Has your ES announced any programs etc. for Early Release Mondays

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Anonymous wrote:There is no programming. Kids will be mixed and put into rooms with any available adult. Our kids are better off at home on early release Mondays.

Which of course was the point. Claim to have programming, then make it so awful and inappropriate that only the most desperate families have to take you up on it.

And then keep it in place next year.

This is public school. Lower your expectations

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Anonymous wrote:OMG it's a few hours! Just deal with it and let the kids play outside or read!

You are making so many assumptions that every families' situation is just like yours

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The National average for paid time off is something like 17 days per year. Yeah this is a wealthy area but imagine thinking it’s acceptable to tell parents half their days off this year needs to be about teacher training days— hope you didn’t want to see family, and you and your kids don’t get sick! FCPS needs those early dismissals.

When I had children, I realized and accepted that my days off would be about them, whether that be for their illnesses, their appointments, or their days off school. My children are my priority.

I feel bad for the teachers because I know the early release days are not enough for them to get their training completed. My sister teaches in FCPS and she told me about the 30 hours of literacy training all teachers have to do in addition to the multiple days of training they had to do over the summer and the 20 hours of other training they had to do the first week back to work.

I foresee teachers taking time off to get work done. It's really the only way these days. My last year of teaching many around me were using their own personal time to get work done. Good for them. It's too much.

I think you're correct that teachers will take time off just to get their work completed. It's unfortunate for our kids, but the teachers have to do what is best for them and their mental health. It's wrong that they should have to use their personal time for their job requirements, though. It sounds like the system is broken beyond repair and that good teachers will be driven out by the job requirements. Terrible.

Unfortunately American work culture is such that virtually all professional jobs expect work during personal time. Teachers who leave the profession will not likely escape this.

They will probably get paid better- will be able to use the restroom when they need to-not have chairs thrown at them....have more respect shown to them....not sure where you are going with this comparison.

Simply that working in one’s personal time is a (problematic) reality of American work culture.

I can see leaving teaching because of the abysmal pay and certainly the risk of things like school shootings but a teacher who leaves and expects to never work a Saturday will likely be disappointed.

You harping on this let's us know you have never been in teaching. Working extra is not the issue. And it's not just shootings-it's the day to day threats, chaos, and disrespect.

You say working extra isn’t the issues. Posters above you say it’s the issue. Sorry people feel differently to you and I’m responding to them, an Internet forum isn’t curated to only be about you I’m afraid.

DP~Nor is it about you. It's not the only issue....it's one issue. Do your research befriend a teacher.

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Anonymous wrote:The end of October/beginning of November is going to chaos. I’m just booking a trip and pulling my kids out. We can travel 10/26-11/6 and only miss two days of schools.

Monday 10/28 - ER
Thursday 10/31 - ER
Friday 11/1 - No school
Monday 11/4 - No School
Tuesday 11/5 - No School

Veterans Day is the following Monday 11/11.

If someone needed to book international travel to visit family, 10/26-11/11 would be perfect and your child would only miss 5 days of school and you could have a 17 day trip. And you know that 10/29 and 10/30 are going to be nothing days.

Cue the shrieks from FCPS about the absenteeism crisis they’ve gotten millions of dollars from the state to deal with.

Then the hand wringing about how you’re showing your kids you don’t value school.

But this is the only sane approach and good on you for booking early.

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It is bizarre to me that they didn't just make a weeklong student fall break around Thanksgiving or the end of October and do the training on teacher workdays that week.

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They really should give the kids the weekend of Thanksgiving off. The measly 1.5 days that week is useless and there is plenty of upside to leaving the weekend before.

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Anonymous wrote:They really should give the kids the weekend of Thanksgiving off. The measly 1.5 days that week is useless and there is plenty of upside to leaving the weekend before.

Our school possibly seemed to change that November date. I haven't seen it in an official communication, but in the packet provided on BTS nite, someone had crossed off that Nov date and handwrote a date in Dec. on the flyer with all the ER dates for the year. YMMV

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Anonymous wrote:They really should give the kids the weekend of Thanksgiving off. The measly 1.5 days that week is useless and there is plenty of upside to leaving the weekend before.

Our school possibly seemed to change that November date. I haven't seen it in an official communication, but in the packet provided on BTS nite, someone had crossed off that Nov date and handwrote a date in Dec. on the flyer with all the ER dates for the year. YMMV

Pp here. I found this on the Fcps website.

Early release Mondays for elementary schools in the following pyramids are planned for the dates below: Herndon, Langley, Madison, Marshall, McLean, South Lakes, Centreville, Chantilly, Fairfax, Oakton, Robinson, and Westfield.

