Who hates Monday?

[Anonymous]

I'm surprised anyone is surprised that after parents had to sit in as forced audiences and home teachers for an entire year of virtual school, that some parents have opinions on the quality of education being provided.

[Anonymous]

I like Mondays, my commute is great. Families are outside together and I see lots of kids playing outside on my way home.

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My fifth does all their work and we check it and they're free by 2:00. We've been lucky that async Mondays have gone well for us.

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Anonymous wrote:Just saw my 4th grader’s teacher at the park with her preschooler. (I thought this was a teacher work day). She tried to avoid me but I marched right up to her to say hello.

They never had Monday work but would at least meet for 20 minutes.

I hope she reads this TBH.
I’m disgusted by this whole school year.

An FCPS teacher with a preschooler is required to have childcare on work days.

There is a huge daycare shortage because of the pandemic -- closed centers and home facilities, lower capacity at the others. It's impossible to guarantee people will have care since our society has put exactly ZERO value on small children.

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Anonymous wrote:My fifth does all their work and we check it and they're free by 2:00. We've been lucky that async Mondays have gone well for us.

Third grade here, he is done by 11:30.

[Anonymous]

I don’t mind the 3 day weekend. My kids do an hour of work and we go on outings without crowds.

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Anonymous wrote:It is impossible to be a working parent of young children with these Mondays. I can't get anything done. Kids are fighting and screaming and have nothing to do. DH is at work (as in not in the home). We can't afford any other type of care. How can they call this a proper school day? They have nothing to do. (1st and 4th).

Wow, I had the opposite problem. My second grader was busy with homework from 9:30am - 2:30pm and then had tutoring and girl scouts. She was online more today than she is on a normal school day!

Your second grader had five hours of homework, then online tutoring, then online girl scouts? OMG. What a shitty parent you are.

More like what a shitty teacher, assigning all that homework.

I'm the mom who wrote this - so much unnecessary judgement!! This isn't about a shitty mom or a shitty teacher. My kid hasn't been able to finish her work on her in-school days, so in addition to her Monday work, she also had two in-school days worth of homework to do. Before return to school, she was done by lunchtime on Mondays - we originally scheduled the extra stuff on Mondays because, at the time, she wasn't online much those days.

Please don’t take this comment wrong... your second grader has so much work she isn’t able to finish it during regular school hours T-F? Seriously? What kind of work? I ask bc I also have a second grader and she is done with each assignment about 2 minutes in and sits around staring at the wall or online “shopping” for probably an hour each day, and she’s done with her Monday assignments in 20 minutes Max. This is not because she is a genius child, it’s just that they assign so VERY LITTLE work. So I’m interested in any details you can provide on this because I think it’s just another data point in how un-equal the schools all are this year! I’ve heard of these unicorn schools that actually assign children real work, but I have yet to meet anyone IRL with a child who attends one!

She's able to complete all her work on her virtual days. On the two days that she's in-person at school, she either has small groups during the allotted "homework" time or the teacher is conducting small groups with other kids and it's loud and distracting and my daughter can't concentrate. This is a kid-issue, not a teacher issue, and something she knows she has to work on (we've told her, put on your headphones even if you're not listening to something, it will drown out the noise). So that's usually 2-3 assignments from those two days that she has to do on Mondays now. Also, on Mondays, they don't have new work (they used to, but they stopped that a few weeks ago for some reason), but they are supposed to finish their prior week's work plus three of the optional assignments from earlier in the week. They're not assigning too much work - it's just that it takes my child a long time to complete it, frankly.

Also, "real work" is subjective. Some of the assignments are really, really stupid.

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Anonymous wrote:It is impossible to be a working parent of young children with these Mondays. I can't get anything done. Kids are fighting and screaming and have nothing to do. DH is at work (as in not in the home). We can't afford any other type of care. How can they call this a proper school day? They have nothing to do. (1st and 4th).

Wow, I had the opposite problem. My second grader was busy with homework from 9:30am - 2:30pm and then had tutoring and girl scouts. She was online more today than she is on a normal school day!

