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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our experience with 3 private schools vs MCPS - private starts later, ends earlier, has longer winter break (full 2 weeks). There are days off for teacher conferences.

I think there may be fewer teacher training days in private - they are usually an extra day added on to 3 day weekends (to make them 4 day weekends).

The private schools had fewer snow days and fewer delayed start.

No days off for religious holidays (Jewish/Christian/Muslim) in the private school - other than winter break scheduled to include Christmas.  (Spring break is not anchored to Easter, no Rosh Hashana or Yom Kippur)

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Very similar experience with one kid in private v one kid in DCPS. My thing about DCPS is that the days off are *so random* whereas private is a lot more intentional about when days off will occur. Our private would never just have a random Tuesday closed for professional development, whereas [b]DCPS loves to pull that shit.[/b] They would have a professional day, but tack it onto a 3 day weekend so we could get a nice 4 day weekend to travel. [/quote]

yes god forbid teachers get a day at the end of the grading period to you know, grade. [/quote]

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