FCPS Early Release Mondays

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Anonymous wrote:Somehow the rest of the state manages to teach kids 5 days a week

Yes, by burning through teachers.

You can’t continue to place demand after demand after demand on professionals, expecting them to work even more on their own time. Teachers are crashing and burning everywhere.

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Anonymous wrote:Why did FCPS decide to do all these disruptive early releases (with double bus runs?!?) rather than just close for full day training? What was the rationale?

Some of us heard it would extend the school year (last day of school), it would still occur sporadically throughout the year (like Loudoun, and a constant area of complaint by FCPS parents) and the additional cost.

FCPS has its issues but honestly nothing makes parents in FCPS happy. The complaints are endless~ at this point it's just noise. Carry on.

It sounds like what you want from parents is to donate time and money, support teacher pay raises and bond funds at election time, tell our children that their teachers are always right in order to avoid undermining the classroom…and…that’s about it?

What value do you see parents having to the system outside the above?

Not the PP, but you read a lot more from that comment than I did.

Maybe, but if the lack of respect and consideration shown for parents by people claiming to be teachers is indicative of the FCPS attitude (which is seems to be) it’s a strong reason to go private. My parents were never treated like their views were “noise” when they raised concerns.

And let’s face it. By parents we mostly mean women. If this was dads who were expected to depart work early for seven additional days, the board would be up in arms.

The main problem with this board is the generalizations. It generalizes parents, teachers, schools, and FCPS itself. Can we not ask our husbands to take PTO a couple times?

Of course we can, and many families will (my own included if we choose to participate in this). But there are a significant number of female-headed single parent households in the area, who do you suggest they “ask” to take PTO?

And the question is the underpinning assumptions. If FCPS assumed only or primarily men would be the ones asked to take time off, they would either have come to a different conclusion about when and how to take the days, they would have rolled out a specific plan for the “in school option” which doesn’t rely on unpaid female labor (explicit in the announcement) and when, for example, a single dad said this is deeply problematic his complaints wouldn’t be brushed off as “noise”.

It’s frustrating that society isn’t fair to women and that real change takes time.

My husband is deployed, so I suspect if they’re a single mom or dad, they already have childcare in place prior to this announcement. It may be an additional expense, which single parents are more than familiar with. It sucks, but life is full of additional expenses that we can’t control (for all households) … but again, they can opt into the stay at school option which will either be free or low-cost.

Can you point to the communication from FCPS that says that it will be free or low cost? Because I’ve seen that here but absolutely nowhere else.

And you’re right. Real change takes time. But it also requires people to call out sexism when it’s happening and not be dismissed as “noise” as above.

Sent to staff last Friday - read sentence 2:

“We understand that for some families, early release days may present a significant challenge. With that in mind — where necessary — FCPS will provide no-cost opportunities for students to remain at school until their regular dismissal time. Options may include opening SACC sites earlier to supervise currently enrolled SACC students and partnering with community groups to offer supervised enrichment activities. Licensed educators from central office will also be available to support this work. High-impact tutoring will be provided to identified students. The steering committee will provide direction to this work.”

Ok, interesting. Families received this:
While these are designated as early release days — where necessary — we will ensure that every student has supervised enrichment activities at the school and returns home at the regular time if that is what works best for your family. Licensed educators from FCPS’ central office will also be available to support schools. High-impact tutoring will be available for identified students.

I wonder why the wording wasn’t the same.

Written in muddled edu-speak. Key words include; “enrichment activities,” “licensed educators,” “central office,”
“support” and what the heck is “high-impact tutoring” ?

Can you imagine trying to interpret this word salad if your native language isn’t English?

High impact tutors is another governor initiative to help get students on grade level. I know many and will tell you the people I know will leave if they are asked to babysit....it's one thing for them to see their regularly scheduled groups....it's another to babysit. I hope FCPS doesn't mess that up-we need these people to keep working with kids in small groups. They are certified educators...and they make a difference.

Interesting. Maybe it’s different in elementary? The ones at my high school were not. They had college degrees in the subject they were tutoring (or an adjacent one) but they did not have any teaching experience or licensure.

