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Anonymous wrote:Does the last date for seniors change? If not that is 5 weeks early for them. What about senior teachers, what do they do for 5 weeks without students?

The kids in mixed classes generally don't do much after AP exams. It makes it hard when you have freshman to seniors in the same classes. Most senior teachers have some other kids mixed in and they just hang out. A rare few teachers teach.

Yeah it’s a hard sell to make them get up and go when they know the majority of their classes will just be doing nothing. If they were playing trivia games or doing fun experiments it would be easier. But I’d imagine the science teachers don’t have th budget to add on extra fun experiments for the end of the year anyway. And you can’t really do an experiment in the 20 minutes they give you. I hope the HS will at least do block scheduling do all those half days which would increase the odds the teachers will do anything. I think my kids would for the classes they like if the teachers said “we’re going to do …..” and it sounded intetesting or fun. Sometimes they do debates on stuff like — who was the best president — or pick your top three favorite chemical elements—or something like that which is moderately fun for the kids who liked the class at least. But you can’t really do it in 20 minute classes.

My kids will be there. We sent them last year for the three June half days, and most of their classmates were there.

Disappointed that this year is as poorly planned by MCPS as last year (even worse!)

My kids would not even notice that we weren’t “supposed to” have school those days if I sent them. And they’re older, but not carefully following the official calendar- just the family calendar that I update accordingly.

That said, we have flights booked on the 19th, so we won’t be there. If we were in town and didn’t have camps or anything we would be there.

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Anonymous wrote:Elementary school teacher. My kids (grades 9, 6, 3) will go if they want to, which will probably depend on what their friends are doing. In my class, I'll do what I did last year for those two half-days. I'm going to provide a safe, fun environment for my kindergarten students where they will have access to play centers, their friends, the playground, and probably read a story or two. But I'll also be packing up my classroom at the same time. I was transparent with parents about the plan and made sure they knew their children would have a couple of nice, fun days if they came to school. But if parents already had travel plans or paid for camps, there was no reason to forgo those things for school.

If your kids have nowhere else to be, why let them choose? Make them go. It improves the experience for everyone.

Nah.

I suspect a fair amount of kids will be attending at our ES. Many families use Kids After Hours for summer camp, but the camps operate in the schools so they will no longer be able to open that week. Instead KAH will do before and aftercare that week. So kids will go to school for childcare and to see their friends. I think my DD will be happier this way as she loves school and loves seeing all her friends.

AP's are done by Memorial Day, as well as senior last day (Friday, May 22). Many juniors are mixed in classes with seniors so nothing of consequence will be happening during the month of June in many HS classrooms.

Anonymous wrote:Is there real work after first week of June? Even for high schoolers ?

It depends on the teacher. Some keep teaching and assign work, others don't.

Anonymous wrote:Does the last date for seniors change? If not that is 5 weeks early for them. What about senior teachers, what do they do for 5 weeks without students?

The kids in mixed classes generally don't do much after AP exams. It makes it hard when you have freshman to seniors in the same classes. Most senior teachers have some other kids mixed in and they just hang out. A rare few teachers teach.

We don’t have vacation plans for that week and I hadn’t booked a camp yet for that week so my child will attend school. I have no good reason for them NOT to attend school that week.

Anonymous wrote:Elementary school teacher. My kids (grades 9, 6, 3) will go if they want to, which will probably depend on what their friends are doing. In my class, I'll do what I did last year for those two half-days. I'm going to provide a safe, fun environment for my kindergarten students where they will have access to play centers, their friends, the playground, and probably read a story or two. But I'll also be packing up my classroom at the same time. I was transparent with parents about the plan and made sure they knew their children would have a couple of nice, fun days if they came to school. But if parents already had travel plans or paid for camps, there was no reason to forgo those things for school.

If your kids have nowhere else to be, why let them choose? Make them go. It improves the experience for everyone.

Elementary school teacher. My kids (grades 9, 6, 3) will go if they want to, which will probably depend on what their friends are doing. In my class, I'll do what I did last year for those two half-days. I'm going to provide a safe, fun environment for my kindergarten students where they will have access to play centers, their friends, the playground, and probably read a story or two. But I'll also be packing up my classroom at the same time. I was transparent with parents about the plan and made sure they knew their children would have a couple of nice, fun days if they came to school. But if parents already had travel plans or paid for camps, there was no reason to forgo those things for school.

Is there real work after first week of June? Even for high schoolers ?

The makeup day for tomorrow’s closure (Monday, February 23, 2026) will be Friday, June 26, 2026, and this will be an early release day. Wednesday, June 24, 2026, which was an early release day, will be converted to a full school day.

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Anonymous wrote:If April 6 is allowed they should make March 20, April 6 and 15 as makeup days and end June 18 before the long weekend and an election day. If April 6 isn't allowed then they'd have to end June 22 but at least that beats June 25!

That ship has sailed. McPS Union doesn’t want to use April 15.

It needs to sail back, no student will be upset to use that day and the time needed can easily be split into part of more days. If they were really creative they could make the entire April 13-17 week 1 hour early dismissals. Longer than half days and teachers still get their grading time in but split into 5 days.

It’s not going to “sail back.” They do not care whatsoever what “student(s) will be upset about” or not.

Does the last date for seniors change? If not that is 5 weeks early for them. What about senior teachers, what do they do for 5 weeks without students?