Will your kids be attending 6/22-6/25?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Make the extended school days make-ups for high school students to keep protesting on ICE.

I love this idea

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does the last date for seniors change? If not that is 5 weeks early for them. What about senior teachers, what do they do for 5 weeks without students?

The kids in mixed classes generally don't do much after AP exams. It makes it hard when you have freshman to seniors in the same classes. Most senior teachers have some other kids mixed in and they just hang out. A rare few teachers teach.

Yeah it’s a hard sell to make them get up and go when they know the majority of their classes will just be doing nothing. If they were playing trivia games or doing fun experiments it would be easier. But I’d imagine the science teachers don’t have th budget to add on extra fun experiments for the end of the year anyway. And you can’t really do an experiment in the 20 minutes they give you. I hope the HS will at least do block scheduling do all those half days which would increase the odds the teachers will do anything. I think my kids would for the classes they like if the teachers said “we’re going to do …..” and it sounded intetesting or fun. Sometimes they do debates on stuff like — who was the best president — or pick your top three favorite chemical elements—or something like that which is moderately fun for the kids who liked the class at least. But you can’t really do it in 20 minute classes.

Yes, but that's true of the AP exam schedule in general. For HS students it would be much better to start school earlier in August and let them out earlier in June like many other districts in the South.

Or do what FCPS does and start 1 week earlier in June but build in a normal number of snow days (not just 1).

Not those of our kids with jobs, camps, internships and sports. It already starts early for sports.

IF you want to prioritize your kids' jobs, camps, internships and sports over them actually get an education with the 180 required days, that's your opinion. I disagree. Start earlier in August, and let's have a calendar that MCPS can actually stick to in the years to come instead of this chaos.

DP but it’s not an either/or. I would rather preserve a week of summer but trim some of the other days like the Wednesday before Thanksgiving (could be half day instead of full day off), grading/planning could be half days instead of full, etc. and have virtual as a tool as well.

Many people travel thanksgiving and take off extra days as it is. Nothing gets learned. Drop the virtual. The superintendent, BOE and central office are clear they don't support virtual. That is a battle long lost despite who it hurts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does the last date for seniors change? If not that is 5 weeks early for them. What about senior teachers, what do they do for 5 weeks without students?

The kids in mixed classes generally don't do much after AP exams. It makes it hard when you have freshman to seniors in the same classes. Most senior teachers have some other kids mixed in and they just hang out. A rare few teachers teach.

Yeah it’s a hard sell to make them get up and go when they know the majority of their classes will just be doing nothing. If they were playing trivia games or doing fun experiments it would be easier. But I’d imagine the science teachers don’t have th budget to add on extra fun experiments for the end of the year anyway. And you can’t really do an experiment in the 20 minutes they give you. I hope the HS will at least do block scheduling do all those half days which would increase the odds the teachers will do anything. I think my kids would for the classes they like if the teachers said “we’re going to do …..” and it sounded intetesting or fun. Sometimes they do debates on stuff like — who was the best president — or pick your top three favorite chemical elements—or something like that which is moderately fun for the kids who liked the class at least. But you can’t really do it in 20 minute classes.

Yes, but that's true of the AP exam schedule in general. For HS students it would be much better to start school earlier in August and let them out earlier in June like many other districts in the South.

Or do what FCPS does and start 1 week earlier in June but build in a normal number of snow days (not just 1).

Not those of our kids with jobs, camps, internships and sports. It already starts early for sports.

IF you want to prioritize your kids' jobs, camps, internships and sports over them actually get an education with the 180 required days, that's your opinion. I disagree. Start earlier in August, and let's have a calendar that MCPS can actually stick to in the years to come instead of this chaos.

Many kids rely on the summer income and businesss also need the HS kids to work.