Westland principal tells eighth graders not to come back all this week?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Didn’t 8th graders have their promotion ceremony already? Why would they go to school?

Ideally because they're 8th graders and not HS graduates who are done with MCPS.

And they're ideally supposed to be getting 180 days of instruction, or however many they're getting this year with the snow day waivers.

And maybe not at Westland but maybe some of them count on the school for meals or have nothing to do at home during the day. True they're 8th graders and older now. But families probably didn't plan for it.

Unfortunately, many 8th graders will come just to run around and act out. Not all, but there is a "We graduated and can't get into trouble" attitude. No matter how many times you explain it is not a graduation and they can still get into trouble, they just don't care anymore. Some kids are great, but the school year does have to come to end.

That’s ridiculous. Kids who don’t have disciplinary issues aren’t going to magically misbehave because they have been passed onto 9th grade. This is just an excuse for the teachers who choose to be lazy not to teach.

Parents are begging the school to take their 8th grader (who already graduated) for two more days, and *teachers* are the lazy ones in this situation?

Schools are open and this is an official McPs school day. I’m sorry you think it’s extraordinary that you be asked to teach 180 days in a year (especially after being gifted extra snow day holidays this year), but plenty of school districts and teachers do teach til the end of the school year because they care about students learning.

These are 8th graders we are talking about so your “parents are lazy and just want to use school as daycare” garbage doesn’t work here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is common for most (if not all) middle schools. 8th grade instruction ends after promotion. Students are always welcome to come to school - and some do - but it is very common for many to be released. As a former teacher, we would love to keep things going but after the grueling spring testing for 8th graders and then final projects, they are done. They are still kids, not little robots.

Because they’re not little robots, it would have been nice for students to do some projects with teachers that inspire their love of learning for the subject rather than linking directly to a test score. My elementary school kid did fun STEM projects today while my middle school kid was told to…stay home.

Agree! This would be an awesome time to do things like.... Integrate cooking into a chemistry lesson. Spend time outside and learn something about nature for biology. Read and create comics for a combined English and art class. Build LEGO robots. All the STEM things with the wow factor, like Elephant Toothpaste.

Invite professionals in to talk about a day in the life of a

Judge
Lawyer
Baker
Journalist
Mechanic
Retail manager
Psychologist
Landscaper
Actor
Researcher
Accountant
Grocery worker
Child care professional
Entrepreneur
Farmer
Etc etc etc especially random careers people might not have heard of.

Another genius here. Career day was already done. Let them be kids. If you hate it, then talk to the administrators! I’m sure they will absolutely love your genius ideas. 🙄

I hope you are close to your MCPS retirement because you’ve managed to be belittle parents who want to have their kids love learning and think that their kids should get the education required by law in a single message that looks like an 8th grader wrote it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry -pp here. I meant to type that you have never been in a school this time of year. You comment just really incensed me. How dare you speak of teachers this way. A pox upon your house.

How amazing that you can discern that anonymous internet posters in a forum with thousands of posters have never been in a school this time of year!

You clearly have magical abilities that you may want to tell your medical professional about. Just don’t threaten to put a pox on their house because that might be worried that you are threatening to engage in biological warfare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t 8th graders have their promotion ceremony already? Why would they go to school?

Ideally because they're 8th graders and not HS graduates who are done with MCPS.

And they're ideally supposed to be getting 180 days of instruction, or however many they're getting this year with the snow day waivers.

And maybe not at Westland but maybe some of them count on the school for meals or have nothing to do at home during the day. True they're 8th graders and older now. But families probably didn't plan for it.

Unfortunately, many 8th graders will come just to run around and act out. Not all, but there is a "We graduated and can't get into trouble" attitude. No matter how many times you explain it is not a graduation and they can still get into trouble, they just don't care anymore. Some kids are great, but the school year does have to come to end.

That’s ridiculous. Kids who don’t have disciplinary issues aren’t going to magically misbehave because they have been passed onto 9th grade. This is just an excuse for the teachers who choose to be lazy not to teach.

WOW!!!!

Haha. You are so (Jeff will ban me so just use your imagination with what I think of you). You are also not someone who has been in a middle school during this time of year.


What a stupidly funny comment.

It’s not worth getting upset. Most DCUM posters have no clue what schools are like at the end of the year. They likely envision something so far removed from the reality teachers experience. That’s why we have posters suggesting engaging supplementary experiences… that few children will participate in because they are DONE.

