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[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]

Who would staff these camps? Camps work in the summer due to college and high school students having the same break. [/quote]

Exactly! . Next they’ll cry about winter break or spring break being too long!

think about how these camps would switch from running 6-8 weeks consecutively to 2-3 weeks at a time multiple times a year. It would likely raise the costs of camp and maybe even change what is offered. Sure, the local karate camp will adjust but those small programs are not enough to meet demand.

Even with year round school, MCPS will still need to provide free summer school during breaks to Title 1 schools. Many HS students in McPS rely on the summer to take Health and other classes they can’t fit into their school schedule. Those won’t work on multiple short breaks in year round school. What happens to all of the students in dual enrollment programs at MC? MC will not change to fit the MCPS schedule.

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