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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It would still be about 180 to 184 instructional days of school, so you'll be piecing together camps and other coverage, a week here, a week there.

Going to significantly more instructional days would take a truly epic budget increase.[/quote]

And most camps are in the summer so you’d be very limited. [/quote]
The camps would adjust to the school calendar. The current after school programs like Bar-T and Kidsco already have camp/daycare on days with school closures and over longer breaks. They would just shift when that is. OP wouldn’t save money, just shift the timetable.[/quote]

There are more camps than those and it would be an issue with older kids who sleep away or speciality camps, work, etc. [/quote]

Why do people use this as an excuse.  Plenty of districts have year round or modified year round schedules.  Do you think all their kids are suffering.  There are still weeks off during the traditional summer just not as many.  Camps, classes, kids adjust.[/quote]

This area will not adjust due to the large number of private schools. Many camp locations would only be operable during the 10 weeks of summer.[/quote]

Yes it will adjust. Businesses always do.[/quote]

They will not. The DMV shuts down the entire month of August due to the Fed government schedule. Private schools house and run many of the camps sought after by public school parents. You will not get private schools to move to a year round model. [/quote]

They run some, but certainly not most. The public school system dwarfs private schools. MCPS could do what it wants.[/quote]

+1. Public schools dwarf private schools in terms of available students. Businesses absolutely would adjust to have camps, classes, programs etc during other times.  The DMV does not shut down in August.  Clearly you don’t live in the DMV if you think that.  Camps run into the 1st or 2nd week of Aug currently.

Rec centers and community program facilities would be the first to adjust to any new schedule that the school district changes.  Various businesses would be next and then some private schools would think about adjusting their schedules because their staff would also be talking about the benefits of the change and so would some of their parents.[/quote]

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