Jun 15 school board meeting & Return in Fall presentation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The number in that slide is only people who started the year enrolled and dropped out. It does not include all the people who weren’t enrolled for 2020-2021 to begin with. I know 2 families who quit mid-year. I know many more who were new to homeschool or private from the start of the year. Most are not coming back.

Oh so they’re cooking the books in their favor to make themselves look better. I wish I could say I was surprised.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The number in that slide is only people who started the year enrolled and dropped out. It does not include all the people who weren’t enrolled for 2020-2021 to begin with. I know 2 families who quit mid-year. I know many more who were new to homeschool or private from the start of the year. Most are not coming back.

Oh so they’re cooking the books in their favor to make themselves look better. I wish I could say I was surprised.

I think anyone who follows the actions of Gatehouse would be more surprised if they weren't cooking the books to make themselves look better (see: the grading policy changes, the pressure campaign for students to opt out of SOLs).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:for HS I hope for Asch Mondays, I think that gives a day to catch up on work, study for tests, doc appointments etc

High school needs to do away with Mondays off.

Losing 20% of instructional time while carryijg a rigorous high school course load is simply unacceptable and unfair to the students

I'm a big supporter of mondays off. For lots of reasons. Taking those away does not diminish instruction if done right. And adds to the kids' mental well-being and quality of life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:for HS I hope for Asch Mondays, I think that gives a day to catch up on work, study for tests, doc appointments etc

+100

I wish they would bring back half-day Mondays. It was a win-win for teachers and students. No random and arbitrary teacher workdays scattered on the calendar bc the half-day Mondays allowed time for development and planning. And parents liked it bc it was consistent and manageable. And us students liked it.

I remember it differently. Parents lobbied to do away with early release (the student day was longer than a half day) Mondays.

As this thread shows, parents bi--- and whine about anything. This is a good compromise with predictable built in early release days. They should absolutely do this but, of course, will not.

They should also allow for remote learning on individual basis for kids who are home sick (sick enough not to go; but able to sit through a lesson). And they should only have a bare bones number of hours dedicated to snow days, and give the rest back. There is ZERO need for the number currently built into the calendar. This is my wish list but I am aware it will not happen.

[Anonymous]

No connecting to class when home sick. That’s concurrent learning and every group has clearly stated they don’t want concurrent learning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:for HS I hope for Asch Mondays, I think that gives a day to catch up on work, study for tests, doc appointments etc

+100

I wish they would bring back half-day Mondays. It was a win-win for teachers and students. No random and arbitrary teacher workdays scattered on the calendar bc the half-day Mondays allowed time for development and planning. And parents liked it bc it was consistent and manageable. And us students liked it.

I remember it differently. Parents lobbied to do away with early release (the student day was longer than a half day) Mondays.

Same. I loved them but there was a huge movement against them by parents so they got rid of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:for HS I hope for Asch Mondays, I think that gives a day to catch up on work, study for tests, doc appointments etc

+100

I wish they would bring back half-day Mondays. It was a win-win for teachers and students. No random and arbitrary teacher workdays scattered on the calendar bc the half-day Mondays allowed time for development and planning. And parents liked it bc it was consistent and manageable. And us students liked it.

I remember it differently. Parents lobbied to do away with early release (the student day was longer than a half day) Mondays.

The majority of parents hated it, it was a childcare nightmare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:for HS I hope for Asch Mondays, I think that gives a day to catch up on work, study for tests, doc appointments etc

High school needs to do away with Mondays off.

Losing 20% of instructional time while carryijg a rigorous high school course load is simply unacceptable and unfair to the students

I'm a big supporter of mondays off. For lots of reasons. Taking those away does not diminish instruction if done right. And adds to the kids' mental well-being and quality of life.

Anyone with a high school doing AP classes knows that the students need thst instructional time, especially after this year.

Keeping Mondays off is a terrible idea, especially for high school students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:for HS I hope for Asch Mondays, I think that gives a day to catch up on work, study for tests, doc appointments etc

+100

I wish they would bring back half-day Mondays. It was a win-win for teachers and students. No random and arbitrary teacher workdays scattered on the calendar bc the half-day Mondays allowed time for development and planning. And parents liked it bc it was consistent and manageable. And us students liked it.

I remember it differently. Parents lobbied to do away with early release (the student day was longer than a half day) Mondays.

As this thread shows, parents bi--- and whine about anything. This is a good compromise with predictable built in early release days. They should absolutely do this but, of course, will not.

