FCPS Early Release Mondays

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS totally sucks. It sucks for teachers - pay them some real money, it sucks for parents and mostly it sucks for kids. With the gigantic budget FCPS has, please do better.

Just stop. It has nothing to do with FCPS. It’s mandated by the state. Call your representative and your governor.

The training may be mandated by the state, but this implementation is squarely FCPS. Let's not conflate the two.

DP
What would you suggest?

Why not just add teacher workdays?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why not end school a week earlier and take that time when very little to do learning is being accomplished? My kid can watch movies at home. This is a very poor decision leaving working parents in very hard situation. The calendar is already disruptive and this makes it worse.

Former teacher here (now FCPS SAHM)
Usually PD works a lot better when you can immediately go back to your classroom and implement what you've learned. Doing it all over the summer isn't effective.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why not end school a week earlier and take that time when very little to do learning is being accomplished? My kid can watch movies at home. This is a very poor decision leaving working parents in very hard situation. The calendar is already disruptive and this makes it worse.

How would you just end the year a week earlier and keep 180 days on the calendar? One thing I could think of is move the 5 days to winter break or a combination with some other holidays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS totally sucks. It sucks for teachers - pay them some real money, it sucks for parents and mostly it sucks for kids. With the gigantic budget FCPS has, please do better.

Just stop. It has nothing to do with FCPS. It’s mandated by the state. Call your representative and your governor.

The training may be mandated by the state, but this implementation is squarely FCPS. Let's not conflate the two.

LoCo initially proposed late start Wednesdays. There was a swift No. So they changed to 4 days off, I think. Maybe you prefer that implementation but I think early release Mondays are better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS totally sucks. It sucks for teachers - pay them some real money, it sucks for parents and mostly it sucks for kids. With the gigantic budget FCPS has, please do better.

Just stop. It has nothing to do with FCPS. It’s mandated by the state. Call your representative and your governor.

The training may be mandated by the state, but this implementation is squarely FCPS. Let's not conflate the two.

DP
What would you suggest?

Why not just add teacher workdays?

Money? I don't know how much it would add to the overall budget, but (quick estimate math) if you added 3 more workdays it would be another $1,075 per teacher making $70k.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS totally sucks. It sucks for teachers - pay them some real money, it sucks for parents and mostly it sucks for kids. With the gigantic budget FCPS has, please do better.

Just stop. It has nothing to do with FCPS. It’s mandated by the state. Call your representative and your governor.

The training may be mandated by the state, but this implementation is squarely FCPS. Let's not conflate the two.

LoCo initially proposed late start Wednesdays. There was a swift No. So they changed to 4 days off, I think. Maybe you prefer that implementation but I think early release Mondays are better.

No, I'd prefer extra teacher workdays. It gives working parents less commuting/job disruption and more options for full day childcare/camps.

This idea that we need to spread it across 7 days a little at a time is insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS totally sucks. It sucks for teachers - pay them some real money, it sucks for parents and mostly it sucks for kids. With the gigantic budget FCPS has, please do better.

Just stop. It has nothing to do with FCPS. It’s mandated by the state. Call your representative and your governor.

The training may be mandated by the state, but this implementation is squarely FCPS. Let's not conflate the two.

DP
What would you suggest?

Why not just add teacher workdays?

Money? I don't know how much it would add to the overall budget, but (quick estimate math) if you added 3 more workdays it would be another $1,075 per teacher making $70k.

I'm not saying extra working days, I'm saying swapping out an instructional day for a "Teacher Workday" on the academic calendar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS totally sucks. It sucks for teachers - pay them some real money, it sucks for parents and mostly it sucks for kids. With the gigantic budget FCPS has, please do better.

Just stop. It has nothing to do with FCPS. It’s mandated by the state. Call your representative and your governor.

The training may be mandated by the state, but this implementation is squarely FCPS. Let's not conflate the two.

DP
What would you suggest?

Why not just add teacher workdays?

Money? I don't know how much it would add to the overall budget, but (quick estimate math) if you added 3 more workdays it would be another $1,075 per teacher making $70k.

I'm not saying extra working days, I'm saying swapping out an instructional day for a "Teacher Workday" on the academic calendar.

Then you will have less than 180 student days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS totally sucks. It sucks for teachers - pay them some real money, it sucks for parents and mostly it sucks for kids. With the gigantic budget FCPS has, please do better.

Just stop. It has nothing to do with FCPS. It’s mandated by the state. Call your representative and your governor.

The training may be mandated by the state, but this implementation is squarely FCPS. Let's not conflate the two.

DP
What would you suggest?

Why not just add teacher workdays?

Money? I don't know how much it would add to the overall budget, but (quick estimate math) if you added 3 more workdays it would be another $1,075 per teacher making $70k.

I'm not saying extra working days, I'm saying swapping out an instructional day for a "Teacher Workday" on the academic calendar.

Then you will have less than 180 student days.

Would they? I'm under the impression that they are already over that. What you'd likely have is less built in "snow days".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS totally sucks. It sucks for teachers - pay them some real money, it sucks for parents and mostly it sucks for kids. With the gigantic budget FCPS has, please do better.

Just stop. It has nothing to do with FCPS. It’s mandated by the state. Call your representative and your governor.

The training may be mandated by the state, but this implementation is squarely FCPS. Let's not conflate the two.

DP
What would you suggest?

Why not just add teacher workdays?

Money? I don't know how much it would add to the overall budget, but (quick estimate math) if you added 3 more workdays it would be another $1,075 per teacher making $70k.

I'm not saying extra working days, I'm saying swapping out an instructional day for a "Teacher Workday" on the academic calendar.

Then you will have less than 180 student days.

Would they? I'm under the impression that they are already over that. What you'd likely have is less built in "snow days".

No. Count them. There are only 180 days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:(OP) My first grader didn’t learn a single thing this year. Like, his writing, iReady scores and love of reading actually got worse over the course of the year.

This is also going to be my first year without childcare and I was going to try to make it work, but now I’m feeling like I need coverage for these days as well.

Between all of the holidays, teacher in service days, etc., learning is going to be SO disrupted and disjointed.

Sorry but school is not daycare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS totally sucks. It sucks for teachers - pay them some real money, it sucks for parents and mostly it sucks for kids. With the gigantic budget FCPS has, please do better.

Just stop. It has nothing to do with FCPS. It’s mandated by the state. Call your representative and your governor.

The training may be mandated by the state, but this implementation is squarely FCPS. Let's not conflate the two.

DP
What would you suggest?

Why not just add teacher workdays?

Money? I don't know how much it would add to the overall budget, but (quick estimate math) if you added 3 more workdays it would be another $1,075 per teacher making $70k.

I'm not saying extra working days, I'm saying swapping out an instructional day for a "Teacher Workday" on the academic calendar.

Then you will have less than 180 student days.

Would they? I'm under the impression that they are already over that. What you'd likely have is less built in "snow days".

Nope. They schedule 180 days on the student calendar. That's the minimum. They don't have built in snow "days", only hours. There are no extra days to remove from the calendar.

I think FCPS could do better messaging about that.

[Anonymous]

The early start schools will then end around 12:20 pm on those Mondays! Are they eating lunch prior to release?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What does this mean? Any guesses?

“ While these are designated as early release days — where necessary — we will ensure that every student has supervised enrichment activities at the school and returns home at the regular time if that is what works best for your family.”

That means that SACC will be open and maybe expanded for those who need it on those days.

And will they create a special category of SACC for people who just need it on these days?

Nope

[Anonymous]

3 hour early release is a disaster. They tried that in the past and they could barely fit in lunch for all the grades. 2 hour early release works better. Why not just do that??