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Anonymous wrote:My middle schooler went for the last time today. He has a camp scheduled next week. My 5th grader will go to the end because of field day and promotion activities. It will be fun. However, I just don’t understand having kids in school in the 3rd week of June. We are all mentally done with it and in need of a break.

When this calendar was made with school ending later then the last few years despite NOT starting later then them, I figured it's ok since 2026-27 will start August 31 due to Labor Day on September 7 as MCPS traditionally starts 1 week before Labor Day regardless of when Labor Day is. Now with this year going to June 18 and next year starting August 24 or 25 a week of summer was taken away. I wouldn't go next week unless you plan on missing the first week of next school year. Summer has been evaporating at a bunch of DMV area districts and now MCPS seems to have joined the rank.
Good news is that June 11 is the initial last day next year (should be a guaranteed stationary last day) so summer will be 10 weeks outside of a makeup day or two which people won't go to and possibly 11 weeks if 2027-28 starts August 30/31.

Anonymous wrote:My middle schooler went for the last time today. He has a camp scheduled next week. My 5th grader will go to the end because of field day and promotion activities. It will be fun. However, I just don’t understand having kids in school in the 3rd week of June. We are all mentally done with it and in need of a break.

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Anonymous wrote:While I don't want to "be a babysitter" I 100% understand that I have to be at the school no matter how many kids are in attendance. Sitting alone in an empty classroom is much more infuriating to me than having to deal with a dozen kids who decided to come to school those final days. We're just going to watch TV and movies probably anyway.

You should be teaching. You are a teacher and that's your job. My HS kids go as that's what they are required to do by law. I'd love for it to be over now.

Anonymous wrote:My middle schooler went for the last time today. He has a camp scheduled next week. My 5th grader will go to the end because of field day and promotion activities. It will be fun. However, I just don’t understand having kids in school in the 3rd week of June. We are all mentally done with it and in need of a break.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's hilarious that in MCPS DCUM of ALL places... this thread exists. The loud, obnoxious parents who wont shut up about snow days, loss of educational time, etc....and then come to find an entire thread of parents discussing how much earlier they'll let their kids stop going. No shame.

Stay horrible, MCPS parents. It's the one thing everyone in the state can count on.

Didn't you realize? They only care about their kids' AP tests. Once those are over, they are willing to take them out of school a week early for vacations and camps.

Two things:
1) I suspect that the parents who wish school was over earlier were not the ones complaining about the snow days. DCUM is not actually a hive mind with everyone thinking the same thing.
2) Yes, I really only care about the AP tests for an AP class, because that's what the class is designed to teach, so the teachers have covered all intended material by mid-May, and really don't do much after. My kids basically only take AP classes, and it's really pointless to have them go every day and do almost nothing. Two classes have had no assignments since May 12. One class had a fun field trip with an associated assignment. Another class has kids cleaning and prepping for next year's experiments. I'm not sure our kids are really learning good life lessons from "yeah, you go and put your butt in the seat but you don't actually do anything." I don't have a good answer to this, but it's not a great system. The best answer would be to start school in mid-August and end in mid-May, but I know that Maryland is allergic to that concept because the water on the eastern shore isn't really good to swim until July.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While I don't want to "be a babysitter" I 100% understand that I have to be at the school no matter how many kids are in attendance. Sitting alone in an empty classroom is much more infuriating to me than having to deal with a dozen kids who decided to come to school those final days. We're just going to watch TV and movies probably anyway.

You should be teaching. You are a teacher and that's your job. My HS kids go as that's what they are required to do by law. I'd love for it to be over now.

We are not supposed to issue any assignments after tomorrow. I'm not assigning any work that isn't being graded. I'm not grading anything when 40% of the kids won't be there.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's hilarious that in MCPS DCUM of ALL places... this thread exists. The loud, obnoxious parents who wont shut up about snow days, loss of educational time, etc....and then come to find an entire thread of parents discussing how much earlier they'll let their kids stop going. No shame.

Stay horrible, MCPS parents. It's the one thing everyone in the state can count on.

Didn't you realize? They only care about their kids' AP tests. Once those are over, they are willing to take them out of school a week early for vacations and camps.

Two things:
1) I suspect that the parents who wish school was over earlier were not the ones complaining about the snow days. DCUM is not actually a hive mind with everyone thinking the same thing.
2) Yes, I really only care about the AP tests for an AP class, because that's what the class is designed to teach, so the teachers have covered all intended material by mid-May, and really don't do much after. My kids basically only take AP classes, and it's really pointless to have them go every day and do almost nothing. Two classes have had no assignments since May 12. One class had a fun field trip with an associated assignment. Another class has kids cleaning and prepping for next year's experiments. I'm not sure our kids are really learning good life lessons from "yeah, you go and put your butt in the seat but you don't actually do anything." I don't have a good answer to this, but it's not a great system. The best answer would be to start school in mid-August and end in mid-May, but I know that Maryland is allergic to that concept because the water on the eastern shore isn't really good to swim until July.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's hilarious that in MCPS DCUM of ALL places... this thread exists. The loud, obnoxious parents who wont shut up about snow days, loss of educational time, etc....and then come to find an entire thread of parents discussing how much earlier they'll let their kids stop going. No shame.

Stay horrible, MCPS parents. It's the one thing everyone in the state can count on.

Didn't you realize? They only care about their kids' AP tests. Once those are over, they are willing to take them out of school a week early for vacations and camps.

Two things:
1) I suspect that the parents who wish school was over earlier were not the ones complaining about the snow days. DCUM is not actually a hive mind with everyone thinking the same thing.
2) Yes, I really only care about the AP tests for an AP class, because that's what the class is designed to teach, so the teachers have covered all intended material by mid-May, and really don't do much after. My kids basically only take AP classes, and it's really pointless to have them go every day and do almost nothing. Two classes have had no assignments since May 12. One class had a fun field trip with an associated assignment. Another class has kids cleaning and prepping for next year's experiments. I'm not sure our kids are really learning good life lessons from "yeah, you go and put your butt in the seat but you don't actually do anything." I don't have a good answer to this, but it's not a great system. The best answer would be to start school in mid-August and end in mid-May, but I know that Maryland is allergic to that concept because the water on the eastern shore isn't really good to swim until July.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's hilarious that in MCPS DCUM of ALL places... this thread exists. The loud, obnoxious parents who wont shut up about snow days, loss of educational time, etc....and then come to find an entire thread of parents discussing how much earlier they'll let their kids stop going. No shame.

Stay horrible, MCPS parents. It's the one thing everyone in the state can count on.

Didn't you realize? They only care about their kids' AP tests. Once those are over, they are willing to take them out of school a week early for vacations and camps.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We shouldn’t be in school right now. The entire country should get on one page. Start the Tuesday after Labor Day and end the Friday before Memorial Day. Figure out how to make 180 days work in between.

You are out of your mind. Three months of summer break?! No thank you!

Three months would be great. For ES its harder, but for HS, some of our kids work, do speciality camps, summer swim and other sports and there isn't a lot of time with just 8 weeks. Our kids go back in early-mid August for sports training and marching band.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:dd (10th grade) says her teachers are assigning graded work next week...very confused on when gradebooks are closing

same. DC has a math test on 16th, WJ

Anonymous wrote:dd (10th grade) says her teachers are assigning graded work next week...very confused on when gradebooks are closing