FCPS Early Release Mondays

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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.)

This!! Agree....every one survived. It's exhausting hearing that schools are your babysitters-figure this out as parents. I love how on this site the shock and horror of the teacher shortage and parents asking what can we do as parents to help teachers....here is your chance the county is trying to respect teachers time for a change and ensure they are not doing trainings on their own time. You all are crying about how unfair it is and no one cares about the kids. Make up your mind teachers can't do it all during the day and we all know people in the corporate world, federal world-get paid for their time even during trainings. FCPS offers ridiculous stipends to teachers over the sumer-here's 15 an hour for your non-contract time. Teachers are done and saying NO. Good for them! And BTW you all have ample time to figure out actual child care for YOUR children.

Sorry but all of your very valid points fall away when you angrily tell working parents to just “figure out” child care one day a week. Please, I mean this very earnestly, don’t dismiss the fact that this would be a very real and difficult problem for a lot of people.

[Anonymous]

How are the logistics of adult "enrichment" and supervision for an 800 kid elementary school for 3 hours on Monday afternoons going to work, exactly? They are pulling people from Gatehouse and then...what? Where will the kids physically be?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to get started on trip planning

Good idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:[twitter]

Anonymous wrote:

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.)

This!! Agree....every one survived. It's exhausting hearing that schools are your babysitters-figure this out as parents. I love how on this site the shock and horror of the teacher shortage and parents asking what can we do as parents to help teachers....here is your chance the county is trying to respect teachers time for a change and ensure they are not doing trainings on their own time. You all are crying about how unfair it is and no one cares about the kids. Make up your mind teachers can't do it all during the day and we all know people in the corporate world, federal world-get paid for their time even during trainings. FCPS offers ridiculous stipends to teachers over the sumer-here's 15 an hour for your non-contract time. Teachers are done and saying NO. Good for them! And BTW you all have ample time to figure out actual child care for YOUR children.

Sorry but all of your very valid points fall away when you angrily tell working parents to just “figure out” child care one day a week. Please, I mean this very earnestly, don’t dismiss the fact that this would be a very real and difficult problem for a lot of people.

Sorry for you....figure it out. It's June.

[Anonymous]

This is nonsense. They are going to run bus routes for the 3 hours early dismissal and then run bus routes again at the regular time? I am baffled by the logistics on this one.


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As we work together to support our students and staff, we ask that all elementary families have their students take their normal route home (bus, walk, kiss and ride) on early dismissal days.

While these are designated as early release days — where necessary — we will ensure that every student has supervised enrichment activities at the school and returns home at the regular time if that is what works best for your family. Licensed educators from FCPS’ central office will also be available to support schools. High-impact tutoring will be available for identified students.

[Anonymous]

What's the cost for all the extra bus runs?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'd rather just have 3-4 full days off. Easier for childcare, plus it's not like much learning happens on a half day anyway.

I agree. Half days are the worst. Just take a while Monday - if I have to take off work at least we could travel or do something fun.

But it doesn't sound like any parent has to take time: "While these are designated as early release days — where necessary — we will ensure that every student has supervised enrichment activities at the school and returns home at the regular time if that is what works best for your family. Licensed educators from central office will support schools as well. High-impact tutoring will be available for identified students.
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I need a little more information than this vague “assurance” before I’m comfortable on that point.

You act like they need your signature to approve this lmao

What? No. I need more details about what the options will be for families who can’t make other arrangements for their kids on those seven days in the school year beyond this vague comment in the poorly-derived email.

I guess we do need better training on reading comprehension.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:[twitter]

Anonymous wrote:

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.)

This!! Agree....every one survived. It's exhausting hearing that schools are your babysitters-figure this out as parents. I love how on this site the shock and horror of the teacher shortage and parents asking what can we do as parents to help teachers....here is your chance the county is trying to respect teachers time for a change and ensure they are not doing trainings on their own time. You all are crying about how unfair it is and no one cares about the kids. Make up your mind teachers can't do it all during the day and we all know people in the corporate world, federal world-get paid for their time even during trainings. FCPS offers ridiculous stipends to teachers over the sumer-here's 15 an hour for your non-contract time. Teachers are done and saying NO. Good for them! And BTW you all have ample time to figure out actual child care for YOUR children.

Sorry but all of your very valid points fall away when you angrily tell working parents to just “figure out” child care one day a week. Please, I mean this very earnestly, don’t dismiss the fact that this would be a very real and difficult problem for a lot of people.

Sorry for you....figure it out. It's June.

Please just leave the profession if you dislike the kids and their families this much. Or maybe they can add an additional week of training on empathy.