It was a mixed bag. The requirement that tutoring had to happen during that subject made it rough, as students missed instruction to receive remediation from a semi qualified person. I wish it had happened in lieu of advisory or PE or something instead.

We are lucky then-we had 4 certified teachers who wanted part time (ES). I think you are right though with high schools....they do little for students who don't have an IEP.

And what do they do for those with IEPs?

I'm assuming not much

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Somehow the rest of the state manages to teach kids 5 days a week

Yes, by burning through teachers.

You can’t continue to place demand after demand after demand on professionals, expecting them to work even more on their own time. Teachers are crashing and burning everywhere.

No, it’s because they don’t have random holidays off every week the way FCPS and Loudoun do. I support an inclusive calendar to a point but something’s got to give.

[Anonymous]

The only people in the school that this training applies to is K-6 classroom teachers (and sped teachers who don’t have SOR training). Reading specialists have already completed the training. Gen ed teachers who have taken OG don’t have to do this training. Math specialists don’t need it. All other Specialists don’t need it (music, art, steam, PE, etc). They will all be available to teach during their regularly scheduled school day. Most likely at least 50% of the school will go home early. Plus, most 6th & 5th graders should be able to go home. I would assume there will be a survey for parents on if the child will stay or go. Those kids who are in MTSS can work with the HIT tutors. They’ll likely divide up the other kids and have extension activities in rooms throughout the school. My school doesn’t offer any PTA enrichment like a few schools seem to, so it won’t be put on our PTA. I do wish it wasn’t all Mondays though. I think that’s going to be 15 Mondays through the year and that really messes with planning, meetings, and kids specials.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only people in the school that this training applies to is K-6 classroom teachers (and sped teachers who don’t have SOR training). Reading specialists have already completed the training. Gen ed teachers who have taken OG don’t have to do this training. Math specialists don’t need it. All other Specialists don’t need it (music, art, steam, PE, etc). They will all be available to teach during their regularly scheduled school day. Most likely at least 50% of the school will go home early. Plus, most 6th & 5th graders should be able to go home. I would assume there will be a survey for parents on if the child will stay or go. Those kids who are in MTSS can work with the HIT tutors. They’ll likely divide up the other kids and have extension activities in rooms throughout the school. My school doesn’t offer any PTA enrichment like a few schools seem to, so it won’t be put on our PTA. I do wish it wasn’t all Mondays though. I think that’s going to be 15 Mondays through the year and that really messes with planning, meetings, and kids specials.

No. I am a secondary teacher and we have to take it too. It’s k-12.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:WTAF is this. Do they not want our kids to actually learn? My 1st grader has done nothing for 2 weeks as it is. Along with 4 day weeks seemingly every other week. Reid is a joke.

Nope, it's not Michelle Reid's fault, this is 100% GLENN YOUNGKIN'S fault. He passed the law requiring additional teacher planning time. Look it up: VIRGINIA LITERACY ACT.

As a further teacher, Youngkin is not wrong. Teaching at my life, destroyed my life. Extra planning would have made a world of difference. Working in the private sector is so much easier for the same pay. You have no idea. Blame FCPS for the implementation, but there’s no question that teachers get insufficient planning.

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Anonymous wrote:Why did FCPS decide to do all these disruptive early releases (with double bus runs?!?) rather than just close for full day training? What was the rationale?

Some of us heard it would extend the school year (last day of school), it would still occur sporadically throughout the year (like Loudoun, and a constant area of complaint by FCPS parents) and the additional cost.

FCPS has its issues but honestly nothing makes parents in FCPS happy. The complaints are endless~ at this point it's just noise. Carry on.

It sounds like what you want from parents is to donate time and money, support teacher pay raises and bond funds at election time, tell our children that their teachers are always right in order to avoid undermining the classroom…and…that’s about it?

What value do you see parents having to the system outside the above?

Not the PP, but you read a lot more from that comment than I did.

Maybe, but if the lack of respect and consideration shown for parents by people claiming to be teachers is indicative of the FCPS attitude (which is seems to be) it’s a strong reason to go private. My parents were never treated like their views were “noise” when they raised concerns.

