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

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Anonymous wrote:How is it that there are only five days of school from October 26 until November 11th?

Look at the calendar and count the days for your pyramid. Ours has five days of school between these dates if you do not count the ER days.

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We have April 21st as one of our ER days and are planning to extend Spring Break.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am pissed. They changed the Nov. 25 date for our pyramid. I already scheduled a dr appointment for my child that afternoon thinking we’d be early release. What the heck??

Keep the appointment.

We are traveling the full week of Thanksgiving. Not changing our plans now

I'm a sub and I was booked for those days back in June. I've had to tell a few teachers already this school year that I'm not available to sub for them those days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hahahaha, so many people are going to be out the week of Thanksgiving, that Monday is going to be a useless day no matter what. I wonder if it's because a lot of teachers tried to take the whole week off.

That's probably it. Now that most parents have already made plans to accommodate these ER days, we have to change again? Makes us look as unprofessional as FCPS.

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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.

This is what we are doing as well. The timing is perfect and anyone who is not taking advantage of this is a fool. Missing two days of school in elementary is no big deal and you get to avoid the waste of two ER days.

Trust me not much goes on the week of Thanksgiving.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am pissed. They changed the Nov. 25 date for our pyramid. I already scheduled a dr appointment for my child that afternoon thinking we’d be early release. What the heck??

Plenty of people already decided to make Thanksgiving a full week rather than show up for wasted days. As usual, FCPS does not have respect for parents time.

Haha what??? I'm sure they saw how bad having a week with 1 and a half days in it was, which was complained about earlier in this thread, and modified it. Ya'll are insane. You are now only missing 3 extra hours of school. You will complain about everything.

It was a week with 1.5 days in June when they rolled this out as well. Now that people have made other plans they care about how bad it was?

Only self centered people think like you do.

[Anonymous]

Teachers are scheduling vacations for the weeks with the early release days and skipping out on the training that the early release days were planned around???

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am pissed. They changed the Nov. 25 date for our pyramid. I already scheduled a dr appointment for my child that afternoon thinking we’d be early release. What the heck??

Plenty of people already decided to make Thanksgiving a full week rather than show up for wasted days. As usual, FCPS does not have respect for parents time.

Haha what??? I'm sure they saw how bad having a week with 1 and a half days in it was, which was complained about earlier in this thread, and modified it. Ya'll are insane. You are now only missing 3 extra hours of school. You will complain about everything.

It was a week with 1.5 days in June when they rolled this out as well. Now that people have made other plans they care about how bad it was?

Only self centered people think like you do.

Or people who were able to count three months ago.

[Anonymous]

I think they switched the Monday ER the week of thanksgiving b/c so many teachers planned to take off for that week that they would miss the training.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think they switched the Monday ER the week of thanksgiving b/c so many teachers planned to take off for that week that they would miss the training.

Nuh uh that's too logical. It's gotta be too screw over parents that are privileged enough to plan elaborate vacations.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they switched the Monday ER the week of thanksgiving b/c so many teachers planned to take off for that week that they would miss the training.

Nuh uh that's too logical. It's gotta be too screw over parents that are privileged enough to plan elaborate vacations.

Wow it’s almost like they knew it was Thanksgiving week when they put it on the calendar, and that’s a historically high week for teacher absences. Totally unforseeable. No way to plan better.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think they switched the Monday ER the week of thanksgiving b/c so many teachers planned to take off for that week that they would miss the training.

Nuh uh that's too logical. It's gotta be too screw over parents that are privileged enough to plan elaborate vacations.

Wow it’s almost like they knew it was Thanksgiving week when they put it on the calendar, and that’s a historically high week for teacher absences. Totally unforseeable. No way to plan better.

I support teachers having days to train but my big issue is there is a lack of careful planning. They throw spaghetti at the wall and hope it sticks-hope it will work out-hope staff in the building will pick up pieces and make it work. I can't believe they changed these dates-not ok FCPS. This is a disregard for all involved. They better hope that the specialists and IA's being tasked with "after school babysitting" don't get sick or have sick kids at home those days. Then what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think they switched the Monday ER the week of thanksgiving b/c so many teachers planned to take off for that week that they would miss the training.