They also don’t know teachers are desperately trying to wrap up grades, finalize reports, clean classrooms, etc… all while trying to keep children from jumping off furniture. The last weeks of the year are my least favorite and always will be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is common for most (if not all) middle schools. 8th grade instruction ends after promotion. Students are always welcome to come to school - and some do - but it is very common for many to be released. As a former teacher, we would love to keep things going but after the grueling spring testing for 8th graders and then final projects, they are done. They are still kids, not little robots.

Because they’re not little robots, it would have been nice for students to do some projects with teachers that inspire their love of learning for the subject rather than linking directly to a test score. My elementary school kid did fun STEM projects today while my middle school kid was told to…stay home.

Agree! This would be an awesome time to do things like.... Integrate cooking into a chemistry lesson. Spend time outside and learn something about nature for biology. Read and create comics for a combined English and art class. Build LEGO robots. All the STEM things with the wow factor, like Elephant Toothpaste.

Invite professionals in to talk about a day in the life of a

Judge
Lawyer
Baker
Journalist
Mechanic
Retail manager
Psychologist
Landscaper
Actor
Researcher
Accountant
Grocery worker
Child care professional
Entrepreneur
Farmer
Etc etc etc especially random careers people might not have heard of.

Another genius here. Career day was already done. Let them be kids. If you hate it, then talk to the administrators! I’m sure they will absolutely love your genius ideas. 🙄

I hope you are close to your MCPS retirement because you’ve managed to be belittle parents who want to have their kids love learning and think that their kids should get the education required by law in a single message that looks like an 8th grader wrote it.

+1 Being nasty to parents who expect MCPS to educate students on an official school day isn’t a good look for whatever teacher posted this. If 8th graders aren’t supposed to come to school after graduation (which for my kid’s case was 6 days before the end of the school year), they should announce this well in advance so parents can plan accordingly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t 8th graders have their promotion ceremony already? Why would they go to school?

Because people want their kids — including those annoying preteens — out of their hair. 🙄

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t 8th graders have their promotion ceremony already? Why would they go to school?

Ideally because they're 8th graders and not HS graduates who are done with MCPS.

And they're ideally supposed to be getting 180 days of instruction, or however many they're getting this year with the snow day waivers.

And maybe not at Westland but maybe some of them count on the school for meals or have nothing to do at home during the day. True they're 8th graders and older now. But families probably didn't plan for it.

Unfortunately, many 8th graders will come just to run around and act out. Not all, but there is a "We graduated and can't get into trouble" attitude. No matter how many times you explain it is not a graduation and they can still get into trouble, they just don't care anymore. Some kids are great, but the school year does have to come to end.

That’s ridiculous. Kids who don’t have disciplinary issues aren’t going to magically misbehave because they have been passed onto 9th grade. This is just an excuse for the teachers who choose to be lazy not to teach.

WOW!!!!

Haha. You are so (Jeff will ban me so just use your imagination with what I think of you). You are also not someone who has been in a middle school during this time of year.


What a stupidly funny comment.

+1,000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t 8th graders have their promotion ceremony already? Why would they go to school?

Because people want their kids — including those annoying preteens — out of their hair. 🙄

Maybe your social circle is limited, but some parents actually want their kids to learn, which is the purpose of school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t 8th graders have their promotion ceremony already? Why would they go to school?

Because people want their kids — including those annoying preteens — out of their hair. 🙄

Spoken like a lazy MCPS teacher counting the days to when they can collect their pension.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t 8th graders have their promotion ceremony already? Why would they go to school?

Ideally because they're 8th graders and not HS graduates who are done with MCPS.

And they're ideally supposed to be getting 180 days of instruction, or however many they're getting this year with the snow day waivers.

And maybe not at Westland but maybe some of them count on the school for meals or have nothing to do at home during the day. True they're 8th graders and older now. But families probably didn't plan for it.

Unfortunately, many 8th graders will come just to run around and act out. Not all, but there is a "We graduated and can't get into trouble" attitude. No matter how many times you explain it is not a graduation and they can still get into trouble, they just don't care anymore. Some kids are great, but the school year does have to come to end.

That’s ridiculous. Kids who don’t have disciplinary issues aren’t going to magically misbehave because they have been passed onto 9th grade. This is just an excuse for the teachers who choose to be lazy not to teach.

Parents are begging the school to take their 8th grader (who already graduated) for two more days, and *teachers* are the lazy ones in this situation?

