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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sticking with option D. Also known as basically the calendar we’ve been using. [/quote]

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3/4 scenarios are different and move us away from what we've been doing. It seems like they want to move to an earlier start date. That makes sense to me; no learning happens after Memorial Day, and test scores right now are even more abysmal than normal. [/quote]

If they start early, and want to get learning in before Memorial Day, they should not consider extended winter, Thanksgiving, February breaks that eat the new days and cause school to end around June 15 as always.[/quote]

True, but separately, isn’t there a case to be made for slightly shorter summer vacations?  The kids forget so much.[/quote]

I watched the meeting and the superintendent herself responded to this and said yes, year round school is impactful (innovative calendar at two mcps schools) but moving the start date up one week here or there doesn’t really make any difference from an education standpoint. It’s just a matter of preference over whether ppl would rather start early in order to get a longer winter break type of trade off.

They also talked about how the Maryland Dept of Ed might allow them to add in some extra teacher professional days that count as days because students would complete asynchronous or virtual assignments or activities. I was against this until I found out it was instead of extra early release days. We are getting pretty far into the weeds, but that purple day on Indigenous/Columbus and the other one in the second semester may fall into this category if the state allows this. [/quote]

Not in favor of this idea; might cause pandemic PTSD in middle schooler.[/quote]

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