Half-days on Wednesdays!?

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Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher and people on here saying teachers work 10 months a year and get only 12 days are being disingenuous. We do get those benefits but that is on top of every federal holiday ( yes I know this is a fed town but lots of people don’t get all federal holidays, including my private sector DH), the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and the Friday after, 1.5-2 weeks for winter break, February break and spring break. That’s 4 weeks of time off where you don’t have to use your leave. So really it’s not comparable to other jobs in that regard.

Teachers are paid for 192 days. 185 of those days are instructional. Contrary to popular misconception we aren't being paid for federal holidays nor any of the breaks. and we didn't get a februrary break. Now if you wanna go into the amount of labor that is done outside our working hours and working days we work a lot more than 192 days but I digress.

If you want to count up the number of hours or days you work and be paid accordingly, go get a job at McDonalds. If you have a salary, stop being such a crybaby and do you job. No one cares about your bellyaching.

Nope. They don't have to go work at McDonald's, and they don't have to work one second over their contracted hours.

You pathetically whiny parents are the "crybabies" who are "bellyaching."

Most people who are paid salaries work until the job is done and dont whine about having to work on the weekends or at night or not being able to take off as much time as they'd like, and nearly all of those people don't get to take summers off either.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a charter teacher and half days are common the charter world. We need them in order to do all the many things necessary in order to have consistently high-quality instruction. We wouldn’t have time otherwise without having an entire day off every month.

Get back to me about “high quality instruction” when you are actually teaching all kids in school 5 days/week.

Oh so you mean right now?

right now would be good.

NP but allow me to digress for a second and talk about the lunacy of non - teachers defining high quality instruction. On this thread alone, there are several posts where teachers are called entitled, but I can’t think of too many fields where non experts think they are qualified to judge and assess the quality of somebody’s work.

What a pointless digression. Kids are STILL stuck online - everyone knows that is low quality instruction. We don’t need to be experts.

From a WaPo article about low demand in charters.

“Do we want to be inconsistent in the instruction quality or do we want to develop a really high-quality virtual instruction?” Hodge said. “Many schools made the decision to develop high-quality virtual learning this year and focus on reopening next year.”

Link below
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dc-charter-schools-online-learning/2021/05/23/7e5816d2-ba2f-11eb-a6b1-81296da0339b_story.html?outputType=amp

jfc I just read that article. the mayor needs to use whatever power she has to force the charters to reopen. my jaw dropped at Roots charter (30% homeless) staying closed, and the quotes from anti-vax parents. There’s a point where the government just needs to step in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A poster mentioned DCPS is considering half-days on Wednesdays for teacher PD. Does anyone know if this is really a proposal?

Every Wednesday or instead of a whole day off for students it'd be a half day? Either one is a no for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher and people on here saying teachers work 10 months a year and get only 12 days are being disingenuous. We do get those benefits but that is on top of every federal holiday ( yes I know this is a fed town but lots of people don’t get all federal holidays, including my private sector DH), the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and the Friday after, 1.5-2 weeks for winter break, February break and spring break. That’s 4 weeks of time off where you don’t have to use your leave. So really it’s not comparable to other jobs in that regard.

Teachers are paid for 192 days. 185 of those days are instructional. Contrary to popular misconception we aren't being paid for federal holidays nor any of the breaks. and we didn't get a februrary break. Now if you wanna go into the amount of labor that is done outside our working hours and working days we work a lot more than 192 days but I digress.

If you want to count up the number of hours or days you work and be paid accordingly, go get a job at McDonalds. If you have a salary, stop being such a crybaby and do you job. No one cares about your bellyaching.

Nope. They don't have to go work at McDonald's, and they don't have to work one second over their contracted hours.

You pathetically whiny parents are the "crybabies" who are "bellyaching."

Most people who are paid salaries work until the job is done and dont whine about having to work on the weekends or at night or not being able to take off as much time as they'd like, and nearly all of those people don't get to take summers off either.

Woooooow such hard evidence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teachers have to be the most entitled people in D.C. It is really something.

+1

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DCPS is routinely ranked as among the worst public school systems in the country, despite D.C. spending more per student than anywhere but New York.

Given that, maybe teachers here need to be working more, not less.

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Anonymous wrote:DCPS is routinely ranked as among the worst public school systems in the country, despite D.C. spending more per student than anywhere but New York.

Given that, maybe teachers here need to be working more, not less.

DCPS also has the one of the lowest teacher retention rates because despite the decent money no one wants to stay working here. And despite spending money on students to pay staff, they never offer actual PD's, support, and constantly cut budgeting for schools.
So maybe you should shut your ignorant mouth.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers have to be the most entitled people in D.C. It is really something.

+1

Nah, that's white DC moms.

[Anonymous]

The Wed pd is not time off so
I am not sure why we are even having a discussion about that. During Professional development teachers are working learning new strategies to apply to their lesson etc. it’s common sense they if teachers do not have the needed knowledge and tools then they can’t be effective. Research supports this as well. I don’t live in dc yet but am moving. Parents on these thread speak horribly about DCPS but when a solution is presented that change support teaching and learning you go on attack mode! The majority of teachers work hard and they deserve the pay they get. If you are not a teacher you have no clue. By the way teachers have to plan lessons and grade outside of the typical school day hours and on weekends. Now with being thrown into remote learning with very minimal training teachers need even more support because technology has revolutionized education even pass COVID it will. I speak from being an highly effective teacher in NYC public schools. You people on here need to get a grip.

[Anonymous]

I was honestly worried about what the folks on this board would fight about in 2021-2022. Now I know! Thank you ladies!
To the actual OP- no, it’s not true. And I kind of suspect you knew that before you even asked.
Carry on…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why Wednesdays and not Friday? Seems better to have a long weekend for kids

I am dubious of a half-day PD arrangement, but IF it's going to happen, it seems like Fridays would be a far better day. It's much easier to volunteer to help out with something like a Friday field trip than smack in the middle of the work week.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why Wednesdays and not Friday? Seems better to have a long weekend for kids

I am dubious of a half-day PD arrangement, but IF it's going to happen, it seems like Fridays would be a far better day. It's much easier to volunteer to help out with something like a Friday field trip than smack in the middle of the work week.

The number of people who would make it a three day weekend would be enormous

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers have to be the most entitled people in D.C. It is really something.

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Nah, that's white DC moms.

Yep, entitled for expecting to have public schools that exist IRL. Just like in every non-failed-state around the world.

Aside: is it really helpful to type out divisive comments like this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers have to be the most entitled people in D.C. It is really something.

+1

Nah, that's white DC moms.

Yep, entitled for expecting to have public schools that exist IRL. Just like in every non-failed-state around the world.

Aside: is it really helpful to type out divisive comments like this?

Did you see what the person was responding to?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers have to be the most entitled people in D.C. It is really something.

+1

Nah, that's white DC moms.

Yep, entitled for expecting to have public schools that exist IRL. Just like in every non-failed-state around the world.

Aside: is it really helpful to type out divisive comments like this?

Did you see what the person was responding to?

I did. No excuse for this racist response.