FCPS Early Release Mondays

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I suspect this will harm the effort to move middle school start times due to the bus issue.

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Kids can stay at school until school gets out — so this is not going to put any parents behind in terms of care. I’m not sure what the big deal is.

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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.

But the teachers will be working in the classrooms.

The people from Gatehouse will be running free afterschool clubs? The only aterschool clubs our ES runs are from outside private vendors.

From the little we’ve heard, there will be outside vendors coming in, Central Office people, current tutors and interventionist, and volunteers.

Zero chance central office people go. I can’t emphasize how very little any of them ever interact with children or want to.

I agree, they will ABSOLUTELY be used as a last resort.

They are going to fight going in. They are already in the staff facebook page asking if the union could stop office staff from going into the schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids can stay at school until school gets out — so this is not going to put any parents behind in terms of care. I’m not sure what the big deal is.

Without details about whether everyone who wants to stay can stay, and at what cost, it makes people apprehensive when we don’t have a lot of flexibility.

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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.

But the teachers will be working in the classrooms.

The people from Gatehouse will be running free afterschool clubs? The only aterschool clubs our ES runs are from outside private vendors.

From the little we’ve heard, there will be outside vendors coming in, Central Office people, current tutors and interventionist, and volunteers.

Zero chance central office people go. I can’t emphasize how very little any of them ever interact with children or want to.

I agree, they will ABSOLUTELY be used as a last resort.

They are going to fight going in. They are already in the staff facebook page asking if the union could stop office staff from going into the schools.

I'm not sure that Gatehouse staff members are going to be part of the two bargaining units that just won bargaining rights. I'm almost sure they aren't.

[Anonymous]

Will this fully eliminate the instances where classes have a standing sub one day a week for training/ meetings (which has been happening in my kiddos classrooms the last few years already)? Or is this lost learning time/ more routine juggling for the kiddos in addition to all that....?

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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.

But the teachers will be working in the classrooms.

The people from Gatehouse will be running free afterschool clubs? The only aterschool clubs our ES runs are from outside private vendors.

From the little we’ve heard, there will be outside vendors coming in, Central Office people, current tutors and interventionist, and volunteers.

Zero chance central office people go. I can’t emphasize how very little any of them ever interact with children or want to.

I agree, they will ABSOLUTELY be used as a last resort.

They are going to fight going in. They are already in the staff facebook page asking if the union could stop office staff from going into the schools.

I'm not sure that Gatehouse staff members are going to be part of the two bargaining units that just won bargaining rights. I'm almost sure they aren't.

Without going into too much detail, I am an hourly teacher that is under the central office organizational structure. I do not work in central office. I work with students daily. I am not considered a teacher that would be covered under those bargaining groups, so I’d be shocked if they were

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will this fully eliminate the instances where classes have a standing sub one day a week for training/ meetings (which has been happening in my kiddos classrooms the last few years already)? Or is this lost learning time/ more routine juggling for the kiddos in addition to all that....?

Nope, this is completely different. These early release days are essentially for the reading trainings.

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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.

But the teachers will be working in the classrooms.

The people from Gatehouse will be running free afterschool clubs? The only aterschool clubs our ES runs are from outside private vendors.

From the little we’ve heard, there will be outside vendors coming in, Central Office people, current tutors and interventionist, and volunteers.

Zero chance central office people go. I can’t emphasize how very little any of them ever interact with children or want to.

I agree, they will ABSOLUTELY be used as a last resort.

They’d take PTO before they deigned to go watch kids for 3 hours for aftercare lololol

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Anonymous wrote:Will this fully eliminate the instances where classes have a standing sub one day a week for training/ meetings (which has been happening in my kiddos classrooms the last few years already)? Or is this lost learning time/ more routine juggling for the kiddos in addition to all that....?

Nope, this is completely different. These early release days are essentially for the reading trainings.

Yes. The state just mandated 32 ADDITIONAL hours of reading training on top of all the other stuff we have to do.

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Anonymous wrote:And of course the meetings on this are in person in June with no virtual option for anyone traveling.

I hope everyone who is pissed about this is signing up for the steering committee. I know I am.

The steering committee isn’t going to change the earlier release days that’s already been decided. The steering committee will decide what the students will be doing on those days.

That’s fine! That matters a lot to plenty of us.

FCPS almost never uses the recommendations from previous committees.

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Anonymous wrote:Will this fully eliminate the instances where classes have a standing sub one day a week for training/ meetings (which has been happening in my kiddos classrooms the last few years already)? Or is this lost learning time/ more routine juggling for the kiddos in addition to all that....?

Nope, this is completely different. These early release days are essentially for the reading trainings.

I think I see why people are upset...

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Anonymous wrote:Kids can stay at school until school gets out — so this is not going to put any parents behind in terms of care. I’m not sure what the big deal is.

People keep saying this but there is a big difference in "guaranteed childcare at no cost" and "if space allows and for $$$"

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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.

But the teachers will be working in the classrooms.

The people from Gatehouse will be running free afterschool clubs? The only aterschool clubs our ES runs are from outside private vendors.

From the little we’ve heard, there will be outside vendors coming in, Central Office people, current tutors and interventionist, and volunteers.

Zero chance central office people go. I can’t emphasize how very little any of them ever interact with children or want to.

I agree, they will ABSOLUTELY be used as a last resort.

They’d take PTO before they deigned to go watch kids for 3 hours for aftercare lololol

A lot of them got sent in to teach last year due to staff shortages and they were not happy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids can stay at school until school gets out — so this is not going to put any parents behind in terms of care. I’m not sure what the big deal is.

What about the instructional hours that are being taken away?