End of Year - Elementary

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My ES kid seems busier than ever. They performed a musical today and have field day and a math tournament next week. Seems like a productive way to end the year to me.

Mind me asking which ES? I'm impressed. This isn't our experience

Vienna

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The reason it’s like this is bc teachers want to get their classroom cleaned/packed up before the kids leave. They need the kids to help or to at least be calm/quiet so they can do all the last minute end of the year crap admin has them doing. If they literally taught until the last day, they’d be there for days after the kids leave cleaning/packing up the room. And that’s not in their contract. Please cut them some slack.

There are teacher work days on the schedule for after the last day of school....is this not what those are for?

[Anonymous]

My 4th grader says they've had extended recess for the last two weeks. I don't mind at all. School community is as important as academics to me. Im glad he's having fun and moving around with his friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason it’s like this is bc teachers want to get their classroom cleaned/packed up before the kids leave. They need the kids to help or to at least be calm/quiet so they can do all the last minute end of the year crap admin has them doing. If they literally taught until the last day, they’d be there for days after the kids leave cleaning/packing up the room. And that’s not in their contract. Please cut them some slack.

There are teacher work days on the schedule for after the last day of school....is this not what those are for?

It takes more one day to get your room packed up and cleaned. It’s a hell of a job. You are required to also do a check out time with an admin where they have to check you out and do a walk through. Sometimes your room might be used for summer school. You are required to pack a certain way so no one steals your things. It’s a lot of manual labor. One of those things you don’t realize until you are actually a teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LCPS offered a schedule that ended the week of Memorial Day but it wasn't picked. I think for some households, they rather have them in school longer than pay for summer camps/child care.

I mean - I also don't want to pay for summer care. What I want is for school days to be used for school.

NP. I dutifully fill out the surveys for calendar options. The school board disregarded the vote and did what they wanted. I think the goal is to move to year round school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LCPS offered a schedule that ended the week of Memorial Day but it wasn't picked. I think for some households, they rather have them in school longer than pay for summer camps/child care.

I mean - I also don't want to pay for summer care. What I want is for school days to be used for school.

NP. I dutifully fill out the surveys for calendar options. The school board disregarded the vote and did what they wanted. I think the goal is to move to year round school.

They’re not going to move to year-round school. The parents don’t want it and the teachers don’t want it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My ES kid seems busier than ever. They performed a musical today and have field day and a math tournament next week. Seems like a productive way to end the year to me.

Mind me asking which ES? I'm impressed. This isn't our experience

Vienna

Thank you. I love it there. Clearly need to save to move. I'm in Burke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason it’s like this is bc teachers want to get their classroom cleaned/packed up before the kids leave. They need the kids to help or to at least be calm/quiet so they can do all the last minute end of the year crap admin has them doing. If they literally taught until the last day, they’d be there for days after the kids leave cleaning/packing up the room. And that’s not in their contract. Please cut them some slack.

There are teacher work days on the schedule for after the last day of school....is this not what those are for?

It takes more one day to get your room packed up and cleaned. It’s a hell of a job. You are required to also do a check out time with an admin where they have to check you out and do a walk through. Sometimes your room might be used for summer school. You are required to pack a certain way so no one steals your things. It’s a lot of manual labor. One of those things you don’t realize until you are actually a teacher.

I can't with this. Put in a few extra hours like literally anyone with a real job does.

[Anonymous]

How many people with real jobs have to pack up things for 25 other people with literally no where to put them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason it’s like this is bc teachers want to get their classroom cleaned/packed up before the kids leave. They need the kids to help or to at least be calm/quiet so they can do all the last minute end of the year crap admin has them doing. If they literally taught until the last day, they’d be there for days after the kids leave cleaning/packing up the room. And that’s not in their contract. Please cut them some slack.

There are teacher work days on the schedule for after the last day of school....is this not what those are for?

It takes more one day to get your room packed up and cleaned. It’s a hell of a job. You are required to also do a check out time with an admin where they have to check you out and do a walk through. Sometimes your room might be used for summer school. You are required to pack a certain way so no one steals your things. It’s a lot of manual labor. One of those things you don’t realize until you are actually a teacher.

I can't with this. Put in a few extra hours like literally anyone with a real job does.

Are you required to pack up and physically move the contents of your office to another office? I do this every few years. I could do it in my 20s and 30s but not in my 50s. Thankfully my son helps me every time. He’s been helping me move classrooms and sometimes from buildings to mods and back again since he was 7. He still can’t believe that teachers have to do this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason it’s like this is bc teachers want to get their classroom cleaned/packed up before the kids leave. They need the kids to help or to at least be calm/quiet so they can do all the last minute end of the year crap admin has them doing. If they literally taught until the last day, they’d be there for days after the kids leave cleaning/packing up the room. And that’s not in their contract. Please cut them some slack.

