How is your in person MS/HS handling “catch up” days this week? Kids w/ end of alphabet surnames off

[Anonymous]

My school made it this wed/Thur so each in person group had one day instead of two. I’m printing optional extra practice for anyone who comes and doesn’t have makeup work, but also telling them if they are all caught up they should feel okay staying home that day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our MS is making Thursday and Friday catch up days for the end of quarter. Some kids have no catching up to do. Those who are DL will effectively have 2 days off. Those in person with surnames at the end of the alphabet will go to school and ... sit and stare. No new work will be given on catch up days.

FWIW I feel for our in person end of alphabet MSers. Last week Friday was early dismissal, next week will be two catch up days, and then there are end of quarter days on their days. SMH. Wondering what other schools are doing. Catchup days at our HS are Wednesday and Thursday to even things out.

You needed childcare, they gave you childcare at enormous cost to the kids at home. Now you're whining about the childcare?

I’m not that poster but I don’t think many MS and HS parents were looking for childcare for the teens.

I am a different PP and checked Schoology. One teacher posted that Monday is a catch up day. Most have not posted anything for next week yet. DS often does not get a lot of work on Mondays anyway so maybe that’s what they are doing.

Then what were they looking for? What possibly justifies sending your kid to school in these circumstances, other than childcare?

I don’t this thread is about what you think it is?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My school made it this wed/Thur so each in person group had one day instead of two. I’m printing optional extra practice for anyone who comes and doesn’t have makeup work, but also telling them if they are all caught up they should feel okay staying home that day.

Interesting. Is your principal OK with that? What are students other teachers saying. My concern would be that your kid would then revert to DL after just starting back.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My school made it this wed/Thur so each in person group had one day instead of two. I’m printing optional extra practice for anyone who comes and doesn’t have makeup work, but also telling them if they are all caught up they should feel okay staying home that day.

Interesting. Is your principal OK with that? What are students other teachers saying. My concern would be that your kid would then revert to DL after just starting back.

What?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Catch-up days? Catch up on what?

Are you being sarcastic?

No. There is hardly any work at all to be done so what's the catch-up day for? FCPS is the laughingstock of the country with its dysfunction. Instead of maximizing instructional days, they are adding more days of nothingness. It's absurd how checked-out parents are about what their kids are doing (or not doing in this case) academically.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My school made it this wed/Thur so each in person group had one day instead of two. I’m printing optional extra practice for anyone who comes and doesn’t have makeup work, but also telling them if they are all caught up they should feel okay staying home that day.

Interesting. Is your principal OK with that? What are students other teachers saying. My concern would be that your kid would then revert to DL after just starting back.

Yes, the suggestion came from the principal. Principal said the same during virtual only catch up days—if a student didn’t have any missing work, take attendance and dismiss them immediately, no sense in them hanging around with nothing to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Catch-up days? Catch up on what?

Are you being sarcastic?

No. There is hardly any work at all to be done so what's the catch-up day for? FCPS is the laughingstock of the country with its dysfunction. Instead of maximizing instructional days, they are adding more days of nothingness. It's absurd how checked-out parents are about what their kids are doing (or not doing in this case) academically.

Regardless of whether you agree with catch up days or not, they are happening. How is your MS/Hs Handling them?

[Anonymous]

They don't have catch-up days. They are known as Saturday and Sunday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Catch-up days? Catch up on what?

Are you being sarcastic?

No. There is hardly any work at all to be done so what's the catch-up day for? FCPS is the laughingstock of the country with its dysfunction. Instead of maximizing instructional days, they are adding more days of nothingness. It's absurd how checked-out parents are about what their kids are doing (or not doing in this case) academically.

I don’t think your kid’s experience is universal. My sophomore DD has a lot of work (numerous projects, powerpoints, writing assignments, tests, etc.), including newly-assigned work on asynchronous Mondays. And she’s learning a lot. I’m very ok with how her school (Edison) is handling this school year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That is what mondays should be used for.

In theory yes but in reality a lot of kids don’t do anything. Then admin freaks out close to quarter end and says give make up days. And the ones who weren’t doing the work still don’t but at least it’s documented they had AMPLE opportunity to catch up IN class, not on their own time, and still didn’t. It’s pure CYA for parents who try to act like their kid failing is somehow not on their kid in any way.

Maybe the answer is having synchronous school on Mondays where teachers actually teach? That's a better solution than these random makeup days,

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our MS is making Thursday and Friday catch up days for the end of quarter. Some kids have no catching up to do. Those who are DL will effectively have 2 days off. Those in person with surnames at the end of the alphabet will go to school and ... sit and stare. No new work will be given on catch up days.

FWIW I feel for our in person end of alphabet MSers. Last week Friday was early dismissal, next week will be two catch up days, and then there are end of quarter days on their days. SMH. Wondering what other schools are doing. Catchup days at our HS are Wednesday and Thursday to even things out.