Nuh uh that's too logical. It's gotta be too screw over parents that are privileged enough to plan elaborate vacations.

Wow it’s almost like they knew it was Thanksgiving week when they put it on the calendar, and that’s a historically high week for teacher absences. Totally unforseeable. No way to plan better.

I support teachers having days to train but my big issue is there is a lack of careful planning. They throw spaghetti at the wall and hope it sticks-hope it will work out-hope staff in the building will pick up pieces and make it work. I can't believe they changed these dates-not ok FCPS. This is a disregard for all involved. They better hope that the specialists and IA's being tasked with "after school babysitting" don't get sick or have sick kids at home those days. Then what?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ours sent a poll if our child would need care or not, without any indication on what is planned if they stay.

FCPS should have been honest from the get go-these are half days/teacher training/planning. Teachers are drowning
with all the "new" curriculum, basals, and standards on top of all the behaviors of kids, parents, and admin. Give them these afternoons to train, plan, organize. Or pay them a lot more. These are the options. No one wants to babysit your kids on a half day and if your kid do stay get cozy with the idea that they will be on ST and Lexia while that teacher is working on her work. Free child care does not mean you get to dictate what this looks like. And pack them a snack for the afternoon because these are your children. How did all the parents and children survive the half days through the 90's-till whatever year they did away with half days. They survived and people are always saying the education was better back then...maybe because teachers were given true planning time. And by the way FCPS has given you a lot of time to plan for this....again these are your children.

First of all, FCPS said they would have in school enrichment options. So if your plan included taking FCPS seriously, you’re already screwed.

No one presently in elementary school in FCPS had half days from the 90s. Here in 2024 there is a cost of living crisis in this county and the vast majority of parents have these things called “jobs” that they are required to attend.

So use some of the money you gain from those “things called jobs” to arrange and pay for “a thing called childcare” for your kids for those seven half days. It’s no one else’s problem.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ours sent a poll if our child would need care or not, without any indication on what is planned if they stay.

FCPS should have been honest from the get go-these are half days/teacher training/planning. Teachers are drowning
with all the "new" curriculum, basals, and standards on top of all the behaviors of kids, parents, and admin. Give them these afternoons to train, plan, organize. Or pay them a lot more. These are the options. No one wants to babysit your kids on a half day and if your kid do stay get cozy with the idea that they will be on ST and Lexia while that teacher is working on her work. Free child care does not mean you get to dictate what this looks like. And pack them a snack for the afternoon because these are your children. How did all the parents and children survive the half days through the 90's-till whatever year they did away with half days. They survived and people are always saying the education was better back then...maybe because teachers were given true planning time. And by the way FCPS has given you a lot of time to plan for this....again these are your children.

First of all, FCPS said they would have in school enrichment options. So if your plan included taking FCPS seriously, you’re already screwed.

No one presently in elementary school in FCPS had half days from the 90s. Here in 2024 there is a cost of living crisis in this county and the vast majority of parents have these things called “jobs” that they are required to attend.

Fairfax had half days in the 2000’s. My eldest DC had half day in 2005 and he wasn’t the last year. Yes, your point still stands about no one currently in FCPS had half days, but it wasn’t as long ago as you implied.

So 19 years ago your kid had half days. And you knew when he was enrolled that those half days existed.

Now parents who enrolled their kids for 2024-25 found out after all the deadlines had passed for private school applications, after people had let go other childcare options, that oh— FCPS doesn’t actually want to do seven more days of instruction. Your experience is fundamentally different than what people are going through now.

This “parents are inherently to blame” attitude was already old, now it’s embarrassing. This is why people support voucher programs— parents deserve better and so do kids.

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Of COURSE you’re one of those dimwitted voucher people. How hilariously predictable.

You aren’t getting vouchers. If you want private, pay for it yourself.