There are teacher work days on the schedule for after the last day of school....is this not what those are for?

It takes more one day to get your room packed up and cleaned. It’s a hell of a job. You are required to also do a check out time with an admin where they have to check you out and do a walk through. Sometimes your room might be used for summer school. You are required to pack a certain way so no one steals your things. It’s a lot of manual labor. One of those things you don’t realize until you are actually a teacher.

I can't with this. Put in a few extra hours like literally anyone with a real job does.

Are you required to pack up and physically move the contents of your office to another office? I do this every few years. I could do it in my 20s and 30s but not in my 50s. Thankfully my son helps me every time. He’s been helping me move classrooms and sometimes from buildings to mods and back again since he was 7. He still can’t believe that teachers have to do this.

Be careful with your comments. Know you audience. A lot on here are federal workers that were given notice and their “packing up” was to be unemployed. In private companies when people are let go they are walked out of building same day with no time to “pack.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason it’s like this is bc teachers want to get their classroom cleaned/packed up before the kids leave. They need the kids to help or to at least be calm/quiet so they can do all the last minute end of the year crap admin has them doing. If they literally taught until the last day, they’d be there for days after the kids leave cleaning/packing up the room. And that’s not in their contract. Please cut them some slack.

There are teacher work days on the schedule for after the last day of school....is this not what those are for?

It takes more one day to get your room packed up and cleaned. It’s a hell of a job. You are required to also do a check out time with an admin where they have to check you out and do a walk through. Sometimes your room might be used for summer school. You are required to pack a certain way so no one steals your things. It’s a lot of manual labor. One of those things you don’t realize until you are actually a teacher.

If you are moving classrooms it’s an added level of packing. Between 2000 and 2023 I never spent more than 3 years in a row in one classroom. I think I moved 9 times.

[Anonymous]

I currently sub. Yesterday I was in third grade. The day consisted of:
*Morning Meeting
*Each student wrote a list of questions to ask 4th graders. They could not be questions that could be answered with “yes” or “no”, or one word.
*A panel of 4th graders came in and answered their questions. It was pretty interesting and they had a good discussion.
*They wrote letters to their fourth grade selves.
*Math was a lesson showing arrangements of cubes. “How many and how do you know”? Students worked on 4 word problems that gave a scenario in which someone needed to paint a wall. A can of paint covered a certain square area and using dimensions of the wall they had to answer whether there was enough paint and explain why or why not.
*Health lesson was about the digestive system
*They had time to work on severe weather projects

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason it’s like this is bc teachers want to get their classroom cleaned/packed up before the kids leave. They need the kids to help or to at least be calm/quiet so they can do all the last minute end of the year crap admin has them doing. If they literally taught until the last day, they’d be there for days after the kids leave cleaning/packing up the room. And that’s not in their contract. Please cut them some slack.

There are teacher work days on the schedule for after the last day of school....is this not what those are for?

It takes more one day to get your room packed up and cleaned. It’s a hell of a job. You are required to also do a check out time with an admin where they have to check you out and do a walk through. Sometimes your room might be used for summer school. You are required to pack a certain way so no one steals your things. It’s a lot of manual labor. One of those things you don’t realize until you are actually a teacher.

I can't with this. Put in a few extra hours like literally anyone with a real job does.

Are you required to pack up and physically move the contents of your office to another office? I do this every few years. I could do it in my 20s and 30s but not in my 50s. Thankfully my son helps me every time. He’s been helping me move classrooms and sometimes from buildings to mods and back again since he was 7. He still can’t believe that teachers have to do this.

Be careful with your comments. Know you audience. A lot on here are federal workers that were given notice and their “packing up” was to be unemployed. In private companies when people are let go they are walked out of building same day with no time to “pack.”

There are now 9 vacancies at my school for next year. Laid off federal workers would be welcome to apply and would be definitely hired. Apparently there is no prior experience required to teach so come one, come all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I currently sub. Yesterday I was in third grade. The day consisted of:
*Morning Meeting
*Each student wrote a list of questions to ask 4th graders. They could not be questions that could be answered with “yes” or “no”, or one word.
*A panel of 4th graders came in and answered their questions. It was pretty interesting and they had a good discussion.
*They wrote letters to their fourth grade selves.
*Math was a lesson showing arrangements of cubes. “How many and how do you know”? Students worked on 4 word problems that gave a scenario in which someone needed to paint a wall. A can of paint covered a certain square area and using dimensions of the wall they had to answer whether there was enough paint and explain why or why not.
*Health lesson was about the digestive system
*They had time to work on severe weather projects

This. If your child has truly just been sitting watching movies, discuss with your principal. Most teachers have been teaching in ES the past few weeks with fun things interwoven. Next week, there will probably be less teaching and more activities/cleaning. But seriously, the majority of ES teachers have been teaching the last two weeks.