FCPS Early Release Mondays

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Anonymous wrote:They could take some of those days off at the end of the year after SOLs are over. My 5th grader watched 3 Disney movies and had a 2 hr recess this week. They didn’t even pretend to teach anything after the SOLs were over.

Hey Gatehouse, for those in the back who can’t hear and/or listen, THIS ⬆️.

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Anonymous wrote:They could take some of those days off at the end of the year after SOLs are over. My 5th grader watched 3 Disney movies and had a 2 hr recess this week. They didn’t even pretend to teach anything after the SOLs were over.

Hey Gatehouse, for those in the back who can’t hear and/or listen, THIS ⬆️.

It would be nice, but the mandate is that training must begin by fall of 2024. The program has to be implemented during this school year, so training in June wouldn't work. I wish this had been rolled out by the state earlier so districts could have ended elementary 3 days early this year, but they didn't.

The state really screwed districts over and people are now scrambling to come up with messy plans to meet the mandate.

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Anonymous wrote:What the hell? Where was the public notice on this???

The stuff with LCPS was notice. Too bad they kicked us out of the Virginia Schools Forum, or more would be on the lookout for this.

What stuff with LCPS???

Idiot. Don't you read the news? There was even a thread about this in the FCPS forum. Go Google it you lazy dummy.

Well, "LCPS early release Monday" turned up nothing relevant on google. Maybe, since you are so superior to me, you could throw me a bone and provide a link? You must be super smart so it shouldn't be much effort on your part.

That's because LCPS is not doing an early release Monday you idiot. Try "LCPS Virginia Literacy Act". OMG how dumb are you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Enjoy the new Union BS

Joke's on you, MAGA. This is GLENN YOUNGKIN'S FAULT. He's the one who passed the Virginia Literacy Act that requires all this extra PD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ditto. She learned to read in K in Arlington and completely stalled this year in 1st in Burke. Her teacher was gone a ton. We had no idea how bad it was til the end of the year. Glad we have a tutor lines up since Reid is incompetent.

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.

MAGA has entered the chat. This is not a Michelle Reid decision, it is because Gleen Youngkin signed a law that requires more teacher professional development.

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Anonymous wrote:They should go back to every Monday being an early release day and reduce the number of random full days they have off.

(We figured out childcare in that era, you can too.)

Seriously? This is such a stupid argument. The half day mondays were a problem for 2 working parents, which there are more of now than there were a decade ago.

Why can't we just have whole days at places in the calendar where they're chunked? two-three day mini breaks instead of one day a week for 6 weeks at a time or whatever nonsense we've had the last couple of years.

DP. No, the early release Mondays were not a problem for 2 working parents or for SAHPs. Aftercare, whether public or private, would cover them. Only WFH parents may have to be flexible, which they can do.

What a privileged remark. Aftercare isn’t free.

Aftercare at SACC is only $200/mo. If you can’t get in, local martial arts places are only $300 to $400/mo.

"only"?????

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Anonymous wrote:They should go back to every Monday being an early release day and reduce the number of random full days they have off.

(We figured out childcare in that era, you can too.)

Seriously? This is such a stupid argument. The half day mondays were a problem for 2 working parents, which there are more of now than there were a decade ago.

Why can't we just have whole days at places in the calendar where they're chunked? two-three day mini breaks instead of one day a week for 6 weeks at a time or whatever nonsense we've had the last couple of years.

DP. No, the early release Mondays were not a problem for 2 working parents or for SAHPs. Aftercare, whether public or private, would cover them. Only WFH parents may have to be flexible, which they can do.

What a privileged remark. Aftercare isn’t free.

Aftercare at SACC is only $200/mo. If you can’t get in, local martial arts places are only $300 to $400/mo.

Aftercare at SACC is $400/month/kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They could take some of those days off at the end of the year after SOLs are over. My 5th grader watched 3 Disney movies and had a 2 hr recess this week. They didn’t even pretend to teach anything after the SOLs were over.

And move those days to where? August? Winter break? There are options, but I'm just wondering which you would prefer.

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Anonymous wrote:Early release on Fri or late start Mondays are much better. Early release Mondays are the pits.

It sucks for parents, but this is the only way to get teachers to show up. Otherwise they'd just be taking long weekends.

You are so right. This encourages poor attendance. Parents will plan weekend trips on those Mondays of 3 hours.

That makes most sense. But sucks for parents so much. I wonder why they couldn't do full days, so we could at least plan a long weekend somewhere fun and educational.

We're going to take advantage and take long weekends. There will be NO learning on 3 hour early release days, none.

I suppose you would have taken every Monday off when they were all early release a few years ago?

I've had kids in FCPS for the past five years, there has been no early release Monday in that time. If there had been, I would have been fine, because my children were in SACC up until Covid. We took them out when one of us started working from home full time. That wouldn't have been an option for us 5+ years ago.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They could take some of those days off at the end of the year after SOLs are over. My 5th grader watched 3 Disney movies and had a 2 hr recess this week. They didn’t even pretend to teach anything after the SOLs were over.

And move those days to where? August? Winter break? There are options, but I'm just wondering which you would prefer.

Yes. Winter break. There's no need for a two week winter break.

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Anonymous wrote:It's like the school board and the extremely top heavy administration don't actually care about kids actually learning.

They got rid of the old early release Mondays at parents' request but it did not help children or learning. They need to bring it back so that elementary school teachers would have proper planning time and less stress and overwork. That's what the administration should do if they care about kids actually learning.

This. I'm tired of hearing parents "my kids learn nothing at school but take my kids more" schools are not day cares and teachers need planning. period and no they should not have to do state mandated trainings without pay or for some measly 15 dollars and hour. NO!

Nobody is saying teachers should be doing training for no pay. They are saying that FCPS could have built a better schedule around this. But do go on and continue complaining, teacher.

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They don’t teach anything for the first 2-3 weeks back in the fall. It’s all team-building and rules, etc. They can spare time to do planning then.

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Anonymous wrote:Enjoy the new Union BS

Teacher hater has entered the chat.

PP probably has a kid with behavior issues, and blames it on "the pandemic."

PP.
I am a union hater. Reason: Union is a purely political organization and only cares about its politics and doesn't care a thing about students.

Most of the teachers I had or met so far are wonderful and are staying away from those BS. But now a small minority of union activists will drag those teachers to the mud and the whole school system as well.

MAGA MAGA MAGA!!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:It's like the school board and the extremely top heavy administration don't actually care about kids actually learning.

They got rid of the old early release Mondays at parents' request but it did not help children or learning. They need to bring it back so that elementary school teachers would have proper planning time and less stress and overwork. That's what the administration should do if they care about kids actually learning.

This. I'm tired of hearing parents "my kids learn nothing at school but take my kids more" schools are not day cares and teachers need planning. period and no they should not have to do state mandated trainings without pay or for some measly 15 dollars and hour. NO!

Nobody is saying teachers should be doing training for no pay. They are saying that FCPS could have built a better schedule around this. But do go on and continue complaining, teacher.

Cutting winter break in half is not a better schedule.

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Anonymous wrote:They don’t teach anything for the first 2-3 weeks back in the fall. It’s all team-building and rules, etc. They can spare time to do planning then.

And have even more behavior problems throughout the school year?