Your second grader had five hours of homework, then online tutoring, then online girl scouts? OMG. What a shitty parent you are.

More like what a shitty teacher, assigning all that homework.

I'm the mom who wrote this - so much unnecessary judgement!! This isn't about a shitty mom or a shitty teacher. My kid hasn't been able to finish her work on her in-school days, so in addition to her Monday work, she also had two in-school days worth of homework to do. Before return to school, she was done by lunchtime on Mondays - we originally scheduled the extra stuff on Mondays because, at the time, she wasn't online much those days.

Please don’t take this comment wrong... your second grader has so much work she isn’t able to finish it during regular school hours T-F? Seriously? What kind of work? I ask bc I also have a second grader and she is done with each assignment about 2 minutes in and sits around staring at the wall or online “shopping” for probably an hour each day, and she’s done with her Monday assignments in 20 minutes Max. This is not because she is a genius child, it’s just that they assign so VERY LITTLE work. So I’m interested in any details you can provide on this because I think it’s just another data point in how un-equal the schools all are this year! I’ve heard of these unicorn schools that actually assign children real work, but I have yet to meet anyone IRL with a child who attends one!

She's able to complete all her work on her virtual days. On the two days that she's in-person at school, she either has small groups during the allotted "homework" time or the teacher is conducting small groups with other kids and it's loud and distracting and my daughter can't concentrate. This is a kid-issue, not a teacher issue, and something she knows she has to work on (we've told her, put on your headphones even if you're not listening to something, it will drown out the noise). So that's usually 2-3 assignments from those two days that she has to do on Mondays now. Also, on Mondays, they don't have new work (they used to, but they stopped that a few weeks ago for some reason), but they are supposed to finish their prior week's work plus three of the optional assignments from earlier in the week. They're not assigning too much work - it's just that it takes my child a long time to complete it, frankly.

Also, "real work" is subjective. Some of the assignments are really, really stupid.

To clarify, 2-3 assignments per day from her two in-person days plus the three not actually optional things she is required to do on Mondays. So 7-9 things - usually google slides, sometimes that's "20 minutes of ST math" or imagine learning or independent reading or whatever.

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I will never again spend my own money on books, classroom supplies, etc.


As a parent, I will also never again donate to school funds, supplies, gifts for PTA drives, or school fundraising events. But I think it is good teachers are learning more about work-life balance. Also remember, a lot of trolls are on this site.


God, I love all these posts. (spluttering). "Well...well..I'm SO MAD about distance learning and I blame teachers for not begging their bosses or their union to go back into buildings during a pandemic that YOU'RE NOT GETTING ANY MORE CHRISTMAS OR TEACHER APPRECIATION AMAZON GIFT CARDS FROM ME!!"

LOL. I assure you, nobody cares.

I think teachers are constantly in the past asking for things, but I was responding to the teacher post saying she wouldn't ever again buy stuff. Neither will I. Obviously you do care enough to respond heatedly. People do care. Many professions get criticized unfairly even publicly. It is something to deal with. Like I said I do think work life balance is a good thing. And I think our government and not parents should be getting sufficient school supplies for schools.

I would hope that teachers know that the vast majority of parents are NOT like the parents on this board. I haven't complained about teachers, I know you're doing best under shitty circumstances. I don't have any friends that have complained about teachers. It's a small group of really vocal people on this ANONYMOUS board who complain. Maybe 5% of actual parents.

[Anonymous]

I DO complain about teachers, but I try not to be insulting about it. My opinion is limited to what I see with my child's ES teachers. And yes, I think a lot of the curriculum is not challenging, other assignments are rushed, the teachers over-rely on technology rather than instruction, there is too much non-educational filler, and communication between the teachers and the parents is poor and vague. My biggest worry is that this is not just because of the pandemic. Criticism like that, even if teachers don't want to hear it, is absolutely appropriate. People say these things on an anonymous forum because they fear saying it in person would result in teachers and administrators punishing their child.

