WHY aren't our children being educated on Mondays?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I truly don't understand why FCPS decided being virtual means they don't have to teach *hit on Mondays. How do they justify this? Seriously want to know.

Well I'll give you the brief highlights since this topic has been covered countless times. Teacher still need time to attend meetings and plan for virtual instruction. Many teachers, especially in elementary, have shortened planning blocks because specials went from 60 minutes to 30 minutes.

The county decided to use Monday for that day since Monday was already one of the most frequently missed days due to holidays and other events. Some parents applauded this decision because they did not want their students to be on computers in Virtual Learning 5 days a week. Other parents appeared very distressed that their students would be missing 20% of the education.

One of the most problematic issues with both parents and teachers is that Mondays don't seem to be standardized across the county. Some teachers use the half day to meet with their students and give them differentiated instruction while other teachers just use it as a asynchronous day.

I hope this helped you catch up.

it still doesn't explain why 5 day of in-person instruction manifests to 4 days of (sometimes) full instruction and 1 day of "catch up on all your already-assigned work." that rewards the slacking students and that's really failing the kids who consistently keep up and want to be educated.

The 4 days aren't to benefit the kids there to benefit the teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No education at our FCPS school on Mondays. Whatever the teachers do all day doesn’t involve any of my 3 dc. Two of them never even meet in small groups any day of the week. Why? Who knows.

Part of the problem was that FCPS was very unclear about Mondays at the beginning of the year. A lot of the messages that we received came from the principal and not necessarily the superintendent, resulting in all these differences. For MS and HS they said that they needed to do a check-in for attendance purposes. In elementary they said that they had to do morning meeting for the same purpose. We were then told, in elementary, that we could use the remainder of the time for specialized instruction or let the students work on asynchronous assignments.

Obviously a lot of the teachers chose the latter.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No education at our FCPS school on Mondays. Whatever the teachers do all day doesn’t involve any of my 3 dc. Two of them never even meet in small groups any day of the week. Why? Who knows.

Part of the problem was that FCPS was very unclear about Mondays at the beginning of the year. A lot of the messages that we received came from the principal and not necessarily the superintendent, resulting in all these differences. For MS and HS they said that they needed to do a check-in for attendance purposes. In elementary they said that they had to do morning meeting for the same purpose. We were then told, in elementary, that we could use the remainder of the time for specialized instruction or let the students work on asynchronous assignments.

Obviously a lot of the teachers chose the latter.

agreed. it's pathetic and a joke. add it to the list of reasons FCPS is imploding.

[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.

+100 it’s a joke day and creates problems for AP classes trying to cover content before the AP exam.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No education at our FCPS school on Mondays. Whatever the teachers do all day doesn’t involve any of my 3 dc. Two of them never even meet in small groups any day of the week. Why? Who knows.

Meetings don't usually involve students.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Your school doesn’t have asynchronous work? That’s odd.

are you joking??? asynchronous work is code for "teacher wants to sleep."

WHY are you so desperately obnoxious about sending them to deal with these sleepers?

[Anonymous]

I’m secretly thankful that Monday is a partial day off. My kids are happy they don’t have to see the teacher devouring a hamburgers and donuts in front of the screen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m secretly thankful that Monday is a partial day off. My kids are happy they don’t have to see the teacher devouring hamburgers and donuts in front of the screen.

Typo fixed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Serious question:

How much education is actually occurring on other days of the week? (And not just during Covid times)

Public school is a joke. Maybe 30 minutes of actual learning occurs on any given school day. The rest of the time is spent greeting one another, organizing in groups or lines for one reason or another, managing behavior problems in the class, and working independently while waiting for the teacher to finally spend time with your small group.

Public school is daycare at this point. Who the hell gives a d*mn about Mondays?

Call it what you want. As long as I’m puttin food on thy table and enjoying 3 months of holidays combined a year you can absolutely call it what you wish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m secretly thankful that Monday is a partial day off. My kids are happy they don’t have to see the teacher devouring a hamburgers and donuts in front of the screen.

Oh my! Does this really happen???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No education at our FCPS school on Mondays. Whatever the teachers do all day doesn’t involve any of my 3 dc. Two of them never even meet in small groups any day of the week. Why? Who knows.

Meetings don't usually involve students.

When do these meetings happen with normal 5 days/week in person?

[Anonymous]

I'm a teacher, I don't get why either. I essentially have a 3 day weekend.

[Anonymous]

I’m a teacher. It’s a dream come true. 3 day weekends are the key to happiness.

[Anonymous]

I’m a teacher and asynchronous Mondays allow me to actually have a weekend and I can save all the work I still need to do and the 2 hours planning with my team and getting ready for the week on Mondays. Otherwise I was taking free time on weekends to catch up on work and plan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No education at our FCPS school on Mondays. Whatever the teachers do all day doesn’t involve any of my 3 dc. Two of them never even meet in small groups any day of the week. Why? Who knows.

Meetings don't usually involve students.

When do these meetings happen with normal 5 days/week in person?

When kids were in specials, or a sub would come in. Remember the posts complaining about how often there was a sub, assuming the teacher was at the spa or something? Some of that was for meetings.