And let’s face it. By parents we mostly mean women. If this was dads who were expected to depart work early for seven additional days, the board would be up in arms.

The main problem with this board is the generalizations. It generalizes parents, teachers, schools, and FCPS itself. Can we not ask our husbands to take PTO a couple times?

Of course we can, and many families will (my own included if we choose to participate in this). But there are a significant number of female-headed single parent households in the area, who do you suggest they “ask” to take PTO?

And the question is the underpinning assumptions. If FCPS assumed only or primarily men would be the ones asked to take time off, they would either have come to a different conclusion about when and how to take the days, they would have rolled out a specific plan for the “in school option” which doesn’t rely on unpaid female labor (explicit in the announcement) and when, for example, a single dad said this is deeply problematic his complaints wouldn’t be brushed off as “noise”.

It’s frustrating that society isn’t fair to women and that real change takes time.

My husband is deployed, so I suspect if they’re a single mom or dad, they already have childcare in place prior to this announcement. It may be an additional expense, which single parents are more than familiar with. It sucks, but life is full of additional expenses that we can’t control (for all households) … but again, they can opt into the stay at school option which will either be free or low-cost.

Can you point to the communication from FCPS that says that it will be free or low cost? Because I’ve seen that here but absolutely nowhere else.

And you’re right. Real change takes time. But it also requires people to call out sexism when it’s happening and not be dismissed as “noise” as above.

Sent to staff last Friday - read sentence 2:

“We understand that for some families, early release days may present a significant challenge. With that in mind — where necessary — FCPS will provide no-cost opportunities for students to remain at school until their regular dismissal time. Options may include opening SACC sites earlier to supervise currently enrolled SACC students and partnering with community groups to offer supervised enrichment activities. Licensed educators from central office will also be available to support this work. High-impact tutoring will be provided to identified students. The steering committee will provide direction to this work.”

Ok, interesting. Families received this:
While these are designated as early release days — where necessary — we will ensure that every student has supervised enrichment activities at the school and returns home at the regular time if that is what works best for your family. Licensed educators from FCPS’ central office will also be available to support schools. High-impact tutoring will be available for identified students.

I wonder why the wording wasn’t the same.

Written in muddled edu-speak. Key words include; “enrichment activities,” “licensed educators,” “central office,”
“support” and what the heck is “high-impact tutoring” ?

Can you imagine trying to interpret this word salad if your native language isn’t English?

High impact tutors is another governor initiative to help get students on grade level. I know many and will tell you the people I know will leave if they are asked to babysit....it's one thing for them to see their regularly scheduled groups....it's another to babysit. I hope FCPS doesn't mess that up-we need these people to keep working with kids in small groups. They are certified educators...and they make a difference.

Interesting. Maybe it’s different in elementary? The ones at my high school were not. They had college degrees in the subject they were tutoring (or an adjacent one) but they did not have any teaching experience or licensure.

It was a mixed bag. The requirement that tutoring had to happen during that subject made it rough, as students missed instruction to receive remediation from a semi qualified person. I wish it had happened in lieu of advisory or PE or something instead.

We are lucky then-we had 4 certified teachers who wanted part time (ES). I think you are right though with high schools....they do little for students who don't have an IEP.

And what do they do for those with IEPs?

Tutoring.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The only people in the school that this training applies to is K-6 classroom teachers (and sped teachers who don’t have SOR training). Reading specialists have already completed the training. Gen ed teachers who have taken OG don’t have to do this training. Math specialists don’t need it. All other Specialists don’t need it (music, art, steam, PE, etc). They will all be available to teach during their regularly scheduled school day. Most likely at least 50% of the school will go home early. Plus, most 6th & 5th graders should be able to go home. I would assume there will be a survey for parents on if the child will stay or go. Those kids who are in MTSS can work with the HIT tutors. They’ll likely divide up the other kids and have extension activities in rooms throughout the school. My school doesn’t offer any PTA enrichment like a few schools seem to, so it won’t be put on our PTA. I do wish it wasn’t all Mondays though. I think that’s going to be 15 Mondays through the year and that really messes with planning, meetings, and kids specials.

