May/June attendance now optional?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I get it that the end of the school year is pretty much a joke, but it’s been WEEKS of this now at the high school level. Why all the emphasis on attendance and the proper number of instructional days then? This certainly isn’t “instruction”.

My kid’s classes have such low attendance that those who show up are helping teachers pack up or watching movies. School truly feels optional now.

Are all FCPS high schools like this? What a waste of tax dollars running the buses back and forth with gas prices so high. And a waste for the student drivers.

I’m out of excuses to keep my DC home, but they are so bored. Admin/teachers: tell me why they should keep showing up?!

Parents: what are you even writing on the attendance page at this point? (Or do you just keep ignoring the phone calls and emails…)

As a newer family to the county, I am shocked and disgusted by this lack of stewardship and accountability. And I believe our kids/taxpayers deserve better than this.

Thanks to those teachers who are still finding interesting things to do and share.

I get what you are saying....it feels like weeks of nothing when it used to just be the last week of school. My DC has called me from school to see if I could get them as they were watching a movie-again. That was well before finals started. My family out west thinks we are nuts all these random days off from school-they start school in August and the end around Memorial Day. They do not have all these random days off that drag out the year. This county has become a joke in many ways sadly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dp. We are experiencing the same lack of teaching since mid-May after the SOLs ended. It’s like the teachers quit. Some started taking personal days off, others threw up a movie, and some created projects which were clearly busy work. I noticed it easier getting through the K&R line as a result. Progressively more movies were added to all academic topics except math.

You keep saying this, yet you do not name the school. Why, I wonder? Oh wait, it's just because you want to stir up the pot yet again.

oh hey gatehouse....

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Neither of my kids are going tomorrow now. One had already announced it because she has no more assignments and she would rather sleep in and then read her book in a more comfortable chair than in the classroom. The younger one caught wind of this and decided she’s out, too, now, because she is routinely taking the bus in before 7 am only to have her first teacher say it’s “another free day”. This is torture on parents and kids. My kids are lucky I’m home during the day and would rather they sleep, read, or help out at home. It’s never been this bad! Teachers, can’t you do a Kahoot? Play I-spy or 20 Questions? Talk about current events in the news? I refuse to believe not a single activity of value can be done with these days. Shame on FCPS for scheduling our kids’ lives around zero instruction days. MANY more families will be headed on vacation next June!

My kid is going and is well aware that he doesn’t get to announce that he is not going to school. School is where he goes when it is in session, just like I go to work. Even on the days when most of my colleagues have it off, I go to work. I do what little I have to do on those days and read at work because that is my job for the day.

It isn’t torture. It is a part of life. Sometimes you go to work/school when nothing is happening and you make the best of it. That is life. Deal with it. This attitude is why you see people complaining about your kids and their work ethic when they graduate from college. They can’t figure out how to enjoy days at school with nothing to do? They think that they can just not go? They are going to use all of their PTO fast in a bunch of years.

No one is complaining about my kids’ work ethic. They are A students who work hard!

Did you forget that we are the customer here and our students’ education the product? Our kids aren’t being paid to attend school. They can be more productive with their time at home. One is doing research on colleges and working toward a fitness goal. The other is getting much more sleep and helping around the house.

At the end of May they were just frustrated and complaining. Then they asked if they could skip certain things here and there because academics are over and they are tired of Disney movies. WEEKS later they are announcing they aren’t going and I’m out of arguments against it on the days where the teachers have given up.

If you have younger children and work outside the home, then school becomes daycare. I get it. But at this point it’s a terribly poor quality one at great taxpayer expense.

Again, we ask which school do your kids attend? This is not happening at the majority of FCPS high schools.

you attend a majority of FCPS schools? weird

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Neither of my kids are going tomorrow now. One had already announced it because she has no more assignments and she would rather sleep in and then read her book in a more comfortable chair than in the classroom. The younger one caught wind of this and decided she’s out, too, now, because she is routinely taking the bus in before 7 am only to have her first teacher say it’s “another free day”. This is torture on parents and kids. My kids are lucky I’m home during the day and would rather they sleep, read, or help out at home. It’s never been this bad! Teachers, can’t you do a Kahoot? Play I-spy or 20 Questions? Talk about current events in the news? I refuse to believe not a single activity of value can be done with these days. Shame on FCPS for scheduling our kids’ lives around zero instruction days. MANY more families will be headed on vacation next June!

