Why didn’t APS start this week?

[Anonymous]

Everyone else including private schools started this week. With all the extra holidays this year why is the start date so late?

[Anonymous]

There is a full calendar process every year with different options and people vote. Next year engage with it and make your voice heard. Montgomery county, FCCPS, APS, DCPS all staet next Monday. Loud on starts this Thursday.

[Anonymous]

Because the school year was moved up 1 week. I believe it was supposed to happen the prior year, but Covid. It’s a blur because last year at this time I was scrambling for childcare.

Anyway - they can’t move it 2 weeks in 1 year due to the carefully planned schedule of building and bus maintenance each summer. They have to spread it out into 2 summers each 1 week shorter.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Schools are required to have a certain number of weeks off in the summer. Moving it to this week wouldn’t allow for enough days given our late June release date. Not to mention, starting before Labor Day is horrible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a full calendar process every year with different options and people vote. Next year engage with it and make your voice heard. Montgomery county, FCCPS, APS, DCPS all staet next Monday. Loud on starts this Thursday.

I'm so sick of people saying this. I engaged a ton on this, and we still ended up with this shitty calendar this year where we start a week earlier than last year and still get out at the same time in June.

[Anonymous]

A better question is why they are starting before Labor Day & still not getting out until late June.

[Anonymous]

We were supposed to, but then they sent out the calendar snd let people give feedback. We wanted a later start. Lots of privates don’t start until after Labor day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a full calendar process every year with different options and people vote. Next year engage with it and make your voice heard. Montgomery county, FCCPS, APS, DCPS all staet next Monday. Loud on starts this Thursday.

I'm so sick of people saying this. I engaged a ton on this, and we still ended up with this shitty calendar this year where we start a week earlier than last year and still get out at the same time in June.

Because they added a bunch of non Christian holidays that we didn’t previously have off.

[Anonymous]

They don’t care what you want. The teachers get the schedule they want.

They tried to match FCPS this year but then FCPS adopted after us and made a bunch of changes. Going forward expect us to match to FCPS. The teachers who live there and have kids in school there want this. The community engagement within Arlington is just optics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a full calendar process every year with different options and people vote. Next year engage with it and make your voice heard. Montgomery county, FCCPS, APS, DCPS all staet next Monday. Loud on starts this Thursday.

I'm so sick of people saying this. I engaged a ton on this, and we still ended up with this shitty calendar this year where we start a week earlier than last year and still get out at the same time in June.

Because they added a bunch of non Christian holidays that we didn’t previously have off.

I don't have a problem with the additional holidays, I for one advocated for a shorter winter break to accommodate the holidays and get us out a little earlier in June.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a full calendar process every year with different options and people vote. Next year engage with it and make your voice heard. Montgomery county, FCCPS, APS, DCPS all staet next Monday. Loud on starts this Thursday.

I'm so sick of people saying this. I engaged a ton on this, and we still ended up with this shitty calendar this year where we start a week earlier than last year and still get out at the same time in June.

+1. The proposed calendars didn’t really have any “choice” about things people actually wanted to be different (eg, not extending the school year).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They don’t care what you want. The teachers get the schedule they want.

They tried to match FCPS this year but then FCPS adopted after us and made a bunch of changes. Going forward expect us to match to FCPS. The teachers who live there and have kids in school there want this. The community engagement within Arlington is just optics.

This is exactly right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They don’t care what you want. The teachers get the schedule they want.

They tried to match FCPS this year but then FCPS adopted after us and made a bunch of changes. Going forward expect us to match to FCPS. The teachers who live there and have kids in school there want this. The community engagement within Arlington is just optics.

This is exactly right.

Yep. They polled a few years back and majority parents/community wanted post-Labor Day start. Teachers didn't.

We saw how that went.

Don't bother thinking about it. Just look at the calendar when it comes out.

[Anonymous]

I just wish they would have followed through with what they said in 2019 (or 2018?) and made calendar decisions by April of the prior year so I could plan better!