No. I am a secondary teacher and we have to take it too. It’s k-12.

This is false. K-8 it is required. I do find it weird that middle school teachers are also not getting early release days to do this training. I guess they will get subs.

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Anonymous wrote:The only people in the school that this training applies to is K-6 classroom teachers (and sped teachers who don’t have SOR training). Reading specialists have already completed the training. Gen ed teachers who have taken OG don’t have to do this training. Math specialists don’t need it. All other Specialists don’t need it (music, art, steam, PE, etc). They will all be available to teach during their regularly scheduled school day. Most likely at least 50% of the school will go home early. Plus, most 6th & 5th graders should be able to go home. I would assume there will be a survey for parents on if the child will stay or go. Those kids who are in MTSS can work with the HIT tutors. They’ll likely divide up the other kids and have extension activities in rooms throughout the school. My school doesn’t offer any PTA enrichment like a few schools seem to, so it won’t be put on our PTA. I do wish it wasn’t all Mondays though. I think that’s going to be 15 Mondays through the year and that really messes with planning, meetings, and kids specials.

No. I am a secondary teacher and we have to take it too. It’s k-12.

This is false. K-8 it is required. I do find it weird that middle school teachers are also not getting early release days to do this training. I guess they will get subs.

Middle school doesn’t have to do it YET. Part of the problem is that the state hasn’t fleshed out all of the details but insist on compliance this year. Like previous OG classes … which ones will count, how recent must that training have been — who knows? The state hasn’t decided a lot of this yet but still expects districts and schools to make it happen in a snap.

I think it’s great that we’re going to be following SOR. But none of this was thought through. In Jan & Feb - when purchases had to be made for massive districts - there was only 1 or 2 approved programs. The rest of the list didn’t come through until early April - far too late for massive districts to review, meet on, vote on & order. So FCPS had to go with an early approval product - Benchmark Advance. Additionally, the state didn’t actually investigate a lot of these programs - they relied upon the now partially discredited Ed Reports data. Why? Because just like this training, everything was rush, rush, rush.

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Anonymous wrote:The only people in the school that this training applies to is K-6 classroom teachers (and sped teachers who don’t have SOR training). Reading specialists have already completed the training. Gen ed teachers who have taken OG don’t have to do this training. Math specialists don’t need it. All other Specialists don’t need it (music, art, steam, PE, etc). They will all be available to teach during their regularly scheduled school day. Most likely at least 50% of the school will go home early. Plus, most 6th & 5th graders should be able to go home. I would assume there will be a survey for parents on if the child will stay or go. Those kids who are in MTSS can work with the HIT tutors. They’ll likely divide up the other kids and have extension activities in rooms throughout the school. My school doesn’t offer any PTA enrichment like a few schools seem to, so it won’t be put on our PTA. I do wish it wasn’t all Mondays though. I think that’s going to be 15 Mondays through the year and that really messes with planning, meetings, and kids specials.

No. I am a secondary teacher and we have to take it too. It’s k-12.

This is false. K-8 it is required. I do find it weird that middle school teachers are also not getting early release days to do this training. I guess they will get subs.

Middle school doesn’t have to do it YET. Part of the problem is that the state hasn’t fleshed out all of the details but insist on compliance this year. Like previous OG classes … which ones will count, how recent must that training have been — who knows? The state hasn’t decided a lot of this yet but still expects districts and schools to make it happen in a snap.

I think it’s great that we’re going to be following SOR. But none of this was thought through. In Jan & Feb - when purchases had to be made for massive districts - there was only 1 or 2 approved programs. The rest of the list didn’t come through until early April - far too late for massive districts to review, meet on, vote on & order. So FCPS had to go with an early approval product - Benchmark Advance. Additionally, the state didn’t actually investigate a lot of these programs - they relied upon the now partially discredited Ed Reports data. Why? Because just like this training, everything was rush, rush, rush.

