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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS parents want 
[b]1. Schools to start as late as possible in august [/b]
2. Religious holidays (jewish, diwali, Eid , passover)
3. End school year by mid June.

How on earth are they able to do all that given all these conditions?

Fairfax county starts 2 weeks before labor day. They don’t get religious holidays and have 2 weeks off in winter, they still end mid june.

Why can’t mcps do this? Just start 2 weeks before labor day? [/quote]

I have never heard anyone complain about the prospect of an earlier start. If anything, the reason folks travel/vacation in the week before school is because camp options bottom out and its hard to find coverage.[/quote]

You obviously only know people with younger kids who need camps and coverage. Older kids start sports several weeks before school, teachers have preservice, plenty of people want to vacation in August and definitely don’t want an earlier start. They have repeatedly surveyed people and this is what the majority prefers. [/quote]

Parents of older kids are among the biggest advocates of starting the school year earlier.  Some schools start in late July or early August and their high school students are far more prepared for AP exams with a month of extra instruction than our MCPS kids.

I don’t know any older students who have sports weeks before school start that would take up the full day with practice such that they couldn’t attend HS. [/quote]

Starting school in July is absurd. Have your AP kid get a head start on the reading in July if he wants to get a 5 so badly.[/quote]

MCPS could start school a week or two earlier in August and actually have some snow days built into the calendar so every snow event doesn’t result in a chaos of disorganized rescheduling. That would be nice.   [/quote]

It would also help MCPS comply with requirements because kids are supposed to attend school for 180 days a year, and for the last few years MCPS has shortchanged them with half days tacked in end June rather than planning for snow days [/quote]

But why is it necessary to start 1-2 weeks earlier August? Baltimore city’s 25-26 school year is Aug 25 - June 11.

https://core-docs.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/3843/BCPS/5855516/One_Page_Calendar_2025_final_v3_2.pdf

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