May/June attendance now optional?
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Anonymous
Your ES kid has done nothing for weeks? Is watching movies? Not sure I believe that. |
Anonymous
Yes!!! This is how it is and it is terrifying. And all you hear all year long on this board is how people love the 4 day weeks and want weather related closures and want every other day off. It is terrifying that people are ok with this. |
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Which annoys me because they do consider these instructional days. They aren’t. And it isn’t just these last two weeks, for elementary it is all those early releases. Our school did virtually nothing learning on those days. So those that argue this calendar provided the same amount instruction are missing the bigger picture. |
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My 9th grader has been spending hours and hours on his phone at school for WEEKS.
So much for "away for the day." What are they going to do next year with no phoned allowed? |
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+100. Everyone who argued all year that FCPS was meeting their legal requirement never considered how low that legal requirement was. Said it before and I will say it again, meeting the legal requirement isn't enough and FCPS needs to do better!! We should not be in school this late in June and we need to have more consistent 5 day weeks in the Fall and Winter. Weather happens but we can control every other random day off on the Calendar. This isn't about childcare but about improving education. The system is very broken. |
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Once the SOL are administered, very little happens. Teachers check out. People don't like to hear it but it is 100% true. |
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| My Carson kid and his friends, most in AAP or all honors, had finals and projects last week. The only class showing a movie was his LA class and the movie tied to a book that they had been reading. This week they are doing nothing. |
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| Those of you who are upset about the state of teaching in the classroom, have you reached out to either the teacher or the admin? Or is everyone venting online only? |
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The teachers aren't at fault for this calendar and the district making consistent school and educational quality and afterthought. This is a school board and superintendent level problem, not a teacher problem |
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DP. Agree. Teachers used to grade during school days—give the kids some worksheets and move on. My MS has done nothing at school for the last week and a half. |
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Yes. They don’t listen. They sent out surveys that intentionally screen the feedback they don’t want to hear. |
Anonymous
The teacher and admin send out surveys? I don't mean the school board. This has nothing to do with the calendar. I have been teaching material up until the very last day when we are doing final exams (non AP classes) or final projects (AP underclassmen). If my colleagues are slacking off, they need to be notified that it's not okay. I showed ONE day of a movie (the day after the AP test, a movie related to my content) while kids filled out course surveys and feedback forms so that I could better prepare next year's group based on their responses. Then it was back to activities and content. Any teacher showing a week+ of disney movies at the secondary level is not doing their job. |
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Former FCPS employee from 2016-2022. Assigned to 118 distinct schools. Can confirm that this “attendance optional/no learning/glorified daycare” has been problematic (and gotten progressively worse) since my first hand experience. Look at the school calendars post SOL (or just ahead of HS grad). Award ceremonies, patrol picnics, class parties, end of year assemblies, field day (no longer competitive- just walking around). Classrooms get packed up and move watching begins. Most HS now have a “senior internship” program (Langley, Madison, Oakton, Marshall to name a few) where seniors do NOT come to school but use the 2 weeks+ to volunteer/work with a parent/“do something meaningful.” Parents miss this, but the first two weeks of ES are chaotic with very little instruction- it’s all administrative with last minute registrations, tours of the school, specials starting, mandatory screenings beginning. Are kids isn’t learning |
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| I substitute regularly at a few elementary schools. It seemed pretty much regular school through last Friday, with a different “air” about it. On Friday during the math block for example, the class I had was assigned the task of creating a design for a sculpture for the front of the school. They could work independently or in a small group. First they had to sketch the design and write a short description of how it represented the school. Then they used Keva planks to build a model of the design using more than 25 but less than 45. Once that was done they were given a total budget that could be spent on the sculpture. Each plank used was given a dollar amount that corresponded to a material (stone $4, copper $6, etc). They had to figure out the cost of using each material or a combination of materials and had to adjust their design accordingly. They knew it wasn’t for a grade, but they had fun and got some positive things out of it. |