Last Day of School Possibly Changing to June 12th?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't get it. People have been complaining about all the random holidays, weather delays and closures, early releases, and the answer is to shorten the calendar?

No learning occurs after May AP exams, SOLs, etc.

School should end in early June, or Menorial Day weekend, and almost all of the religious cultural holidays should be eliminated.

In particular, Chinese Lunar New Year, Eastern orthodox Christmas, Day of the Dead, and Diwali should be in school days.

This gets repeated all the time and it isn’t true. Fourth quarter is an entire quarter. There is a MONTH of school after SOLs and AP tests. Yes we are still learning and doing work and covering new material! I hate when parents pretend we are sitting around doing nothing for a month because they want to push some agenda, it makes no damn sense and is not true.

-hs teacher

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ES Teacher

[Anonymous]

Also next year the new law will be going into effect, whereby SOLs will be administered in the last two weeks of the school year and they will count for 10% of the students’ grade. So learning will be continuing much longer next year. Enjoy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The vote on Thursday is to make Indigenous People's Day and Veteran's Day school days next year. Two days. We're not touching anyone's precious religious holidays. We're not touching the two week winter break, we're not untying spring break from easter. We're just sending kids to school on two federal holidays, one of which is frequently in the middle of the week. I, for one, look forward to being able to go out to lunch with my spouse on Veteran's Day like we used to.

Wow.

What is so shocking about the bolded?

It's an admission that many of you do see school as child care. Even though you all keep screeching that having schools open is about educating your precious snowflakes.

Get a grip, psycho.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also next year the new law will be going into effect, whereby SOLs will be administered in the last two weeks of the school year and they will count for 10% of the students’ grade. So learning will be continuing much longer next year. Enjoy!

That was clearly done by a group of people who are far far removed from schools. Unless they are counting for graduation, kids are going to blow those off. No one wants to sit for exams the last 2 weeks of school. Did those lawmakers ever see or live with a child in the last 10 years?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also next year the new law will be going into effect, whereby SOLs will be administered in the last two weeks of the school year and they will count for 10% of the students’ grade. So learning will be continuing much longer next year. Enjoy!

Does that include ES which doesn’t have percentage based grading?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also next year the new law will be going into effect, whereby SOLs will be administered in the last two weeks of the school year and they will count for 10% of the students’ grade. So learning will be continuing much longer next year. Enjoy!

That was clearly done by a group of people who are far far removed from schools. Unless they are counting for graduation, kids are going to blow those off. No one wants to sit for exams the last 2 weeks of school. Did those lawmakers ever see or live with a child in the last 10 years?

The law takes effect this July so changes will be implemented for the 26-27 school year. It’s a done deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also next year the new law will be going into effect, whereby SOLs will be administered in the last two weeks of the school year and they will count for 10% of the students’ grade. So learning will be continuing much longer next year. Enjoy!

Does that include ES which doesn’t have percentage based grading?

No one knows how it will look but I imagine yes. If your child fails the SOL they won’t be getting 4s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also next year the new law will be going into effect, whereby SOLs will be administered in the last two weeks of the school year and they will count for 10% of the students’ grade. So learning will be continuing much longer next year. Enjoy!

That was clearly done by a group of people who are far far removed from schools. Unless they are counting for graduation, kids are going to blow those off. No one wants to sit for exams the last 2 weeks of school. Did those lawmakers ever see or live with a child in the last 10 years?

The law takes effect this July so changes will be implemented for the 26-27 school year. It’s a done deal.

NYS administers its version of the SOLs (the Regents) during the very last weeks of school and has done so for decades. It can be done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also next year the new law will be going into effect, whereby SOLs will be administered in the last two weeks of the school year and they will count for 10% of the students’ grade. So learning will be continuing much longer next year. Enjoy!

That was clearly done by a group of people who are far far removed from schools. Unless they are counting for graduation, kids are going to blow those off. No one wants to sit for exams the last 2 weeks of school. Did those lawmakers ever see or live with a child in the last 10 years?

Have you ever heard of final exams? They literally are the last week of the school year. And as noted above, they count for 10% of the class grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also next year the new law will be going into effect, whereby SOLs will be administered in the last two weeks of the school year and they will count for 10% of the students’ grade. So learning will be continuing much longer next year. Enjoy!