You needed childcare, they gave you childcare at enormous cost to the kids at home. Now you're whining about the childcare?

I’m not that poster but I don’t think many MS and HS parents were looking for childcare for the teens.

I am a different PP and checked Schoology. One teacher posted that Monday is a catch up day. Most have not posted anything for next week yet. DS often does not get a lot of work on Mondays anyway so maybe that’s what they are doing.

Then what were they looking for? What possibly justifies sending your kid to school in these circumstances, other than childcare?

DP. Some kids do better with in person instruction. Some kids with ADHD have a much more difficult time focusing alone on a screen than in a classroom with a teacher and other student. Parent balance the health risk with their child's academic needs and decide it's better for them to have some in school instruction. That's why making the catch up days be W/Th makes more sense than Th/F so one group isn't losing their only two days of real instruction. I'm not sure why that seems like an unreasonable thing to you. I doubt any high schooler is in school because of childcare,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our MS is making Thursday and Friday catch up days for the end of quarter. Some kids have no catching up to do. Those who are DL will effectively have 2 days off. Those in person with surnames at the end of the alphabet will go to school and ... sit and stare. No new work will be given on catch up days.

FWIW I feel for our in person end of alphabet MSers. Last week Friday was early dismissal, next week will be two catch up days, and then there are end of quarter days on their days. SMH. Wondering what other schools are doing. Catchup days at our HS are Wednesday and Thursday to even things out.

You needed childcare, they gave you childcare at enormous cost to the kids at home. Now you're whining about the childcare?

I’m not that poster but I don’t think many MS and HS parents were looking for childcare for the teens.

I am a different PP and checked Schoology. One teacher posted that Monday is a catch up day. Most have not posted anything for next week yet. DS often does not get a lot of work on Mondays anyway so maybe that’s what they are doing.

Then what were they looking for? What possibly justifies sending your kid to school in these circumstances, other than childcare?

DP. Some kids do better with in person instruction. Some kids with ADHD have a much more difficult time focusing alone on a screen than in a classroom with a teacher and other student. Parent balance the health risk with their child's academic needs and decide it's better for them to have some in school instruction. That's why making the catch up days be W/Th makes more sense than Th/F so one group isn't losing their only two days of real instruction. I'm not sure why that seems like an unreasonable thing to you. I doubt any high schooler is in school because of childcare,

I'm going to assume childcare poster is trolling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Catch-up days? Catch up on what?

Are you being sarcastic?

No. There is hardly any work at all to be done so what's the catch-up day for? FCPS is the laughingstock of the country with its dysfunction. Instead of maximizing instructional days, they are adding more days of nothingness. It's absurd how checked-out parents are about what their kids are doing (or not doing in this case) academically.

My kids have plenty of work, especially my high schooler. Also, no one in the rest of the country cares about FCPS, they are focused on their lives and their kids' schools. People around here are so delusional when it comes to FCPS and people caring about what it's doing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our MS is making Thursday and Friday catch up days for the end of quarter. Some kids have no catching up to do. Those who are DL will effectively have 2 days off. Those in person with surnames at the end of the alphabet will go to school and ... sit and stare. No new work will be given on catch up days.

FWIW I feel for our in person end of alphabet MSers. Last week Friday was early dismissal, next week will be two catch up days, and then there are end of quarter days on their days. SMH. Wondering what other schools are doing. Catchup days at our HS are Wednesday and Thursday to even things out.

You needed childcare, they gave you childcare at enormous cost to the kids at home. Now you're whining about the childcare?

I’m not that poster but I don’t think many MS and HS parents were looking for childcare for the teens.

I am a different PP and checked Schoology. One teacher posted that Monday is a catch up day. Most have not posted anything for next week yet. DS often does not get a lot of work on Mondays anyway so maybe that’s what they are doing.

Then what were they looking for? What possibly justifies sending your kid to school in these circumstances, other than childcare?

DP. Some kids do better with in person instruction. Some kids with ADHD have a much more difficult time focusing alone on a screen than in a classroom with a teacher and other student. Parent balance the health risk with their child's academic needs and decide it's better for them to have some in school instruction. That's why making the catch up days be W/Th makes more sense than Th/F so one group isn't losing their only two days of real instruction. I'm not sure why that seems like an unreasonable thing to you. I doubt any high schooler is in school because of childcare,

I'm going to assume childcare poster is trolling.

Or reeeeaaalllly obtuse.

[Anonymous]

The issues are: 1) some kids are just not doing the work even if it is manageable and 2) some schools are assigning a LOT of work. My DD stays caught up with assignments but she also has tons of free time because the school seems to barely assign anything. - 7th grade, all honors classes (which I realize isn’t a big deal but it’s what’s offered)