2026-2027 calendar updates

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do people honestly want to start a week earlier this year? That is just ridiculous! If they want to implement this policy, it needs to wait until 2027-2028. Teachers AND students have vacation plans, summer school, work obligations, internships, etc. that go until August 22. We are already going back 2 weeks before Labor Day....

Yes, I want my kids to start earlier so they can actually have 180 days of school this year. If we start earlier we can get some more actual school days in before the snow day craziness starts and now have this mess of trying to add June days until June 22, realizing that the teachers don't want to do that and then giving up and cutting 3 days out of the school year.

The teachers are not going to want to come back for an extra week after the last day of school next year either. I don't understand what you think is going to be different just because the calendar has been shifted 3 days earlier. People will still make plans for the week after school ends.

The MCPS calendar should be defined by meeting state requirements for instructional time, not by "what teachers want." By starting 3 days early and getting more days completed earlier in the year, they'll be less likely to need a waiver next year.

No, that is not how math works.

Clearly you don’t understand how math works if you think that doing the same calendar as last year where MCPS had to get a waiver and excuse themselves from meeting state requirements and expecting to get to 180 days of schooling without making any changes is probable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do people honestly want to start a week earlier this year? That is just ridiculous! If they want to implement this policy, it needs to wait until 2027-2028. Teachers AND students have vacation plans, summer school, work obligations, internships, etc. that go until August 22. We are already going back 2 weeks before Labor Day....

Yes, I want my kids to start earlier so they can actually have 180 days of school this year. If we start earlier we can get some more actual school days in before the snow day craziness starts and now have this mess of trying to add June days until June 22, realizing that the teachers don't want to do that and then giving up and cutting 3 days out of the school year.

The teachers are not going to want to come back for an extra week after the last day of school next year either. I don't understand what you think is going to be different just because the calendar has been shifted 3 days earlier. People will still make plans for the week after school ends.

The MCPS calendar should be defined by meeting state requirements for instructional time, not by "what teachers want." By starting 3 days early and getting more days completed earlier in the year, they'll be less likely to need a waiver next year.

No, that is not how math works.

Clearly you don’t understand how math works if you think that doing the same calendar as last year where MCPS had to get a waiver and excuse themselves from meeting state requirements and expecting to get to 180 days of schooling without making any changes is probable.

They ARE essentially proposing doing the same calendar as this year. They are scheduling 181 instructional days (in the 2024-25 there were 182 instructional days in the calendar) and the only actual makeup days that they will be willing to use will occur the week after the last week of school. So not only will there be low staff and student attendance at the beginning of the year, there will also be low staff and student attendance at the end of the year, assuming MSDE doesn't grant a waiver again.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do people honestly want to start a week earlier this year? That is just ridiculous! If they want to implement this policy, it needs to wait until 2027-2028. Teachers AND students have vacation plans, summer school, work obligations, internships, etc. that go until August 22. We are already going back 2 weeks before Labor Day....

Yes, I want my kids to start earlier so they can actually have 180 days of school this year. If we start earlier we can get some more actual school days in before the snow day craziness starts and now have this mess of trying to add June days until June 22, realizing that the teachers don't want to do that and then giving up and cutting 3 days out of the school year.

Your kids better not be absent a single day then. No sickness, no trips, no mental health days, no funerals, etc.

Sure--let that apply to teachers too. We can all be robots, because you're conflating the requirement for MCPS to have a calendar with the required instructional time the same as other Maryland school districts with your whining about being forced to work 180 days a year.

I guess that means school should end an 30 minutes earlier then. You know, to align with the rest of the school districts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do people honestly want to start a week earlier this year? That is just ridiculous! If they want to implement this policy, it needs to wait until 2027-2028. Teachers AND students have vacation plans, summer school, work obligations, internships, etc. that go until August 22. We are already going back 2 weeks before Labor Day....

Yes, I want my kids to start earlier so they can actually have 180 days of school this year. If we start earlier we can get some more actual school days in before the snow day craziness starts and now have this mess of trying to add June days until June 22, realizing that the teachers don't want to do that and then giving up and cutting 3 days out of the school year.

Your kids better not be absent a single day then. No sickness, no trips, no mental health days, no funerals, etc.

Sure--let that apply to teachers too. We can all be robots, because you're conflating the requirement for MCPS to have a calendar with the required instructional time the same as other Maryland school districts with your whining about being forced to work 180 days a year.

I guess that means school should end an 30 minutes earlier then. You know, to align with the rest of the school districts.

Is that how we get to stop having these stupid calendar fights every year? If so I am on board

[Anonymous]

Schedule classes over the religious holidays. We can start with Christmas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do people honestly want to start a week earlier this year? That is just ridiculous! If they want to implement this policy, it needs to wait until 2027-2028. Teachers AND students have vacation plans, summer school, work obligations, internships, etc. that go until August 22. We are already going back 2 weeks before Labor Day....

