Anonymous wrote:What's with that weird split spring break option?

It is to accomodate Passover where families might have to travel to family and also it is very difficult to eat lunch at school on Passover - most school cafeterias do not have great non-bread entree options according to my child who has had to navigate that in the past.

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Anonymous wrote:What's with that weird split spring break option?

I might be the only person who likes that idea, but I love having Easter and spring break be separate.

I like it too but can see where it would be unpopular as a lot of people like to take a week-long vacation at that time. March and April are so crazy for me at work that taking a week at that time of year is impossible but taking two 4-day short vacations would be doable.

Anonymous wrote:I don't really understand the logic behind the split spring break.

The start options are interesting. My oldest is in Kindergarten, so I'm very new to all of this, and while I like the idea of starting later, I'm learning that it's a challenge/hassle to fill those gap weeks between the end of camp and beginning of school. If school started later, would the camps in the area adjust their schedule accordingly?

Camps working out of public schools will definitely adjust their schedules (they can't use the schools for the last two weeks of summer, I believe, and I imagine that would be the same no matter what the actual dates are.)

I think other camps tend to end earlier either due to counselors going back to college in August and/or out of tradition (i.e. always doing 6 or 7 or 8 weeks a summer), so in those cases it might be more likely that more camps would be available the last few weeks of summer if it's a shorter summer break and school starts earlier (i.e. if a camp always does weeks 2-9 of summer but not week 10 during a typical 10 week summer break, they might still do weeks 2-9 of summer for a 9 week summer break.)

Anonymous wrote:I don't really understand the logic behind the split spring break.

The start options are interesting. My oldest is in Kindergarten, so I'm very new to all of this, and while I like the idea of starting later, I'm learning that it's a challenge/hassle to fill those gap weeks between the end of camp and beginning of school. If school started later, would the camps in the area adjust their schedule accordingly?

Stating school one week before Labor Day is standard practice in MCPS lately, so that's what camps would be expecting. It's starting a week or two earlier that might require some adjustments. But I think camps are generally going to adapt to MCPS's schedule.

I don't really understand the logic behind the split spring break.

The start options are interesting. My oldest is in Kindergarten, so I'm very new to all of this, and while I like the idea of starting later, I'm learning that it's a challenge/hassle to fill those gap weeks between the end of camp and beginning of school. If school started later, would the camps in the area adjust their schedule accordingly?

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Anonymous wrote:What's with that weird split spring break option?

I might be the only person who likes that idea, but I love having Easter and spring break be separate.

I love it when they're separate!! I can still have my religious holiday but then can also go on vacation for spring break a different week.

I'm surprised Easter Monday is a thing. It isn't in other local counties in VA. I'd actually never heard of Easter Monday until moving here.

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Anonymous wrote:Labor day is late next year. I hope they don’t go with the Monday before Labor Day. It should be 2 weeks before.

I love that the poll doesn’t show the reflected end of year dates, lol. (Why yes, we would love less school!)

I’m keeping in mind for next summer that school is already ending June 17 and may go significantly later.

Right, and that same issue came up last year in the survey, and they were asked to make it clearer this year that earlier start dates mean earlier end dates and so forth. But they didn't include anything about that.

Yes I would like to see the end dates as well.

Anonymous wrote:Labor day is late next year. I hope they don’t go with the Monday before Labor Day. It should be 2 weeks before.

I love that the poll doesn’t show the reflected end of year dates, lol. (Why yes, we would love less school!)

I’m keeping in mind for next summer that school is already ending June 17 and may go significantly later.

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Anonymous wrote:What's with that weird split spring break option?

I might be the only person who likes that idea, but I love having Easter and spring break be separate.

Do you like it as a split week though? I think a lot of people wouldn’t mind having spring break separate from Easter. I don’t have strong feelings about that, but I do have strong feelings about not getting a full week at once.

(I do understand the constraints about state required closures on Good Friday and Easter Monday.)

Anonymous wrote:Not sure where MCPS announced this, but they're running a calendar survey right now.

https://mocoshow.com/2025/09/03/survey-allows-community-to-provide-feedback-on-first-week-of-school-winter-break-and-spring-break-options-for-2026-2027-school-year/

It was in last week's "Things to Know" email.

Anonymous wrote:What's with that weird split spring break option?

I might be the only person who likes that idea, but I love having Easter and spring break be separate.

What's with that weird split spring break option?

Labor day is late next year. I hope they don’t go with the Monday before Labor Day. It should be 2 weeks before.

Not sure where MCPS announced this, but they're running a calendar survey right now.

https://mocoshow.com/2025/09/03/survey-allows-community-to-provide-feedback-on-first-week-of-school-winter-break-and-spring-break-options-for-2026-2027-school-year/