WHY aren't our children being educated on Mondays?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there any teacher on here that agree that they are shortchanging kids by asynchronous Monday’s? My kid is a high achiever in a competitve middle school. HE lays around on Monday’s. Mine can’t be the only one. He is also getting all A’s so I can’t expect more. He deserves a 5 day a week education. This is sort of nuts that FCPS has gotten away with stealing from him and his peers for a whole year now.

Wow. You are like a caricature.

I teach an ES grade and we do small groups after Morning Meeting on Mondays. If I had the PP as a student I would make note of the writing and probably plan to meet in a small group or writing conference to go over the difference between plurals and apostrophe s possessives.

It's autocorrect.

Have some more coffee.

- parent of kids who haven't had any small group on Monday and very little any other day either

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When FCPS used to have half day Mondays, the whole half day was used up in meetings. The WHOLE thing. Useless meetings. Teachers hated it. I suspect this is the same. Blame admin, not teachers.

Plus, I was a parent in those half day Mondays. And before, teachers say it— yes it was a childcare nightmare. As my kids got older, I used Mason students as after school nannies, so my kids could do sports and activities. And trying to find people available after school but a half day on Monday was a mess. A shorter school day all week— fine. But the one dofferent day was tough on working parents.

I do remember that this was a huge complaint for parents. And as a parent and teacher, I can understand (and relate).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:my mildly overachieving kid finishes all her work early every day, therefore she is done at least an hour before school officially ends, and all the asynchronous work assigned on Mondays are old assignments that she's already completed. so, yes, I agree - Mondays are ENTIRELY void of education in our case.

My high school son has had straight As this entire pandemic. He's never had straight As. He does absolutely ZERO work on Mondays.

As a matter of fact we go skiing every Monday and my kids being friends who are all also have no school work.


It's a joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there any teacher on here that agree that they are shortchanging kids by asynchronous Monday’s? My kid is a high achiever in a competitve middle school. HE lays around on Monday’s. Mine can’t be the only one. He is also getting all A’s so I can’t expect more. He deserves a 5 day a week education. This is sort of nuts that FCPS has gotten away with stealing from him and his peers for a whole year now.

Wow. You are like a caricature.

I teach an ES grade and we do small groups after Morning Meeting on Mondays. If I had the PP as a student I would make note of the writing and probably plan to meet in a small group or writing conference to go over the difference between plurals and apostrophe s possessives.

It's autocorrect.

Have some more coffee.

- parent of kids who haven't had any small group on Monday and very little any other day either

Funny my autocorrect doesn’t add possessive apostrophes to days that are very obviously intended to be plurals

[Anonymous]

The discrepancy in school on Mondays is bizarre. Why were expectations not communicated clearly? My children never meet in small groups, don't have any work on Mondays, and have only a morning meeting.

If I were a teacher, I would be irate that I was teaching all morning and providing work while my colleagues had a 3 day weekend every week.

[Anonymous]

I'm astonished to read about schools that are actually holding student meetings and assigning work for Mondays.

My Kilmer 7th-grader is required to check in at 9:30 AM on Monday, and that's it. He has no running assignments to work on. The teachers never offer Monday meetings. It's a complete and utter joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The discrepancy in school on Mondays is bizarre. Why were expectations not communicated clearly? My children never meet in small groups, don't have any work on Mondays, and have only a morning meeting.

If I were a teacher, I would be irate that I was teaching all morning and providing work while my colleagues had a 3 day weekend every week.

It’s just reality that our roles are different. I can’t sit here and get mad at specials or electives for having to do less when I teach a core subject. Someone will always be doing less and some will always be doing more. I’m asking seriously , how do some of you manage your daily stress when you are always watching others to see who is getting more than you or who you’re working harder than? It’s not healthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The discrepancy in school on Mondays is bizarre. Why were expectations not communicated clearly? My children never meet in small groups, don't have any work on Mondays, and have only a morning meeting.

If I were a teacher, I would be irate that I was teaching all morning and providing work while my colleagues had a 3 day weekend every week.

It’s just reality that our roles are different. I can’t sit here and get mad at specials or electives for having to do less when I teach a core subject. Someone will always be doing less and some will always be doing more. I’m asking seriously , how do some of you manage your daily stress when you are always watching others to see who is getting more than you or who you’re working harder than? It’s not healthy.

This is not a reasonable comparison. Evidently some children are receiving a decent education on Mondays. Others are receiving...nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The discrepancy in school on Mondays is bizarre. Why were expectations not communicated clearly? My children never meet in small groups, don't have any work on Mondays, and have only a morning meeting.

