The behaviors at school are AWFUL this week

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s almost as if many, many of their other friends and cousins and neighbor kids are already enjoying summer break, and the ridiculous school year that your leadership has created and stretched out instead of building in an appropriate amount of weather event dates is causing the kids to be fatigued and ready for summer already.

Op here--trust me I am not happy with my leadership about this and many other things. But these behaviors aren't the "I'm bored and antsy for summer! So hard to concentrate!" Behaviors. These are the--IDGAF when someone tells me to sit down in the cafeteria for the 10th time, I will throw food across 3 tables just to piss off the cafeteria monitor. It's the I'm going to start a fight on the playground and kick and hurt the admin when they come to break it up. I will scream my head off when I don't get my way and it's so loud it makes other kids cry. That kind of thing. It's not excessive giggling or the lines in the hallways being crazy because they're all wiggly that has been happening the last week of school for a thousand years. It's all very amplified this year. And they just don't care, which is scary. Because the teachers can't keep any semblance of control unless the students are taught to respect adults, and if that dwindles--the education system as we know it will be in crisis. It already is, but it's not yet at the tipping point. Imagine where your kids would go if there just weren't enough humans to safely staff a school. There won't be schools! Then where will your kids go during the day to learn and be careful for while parents work? How will we have an educated populace? I'm truly worried about this.

This is why I moved my kids to private and why they will stay there through HS.

Thank you! Our schools are very overcrowded so every little bit helps!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's really, really bad. Even the "good" kids are acting out. Students do not respect the adults in the building or the rules and routines of the year.

I'm not surprised so many teachers are quitting

OMG OMG society in freefall decline! Maybe electing Republicans to the board of education will save us? Never mind their stance on women's health, guns, and democracy.

many students have left mcps as well, so seems to even out. many classrooms have such low enrollment, so it's good some teachers are leaving.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s almost as if many, many of their other friends and cousins and neighbor kids are already enjoying summer break, and the ridiculous school year that your leadership has created and stretched out instead of building in an appropriate amount of weather event dates is causing the kids to be fatigued and ready for summer already.

Op here--trust me I am not happy with my leadership about this and many other things. But these behaviors aren't the "I'm bored and antsy for summer! So hard to concentrate!" Behaviors. These are the--IDGAF when someone tells me to sit down in the cafeteria for the 10th time, I will throw food across 3 tables just to piss off the cafeteria monitor. It's the I'm going to start a fight on the playground and kick and hurt the admin when they come to break it up. I will scream my head off when I don't get my way and it's so loud it makes other kids cry. That kind of thing. It's not excessive giggling or the lines in the hallways being crazy because they're all wiggly that has been happening the last week of school for a thousand years. It's all very amplified this year. And they just don't care, which is scary. Because the teachers can't keep any semblance of control unless the students are taught to respect adults, and if that dwindles--the education system as we know it will be in crisis. It already is, but it's not yet at the tipping point. Imagine where your kids would go if there just weren't enough humans to safely staff a school. There won't be schools! Then where will your kids go during the day to learn and be careful for while parents work? How will we have an educated populace? I'm truly worried about this.

This is sad. Probably a lot of issues going on here. Teachers aren't teaching any new material, and haven't been for the past month for the most part, so students aren't learning anything - boredom might be a factor, along with stress and the need for attention/stimulation. And of course some parents in some of these schools don't seem to have control over their children and aren't making sure their children don't mistreat others, but that has always been a problem.

My kids aren't experiencing this at their schools, thankfully. I'm taking that these are schools in rougher, lower income areas like Silver Spring?

[Anonymous]

Some kids hate summer as well. Trapped in houses with siblings and nothing to do. For many kids school is the only relief from abusive situations or abandonment. Now they are stuck with them again. Some kids act during holidays for the same reasons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s almost as if many, many of their other friends and cousins and neighbor kids are already enjoying summer break, and the ridiculous school year that your leadership has created and stretched out instead of building in an appropriate amount of weather event dates is causing the kids to be fatigued and ready for summer already.

