Fcps elementary school time change

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I called this months ago. IT IS ALL PART OF A BIGGER PLAN with all the school closings. It is all about petitioning the state for pre-labor day school start time. All I can say is you get what you ask for. And you can mark my words on this THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING! So we can bitch on DCUM or speak up. This board has lost sight of reality of "the students and families best interest" they are making huge changes to our schools based on a working day not on the over taxed children in this area! They are spending outrageous amounts of money they don't have on things that are not necessary and spending it instead on frills not substance. THIS IS A CROCK AND I am irate. You can mark my word on this to IF THERE IS A HINT OF SNOW ON THE GROUND TOMORROW THIS SCHOOL BOARD WILL CLOSE SCHOOL FOR THE DAY! They want to muck with the schedules even more and start before Labor Day - - WHY??? THIS IS NOT TEXAS- Garza and this needs to stop. You do not deserve a raise, the board does not deserve a raise and the Board of Supervisors should not have gotten a raise. You all are greedy and don't give a damn about what is best for the majority. Many have spoke out against all of this and YOU ARE NOT LISTENING. You are plowing ahead with what you want. I am outraged!

I'm all for later HS start times and earlier start to the school year. You don't speak for everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I called this months ago. IT IS ALL PART OF A BIGGER PLAN with all the school closings. It is all about petitioning the state for pre-labor day school start time. All I can say is you get what you ask for. And you can mark my words on this THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING! So we can bitch on DCUM or speak up. This board has lost sight of reality of "the students and families best interest" they are making huge changes to our schools based on a working day not on the over taxed children in this area! They are spending outrageous amounts of money they don't have on things that are not necessary and spending it instead on frills not substance. THIS IS A CROCK AND I am irate. You can mark my word on this to IF THERE IS A HINT OF SNOW ON THE GROUND TOMORROW THIS SCHOOL BOARD WILL CLOSE SCHOOL FOR THE DAY! They want to muck with the schedules even more and start before Labor Day - - WHY??? THIS IS NOT TEXAS- Garza and this needs to stop. You do not deserve a raise, the board does not deserve a raise and the Board of Supervisors should not have gotten a raise. You all are greedy and don't give a damn about what is best for the majority. Many have spoke out against all of this and YOU ARE NOT LISTENING. You are plowing ahead with what you want. I am outraged!

I'm all for later HS start times and earlier start to the school year. You don't speak for everyone.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, one middle school on the list went from a 9:20 start time to a 7:10 start time. Ouch.

Why would you want your child to go to school at 9:20 anyway? The morning is half over.

My child will now start school at 9:15. Such BS.

Our elementary school will now start at 9:20 - and get out at 4:05!! Ouch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I called this months ago. IT IS ALL PART OF A BIGGER PLAN with all the school closings. It is all about petitioning the state for pre-labor day school start time. All I can say is you get what you ask for. And you can mark my words on this THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING! So we can bitch on DCUM or speak up. This board has lost sight of reality of "the students and families best interest" they are making huge changes to our schools based on a working day not on the over taxed children in this area! They are spending outrageous amounts of money they don't have on things that are not necessary and spending it instead on frills not substance. THIS IS A CROCK AND I am irate. You can mark my word on this to IF THERE IS A HINT OF SNOW ON THE GROUND TOMORROW THIS SCHOOL BOARD WILL CLOSE SCHOOL FOR THE DAY! They want to muck with the schedules even more and start before Labor Day - - WHY??? THIS IS NOT TEXAS- Garza and this needs to stop. You do not deserve a raise, the board does not deserve a raise and the Board of Supervisors should not have gotten a raise. You all are greedy and don't give a damn about what is best for the majority. Many have spoke out against all of this and YOU ARE NOT LISTENING. You are plowing ahead with what you want. I am outraged!

I'm all for later HS start times and earlier start to the school year. You don't speak for everyone.

+1

+2. I'm also for limited use of all caps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And what improvements have we seen as the result of all of these changes? Anyone? I'm seeing NO IMPROVEMENT in my child's education. He comes home more tired than ever, looking forward to weekends and days off. Dreads coming home to an hour of homework every night before he can do what he wants to do. 7 hours in school, an hour of homework and around 30 minutes getting to and from school. Now we have longer school days and they want to make the school year longer too? For what? What benefit are we seeing? None here!

Why does it take a half hour for your son to get to school?

My middle schooler's bus ride is nearly 40 minutes with traffic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And what improvements have we seen as the result of all of these changes? Anyone? I'm seeing NO IMPROVEMENT in my child's education. He comes home more tired than ever, looking forward to weekends and days off. Dreads coming home to an hour of homework every night before he can do what he wants to do. 7 hours in school, an hour of homework and around 30 minutes getting to and from school. Now we have longer school days and they want to make the school year longer too? For what? What benefit are we seeing? None here!

Why does it take a half hour for your son to get to school?

My middle schooler's bus ride is nearly 40 minutes with traffic.

NP here. Sorry, you missed the point. The second poster is trying to bait the first into saying that her son goes to an AAP center, which usually involves long bus rides. Then this thread can devolve into AAP hating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And what improvements have we seen as the result of all of these changes? Anyone? I'm seeing NO IMPROVEMENT in my child's education. He comes home more tired than ever, looking forward to weekends and days off. Dreads coming home to an hour of homework every night before he can do what he wants to do. 7 hours in school, an hour of homework and around 30 minutes getting to and from school. Now we have longer school days and they want to make the school year longer too? For what? What benefit are we seeing? None here!

