what does 'flexible scheduling' for DC teachers mean?
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Anonymous
You think 2016 is relevant to the state of teaching in 2023? Oh, sweetie. Try getting some critical thinking skills of your own. |
Anonymous
No, it isn’t “hard to find a job nowadays.” JFC, you’re profoundly dim. |
Teaching is by its nature not a flexible job. And teachers are usually free by 3:15 and all summer … not to mention three weeks of break during the school year.
Anonymous
No, you didn’t. You contributed nothing of substance. “LOL!” |
Anonymous
And no one really cares what you find unacceptable either. Shrug. |
Anonymous
| someone was having a bit of a rage-fest around 3am. I hope you feel better after some sleep. |
Anonymous
To try to redirect the thread away from "which jobs are most inflexible", bumping these questions. |
Anonymous
Yeah, seriously. A string of nasty, non-substantive replies one after the other at 3am. |
Anonymous
You are really off base here. |
Anonymous
I think this 3am "Stable Genius" poster is a troll. For one, the teacher should know most fellow teachers do not arrive at "the typical 9am." In fact, they're contractually obligated to arrive prior to the start of the school day. |
Anonymous
I’m sorry you don’t like your job. But you need to find a solution that does not involve reducing instructional time for kids. |
Anonymous
I recognize that poster. S/he was also active during covid school closures. Very unhinged and I hope doesn’t come near my kid. |
Anonymous
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Looking up some info on research on 4-day school weeks....It seems most of the schools adopting a 4-day week are tiny and rural. That does make me wonder about the transferability to a large urban location like DC.
"But now seven newer studies generally find negative results – some tiny and some more substantial. One 2021 study in Oregon, for example, calculated that the four-day week shaved off one-sixth of the usual gains that a fifth grader makes in math, equal to about five to six weeks of school. Over many years, those losses can add up for students. ... Like the more recent crop of studies, they found that four-day weeks weren’t great for academic achievement on average. The test scores of four-day students in grades three through eight grew slightly less during the school year compared to hundreds of thousands of students in those six states who continued to go to school five days a week... ... The switch seemed to hurt reading achievement more than math achievement. That was surprising. Reading is easier to do at home while math is a subject that students primarily learn and practice in school. During pandemic school closures and remote learning, for example, math achievement generally suffered more than reading." https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-seve...our-day-school-week/ |
Anonymous
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A couple reasons listed for the fact that the rural districts don't seem much change from a 4-day-week:
1. The students skip anyway on Fridays to attend football games. 2. Ability to get better teachers in rural areas if it's just a 4-day week Also of note: "Hispanic students, who accounted for one out of every six rural students in this study, suffered much more from four-day weeks than white students did." To go back to what potentially happens in an urban district, best you can do seems to be suburban and small town: "By contrast, small town and suburban students who switched to four-day weeks were far worse off than other students in the state. Though it’s less common for small town and suburban schools to switch to four-days – they constitute only 30 percent of the four-day schools – their students really seemed to be harmed. For example, a quarter of the usual achievement gains that fifth graders typically make in a year disappeared." |
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Oh and this study finds that women's employment dropped 11% in response to a 4-day work week. And single mothers ended up working more.
"Estimates indicate that, among mothers with children all between ages 5 and 13, increasing four-day week enrollment from zero to 25% of an area’s students causes an 11% decrease in employment (7.6 percentage points) and decreases of a similar magnitude in hours and weeks worked, and the probability of reporting any wage or salary income, relative to baseline levels. In contrast to these estimates, among single mothers I find no negative employment effects and also find that the policy led to an 18% increase in the incidence of working year-round relative to working fewer weeks per year. The labor supply of married fathers was not affected by adoption of the four-day school week in a statistically significant manner. Finally, I estimate small but precise increases in moving in response to the policy in subsequent years and show that there is significant heterogeneity in labor supply responses among married mothers according to educational level, with most of the negative effects accruing to mothers with a four-year college degree or greater." https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstr...of%20reporting%20any |
Anonymous
shocker - reducing instructional time by 20% results in learning loss. But if WTU aspires to follow the lead of sh*thole Oklahoma school districts, I salute them. I think if very well supported, a half day could be OK but only if kids remain in school and the programning is DCPS-funded and academic. The proposal to “parter with outside organizations!” is totally untenable. But an afternoon to focus on project-based learning related to the core curriculum, specials, or tutoring could be beneficial. This of course would need to be adequately staffed by DCPS employees. |