Who hates Monday?

[Anonymous]

Who is coming down this hard on OP for saying Mondays are tough?
Mondays are tough!!!!!!!!!!! They're a joke. Since when is this acceptable? And since when does this have anything to do with parenting?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just saw my 4th grader’s teacher at the park with her preschooler. (I thought this was a teacher work day). She tried to avoid me but I marched right up to her to say hello.

They never had Monday work but would at least meet for 20 minutes.

I hope she reads this TBH.
I’m disgusted by this whole school year.

An FCPS teacher with a preschooler is required to have childcare on work days.

She’s also supposed to be working, not frolicking at the playground...

[Anonymous]

I feel you, OP. My 2nd and 5th graders do ok with getting their work done alone, but it does not take long and then they are either in my face or watching screens. Luckily today is nice and we live in a neighborhood where I can kick them outside to play.

I really hope we get 5 day a week school and SACC next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just saw my 4th grader’s teacher at the park with her preschooler. (I thought this was a teacher work day). She tried to avoid me but I marched right up to her to say hello.

They never had Monday work but would at least meet for 20 minutes.

I hope she reads this TBH.
I’m disgusted by this whole school year.

An FCPS teacher with a preschooler is required to have childcare on work days.

She’s also supposed to be working, not frolicking at the playground...

You’re some special kind of special

[Anonymous]

We try and be positive about all of this but Mondays are a joke. DS is good about entertaining himself but he is done with his school work by lunch. We have him do all the must dos and may dos. Then he does his AoPS math. He also has his speech in the morning. His friends are done pretty quickly as well. DS's biggest complaint is that his friends don't have to do the may do assignments but he does. We simply told him that it is assigned school work and it gives him something to do for a little bit while we are working.

I have no idea how the schools are able to use Monday as a school day for tracking purposes because there is no more then an hours worth of work assigned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We try and be positive about all of this but Mondays are a joke. DS is good about entertaining himself but he is done with his school work by lunch. We have him do all the must dos and may dos. Then he does his AoPS math. He also has his speech in the morning. His friends are done pretty quickly as well. DS's biggest complaint is that his friends don't have to do the may do assignments but he does. We simply told him that it is assigned school work and it gives him something to do for a little bit while we are working.

I have no idea how the schools are able to use Monday as a school day for tracking purposes because there is no more then an hours worth of work assigned.

Our school assigns a few hours (which I think is what they are supposed to do).

However I do suggest that everyone on this thread who is upset about Monday contact the state superintendent of schools. Tell him to never give another hours waiver like this again and how it is not the same as a real school day. His contact info is here:

Dr. James Lane, [e-mail], 804-225-2057

That will do more to ensure that we never have something like this again than complaining on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We try and be positive about all of this but Mondays are a joke. DS is good about entertaining himself but he is done with his school work by lunch. We have him do all the must dos and may dos. Then he does his AoPS math. He also has his speech in the morning. His friends are done pretty quickly as well. DS's biggest complaint is that his friends don't have to do the may do assignments but he does. We simply told him that it is assigned school work and it gives him something to do for a little bit while we are working.

I have no idea how the schools are able to use Monday as a school day for tracking purposes because there is no more then an hours worth of work assigned.

Our school assigns a few hours (which I think is what they are supposed to do).

However I do suggest that everyone on this thread who is upset about Monday contact the state superintendent of schools. Tell him to never give another hours waiver like this again and how it is not the same as a real school day. His contact info is here:

Dr. James Lane, [e-mail], 804-225-2057

That will do more to ensure that we never have something like this again than complaining on DCUM.

Yes. 2-3 hours.

I just finished my lunch. I did Morning Meeting 9:00 to a little after 9:30. I then went over each assignment for the day. I met with a reading group at 10:00 and another at 10:20. I’ve spent some time here at school trouble shooting some tech issues with our SBTS. I will now work on getting things ready for tomorrow.

My students have:
A math assignment with lesson slides about area.
ST Math
A recorded lesson about book talks and an assignment to complete a book talk using Flipgrid.
A social studies assignment about resources.