They just released the new schedules today. These changes haven't even happened yet, so it's hard to see the result of the changes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And what improvements have we seen as the result of all of these changes? Anyone? I'm seeing NO IMPROVEMENT in my child's education. He comes home more tired than ever, looking forward to weekends and days off. Dreads coming home to an hour of homework every night before he can do what he wants to do. 7 hours in school, an hour of homework and around 30 minutes getting to and from school. Now we have longer school days and they want to make the school year longer too? For what? What benefit are we seeing? None here!

Why does it take a half hour for your son to get to school?

At least 15 minutes each way equals at least thirty minutes and it's because of TRAFFIC. But really, you call attention to the thirty minute commute as if it's the biggest deal out of all the rest of the time the school has him. And the massive headache that is an hour of homework AFTER he's been sitting still in school all day.

The more important question is: WHY AM I SEEING NO IMPROVEMENTS WITH ALL OF THESE CHANGES??? it's madness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And what improvements have we seen as the result of all of these changes? Anyone? I'm seeing NO IMPROVEMENT in my child's education. He comes home more tired than ever, looking forward to weekends and days off. Dreads coming home to an hour of homework every night before he can do what he wants to do. 7 hours in school, an hour of homework and around 30 minutes getting to and from school. Now we have longer school days and they want to make the school year longer too? For what? What benefit are we seeing? None here!

Why does it take a half hour for your son to get to school?

My middle schooler's bus ride is nearly 40 minutes with traffic.

NP here. Sorry, you missed the point. The second poster is trying to bait the first into saying that her son goes to an AAP center, which usually involves long bus rides. Then this thread can devolve into AAP hating.

Actually, I"m the poster who asked and that was not my intention at all. I think it's sad that any kid would have to be on the bus that long. Where is this, PP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And what improvements have we seen as the result of all of these changes? Anyone? I'm seeing NO IMPROVEMENT in my child's education. He comes home more tired than ever, looking forward to weekends and days off. Dreads coming home to an hour of homework every night before he can do what he wants to do. 7 hours in school, an hour of homework and around 30 minutes getting to and from school. Now we have longer school days and they want to make the school year longer too? For what? What benefit are we seeing? None here!

They just released the new schedules today. These changes haven't even happened yet, so it's hard to see the result of the changes.

Ha! You mean we haven't switched to full day mondays yet? You mean they didn't increase the number of hours kids are in school each day? Because I'm pretty sure they started that already...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And what improvements have we seen as the result of all of these changes? Anyone? I'm seeing NO IMPROVEMENT in my child's education. He comes home more tired than ever, looking forward to weekends and days off. Dreads coming home to an hour of homework every night before he can do what he wants to do. 7 hours in school, an hour of homework and around 30 minutes getting to and from school. Now we have longer school days and they want to make the school year longer too? For what? What benefit are we seeing? None here!

They just released the new schedules today. These changes haven't even happened yet, so it's hard to see the result of the changes.

Go away garza.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, one middle school on the list went from a 9:20 start time to a 7:10 start time. Ouch.

Why would you want your child to go to school at 9:20 anyway? The morning is half over.

My child will now start school at 9:15. Such BS.

Our elementary school will now start at 9:20 - and get out at 4:05!! Ouch.

same here but it's not that different. This year the bell is at 9:05 actual start time is 9:15. Next year the bell is at 9:10 actual start time is 9:20. It's 5min different. School ends at 3:55 this year 4:05 next year thus increasing what they call "instructional" time from 6:40 to 6:45. 5 extra minutes. Now what they are calling instructional time is a separate topic...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And what improvements have we seen as the result of all of these changes? Anyone? I'm seeing NO IMPROVEMENT in my child's education. He comes home more tired than ever, looking forward to weekends and days off. Dreads coming home to an hour of homework every night before he can do what he wants to do. 7 hours in school, an hour of homework and around 30 minutes getting to and from school. Now we have longer school days and they want to make the school year longer too? For what? What benefit are we seeing? None here!

They just released the new schedules today. These changes haven't even happened yet, so it's hard to see the result of the changes.

Ha! You mean we haven't switched to full day mondays yet? You mean they didn't increase the number of hours kids are in school each day? Because I'm pretty sure they started that already...

Everybody was clamoring for full-day Mondays. Now you've got them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And what improvements have we seen as the result of all of these changes? Anyone? I'm seeing NO IMPROVEMENT in my child's education. He comes home more tired than ever, looking forward to weekends and days off. Dreads coming home to an hour of homework every night before he can do what he wants to do. 7 hours in school, an hour of homework and around 30 minutes getting to and from school. Now we have longer school days and they want to make the school year longer too? For what? What benefit are we seeing? None here!

They just released the new schedules today. These changes haven't even happened yet, so it's hard to see the result of the changes.

Ha! You mean we haven't switched to full day mondays yet? You mean they didn't increase the number of hours kids are in school each day? Because I'm pretty sure they started that already...

Everybody was clamoring for full-day Mondays. Now you've got them.

I wasn't. I was strongly opposed to full day mondays.

[Anonymous]

I am outraged and I do plan on running for school board.