May/June attendance now optional?

[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]

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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]

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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.

[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.

This sends the message that your children call the shots. That’s not going to be the case in college or in their future careers.

Go to school. Find value, even if it’s simply doing what is expected of you. That in itself is an important lesson and sets you apart from the people who cut corners/make their own rules/choose laziness.

Just do what you’re told, I get it. Watch the Lorax yet again. Play on your phone (previously banned but now encouraged). That’s the lazy option imo. Would prefer my kids to be entrepreneurs and leaders someday who don’t just settle for “doing what’s expected” if it wastes time and resources. They are using their brains. Just think of the bus gasoline being thrown away…

[Anonymous]

What happens if the mandated instructional days aren’t, in fact, “instructional” at all. Kids are being transported, class is being held, but there is no content. No summatives, no formatives.

Eerie, actually. Like the dumbing down of the US Education system has officially arrived. And many of you seem fine with it!

[Anonymous]

My niece and nephew attend school near Charlottesville. Their last day was the Friday before Memorial Day. They took SOLs and were done. Meanwhile, my FCPS 9th grader hasn’t done much for weeks. I feel like he is being cheated out of three weeks of education.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Oakton HS. DC has to attend max one class per day to turn in a project, nothing else going on otherwise. This has been the case for weeks. It’s been half days since last Thursday. On Wed, they go to each class for a few min each to hit the required instructional time. It’s a joke. School could have ended weeks ago if not for the excessive days off during the school year.

[Anonymous]

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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.

+1 All of you complainers should move your kids to Chantilly.