I know it’s not ideal and I hope we can be back to our “normal” schedule on the fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We try and be positive about all of this but Mondays are a joke. DS is good about entertaining himself but he is done with his school work by lunch. We have him do all the must dos and may dos. Then he does his AoPS math. He also has his speech in the morning. His friends are done pretty quickly as well. DS's biggest complaint is that his friends don't have to do the may do assignments but he does. We simply told him that it is assigned school work and it gives him something to do for a little bit while we are working.

I have no idea how the schools are able to use Monday as a school day for tracking purposes because there is no more then an hours worth of work assigned.

Our school assigns a few hours (which I think is what they are supposed to do).

However I do suggest that everyone on this thread who is upset about Monday contact the state superintendent of schools. Tell him to never give another hours waiver like this again and how it is not the same as a real school day. His contact info is here:

Dr. James Lane, [e-mail], 804-225-2057

That will do more to ensure that we never have something like this again than complaining on DCUM.

Yes. 2-3 hours.

I just finished my lunch. I did Morning Meeting 9:00 to a little after 9:30. I then went over each assignment for the day. I met with a reading group at 10:00 and another at 10:20. I’ve spent some time here at school trouble shooting some tech issues with our SBTS. I will now work on getting things ready for tomorrow.

My students have:
A math assignment with lesson slides about area.
ST Math
A recorded lesson about book talks and an assignment to complete a book talk using Flipgrid.
A social studies assignment about resources.

I know it’s not ideal and I hope we can be back to our “normal” schedule on the fall.

One of the PPs here. I know, because my kids have teachers like you, that plenty of teachers are doing quite a bit of work today and managing to even get information taught through the work done. Thanks for what you do.

But I agree with you that it's not ideal.

And I can't imagine how some kids have nothing to do and are still learning as much as the kids who have Monday work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child's teacher posted on their task card "It's beautiful out. Enjoy the outdoors. See you online tomorrow"

How can we say this is school?

You can’t even pretend.

[Anonymous]

My child has no teacher interaction at all on Mondays. No morning meeting and no small groups. They have 30 minutes of busy work, this is for early ES.

I hear you. Mondays are hard, especially for working parents like us. Not sure where all the hate is coming from. We all have different dynamics at home and kids of different ages. We should be more compassionate with each other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child's teacher posted on their task card "It's beautiful out. Enjoy the outdoors. See you online tomorrow"

How can we say this is school?

Similar for my 7th graders AAP English class. FCPS is a joke

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just saw my 4th grader’s teacher at the park with her preschooler. (I thought this was a teacher work day). She tried to avoid me but I marched right up to her to say hello.

They never had Monday work but would at least meet for 20 minutes.

I hope she reads this TBH.
I’m disgusted by this whole school year.

An FCPS teacher with a preschooler is required to have childcare on work days.

She’s also supposed to be working, not frolicking at the playground...

You’re some special kind of special

Fcps teachers actually are NOT required to have childcare. Stop spreading misinformation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is impossible to be a working parent of young children with these Mondays. I can't get anything done. Kids are fighting and screaming and have nothing to do. DH is at work (as in not in the home). We can't afford any other type of care. How can they call this a proper school day? They have nothing to do. (1st and 4th).

Thy would just be fighting and screaming at school if they weren’t with you, ruining class for the children who don’t have behavior problems. Start parenting.

OP, ignore posts like these. They are from anti-education, anti-child, miserable people. They are meaningless to our society. Best to pretend like they don't exist.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am with you. I know you don’t have DS home. In our house we take turns getting the kids out of the house in the morning.

It is not a school day. My DD today said “Is today a stay home day?” meaning no school. Yes, unfortunately it is. I hate Mondays!!!!

Your kids are that unpleasant? Their poor teachers.

Whoever you are, go away. You're a smug B.

And you are a bad parent. Get off the internet and go play with your kids.

Please crawl back into your hole. Don't come back out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate hate hate asynchronous Mondays. Our superintendent should be fired!

+1. FCPS is a joke.