Op here--trust me I am not happy with my leadership about this and many other things. But these behaviors aren't the "I'm bored and antsy for summer! So hard to concentrate!" Behaviors. These are the--IDGAF when someone tells me to sit down in the cafeteria for the 10th time, I will throw food across 3 tables just to piss off the cafeteria monitor. It's the I'm going to start a fight on the playground and kick and hurt the admin when they come to break it up. I will scream my head off when I don't get my way and it's so loud it makes other kids cry. That kind of thing. It's not excessive giggling or the lines in the hallways being crazy because they're all wiggly that has been happening the last week of school for a thousand years. It's all very amplified this year. And they just don't care, which is scary. Because the teachers can't keep any semblance of control unless the students are taught to respect adults, and if that dwindles--the education system as we know it will be in crisis. It already is, but it's not yet at the tipping point. Imagine where your kids would go if there just weren't enough humans to safely staff a school. There won't be schools! Then where will your kids go during the day to learn and be careful for while parents work? How will we have an educated populace? I'm truly worried about this.

Sounds like the teacher in this case can't control their classroom. I'm sorry your kids have teachers like this but this seems to be more of an exception than anything else.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They were supposed to be out today. But they extended thru Friday because iof snow days.

And what are they doing in class? Watching movies. These are AP classes. Why are we potentially exposing kids to COVID to watch movies? This is stupid

My junior's AP classes are not full of movies. They're doing AP World History and AP Calculus until the bitter end, it seems!

Didn't they take the AP exams a month ago? Why are they still teaching content now -- seems a little too late.

Because shockingly, knowledge itself is important, not just a score on the test!

[Anonymous]

My kids' teachers basically stopped teaching the Friday before Memorial Day. June has been a complete waste, with nearly zero learning going on. The only teachers who seem to give a damn are the band teachers. Kids have been asking if they even need to go in this week because it's just movies and down time. I don't want to hear one word about learning loss when teachers basically gave up these last 3 weeks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s almost as if many, many of their other friends and cousins and neighbor kids are already enjoying summer break, and the ridiculous school year that your leadership has created and stretched out instead of building in an appropriate amount of weather event dates is causing the kids to be fatigued and ready for summer already.

And some kids will start school before others in August. And some schools have different breaks. This has been the case as long as there have been different schools on different calendars.

This is one of the many problems with our education system, they should have synchronized calendars and schedules.

I'd like to see the focus on quality of educational instruction instead of the quantity of it. More time in the classroom doesn't equal more learning, especially in high school. There is not reason to have a seven-hour school day that goes from August to nearly the first day of summer in June. It's too much.

This exactly. # of days means nothing. There is so much wasted time in schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They were supposed to be out today. But they extended thru Friday because iof snow days.

And what are they doing in class? Watching movies. These are AP classes. Why are we potentially exposing kids to COVID to watch movies? This is stupid

My junior's AP classes are not full of movies. They're doing AP World History and AP Calculus until the bitter end, it seems!

Didn't they take the AP exams a month ago? Why are they still teaching content now -- seems a little too late.

I’m an AP teacher. We worked hard all year until the AP exam. Since then we just relaxed and had fun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They were supposed to be out today. But they extended thru Friday because iof snow days.

And what are they doing in class? Watching movies. These are AP classes. Why are we potentially exposing kids to COVID to watch movies? This is stupid

My junior's AP classes are not full of movies. They're doing AP World History and AP Calculus until the bitter end, it seems!

Didn't they take the AP exams a month ago? Why are they still teaching content now -- seems a little too late.

I’m an AP teacher. We worked hard all year until the AP exam. Since then we just relaxed and had fun.

A well earned rest!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids' teachers basically stopped teaching the Friday before Memorial Day. June has been a complete waste, with nearly zero learning going on. The only teachers who seem to give a damn are the band teachers. Kids have been asking if they even need to go in this week because it's just movies and down time. I don't want to hear one word about learning loss when teachers basically gave up these last 3 weeks.

We had to stop teaching to get in all of the ridiculous testing. The testing windows end before school does so it's a lot of time with nothing to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s almost as if many, many of their other friends and cousins and neighbor kids are already enjoying summer break, and the ridiculous school year that your leadership has created and stretched out instead of building in an appropriate amount of weather event dates is causing the kids to be fatigued and ready for summer already.

