off. I counted 29 days off and 4 two-hour early dismissal days in this school year's calendar. That's a problem.

And will school districts need to increase summer school services in order to keeps some kids from falling behind during the summer? That's would require more money.

School day should be one hour longer, at least.

Problem solved.

MD counts days, not hours. Adding an hour to the school day will not solve this problem.

[Anonymous]

It's time to discuss and implement year- round schooling. I did it with my kids in Europe. It's so much more reasonable- better for kids, teaches, everyone except camps and beach towns looking for tourists.

What is the priority- businesses or education?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:His order says school will start after Labor Day and end by June 15. That's about 205 weekdays. If the school years needs to be 180 days, that leave 25 days available for days off. I counted 29 days off and 4 two-hour early dismissal days in this school year's calendar. That's a problem.

And will school districts need to increase summer school services in order to keeps some kids from falling behind during the summer? That's would require more money.

School day should be one hour longer, at least.

Problem solved.

MD counts days, not hours. Adding an hour to the school day will not solve this problem.

What would solve the problem would be to add more 2 hour early dismissal days, which could as full days for state purposes.

Take away the 4 teacher work days for planning and grading, and replace them with 12 2-hour early dismissal days. So instead of one Friday off at the end of quarter one, have Wed, Thurs and Friday all be 2 hour early dismissals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's time to discuss and implement year- round schooling. I did it with my kids in Europe. It's so much more reasonable- better for kids, teaches, everyone except camps and beach towns looking for tourists.

What is the priority- businesses or education?

I think your question was answered by the fact that the gov. was standing in OC with the head of the tax (revenue) dept.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:His order says school will start after Labor Day and end by June 15. That's about 205 weekdays. If the school years needs to be 180 days, that leave 25 days available for days off. I counted 29 days off and 4 two-hour early dismissal days in this school year's calendar. That's a problem.

And will school districts need to increase summer school services in order to keeps some kids from falling behind during the summer? That's would require more money.

School day should be one hour longer, at least.

Problem solved.

For elementary school it would be very difficult in less they moved it earlier in the AM. We don't get out till 3:25, so between homework, activity, dinner, bath, reading, if it was an hour later, it would be very difficult.

This was to appeal to the business owners with no thought to the families or schools. I'd be find getting rid of teacher planning and half days but teachers would scream about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:His order says school will start after Labor Day and end by June 15. That's about 205 weekdays. If the school years needs to be 180 days, that leave 25 days available for days off. I counted 29 days off and 4 two-hour early dismissal days in this school year's calendar. That's a problem.

And will school districts need to increase summer school services in order to keeps some kids from falling behind during the summer? That's would require more money.

School day should be one hour longer, at least.

Problem solved.

For elementary school it would be very difficult in less they moved it earlier in the AM. We don't get out till 3:25, so between homework, activity, dinner, bath, reading, if it was an hour later, it would be very difficult.

This was to appeal to the business owners with no thought to the families or schools. I'd be find getting rid of teacher planning and half days but teachers would scream about it.

What if for snow days, teachers had to be telework ready. Telework could be planning or an online PD class. Get rid of the scheduled planning days and just work them into the work year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:His order says school will start after Labor Day and end by June 15. That's about 205 weekdays. If the school years needs to be 180 days, that leave 25 days available for days off. I counted 29 days off and 4 two-hour early dismissal days in this school year's calendar. That's a problem.

And will school districts need to increase summer school services in order to keeps some kids from falling behind during the summer? That's would require more money.

School day should be one hour longer, at least.

Problem solved.

For elementary school it would be very difficult in less they moved it earlier in the AM. We don't get out till 3:25, so between homework, activity, dinner, bath, reading, if it was an hour later, it would be very difficult.

This was to appeal to the business owners with no thought to the families or schools. I'd be find getting rid of teacher planning and half days but teachers would scream about it.

What if for snow days, teachers had to be telework ready. Telework could be planning or an online PD class. Get rid of the scheduled planning days and just work them into the work year.

Mm. Are any PGCPS teachers on here? I'd love to hear their thoughts on this, especially re: planning time.

[Anonymous]

Why in the world do kids need 10 weeks off in the summer? It's ridiculous. Six weeks or so would be plenty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
What if for snow days, teachers had to be telework ready. Telework could be planning or an online PD class. Get rid of the scheduled planning days and just work them into the work year.

What does that mean, "work the planning days into the word year?"

Planning time means time without students in front of you. To have that, you need to close the school, OR hire substitutes or aids to take over the care of the students (esp at the elem level)

I'd be thrilled to have more planning time during each day. An 8 hour workday once every 10 weeks (once per quarter) is 8/10 of an hour per week.
One extra 45 minutes of planning per week or 9 extra minutes per day. If they could move duty free lunch from 30 minutes a day to 40 minutes per day, I"d be OK with giving up my once a quarter planning day.

That will never ever ever happen, BTW. THAT'S how tight the elementary school day is, and how understaffed we are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
What if for snow days, teachers had to be telework ready. Telework could be planning or an online PD class. Get rid of the scheduled planning days and just work them into the work year.

What does that mean, "work the planning days into the word year?"

Planning time means time without students in front of you. To have that, you need to close the school, OR hire substitutes or aids to take over the care of the students (esp at the elem level)

I'd be thrilled to have more planning time during each day. An 8 hour workday once every 10 weeks (once per quarter) is 8/10 of an hour per week.
One extra 45 minutes of planning per week or 9 extra minutes per day. If they could move duty free lunch from 30 minutes a day to 40 minutes per day, I"d be OK with giving up my once a quarter planning day.

That will never ever ever happen, BTW. THAT'S how tight the elementary school day is, and how understaffed we are.

10:59 here. Thank you for chiming in on this. I'm a parent, not a teacher in the system, and this is what I suspected. Also? Thank you for doing what you do period.

The whole thing seems incredibly short sighted to me.