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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]LOL - the school calendar fight is between the labor unions and the small business owners it has zero to do with education or what parents want.

In fact, I have never met a parent that cares whether school starts before or after labor. What parents hate with a passion are all the random days off, half days and months with broken up weeks in the MCPS calendar. People want to be able to plan for effective childcare and take family vacations which the MCPS calendar does not support. Other counties did pretty well with either the week before or week after in establishing rationale calendars that gave a reasonable spring break and weren't closed all the time for random things.

From a learning perspective, there is zero evidence that one week makes a hoot of difference. Year-round school and intensive after care programs for failing kids -yes this makes a difference but starting a week early? Nope.

On the political front, the way this all works in Annapolis is that MoCo was the driving force behind getting control of its calendar back. MoCo reps make deals with other counties for their votes. [b]I'd be more worried about what MoCo owes the other reps now than whether the school year starts before or after Labor Day. 
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It would be nice if MCEAA and MCPS put as much energy into actually educating kids, getting more funding, or improving school safety as they have in getting their calendar back. [/quote]

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