My kid is going and is well aware that he doesn’t get to announce that he is not going to school. School is where he goes when it is in session, just like I go to work. Even on the days when most of my colleagues have it off, I go to work. I do what little I have to do on those days and read at work because that is my job for the day.

It isn’t torture. It is a part of life. Sometimes you go to work/school when nothing is happening and you make the best of it. That is life. Deal with it. This attitude is why you see people complaining about your kids and their work ethic when they graduate from college. They can’t figure out how to enjoy days at school with nothing to do? They think that they can just not go? They are going to use all of their PTO fast in a bunch of years.

I think this is more common in middle/high vs elementary. I have not shown a single movie all year.

+1
We aren’t even allowed to show a movie for an EOY party.

[Anonymous]

No movies at Chantilly happening. They are working to the bitter end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No movies at Chantilly happening. They are working to the bitter end.

Maybe in your child's classes but I have heard from a friend that her kids are not doing much and they have been signing them in late and out early for certain classes.

[Anonymous]

My HS kids only go in on the days they have finals. They were done on Wednesday. They will not go in for the last week unless they want to attend a class party for a particular subject.

So not only did they have an unreasonable amount of days off during the school year, they now have school where nothing is happening of value.

How FCPS reckons with itself is beyond me!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No movies at Chantilly happening. They are working to the bitter end.

Freshman or sophomre?

AP advanced classes and classes woth a mix of juniors and seniors have a different experience than freshman because they are finished with the curriculum mid May, while seniors start checking our after AP exams with half of the class missing.

The 2 day week after Memorial Day didn't help either. So many kids just skipped those 2 days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My HS kids only go in on the days they have finals. They were done on Wednesday. They will not go in for the last week unless they want to attend a class party for a particular subject.

So not only did they have an unreasonable amount of days off during the school year, they now have school where nothing is happening of value.

How FCPS reckons with itself is beyond me!

Where does your kid go to school? I named mine earlier and each class is required to have some sort of graded assignment during their final period (if their final was a project or something else). None of the complainers have named their schools. Not one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No movies at Chantilly happening. They are working to the bitter end.

Freshman or sophomre?

AP advanced classes and classes woth a mix of juniors and seniors have a different experience than freshman because they are finished with the curriculum mid May, while seniors start checking our after AP exams with half of the class missing.

The 2 day week after Memorial Day didn't help either. So many kids just skipped those 2 days.

I have a junior at Chantilly in lots of AP classes. Their classes like AP Calc and AP Stat are only about 1/3 full, but they're still finishing big projects (seniors were excused from this last grade). AP Lang, AP Physics, and APUSH are only fellow juniors and they have been very busy this month. Their AP Pysch class has been coasting a bit with an easy final project. But no one is watching any movies.

[Anonymous]

The year began on August 18 not August 25 and not in September, just consider the year over! There is no reason to have school next week! Just skip next week and enjoy your summer!

[Anonymous]

The next three days are painful. More movies and TV series played in all classes. Laptops collected tomorrow, too. This is drawn out this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dp. We are experiencing the same lack of teaching since mid-May after the SOLs ended. It’s like the teachers quit. Some started taking personal days off, others threw up a movie, and some created projects which were clearly busy work. I noticed it easier getting through the K&R line as a result. Progressively more movies were added to all academic topics except math.

You keep saying this, yet you do not name the school. Why, I wonder? Oh wait, it's just because you want to stir up the pot yet again.

Dp

My kids go to Carson and navy and it's been like this for weeks

[Anonymous]

Dp Lots of movies and fluff at Longfellow

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My HS kids only go in on the days they have finals. They were done on Wednesday. They will not go in for the last week unless they want to attend a class party for a particular subject.

So not only did they have an unreasonable amount of days off during the school year, they now have school where nothing is happening of value.

How FCPS reckons with itself is beyond me!

Where does your kid go to school? I named mine earlier and each class is required to have some sort of graded assignment during their final period (if their final was a project or something else). None of the complainers have named their schools. Not one.

NP. Oakton & Carson. I think 2 teachers are still assigning any work. Many aren’t even showing up.