FCPS Early Release Mondays

[Anonymous]

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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.

What about the instructional hours that are being taken away?

As long as the instructional hours still fall at equal to or more than 990 then there’s not a problem with the state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

As long as the instructional hours still fall at equal to or more than 990 then there’s not a problem with the state.

Even then, there have been a couple years where we filed for exceptions from that requirement

[Anonymous]

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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 $$$"

OK, so everyone here is an adult with three months notice. It’s not perfect, it’s not ideal, but there’s not much we can do about it. Plan for the worst and hope for something a little bit better than that

[Anonymous]

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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...

By people, who do you mean? Parents should be happy all teachers are being trained in teaching reading. Teachers should be happy they’re building in time to do it instead of just telling us to figure it out.

[Anonymous]

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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.

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.

LOL....you go get some training to its not all about you and your kids. So entitled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

As long as the instructional hours still fall at equal to or more than 990 then there’s not a problem with the state.

Depends on how they count. According to my kids... there's no learning on early dismissal days and there's no learning when they have the regular once a week subs and there's no learning when they have subs for other reasons and there's no learning the week before Thanksgiving or the two weeks between Thanksgiving and winter break.....and there's no learning 4th quarter -- it's all sol review..and there's no learning after the sols....
So, I think it's ok for parents to ask the questions they are asking.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Enjoy the new Union BS

Joke's on you, MAGA. This is GLENN YOUNGKIN'S FAULT. He's the one who passed the Virginia Literacy Act that requires all this extra PD.

LOL I'm so glad you said this. It's totally Youngkins doing.... how do you all like him now LOL LOL

[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.

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

...so butt hurt about this. You sound so dumb.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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...

By people, who do you mean? Parents should be happy all teachers are being trained in teaching reading. Teachers should be happy they’re building in time to do it instead of just telling us to figure it out.

This....they want to put down teachers all year and say reading and writing is not happening but here is a plan and FCPS parents are still crying. Parents can't handle the word no and apparently feel above figuring out child care for their own children. It's one reason teachers are done-huge disrespect for the profession. Teachers and admin are no longer losing sleep over the constant complaints.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

As long as the instructional hours still fall at equal to or more than 990 then there’s not a problem with the state.

Depends on how they count. According to my kids... there's no learning on early dismissal days and there's no learning when they have the regular once a week subs and there's no learning when they have subs for other reasons and there's no learning the week before Thanksgiving or the two weeks between Thanksgiving and winter break.....and there's no learning 4th quarter -- it's all sol review..and there's no learning after the sols....
So, I think it's ok for parents to ask the questions they are asking.

According to your kids…. You’re probably not getting the most accurate information. Education does not mean “new” instruction every day. Reviewing content for the SOL’s, reading a book, playing basketball in PE, all of those count towards the hours. Your child may not find it interesting or fun, but it still counts. Early release days are still 5 hours (at least) of a class day, do you think they’re just sitting around twiddling their thumbs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

As long as the instructional hours still fall at equal to or more than 990 then there’s not a problem with the state.

Depends on how they count. According to my kids... there's no learning on early dismissal days and there's no learning when they have the regular once a week subs and there's no learning when they have subs for other reasons and there's no learning the week before Thanksgiving or the two weeks between Thanksgiving and winter break.....and there's no learning 4th quarter -- it's all sol review..and there's no learning after the sols....
So, I think it's ok for parents to ask the questions they are asking.

It’s fine to ask these questions when you have a lot more information but you’re basing all your “facts” on a child. Let us know what the teacher said when you asked them what they covered those days, you may be surprised that you’re not getting accurate information from your children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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...

By people, who do you mean? Parents should be happy all teachers are being trained in teaching reading. Teachers should be happy they’re building in time to do it instead of just telling us to figure it out.

This....they want to put down teachers all year and say reading and writing is not happening but here is a plan and FCPS parents are still crying. Parents can't handle the word no and apparently feel above figuring out child care for their own children. It's one reason teachers are done-huge disrespect for the profession. Teachers and admin are no longer losing sleep over the constant complaints.

Parents were forced to "figure it out" for a year and a half during COVID....and I'm not sure how well that worked out for everyone/anyone :-0
According to teachers I know that only made things worse in the classroom...
Parents will "figure it out" the best they can...but it won't always look like what you think it should.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

As long as the instructional hours still fall at equal to or more than 990 then there’s not a problem with the state.

Depends on how they count. According to my kids... there's no learning on early dismissal days and there's no learning when they have the regular once a week subs and there's no learning when they have subs for other reasons and there's no learning the week before Thanksgiving or the two weeks between Thanksgiving and winter break.....and there's no learning 4th quarter -- it's all sol review..and there's no learning after the sols....
So, I think it's ok for parents to ask the questions they are asking.

It’s fine to ask these questions when you have a lot more information but you’re basing all your “facts” on a child. Let us know what the teacher said when you asked them what they covered those days, you may be surprised that you’re not getting accurate information from your children.

Maybe...but the teachers are too busy to answer parent questions....so we only have the information our kids tell us about their day and the assignments or lack there of that come home. I would love more information!!!
But, also....basing your facts off what a kid says goes both ways so teachers shouldn't be judging parents/ families off of things a kid says in school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

As long as the instructional hours still fall at equal to or more than 990 then there’s not a problem with the state.

Depends on how they count. According to my kids... there's no learning on early dismissal days and there's no learning when they have the regular once a week subs and there's no learning when they have subs for other reasons and there's no learning the week before Thanksgiving or the two weeks between Thanksgiving and winter break.....and there's no learning 4th quarter -- it's all sol review..and there's no learning after the sols....
So, I think it's ok for parents to ask the questions they are asking.

According to your kids…. You’re probably not getting the most accurate information. Education does not mean “new” instruction every day. Reviewing content for the SOL’s, reading a book, playing basketball in PE, all of those count towards the hours. Your child may not find it interesting or fun, but it still counts. Early release days are still 5 hours (at least) of a class day, do you think they’re just sitting around twiddling their thumbs?

More like Google and you-tube and computer games... because there is not enough time on early dismissal days...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

As long as the instructional hours still fall at equal to or more than 990 then there’s not a problem with the state.

Depends on how they count. According to my kids... there's no learning on early dismissal days and there's no learning when they have the regular once a week subs and there's no learning when they have subs for other reasons and there's no learning the week before Thanksgiving or the two weeks between Thanksgiving and winter break.....and there's no learning 4th quarter -- it's all sol review..and there's no learning after the sols....
So, I think it's ok for parents to ask the questions they are asking.

According to your kids…. You’re probably not getting the most accurate information. Education does not mean “new” instruction every day. Reviewing content for the SOL’s, reading a book, playing basketball in PE, all of those count towards the hours. Your child may not find it interesting or fun, but it still counts. Early release days are still 5 hours (at least) of a class day, do you think they’re just sitting around twiddling their thumbs?

More like Google and you-tube and computer games... because there is not enough time on early dismissal days...

How is there not enough time on early release days? 5 or so hours? That’s math, language arts, recess, lunch and specials. That a typical ER day at my school. Sometimes, specials or recess is switched out with science depending on the day.