If I were a teacher, I would be irate that I was teaching all morning and providing work while my colleagues had a 3 day weekend every week.

It’s just reality that our roles are different. I can’t sit here and get mad at specials or electives for having to do less when I teach a core subject. Someone will always be doing less and some will always be doing more. I’m asking seriously , how do some of you manage your daily stress when you are always watching others to see who is getting more than you or who you’re working harder than? It’s not healthy.

This is not a reasonable comparison. Evidently some children are receiving a decent education on Mondays. Others are receiving...nothing.

I am responding to the person above who specially asked how teachers are tolerating the discrepancy in work and expectations. Your point is something else entirely and goes back to the fact the districts left a lot of the day to day decision making up to the school based admin with little guidance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm astonished to read about schools that are actually holding student meetings and assigning work for Mondays.

My Kilmer 7th-grader is required to check in at 9:30 AM on Monday, and that's it. He has no running assignments to work on. The teachers never offer Monday meetings. It's a complete and utter joke.

My Thoreau 8th grader has an 8:30 check in on Monday. All of her teachers offer office hours (she's never been asked to attend them, but can certainly choose to do so) and a couple of them regularly post assignments. In fact, the kid is taking a timed quiz right now.

I don't think my HS kid has gotten a single assignment on Mondays. I'm actually ok with that; there's enough work given the rest of the week that DC stays plenty busy. I'm sure I'd feel differently if that were not the case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm astonished to read about schools that are actually holding student meetings and assigning work for Mondays.

My Kilmer 7th-grader is required to check in at 9:30 AM on Monday, and that's it. He has no running assignments to work on. The teachers never offer Monday meetings. It's a complete and utter joke.

My Thoreau 8th grader has an 8:30 check in on Monday. All of her teachers offer office hours (she's never been asked to attend them, but can certainly choose to do so) and a couple of them regularly post assignments. In fact, the kid is taking a timed quiz right now.

I don't think my HS kid has gotten a single assignment on Mondays. I'm actually ok with that; there's enough work given the rest of the week that DC stays plenty busy. I'm sure I'd feel differently if that were not the case.

There is a difference between assigned homework and actual synchronous teaching, which is what SHOULD be happening on Mondays, and is happening in many other districts that are virtual. My friends in other places, even those with only virtual school, are shocked to learn that our school week is only 4 days.

[Anonymous]

In high school we are told to NOT assign new work for Mondays or even have work that is all due on Monday because that is a day the kids need to catch up, attend office hours, etc. Before that there were teachers who would assign a days worth of work or schedule tests on Mondays and the kids couldn’t handle it, so they made it a no new work or tests day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there any teacher on here that agree that they are shortchanging kids by asynchronous Monday’s? My kid is a high achiever in a competitve middle school. HE lays around on Monday’s. Mine can’t be the only one. He is also getting all A’s so I can’t expect more. He deserves a 5 day a week education. This is sort of nuts that FCPS has gotten away with stealing from him and his peers for a whole year now.

Wow. You are like a caricature.

I teach an ES grade and we do small groups after Morning Meeting on Mondays. If I had the PP as a student I would make note of the writing and probably plan to meet in a small group or writing conference to go over the difference between plurals and apostrophe s possessives.

It's autocorrect.

Have some more coffee.

- parent of kids who haven't had any small group on Monday and very little any other day either

Hey. Just giving an example about how Mondays work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In high school we are told to NOT assign new work for Mondays or even have work that is all due on Monday because that is a day the kids need to catch up, attend office hours, etc. Before that there were teachers who would assign a days worth of work or schedule tests on Mondays and the kids couldn’t handle it, so they made it a no new work or tests day.

Assigning work is not teaching or educating. If you assing my child a bunch of homework on Mondays, that is not educating them, and that is why parents don't want it. We should have 5 synchronous days like many many virtual school districts do. The original reason for the Mondays off was for hybrid - because 5 couldn't be evenly divided in two. We all know how that turned out for secondary students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In high school we are told to NOT assign new work for Mondays or even have work that is all due on Monday because that is a day the kids need to catch up, attend office hours, etc. Before that there were teachers who would assign a days worth of work or schedule tests on Mondays and the kids couldn’t handle it, so they made it a no new work or tests day.

Assigning work is not teaching or educating. If you assing my child a bunch of homework on Mondays, that is not educating them, and that is why parents don't want it. We should have 5 synchronous days like many many virtual school districts do. The original reason for the Mondays off was for hybrid - because 5 couldn't be evenly divided in two. We all know how that turned out for secondary students.

Ok but as long as Monday is asynchronous, we can’t teach. We CAN hold office hours for assistance but students literally never show up.