Middle school ELA and content teachers do have to do the modules. ELA teachers have 27 hours of modules, and content teachers have 18 hours of modules.
Check the May 2024 State Superintendent's message for details.

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Anonymous wrote:This is one of the reasons people go private. This plan sounds ludicrous and would never happen there.

There’s so much irony in this because you’re right: this would never happen in private because in private school, nobody has to be formally educated in how to do things like teach kids to read. There’s no such thing as licensure requirements to ensure that teachers meet a minimum competency to educate. You just need a bachelor’s degree and a job application. There’d never be any such thing as 32 *additional hours* of literacy training all teachers at a private would ever be required to do. But yeah, private is definitely better

I work for a Catholic high school. State certification and continuing education are requirements for employment. We have more PD days than my former public system, and the PDs are considerably more useful.

The only difference is we do a lot of our PD over the summer so it doesn’t impact the school year. Yes, we are paid for those trainings.

There is a ton of misinformation on this thread about private schools.

It sounds like you work at a great private school though. Many or most private schools do not have those standards, and there is no governing the standards for private school teachings or educator qualifications. As a sped teacher, I'm involved with many referral to the public school system for special education testing. The teaching, accommodations, and data presented from the private school staff has been very poor. I'm not impressed at all. Unless you are at an excellent, specialty private school, students with special needs are not best served by private schools. The public schools do a much better job with assessments, developing IEPS, and providing services and accommodations.

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Anonymous wrote:This is one of the reasons people go private. This plan sounds ludicrous and would never happen there.

There’s so much irony in this because you’re right: this would never happen in private because in private school, nobody has to be formally educated in how to do things like teach kids to read. There’s no such thing as licensure requirements to ensure that teachers meet a minimum competency to educate. You just need a bachelor’s degree and a job application. There’d never be any such thing as 32 *additional hours* of literacy training all teachers at a private would ever be required to do. But yeah, private is definitely better

I work for a Catholic high school. State certification and continuing education are requirements for employment. We have more PD days than my former public system, and the PDs are considerably more useful.

The only difference is we do a lot of our PD over the summer so it doesn’t impact the school year. Yes, we are paid for those trainings.

There is a ton of misinformation on this thread about private schools.

It sounds like you work at a great private school though. Many or most private schools do not have those standards, and there is no governing the standards for private school teachings or educator qualifications. As a sped teacher, I'm involved with many referral to the public school system for special education testing. The teaching, accommodations, and data presented from the private school staff has been very poor. I'm not impressed at all. Unless you are at an excellent, specialty private school, students with special needs are not best served by private schools. The public schools do a much better job with assessments, developing IEPS, and providing services and accommodations.

I agree there is a wide variety of schools. Some publics are better than some privates, and some privates are better than some publics.

Since you mentioned sped: my own child was poorly served in her former school, so I switched her to a Catholic private that is doing a much better job.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The only people in the school that this training applies to is K-6 classroom teachers (and sped teachers who don’t have SOR training). Reading specialists have already completed the training. Gen ed teachers who have taken OG don’t have to do this training. Math specialists don’t need it. All other Specialists don’t need it (music, art, steam, PE, etc). They will all be available to teach during their regularly scheduled school day. Most likely at least 50% of the school will go home early. Plus, most 6th & 5th graders should be able to go home. I would assume there will be a survey for parents on if the child will stay or go. Those kids who are in MTSS can work with the HIT tutors. They’ll likely divide up the other kids and have extension activities in rooms throughout the school. My school doesn’t offer any PTA enrichment like a few schools seem to, so it won’t be put on our PTA. I do wish it wasn’t all Mondays though. I think that’s going to be 15 Mondays through the year and that really messes with planning, meetings, and kids specials.

No. I am a secondary teacher and we have to take it too. It’s k-12.

This is false. K-8 it is required. I do find it weird that middle school teachers are also not getting early release days to do this training. I guess they will get subs.

It’s not false. It may be called something different at the secondary level but we all take this 32 hour literacy training this year.

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Anonymous wrote:Why did FCPS decide to do all these disruptive early releases (with double bus runs?!?) rather than just close for full day training? What was the rationale?