Does that include ES which doesn’t have percentage based grading?

No one knows how it will look but I imagine yes. If your child fails the SOL they won’t be getting 4s.

Grades are always due a week and a half or so before the last day of school. I’ve always thought there should be a TW day around that time. I wonder if the new requirement will change when grades are due.

As far as getting 4s, the grades are standards based and the SOL tests will cover multiple standards. It will be interesting to see how one SOL test will be figured into the quarterly standards based grading.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also next year the new law will be going into effect, whereby SOLs will be administered in the last two weeks of the school year and they will count for 10% of the students’ grade. So learning will be continuing much longer next year. Enjoy!

Does that include ES which doesn’t have percentage based grading?

No one knows how it will look but I imagine yes. If your child fails the SOL they won’t be getting 4s.

Grades are always due a week and a half or so before the last day of school. I’ve always thought there should be a TW day around that time. I wonder if the new requirement will change when grades are due.

As far as getting 4s, the grades are standards based and the SOL tests will cover multiple standards. It will be interesting to see how one SOL test will be figured into the quarterly standards based grading.

In HS sometimes part of the class but not all of the class takes the SOL depending on who needs the verified credit. How will that work?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also next year the new law will be going into effect, whereby SOLs will be administered in the last two weeks of the school year and they will count for 10% of the students’ grade. So learning will be continuing much longer next year. Enjoy!

That was clearly done by a group of people who are far far removed from schools. Unless they are counting for graduation, kids are going to blow those off. No one wants to sit for exams the last 2 weeks of school. Did those lawmakers ever see or live with a child in the last 10 years?

Have you ever heard of final exams? They literally are the last week of the school year. And as noted above, they count for 10% of the class grade.

Again, do you know schools? The majority of SOLs are given to ELEMENTARY and MIDDLE school kids who could not possibly care less about them by the end of June when the pools are open. Talking about regents exams and finals that are for high schoolers is not the same thing as discussing your 8-12 year olds taking tests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also next year the new law will be going into effect, whereby SOLs will be administered in the last two weeks of the school year and they will count for 10% of the students’ grade. So learning will be continuing much longer next year. Enjoy!

That was clearly done by a group of people who are far far removed from schools. Unless they are counting for graduation, kids are going to blow those off. No one wants to sit for exams the last 2 weeks of school. Did those lawmakers ever see or live with a child in the last 10 years?

The law takes effect this July so changes will be implemented for the 26-27 school year. It’s a done deal.

NYS administers its version of the SOLs (the Regents) during the very last weeks of school and has done so for decades. It can be done.

Right, for high school kids, not 8 year olds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The vote on Thursday is to make Indigenous People's Day and Veteran's Day school days next year. Two days. We're not touching anyone's precious religious holidays. We're not touching the two week winter break, we're not untying spring break from easter. We're just sending kids to school on two federal holidays, one of which is frequently in the middle of the week. I, for one, look forward to being able to go out to lunch with my spouse on Veteran's Day like we used to.

What is so shocking about the bolded?

It's an admission that many of you do see school as child care. Even though you all keep screeching that having schools open is about educating your precious snowflakes.

Get a grip, psycho.

Do you have anything of substance to add to the discussion or is your capacity limited to name calling?

The PP clearly stated that she was looking forward to having child care provided by the school on Veterans Day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also next year the new law will be going into effect, whereby SOLs will be administered in the last two weeks of the school year and they will count for 10% of the students’ grade. So learning will be continuing much longer next year. Enjoy!

Does that include ES which doesn’t have percentage based grading?

No one knows how it will look but I imagine yes. If your child fails the SOL they won’t be getting 4s.

Grades are always due a week and a half or so before the last day of school. I’ve always thought there should be a TW day around that time. I wonder if the new requirement will change when grades are due.

As far as getting 4s, the grades are standards based and the SOL tests will cover multiple standards. It will be interesting to see how one SOL test will be figured into the quarterly standards based grading.

In HS sometimes part of the class but not all of the class takes the SOL depending on who needs the verified credit. How will that work?

They said everyone will have to take them even if they don’t need the verified credit of some of the class has to take it.