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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please use this thread for the continuing discussion of calendar options available. List your pros and cons.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/mcps-considering-beginning-2020-21-school-year-before-labor-day/

At a school board committee meeting on Thursday afternoon, MCPS staff members presented three potential options for the 2020-21 school year calendar. The options include school starting on Aug. 31, Sept. 1 or Sept. 8.

All three calendar options presented Thursday incorporate a weeklong spring break and full non-instructional days for professional development, grading and planning time at the end of each quarter. On professional development days, the staff would report to school, but students would not.

The school board committee on Thursday also debated whether the school district should close in recognition of Inauguration Day on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. Martin Luther King Jr. Day — a holiday on which schools must be closed, according to state law — falls on Monday of the same week.[/quote]

That article is from a month ago. There has been another meeting since then, and additional options presented.
[url]https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/BGSUFN7BD0DA/$file/2020-2021%20School%20Year%20Calendar%20191008%20PPT.pdf[/url]

At that meeting they agreed to put three refined options out for public comment: two starting before Labor Day, and one starting after.[/quote]

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