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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s ridiculous that they do this so late.  They need to have this decided much earlier.  [/quote]

It is always done at this time of year. The policy says they need to finalize the following year's calendar by the end of December.[/quote]

There needs to be some consistency in the start week from year to year so that families and MCPS staff can plan.  Didn't we just go back to a pre-Labor day start a couple years ago?  December is fine for rubber-stamping a calendar consistent with the current school year, but if admin and the BOE favor an earlier start, this sort of change should be decided earlier or[b] they should take this opportunity to give everyone a heads-up that this is what they would be favoring for the 2024/25 school year.[/b][/quote]

I think that could definitely happen. They'd stick with starting on the 28th in 2023, with a tentative plan to start the week before that in 2024.[/quote]

[b]I really don’t understand why they’d start a week earlier in 2024. [/b]Survey results revealed there wasn’t a lot of preference for that, one week isn’t going to make that much difference for the “kids taking APs” folks. They basically did a giant exercise in exploring what various interest groups and constituents want and discovered that there isn’t a huge appetite for shifting the calendar much at all. Even starting on the 23rd in 2023 wouldn’t accomplish much other than possibly include a brief Feb break and appear like a compromise to Smondrowski and the small group of early-start advocates. I don’t think a half week shift is doing squat for kids taking APs. [/quote]

They seem to be wanting to add in additional professional development days; there are 5 this year, and all of the proposed options had between 7 and 9 for next year.  Doesn't seem to be much appetite for that in the survey, but it might be something the administration values enough to keep pushing for an earlier start to accommodate.[/quote]

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