[Anonymous]

As a teacher, I wish the only PD ES got was this. If FCPS would stop piling on things and focused on one thing at a time, I feel like it could be done on SD days and TWD and maybe like 4 ER days instead of 7.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:[twitter]

Anonymous wrote:

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.)

This!! Agree....every one survived. It's exhausting hearing that schools are your babysitters-figure this out as parents. I love how on this site the shock and horror of the teacher shortage and parents asking what can we do as parents to help teachers....here is your chance the county is trying to respect teachers time for a change and ensure they are not doing trainings on their own time. You all are crying about how unfair it is and no one cares about the kids. Make up your mind teachers can't do it all during the day and we all know people in the corporate world, federal world-get paid for their time even during trainings. FCPS offers ridiculous stipends to teachers over the sumer-here's 15 an hour for your non-contract time. Teachers are done and saying NO. Good for them! And BTW you all have ample time to figure out actual child care for YOUR children.

Sorry but all of your very valid points fall away when you angrily tell working parents to just “figure out” child care one day a week. Please, I mean this very earnestly, don’t dismiss the fact that this would be a very real and difficult problem for a lot of people.

Sorry for you....figure it out. It's June.

There’s nothing for me to figure out because your yearning for Mondays off isn’t actually what’s happening?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:As a reading specialist, we had to do the VLP modules this year- each one takes between 2-4 hours and there are nine of them. They are very time consuming. I do not think as parents you truly understand the scope of the shift in language arts- nor should you as that is why we have masters and doctorates in education. If it were as easy as "just teach them to read", our scores wouldn't be in the shitter. This is not a union issue, a pd company trying to make more money or teachers trying not to teach- this is an attempt to give teachers time to do their job so that everyone doesn't jump ship.

I have no issues with teachers getting the necessary time for teaching and planning. In fact I support it wholeheartedly.

My issues with this are (1) what horrible rollout and communication, (2) between these days and all of the religious and other holidays, the calendar is insane. So much for consistency and structure for the kids. I really miss the calendar I had growing up when we only got off federal holidays.

My thesis is we have de facto year round schooling without the benefit of the actual structure of year round schooling with consistent 2 week breaks between quarters and a 6 week summer. Instead we get a 7.5 week summer and endless choppy weeks with random 1-2 days off all year long that mean we go longer and start earlier but never get the actual pros of a real year round schedule.

So true

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:[twitter]

Anonymous wrote:

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.)

This!! Agree....every one survived. It's exhausting hearing that schools are your babysitters-figure this out as parents. I love how on this site the shock and horror of the teacher shortage and parents asking what can we do as parents to help teachers....here is your chance the county is trying to respect teachers time for a change and ensure they are not doing trainings on their own time. You all are crying about how unfair it is and no one cares about the kids. Make up your mind teachers can't do it all during the day and we all know people in the corporate world, federal world-get paid for their time even during trainings. FCPS offers ridiculous stipends to teachers over the sumer-here's 15 an hour for your non-contract time. Teachers are done and saying NO. Good for them! And BTW you all have ample time to figure out actual child care for YOUR children.

Sorry but all of your very valid points fall away when you angrily tell working parents to just “figure out” child care one day a week. Please, I mean this very earnestly, don’t dismiss the fact that this would be a very real and difficult problem for a lot of people.

Sorry for you....figure it out. It's June.

Please just leave the profession if you dislike the kids and their families this much. Or maybe they can add an additional week of training on empathy.

Why on earth do you assume that commenter is a teacher, nothing in their comment remotely suggests they are

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How are the logistics of adult "enrichment" and supervision for an 800 kid elementary school for 3 hours on Monday afternoons going to work, exactly? They are pulling people from Gatehouse and then...what? Where will the kids physically be?

At school, probably spread out between the gym, cafeteria, and various classrooms - think afterschool clubs, with a little tutoring sprinkled in. The great thing is that if you don’t like it, you can just have your kid take the bus home early. They won’t be looking for your parental approval on the activities. Either your kids stay or they don’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While they have added these one-a-month early release Mondays for the new curriculum training and other required meetings, they should add more for actual teacher planning time and collaboration if necessary.

Taking away early release Mondays 8 or 9 years ago was a mistake and caused problem. So they should return to that.

The mistake was not taking away early release.

Eqrly release is a terrible idea.

The mistake is extending the school year into late June.

There is nothing to teach. Kids are completely checked out. And teachers are burnt out.

Finish school the week after memorial day.

The last day of school was June 12. Next year it’s a June 11. These aren’t late June. There have been years in the past when the last day of school was in the 20s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a teacher, I wish the only PD ES got was this. If FCPS would stop piling on things and focused on one thing at a time, I feel like it could be done on SD days and TWD and maybe like 4 ER days instead of 7.

You “feel” like this could be done on TWD? Yeah, no.