Op here--trust me I am not happy with my leadership about this and many other things. But these behaviors aren't the "I'm bored and antsy for summer! So hard to concentrate!" Behaviors. These are the--IDGAF when someone tells me to sit down in the cafeteria for the 10th time, I will throw food across 3 tables just to piss off the cafeteria monitor. It's the I'm going to start a fight on the playground and kick and hurt the admin when they come to break it up. I will scream my head off when I don't get my way and it's so loud it makes other kids cry. That kind of thing. It's not excessive giggling or the lines in the hallways being crazy because they're all wiggly that has been happening the last week of school for a thousand years. It's all very amplified this year. And they just don't care, which is scary. Because the teachers can't keep any semblance of control unless the students are taught to respect adults, and if that dwindles--the education system as we know it will be in crisis. It already is, but it's not yet at the tipping point. Imagine where your kids would go if there just weren't enough humans to safely staff a school. There won't be schools! Then where will your kids go during the day to learn and be careful for while parents work? How will we have an educated populace? I'm truly worried about this.

This is sad. Probably a lot of issues going on here. Teachers aren't teaching any new material, and haven't been for the past month for the most part, so students aren't learning anything - boredom might be a factor, along with stress and the need for attention/stimulation. And of course some parents in some of these schools don't seem to have control over their children and aren't making sure their children don't mistreat others, but that has always been a problem.

My kids aren't experiencing this at their schools, thankfully. I'm taking that these are schools in rougher, lower income areas like Silver Spring?

Funny, my Silver Spring kid hasn’t experienced this. But go ahead with the insults if you must.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s almost as if many, many of their other friends and cousins and neighbor kids are already enjoying summer break, and the ridiculous school year that your leadership has created and stretched out instead of building in an appropriate amount of weather event dates is causing the kids to be fatigued and ready for summer already.

Op here--trust me I am not happy with my leadership about this and many other things. But these behaviors aren't the "I'm bored and antsy for summer! So hard to concentrate!" Behaviors. These are the--IDGAF when someone tells me to sit down in the cafeteria for the 10th time, I will throw food across 3 tables just to piss off the cafeteria monitor. It's the I'm going to start a fight on the playground and kick and hurt the admin when they come to break it up. I will scream my head off when I don't get my way and it's so loud it makes other kids cry. That kind of thing. It's not excessive giggling or the lines in the hallways being crazy because they're all wiggly that has been happening the last week of school for a thousand years. It's all very amplified this year. And they just don't care, which is scary. Because the teachers can't keep any semblance of control unless the students are taught to respect adults, and if that dwindles--the education system as we know it will be in crisis. It already is, but it's not yet at the tipping point. Imagine where your kids would go if there just weren't enough humans to safely staff a school. There won't be schools! Then where will your kids go during the day to learn and be careful for while parents work? How will we have an educated populace? I'm truly worried about this.

Sounds like the teacher in this case can't control their classroom. I'm sorry your kids have teachers like this but this seems to be more of an exception than anything else.

I wonder if we work at the same school? I've been an elementary teacher in MCPS for 20 years and it's been bad the last four years. I can't quite figure out what the tipping point was but there's strong IDGAF energy running rampant throughout my last two elementary schools. Gee, I can't imagine why we can't get subs and teachers are quitting right and left - it's just not worth it anymore if you can do anything else...and I mean, anything!

[Anonymous]

Where's Mr. Joe Clark when we need him?

Fair East Side...

[Anonymous]

My kids' teachers basically stopped teaching the Friday before Memorial Day. June has been a complete waste, with nearly zero learning going on. The only teachers who seem to give a damn are the band teachers. Kids have been asking if they even need to go in this week because it's just movies and down time. I don't want to hear one word about learning loss when teachers basically gave up these last 3 weeks.



We had to stop teaching to get in all of the ridiculous testing. The testing windows end before school does so it's a lot of time with nothing to do.

So there's literally nothing that you can review or teach or go further in depth on? These kids were out of school for a year and are behind. Reviewing core math concepts and reading a short book for the last few weeks of school doesn't seem like too big a stretch.