Schools are open and this is an official McPs school day. I’m sorry you think it’s extraordinary that you be asked to teach 180 days in a year (especially after being gifted extra snow day holidays this year), but plenty of school districts and teachers do teach til the end of the school year because they care about students learning.

These are 8th graders we are talking about so your “parents are lazy and just want to use school as daycare” garbage doesn’t work here.

Oh, it absolutely does “work here,” because contrary to the lies routinely told on DCUM (everyone’s an “ICU nurse” or an “ER doctor” when they mistakenly think that claim bolsters their argument), a significant portion of DCUM Land work at HOME and having those annoying kids around is totally cramping their style. And those who don’t have permissively raised kids who don’t listen to them, so if they’re not there, they “can’t” keep their kids off YouTube or video games all day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t 8th graders have their promotion ceremony already? Why would they go to school?

Because people want their kids — including those annoying preteens — out of their hair. 🙄

Maybe your social circle is limited, but some parents actually want their kids to learn, which is the purpose of school.

My social circle is actually very large. We have trouble spending time with all the people who we want to spend time with, and who want to spend time with us. But hey, you tried it.

And they aren’t “learning” anything in the days after graduation or promotion. They’re being babysat and/or warehoused. “Education,” my foot. 🙄

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t 8th graders have their promotion ceremony already? Why would they go to school?

Ideally because they're 8th graders and not HS graduates who are done with MCPS.

And they're ideally supposed to be getting 180 days of instruction, or however many they're getting this year with the snow day waivers.

And maybe not at Westland but maybe some of them count on the school for meals or have nothing to do at home during the day. True they're 8th graders and older now. But families probably didn't plan for it.

Unfortunately, many 8th graders will come just to run around and act out. Not all, but there is a "We graduated and can't get into trouble" attitude. No matter how many times you explain it is not a graduation and they can still get into trouble, they just don't care anymore. Some kids are great, but the school year does have to come to end.

That’s ridiculous. Kids who don’t have disciplinary issues aren’t going to magically misbehave because they have been passed onto 9th grade. This is just an excuse for the teachers who choose to be lazy not to teach.

WOW!!!!

Haha. You are so (Jeff will ban me so just use your imagination with what I think of you). You are also not someone who has been in a middle school during this time of year.


What a stupidly funny comment.

It’s not worth getting upset. Most DCUM posters have no clue what schools are like at the end of the year. They likely envision something so far removed from the reality teachers experience. That’s why we have posters suggesting engaging supplementary experiences… that few children will participate in because they are DONE.

They also don’t know teachers are desperately trying to wrap up grades, finalize reports, clean classrooms, etc… all while trying to keep children from jumping off furniture. The last weeks of the year are my least favorite and always will be.

But don’t you know? They all fancy themselves self-appointed experts, since you know, they once, decades ago, attended school. 🙄

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t 8th graders have their promotion ceremony already? Why would they go to school?

Because people want their kids — including those annoying preteens — out of their hair. 🙄

Spoken like a lazy MCPS teacher counting the days to when they can collect their pension.

That was me and I’m not a teacher. You fail.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t 8th graders have their promotion ceremony already? Why would they go to school?

Because people want their kids — including those annoying preteens — out of their hair. 🙄

Maybe your social circle is limited, but some parents actually want their kids to learn, which is the purpose of school.

My social circle is actually very large. We have trouble spending time with all the people who we want to spend time with, and who want to spend time with us. But hey, you tried it.

And they aren’t “learning” anything in the days after graduation or promotion. They’re being babysat and/or warehoused. “Education,” my foot. 🙄

You sound pretty dim if you think you know what is happening in every classroom in MCPS. My MS kid at Pyle went to school this week and learned. Sorry the kids in your classroom didn’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t 8th graders have their promotion ceremony already? Why would they go to school?

Ideally because they're 8th graders and not HS graduates who are done with MCPS.

And they're ideally supposed to be getting 180 days of instruction, or however many they're getting this year with the snow day waivers.

And maybe not at Westland but maybe some of them count on the school for meals or have nothing to do at home during the day. True they're 8th graders and older now. But families probably didn't plan for it.

Unfortunately, many 8th graders will come just to run around and act out. Not all, but there is a "We graduated and can't get into trouble" attitude. No matter how many times you explain it is not a graduation and they can still get into trouble, they just don't care anymore. Some kids are great, but the school year does have to come to end.

How can they get into trouble? Discipline is a complete joke these days