FCPS Early Release Mondays

[Anonymous]

Why not bring the teachers back three days earlier in August for the training?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why not bring the teachers back three days earlier in August for the training?

They would have to pay them for it

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Anonymous wrote:Why not bring the teachers back three days earlier in August for the training?

They would have to pay them for it

Ok. That would be far better than this nonsense.

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Anonymous wrote:They don’t teach anything for the first 2-3 weeks back in the fall. It’s all team-building and rules, etc. They can spare time to do planning then.

We do teach things in those first 2-3 weeks beyond team building and rules. There are standards and lessons that are taught during that time.

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Anonymous wrote:Why not bring the teachers back three days earlier in August for the training?

They would have to pay them for it

Ok. That would be far better than this nonsense.

Where should the money come from? The budget already been approved.

[Anonymous]

People blaming Youngkin for this are ridiculous. The Virginia Literacy Act passed the legislature with massive bipartisan margins. And when FCPS did the “Equitable Access to Literacy” thing a few years ago it was Frisch who was hoping they could fit in more PD for it. Both parties are at fault for piling on PD as opposed to learning (though only one political party opposed phonics 20 years ago…).

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Anonymous wrote:It's like the school board and the extremely top heavy administration don't actually care about kids actually learning.

They got rid of the old early release Mondays at parents' request but it did not help children or learning. They need to bring it back so that elementary school teachers would have proper planning time and less stress and overwork. That's what the administration should do if they care about kids actually learning.

This. I'm tired of hearing parents "my kids learn nothing at school but take my kids more" schools are not day cares and teachers need planning. period and no they should not have to do state mandated trainings without pay or for some measly 15 dollars and hour. NO!

Nobody is saying teachers should be doing training for no pay. They are saying that FCPS could have built a better schedule around this. But do go on and continue complaining, teacher.

Cutting winter break in half is not a better schedule.

They would still have to find a way to pay the teachers, which is their primary obstacle.

[Anonymous]

The state should really have funded this mandate. Then they could have done it over the summer.

How are Arlington/alexandria/PWCPS handling it?

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Anonymous wrote:It's like the school board and the extremely top heavy administration don't actually care about kids actually learning.

They got rid of the old early release Mondays at parents' request but it did not help children or learning. They need to bring it back so that elementary school teachers would have proper planning time and less stress and overwork. That's what the administration should do if they care about kids actually learning.

This. I'm tired of hearing parents "my kids learn nothing at school but take my kids more" schools are not day cares and teachers need planning. period and no they should not have to do state mandated trainings without pay or for some measly 15 dollars and hour. NO!

Nobody is saying teachers should be doing training for no pay. They are saying that FCPS could have built a better schedule around this. But do go on and continue complaining, teacher.

Cutting winter break in half is not a better schedule.

What an odd suggestion! FCPS would be better off doing 4 full days and lining them up with other teacher workdays.

[Anonymous]

When my kids were in FCPS grade school, all Mondays were half days. They were home by 12:30 every Monday. I'm a SAHM, so it didn't bother me. Sounds like they're heading back in that direction again.

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Anonymous wrote:The state should really have funded this mandate. Then they could have done it over the summer.

How are Arlington/alexandria/PWCPS handling it?

There is no way teachers are giving up their precious summer break for training, are you kidding me? All the teachers I know have posted Day 1 and 2 poolside selfies already this week!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:When my kids were in FCPS grade school, all Mondays were half days. They were home by 12:30 every Monday. I'm a SAHM, so it didn't bother me. Sounds like they're heading back in that direction again.

That would be fine, but a lot of us gave up SACC because we didn't think we needed it for the next school year. There is only one early release day on next year's calendar, so we figured we could handle that, but now they're saying there will be seven more!!

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Anonymous wrote:The state should really have funded this mandate. Then they could have done it over the summer.

How are Arlington/alexandria/PWCPS handling it?

There is no way teachers are giving up their precious summer break for training, are you kidding me? All the teachers I know have posted Day 1 and 2 poolside selfies already this week!!!!

Whether or not the teachers are at the pool, the county can’t force them to do training when they are not under contract.

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Anonymous wrote:It's like the school board and the extremely top heavy administration don't actually care about kids actually learning.

They got rid of the old early release Mondays at parents' request but it did not help children or learning. They need to bring it back so that elementary school teachers would have proper planning time and less stress and overwork. That's what the administration should do if they care about kids actually learning.

This. I'm tired of hearing parents "my kids learn nothing at school but take my kids more" schools are not day cares and teachers need planning. period and no they should not have to do state mandated trainings without pay or for some measly 15 dollars and hour. NO!

Exactly. Which is why they need EVERY MONDAY OFF for training and planning.

Or increase their pay and stop giving them summers off.

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Anonymous wrote:They should go back to every Monday being an early release day and reduce the number of random full days they have off.

(We figured out childcare in that era, you can too.)

Seriously? This is such a stupid argument. The half day mondays were a problem for 2 working parents, which there are more of now than there were a decade ago.

Why can't we just have whole days at places in the calendar where they're chunked? two-three day mini breaks instead of one day a week for 6 weeks at a time or whatever nonsense we've had the last couple of years.

DP. No, the early release Mondays were not a problem for 2 working parents or for SAHPs. Aftercare, whether public or private, would cover them. Only WFH parents may have to be flexible, which they can do.

What a privileged remark. Aftercare isn’t free.

Aftercare at SACC is only $200/mo. If you can’t get in, local martial arts places are only $300 to $400/mo.

I paid $200/week for before and aftercare at a martial arts place pre-pandemic.