LPMS -kids aren’t showing up for classes

[Anonymous]

DS has no kids in his English class. No one else showed up. They combined his class with others into the aux gym. When did not showing up for the last days of school become the norm for kids, other than seniors? He had a teacher tell him yesterday don’t bother coming to school. Who does this? When did schools stop caring enough to actually plan real classes/activities for the last week of school? Why have make up days if nothing actually gets made up? What a waste. I am better off keeping DS home. At least he would likely learn something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DS has no kids in his English class. No one else showed up. They combined his class with others into the aux gym. When did not showing up for the last days of school become the norm for kids, other than seniors? He had a teacher tell him yesterday don’t bother coming to school. Who does this? When did schools stop caring enough to actually plan real classes/activities for the last week of school? Why have make up days if nothing actually gets made up? What a waste. I am better off keeping DS home. At least he would likely learn something.

If school ended today, they would have checked out last week.

It's been a very long school year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DS has no kids in his English class. No one else showed up. They combined his class with others into the aux gym. When did not showing up for the last days of school become the norm for kids, other than seniors? He had a teacher tell him yesterday don’t bother coming to school. Who does this? When did schools stop caring enough to actually plan real classes/activities for the last week of school? Why have make up days if nothing actually gets made up? What a waste. I am better off keeping DS home. At least he would likely learn something.

If school ended today, they would have checked out last week.

It's been a very long school year.

Very true.

[Anonymous]

My kid is at another middle school. Teachers told her not to come tomorrow or Friday because teachers won't be there.

[Anonymous]

The 8th graders I know at various middle schools have all been told not to come in after their promotion ceremonies (held on different days this week). But the 6th and 7th gradres are still coming in.

[Anonymous]

Is your son an eighth grader? They were pressured not to attend after promotion.

[Anonymous]

My kid thought they weren't supposed to go after promotion.

[Anonymous]

My kids have had movies in every single class this week. I mean, really? Ok, I would get it on Thursday and Friday but the whole week of just giving up? What a waste.

[Anonymous]

This happens every year. This is not knew. For high school kids often nothing much happens after AP exams. For the rest of the kids, very little happens the last week. Most teachers are taking their rooms apart for the summer. I think they are only paid for a day or two after the last day of school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DS has no kids in his English class. No one else showed up. They combined his class with others into the aux gym. When did not showing up for the last days of school become the norm for kids, other than seniors? He had a teacher tell him yesterday don’t bother coming to school. Who does this? When did schools stop caring enough to actually plan real classes/activities for the last week of school? Why have make up days if nothing actually gets made up? What a waste. I am better off keeping DS home. At least he would likely learn something.

All they're doing is warehousing kids this week. Parents who actually love and care about their children wouldn't subject them to that, so a lot of kids are being called out. As my student put it, I don't want to sit and watch another Disney movie. I agree. Called out.

[Anonymous]

I'm European and well remember we merged students and teachers in the last week of middle school. I actually had one of my most memorable classes during that period: a teacher I didn't know who led us through an analysis of TV and print advertising! It was fascinating. At 12 or 13, I'd never thought about ads before. She explained how ads were designed to trigger X and Y emotional response, and we had to present our analysis on various ads. I loved it and actually learned something

[Anonymous]

We signed up our ms child for a summer camp this week before they changed the schedule. I was not changing our plans for their screw up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is your son an eighth grader? They were pressured not to attend after promotion.

? really? My JWMS 8th grader had a few things in class to do on Monday, and DC hasn't told me that's what the teachers said.

[Anonymous]

Is this a thing in HS, too, for non Seniors? Because if it is, I'm pulling my kid out the last week to go on vacation.

[Anonymous]

That's terrible. Really they should start school two weeks earlier and end school two weeks earlier. With the current schedule, it is about a month of doing nothing. Such a waste.