They should also allow for remote learning on individual basis for kids who are home sick (sick enough not to go; but able to sit through a lesson). And they should only have a bare bones number of hours dedicated to snow days, and give the rest back. There is ZERO need for the number currently built into the calendar. This is my wish list but I am aware it will not happen.

Are you new to fcps?

Every couple of years they have around a month worth of actual snowdays.

If a sidewalk freezes on the loudoun county border, fcps cancels schools.

It is part of their mantra that if one student cannot learn, then no student shall learn.

It started with Garza who was from Texas and afraid of driving in frost, and snowballed from their.

Fcps needs most of the snowdays build into the calendar. You shall see if we ever get back to a jormal school year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MORE professional development? Ughhhhh. As a teacher (and a parent), this is not what teachers (at least at my school) want. The professional development is always Gatehouse created to fit whatever their new priority for the year is (because we apparently can’t focus on the same thing for more than a year or two) and has never once been helpful to my curriculum area. The teacher workdays are helpful for grading and unit planning w my colleagues, but I would much rather have students on ALL of the professional development days than listen to hastily prepared Gatehouse presentations. This is a waste of time and just leads to more childcare needs for parents.

I know. I hate Professional Development. Often, it is people who are less educated and less intelligent than the teachers turning heavily watered-down material from psychology or cultural theory into a bulleted list of talking points. It’s awful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:for HS I hope for Asch Mondays, I think that gives a day to catch up on work, study for tests, doc appointments etc

+100

I wish they would bring back half-day Mondays. It was a win-win for teachers and students. No random and arbitrary teacher workdays scattered on the calendar bc the half-day Mondays allowed time for development and planning. And parents liked it bc it was consistent and manageable. And us students liked it.

I remember it differently. Parents lobbied to do away with early release (the student day was longer than a half day) Mondays.

As this thread shows, parents bi--- and whine about anything. This is a good compromise with predictable built in early release days. They should absolutely do this but, of course, will not.

They should also allow for remote learning on individual basis for kids who are home sick (sick enough not to go; but able to sit through a lesson). And they should only have a bare bones number of hours dedicated to snow days, and give the rest back. There is ZERO need for the number currently built into the calendar. This is my wish list but I am aware it will not happen.

Are you new to fcps?

Every couple of years they have around a month worth of actual snowdays.

If a sidewalk freezes on the loudoun county border, fcps cancels schools.

It is part of their mantra that if one student cannot learn, then no student shall learn.

It started with Garza who was from Texas and afraid of driving in frost, and snowballed from their.

Fcps needs most of the snowdays build into the calendar. You shall see if we ever get back to a jormal school year.

DP. They usually use about 7-9, not all 19-20 built in. They used to only have 4 built in. I've been around since the late 90s.

For a while they had to use a certain number to get around the Kings Dominion Law, but that's over now. They could go back to 4, or 7, or something.

[Anonymous]

Is anyone watching the SB meeting yet? I can't tune in but am curious about the literacy forum topic.

http://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=C3EJQM49C814

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No connecting to class when home sick. That’s concurrent learning and every group has clearly stated they don’t want concurrent learning.

If a student is sick, let them rest at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MORE professional development? Ughhhhh. As a teacher (and a parent), this is not what teachers (at least at my school) want. The professional development is always Gatehouse created to fit whatever their new priority for the year is (because we apparently can’t focus on the same thing for more than a year or two) and has never once been helpful to my curriculum area. The teacher workdays are helpful for grading and unit planning w my colleagues, but I would much rather have students on ALL of the professional development days than listen to hastily prepared Gatehouse presentations. This is a waste of time and just leads to more childcare needs for parents.

Another teacher here. Completely agree. Again, more people making decisions for educators who are so far removed from the classroom.

+1
DW and I plus another teacher friend were just talking about this tonight.

Parent here - if you all end up collective bargaining can you get them to stop hiring so many central office and administration types? The bureaucratic bloat is out of hand. People will never vote in the politicians who would make them.

Tell me about it. If the union becomes official, I am joining so I can lobby for smaller class sizes, more paper books and workbooks, and more teacher control over curriculum and grading decisions. I would put “cut the bureaucratic bloat” as my top item on the agenda.

In an ideal school, I think administration and teaching roles should be more combined. The people who have all the power and make all the crucial decisions are unaware of what the day to day classroom is like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do vaccinated people have to wear masks in school buildings but Gatehouse is mask-optional?

Oh, are you effing kidding me? Just another reason to loathe Gatehouse.