Anonymous
Post 10/25/2017 21:36     Subject: Hogan labor day start etc
Anonymous wrote:Wait, are people actually hoping our economy fails to bring in more money so MCPS BOE can start school 2 weeks before Labor Day and have 32 weeks of 4 or less days of school?

So dumb!


Our economy won't fail if Ocean City tourism doesn't increase for one weekend. So dumb!
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2017 20:11     Subject: Hogan labor day start etc
But how many of those people just went later than usual. I want to know if the numbers were up ft or the whoLe summer.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2017 20:06     Subject: Hogan labor day start etc
Wait, are people actually hoping our economy fails to bring in more money so MCPS BOE can start school 2 weeks before Labor Day and have 32 weeks of 4 or less days of school?

So dumb!
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2017 20:04     Subject: Hogan labor day start etc
Anonymous wrote:If it was such a boon to OC's economy I think we would've heard all about it by now.

Good idea about vacationing in states where kids go back pre Labor Day!


It was all over the 4 news reports Labor Day weekend. All businesses were saying the week was successful and many hotels were completely booked thru Monday.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2017 20:02     Subject: Re:Hogan labor day start etc
Anonymous wrote:The state said back in early September that it takes at least 2 months to get all of the associated data from businesses, etc and that the results of the extra week of summer would not be known until at least November. So, the first data won't be out for another few weeks.


Here is the early article that discussed it. No hard numbers, just interviewing businesses and people who work in the tourist areas:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/an-extra-week-of-summer-for-almost-900000-kids-is-a-boon-for-one-beach-town/2017/09/01/8e490c12-8eab-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37_story.html?utm_term=.3d7dbd41245a
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2017 17:22     Subject: Re:Hogan labor day start etc
Anonymous wrote:I'm curious about this too. Just last week my family was discussing this and I was wondering if this truly helped Ocean City...


Or Deep Creek, or Annapolis, or the Chesapeake River, or Baltimore's Inner Harbor. It wasn't all about Ocean City. I would think we would know at the end of the following quarter so the end of the year for sure. I remember on the news many areas interviewed said their businesses were doing great those last two weeks and Labor Day weekend.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2017 17:12     Subject: Re:Hogan labor day start etc
The state said back in early September that it takes at least 2 months to get all of the associated data from businesses, etc and that the results of the extra week of summer would not be known until at least November. So, the first data won't be out for another few weeks.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2017 16:35     Subject: Hogan labor day start etc
There was an article in the Washington Post a couple of months ago. Some businesses said it helped, but they just had a couple interviews.

We go after the season is over, so it made us push our trip back til after school started.

An opinion piece in the local OC paper said business was actually hurt by the rainy weekends there this summer, https://mdcoastdispatch.com/2017/08/17/thoughts-from-the-publishers-desk-august-18-2017/

Anonymous
Post 10/25/2017 15:54     Subject: Re:Hogan labor day start etc
Anonymous wrote:I'm sure there was a bump this year but like most things it was more because it was novel.

Next year or the year after, as people decide that it is better to go to other states that have to go to school before Labor day for vacation that week, the effect will drop.

It will also drop because if it really is as successful as Hogan hopes, all the other states will copy it.

It is all just smoke and mirrors to make Hogan look good enough to reelect, nothing more.


How can you be "sure" without data? My nieces and nephews in New York and Vermont both have school systems with August start dates--despite them both having lots of tourist destinations in their states.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2017 15:52     Subject: Hogan labor day start etc
We took a later vacation to Disney World. And we didn't even fly out of BWI.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2017 15:00     Subject: Hogan labor day start etc
If it was such a boon to OC's economy I think we would've heard all about it by now.

Good idea about vacationing in states where kids go back pre Labor Day!
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2017 14:34     Subject: Re:Hogan labor day start etc
I'm sure there was a bump this year but like most things it was more because it was novel.

Next year or the year after, as people decide that it is better to go to other states that have to go to school before Labor day for vacation that week, the effect will drop.

It will also drop because if it really is as successful as Hogan hopes, all the other states will copy it.

It is all just smoke and mirrors to make Hogan look good enough to reelect, nothing more.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2017 14:28     Subject: Hogan labor day start etc
Well this fall we have 10 weeks of at least some school every day so we aren't burning vacation days to care for kids on random teacher professional days and...have vacation days to use in August somewhere....but um, not Ocean City.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2017 13:12     Subject: Re:Hogan labor day start etc
I'm curious about this too. Just last week my family was discussing this and I was wondering if this truly helped Ocean City...
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2017 13:09     Subject: Hogan labor day start etc
Sorry for crowdsourcing this question--I don't know where to find the answer--what was the effect on the economy of the adjusted schedule? Was there a measurable impact from the longer 2017 summer?