Hogan labor day start etc
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Anonymous
| Sorry for crowdsourcing this question--I don't know where to find the answer--what was the effect on the economy of the adjusted schedule? Was there a measurable impact from the longer 2017 summer? |
Anonymous
| I'm curious about this too. Just last week my family was discussing this and I was wondering if this truly helped Ocean City... |
Anonymous
| Well this fall we have 10 weeks of at least some school every day so we aren't burning vacation days to care for kids on random teacher professional days and...have vacation days to use in August somewhere....but um, not Ocean City. |
Anonymous
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I'm sure there was a bump this year but like most things it was more because it was novel.
Next year or the year after, as people decide that it is better to go to other states that have to go to school before Labor day for vacation that week, the effect will drop. It will also drop because if it really is as successful as Hogan hopes, all the other states will copy it. It is all just smoke and mirrors to make Hogan look good enough to reelect, nothing more. |
Anonymous
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If it was such a boon to OC's economy I think we would've heard all about it by now.
Good idea about vacationing in states where kids go back pre Labor Day! |
Anonymous
| We took a later vacation to Disney World. And we didn't even fly out of BWI. |
Anonymous
How can you be "sure" without data? My nieces and nephews in New York and Vermont both have school systems with August start dates--despite them both having lots of tourist destinations in their states. |
Anonymous
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There was an article in the Washington Post a couple of months ago. Some businesses said it helped, but they just had a couple interviews.
We go after the season is over, so it made us push our trip back til after school started. An opinion piece in the local OC paper said business was actually hurt by the rainy weekends there this summer, https://mdcoastdispatch.com/2017/08/17/thoughts-from-the-publishers-desk-august-18-2017/ |
Anonymous
| The state said back in early September that it takes at least 2 months to get all of the associated data from businesses, etc and that the results of the extra week of summer would not be known until at least November. So, the first data won't be out for another few weeks. |
Anonymous
Or Deep Creek, or Annapolis, or the Chesapeake River, or Baltimore's Inner Harbor. It wasn't all about Ocean City. I would think we would know at the end of the following quarter so the end of the year for sure. I remember on the news many areas interviewed said their businesses were doing great those last two weeks and Labor Day weekend. |
Anonymous
Here is the early article that discussed it. No hard numbers, just interviewing businesses and people who work in the tourist areas: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/an-extra-week-of-summer-for-almost-900000-kids-is-a-boon-for-one-beach-town/2017/09/01/8e490c12-8eab-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37_story.html?utm_term=.3d7dbd41245a |
Anonymous
It was all over the 4 news reports Labor Day weekend. All businesses were saying the week was successful and many hotels were completely booked thru Monday. |
Anonymous
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Wait, are people actually hoping our economy fails to bring in more money so MCPS BOE can start school 2 weeks before Labor Day and have 32 weeks of 4 or less days of school?
So dumb! |
Anonymous
| But how many of those people just went later than usual. I want to know if the numbers were up ft or the whoLe summer. |
Anonymous
Our economy won't fail if Ocean City tourism doesn't increase for one weekend. So dumb! |