Yes, I want my kids to start earlier so they can actually have 180 days of school this year. If we start earlier we can get some more actual school days in before the snow day craziness starts and now have this mess of trying to add June days until June 22, realizing that the teachers don't want to do that and then giving up and cutting 3 days out of the school year.

Your kids better not be absent a single day then. No sickness, no trips, no mental health days, no funerals, etc.

Sure--let that apply to teachers too. We can all be robots, because you're conflating the requirement for MCPS to have a calendar with the required instructional time the same as other Maryland school districts with your whining about being forced to work 180 days a year.

I'm not even a teacher lol. What an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Schedule classes over the religious holidays. We can start with Christmas.

I'm down with that if opening on Christmas has no operational impact. Let's evaluate each religious day off with that as the standard.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Schedule classes over the religious holidays. We can start with Christmas.

I'm down with that if opening on Christmas has no operational impact. Let's evaluate each religious day off with that as the standard.

What defines operational impact? How many schools need to be impacted?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do people honestly want to start a week earlier this year? That is just ridiculous! If they want to implement this policy, it needs to wait until 2027-2028. Teachers AND students have vacation plans, summer school, work obligations, internships, etc. that go until August 22. We are already going back 2 weeks before Labor Day....

Even though they are only planning to start 1 day sooner than last year, it is the first time they've ever started 2 weeks before Labor Day. They definately don't need to start a 3rd week before Labor Day. The additional religious holidays have shortened summer at both ends this year. Typically summer vacation is 10 weeks and in some years their is a bonus time up to a full 11th week. When Labor Day is September 7 they usually get the extra week since they almost always started 1 week before Labor Day so the earlier end following a September 1 Labor Day (Sept 2 for 2019-20) and the later start with a September 7 Labor Day made summer up to 11 weeks long. This happened in 2009, 2015, 2020.
2009: Last Day before summer vacation; Tuesday, June 16 First day of next school year; Monday, August 31 (1 week before Labor Day, 10.6 week summer)
2015: Last Day before summer vacation; Friday, June 12 First day of next school year; Monday, August 31 (1 week before Labor Day, 11 week summer)
2020: Last Day of infamous covid year; Monday, June 15 First day of next school year; Monday, August 31 (1 week before Labor Day, 10.8 week summer)
------------- 2019-20 actually went September 3(post Labor Day)-June 15 with Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur both on weekdays and 8 days off for winter break.
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2026: Last Day before summer vacation; Thursday, June 18 First day of next school year; Tuesday, August 25 (1.8 weeks before Labor Day, 9.4 week summer)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schedule classes over the religious holidays. We can start with Christmas.

I'm down with that if opening on Christmas has no operational impact. Let's evaluate each religious day off with that as the standard.

What defines operational impact? How many schools need to be impacted?

I think it means that at least 15% of students or teachers don’t show up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schedule classes over the religious holidays. We can start with Christmas.

I'm down with that if opening on Christmas has no operational impact. Let's evaluate each religious day off with that as the standard.

What defines operational impact? How many schools need to be impacted?

Well even Atlanta, GA closes for Christmas and they don't close for any other religious holidays so there is no way around that one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schedule classes over the religious holidays. We can start with Christmas.

I'm down with that if opening on Christmas has no operational impact. Let's evaluate each religious day off with that as the standard.

What defines operational impact? How many schools need to be impacted?

I think it means that at least 15% of students or teachers don’t show up.

What if 15% of students at 5 schools don't show up and at the rest it is 1-2%?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schedule classes over the religious holidays. We can start with Christmas.

I'm down with that if opening on Christmas has no operational impact. Let's evaluate each religious day off with that as the standard.

What defines operational impact? How many schools need to be impacted?

I think it means that at least 15% of students or teachers don’t show up.

What if 15% of students at 5 schools don't show up and at the rest it is 1-2%?

15% of MCPS as a whole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schedule classes over the religious holidays. We can start with Christmas.

I'm down with that if opening on Christmas has no operational impact. Let's evaluate each religious day off with that as the standard.

What defines operational impact? How many schools need to be impacted?

I think it means that at least 15% of students or teachers don’t show up.

What if 15% of students at 5 schools don't show up and at the rest it is 1-2%?

15% of MCPS as a whole.

+1. It's about having enough subs available across the district to cover the number of absences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schedule classes over the religious holidays. We can start with Christmas.

I'm down with that if opening on Christmas has no operational impact. Let's evaluate each religious day off with that as the standard.

What defines operational impact? How many schools need to be impacted?

I think it means that at least 15% of students or teachers don’t show up.

What if 15% of students at 5 schools don't show up and at the rest it is 1-2%?

15% of MCPS as a whole.

+1. It's about having enough subs available across the district to cover the number of absences.

If students are the ones not showing up subs don't help