All that being said, the mean girls attacking teachers with histrionic insults should really STFU because they're not helping.

[Anonymous]

I love the 4 day school week. With some tweaks, I'd live to see it standard going forward. Much less stress on the kids, imo. More family time.

If we had to eliminate days off and extend the school year a bit to make it work, sign me up.

[Anonymous]

With all the teacher works days and holidays I have a hard time keeping up with what Mondays are asynchronous days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love the 4 day school week. With some tweaks, I'd live to see it standard going forward. Much less stress on the kids, imo. More family time.

If we had to eliminate days off and extend the school year a bit to make it work, sign me up.

Some of us have jobs.

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Anonymous wrote:

I will never again spend my own money on books, classroom supplies, etc.


As a parent, I will also never again donate to school funds, supplies, gifts for PTA drives, or school fundraising events. But I think it is good teachers are learning more about work-life balance. Also remember, a lot of trolls are on this site.


God, I love all these posts. (spluttering). "Well...well..I'm SO MAD about distance learning and I blame teachers for not begging their bosses or their union to go back into buildings during a pandemic that YOU'RE NOT GETTING ANY MORE CHRISTMAS OR TEACHER APPRECIATION AMAZON GIFT CARDS FROM ME!!"

LOL. I assure you, nobody cares.

I think teachers are constantly in the past asking for things, but I was responding to the teacher post saying she wouldn't ever again buy stuff. Neither will I. Obviously you do care enough to respond heatedly. People do care. Many professions get criticized unfairly even publicly. It is something to deal with. Like I said I do think work life balance is a good thing. And I think our government and not parents should be getting sufficient school supplies for schools.

I would hope that teachers know that the vast majority of parents are NOT like the parents on this board. I haven't complained about teachers, I know you're doing best under shitty circumstances. I don't have any friends that have complained about teachers. It's a small group of really vocal people on this ANONYMOUS board who complain. Maybe 5% of actual parents.

I’m teacher PP. I think it’s way more than 5%. Like seriously it might be 50%. That being said, I don’t care about teacher appreciation gifts in the slightest. I hate teacher appreciation week, I will not die if I don’t get a $20 Amazon card, please do not feel indebted to give one especially if, like the PP, you strongly dislike teachers. There’s no reason to do so. The gifts are not needed at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I will never again spend my own money on books, classroom supplies, etc.


As a parent, I will also never again donate to school funds, supplies, gifts for PTA drives, or school fundraising events. But I think it is good teachers are learning more about work-life balance. Also remember, a lot of trolls are on this site.


God, I love all these posts. (spluttering). "Well...well..I'm SO MAD about distance learning and I blame teachers for not begging their bosses or their union to go back into buildings during a pandemic that YOU'RE NOT GETTING ANY MORE CHRISTMAS OR TEACHER APPRECIATION AMAZON GIFT CARDS FROM ME!!"

LOL. I assure you, nobody cares.

I think teachers are constantly in the past asking for things, but I was responding to the teacher post saying she wouldn't ever again buy stuff. Neither will I. Obviously you do care enough to respond heatedly. People do care. Many professions get criticized unfairly even publicly. It is something to deal with. Like I said I do think work life balance is a good thing. And I think our government and not parents should be getting sufficient school supplies for schools.

I would hope that teachers know that the vast majority of parents are NOT like the parents on this board. I haven't complained about teachers, I know you're doing best under shitty circumstances. I don't have any friends that have complained about teachers. It's a small group of really vocal people on this ANONYMOUS board who complain. Maybe 5% of actual parents.

I’m teacher PP. I think it’s way more than 5%. Like seriously it might be 50%. That being said, I don’t care about teacher appreciation gifts in the slightest. I hate teacher appreciation week, I will not die if I don’t get a $20 Amazon card, please do not feel indebted to give one especially if, like the PP, you strongly dislike teachers. There’s no reason to do so. The gifts are not needed at all.

Social media echo chamber effect.