September 23
October 28
December 9 (Changed from November 25)
February 24
March 17
April 28
May 19

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This is going to be a fiasco for FCPS. The first one is coming up on 9/16 for the (roughly) eastern half of the county. I was at my kid’s school this morning dropping him off late after an appointment and in the few minutes where the staff was figuring out where the class was and getting someone to walk him to class, the office staff was talking to each other about how people were calling the school asking about “that 2 hour early release on Monday” and “it’s actually a 3 hour early release” and basically people were acting like they had never heard of it.

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Anonymous wrote:They really should give the kids the weekend of Thanksgiving off. The measly 1.5 days that week is useless and there is plenty of upside to leaving the weekend before.

Our school possibly seemed to change that November date. I haven't seen it in an official communication, but in the packet provided on BTS nite, someone had crossed off that Nov date and handwrote a date in Dec. on the flyer with all the ER dates for the year. YMMV

Pp here. I found this on the Fcps website.

Early release Mondays for elementary schools in the following pyramids are planned for the dates below: Herndon, Langley, Madison, Marshall, McLean, South Lakes, Centreville, Chantilly, Fairfax, Oakton, Robinson, and Westfield.

September 23
October 28
December 9 (Changed from November 25)
February 24
March 17
April 28
May 19

I hope they announce this change with an email…soon! Best would be if they could go back in time and announce the change two months ago, because that’s when everyone planned their weeklong Thanksgiving trips, which I’m sure they’ll still take.

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Anonymous wrote:This is going to be a fiasco for FCPS. The first one is coming up on 9/16 for the (roughly) eastern half of the county. I was at my kid’s school this morning dropping him off late after an appointment and in the few minutes where the staff was figuring out where the class was and getting someone to walk him to class, the office staff was talking to each other about how people were calling the school asking about “that 2 hour early release on Monday” and “it’s actually a 3 hour early release” and basically people were acting like they had never heard of it.

I mean that’s what happens when you try to hide something like this in the summer to evade criticism. When they find out their kids were warehoused indoors on screens for three hours they will be even more incensed.

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Anonymous wrote:They really should give the kids the weekend of Thanksgiving off. The measly 1.5 days that week is useless and there is plenty of upside to leaving the weekend before.

Our school possibly seemed to change that November date. I haven't seen it in an official communication, but in the packet provided on BTS nite, someone had crossed off that Nov date and handwrote a date in Dec. on the flyer with all the ER dates for the year. YMMV

Pp here. I found this on the Fcps website.

Early release Mondays for elementary schools in the following pyramids are planned for the dates below: Herndon, Langley, Madison, Marshall, McLean, South Lakes, Centreville, Chantilly, Fairfax, Oakton, Robinson, and Westfield.

September 23
October 28
December 9 (Changed from November 25)
February 24
March 17
April 28
May 19

I hope they announce this change with an email…soon! Best would be if they could go back in time and announce the change two months ago, because that’s when everyone planned their weeklong Thanksgiving trips, which I’m sure they’ll still take.

Hopefully that ends the bad-faith narrative that parents had SO much time to plan for this.

But yes I assume absenteeism will rise and everyone will hear about how we need to value our children’s time in class even when they’re not doing anything.

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Anonymous wrote:This is going to be a fiasco for FCPS. The first one is coming up on 9/16 for the (roughly) eastern half of the county. I was at my kid’s school this morning dropping him off late after an appointment and in the few minutes where the staff was figuring out where the class was and getting someone to walk him to class, the office staff was talking to each other about how people were calling the school asking about “that 2 hour early release on Monday” and “it’s actually a 3 hour early release” and basically people were acting like they had never heard of it.

I mean that’s what happens when you try to hide something like this in the summer to evade criticism. When they find out their kids were warehoused indoors on screens for three hours they will be even more incensed.

I believe they are going to touch on it at our BTSN next week, because one of the agenda items is the new literary standards. Will be interesting to see if people are still shocked/surprised by the early releases! And yes, they have announced no plans on those days. No after school babysitting on Lexia in the cafeteria, no paid program with the vendors who have come in in the past to do chess club or basketball … nothing n

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Anonymous wrote:They really should give the kids the weekend of Thanksgiving off. The measly 1.5 days that week is useless and there is plenty of upside to leaving the weekend before.

There are 2 full days before Thanksgiving break. They could remove those school days, but to where would you move them?

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Is this not the correct calendar?

https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/2024-2025-standard-school-year-calendar.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:Is this not the correct calendar?

https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/2024-2025-standard-school-year-calendar.pdf

Nope.