Some of us heard it would extend the school year (last day of school), it would still occur sporadically throughout the year (like Loudoun, and a constant area of complaint by FCPS parents) and the additional cost.

FCPS has its issues but honestly nothing makes parents in FCPS happy. The complaints are endless~ at this point it's just noise. Carry on.

It sounds like what you want from parents is to donate time and money, support teacher pay raises and bond funds at election time, tell our children that their teachers are always right in order to avoid undermining the classroom…and…that’s about it?

What value do you see parents having to the system outside the above?

Not the PP, but you read a lot more from that comment than I did.

Maybe, but if the lack of respect and consideration shown for parents by people claiming to be teachers is indicative of the FCPS attitude (which is seems to be) it’s a strong reason to go private. My parents were never treated like their views were “noise” when they raised concerns.

And let’s face it. By parents we mostly mean women. If this was dads who were expected to depart work early for seven additional days, the board would be up in arms.

The main problem with this board is the generalizations. It generalizes parents, teachers, schools, and FCPS itself. Can we not ask our husbands to take PTO a couple times?

Of course we can, and many families will (my own included if we choose to participate in this). But there are a significant number of female-headed single parent households in the area, who do you suggest they “ask” to take PTO?

And the question is the underpinning assumptions. If FCPS assumed only or primarily men would be the ones asked to take time off, they would either have come to a different conclusion about when and how to take the days, they would have rolled out a specific plan for the “in school option” which doesn’t rely on unpaid female labor (explicit in the announcement) and when, for example, a single dad said this is deeply problematic his complaints wouldn’t be brushed off as “noise”.

It’s frustrating that society isn’t fair to women and that real change takes time.

My husband is deployed, so I suspect if they’re a single mom or dad, they already have childcare in place prior to this announcement. It may be an additional expense, which single parents are more than familiar with. It sucks, but life is full of additional expenses that we can’t control (for all households) … but again, they can opt into the stay at school option which will either be free or low-cost.

Can you point to the communication from FCPS that says that it will be free or low cost? Because I’ve seen that here but absolutely nowhere else.

And you’re right. Real change takes time. But it also requires people to call out sexism when it’s happening and not be dismissed as “noise” as above.

Sent to staff last Friday - read sentence 2:

“We understand that for some families, early release days may present a significant challenge. With that in mind — where necessary — FCPS will provide no-cost opportunities for students to remain at school until their regular dismissal time. Options may include opening SACC sites earlier to supervise currently enrolled SACC students and partnering with community groups to offer supervised enrichment activities. Licensed educators from central office will also be available to support this work. High-impact tutoring will be provided to identified students. The steering committee will provide direction to this work.”

Ok, interesting. Families received this:
While these are designated as early release days — where necessary — we will ensure that every student has supervised enrichment activities at the school and returns home at the regular time if that is what works best for your family. Licensed educators from FCPS’ central office will also be available to support schools. High-impact tutoring will be available for identified students.

I wonder why the wording wasn’t the same.

Written in muddled edu-speak. Key words include; “enrichment activities,” “licensed educators,” “central office,”
“support” and what the heck is “high-impact tutoring” ?

Can you imagine trying to interpret this word salad if your native language isn’t English?

High impact tutors is another governor initiative to help get students on grade level. I know many and will tell you the people I know will leave if they are asked to babysit....it's one thing for them to see their regularly scheduled groups....it's another to babysit. I hope FCPS doesn't mess that up-we need these people to keep working with kids in small groups. They are certified educators...and they make a difference.

Interesting. Maybe it’s different in elementary? The ones at my high school were not. They had college degrees in the subject they were tutoring (or an adjacent one) but they did not have any teaching experience or licensure.

It was a mixed bag. The requirement that tutoring had to happen during that subject made it rough, as students missed instruction to receive remediation from a semi qualified person. I wish it had happened in lieu of advisory or PE or something instead.

We are lucky then-we had 4 certified teachers who wanted part time (ES). I think you are right though with high schools....they do little for students who don't have an IEP.

And what do they do for those with IEPs?

I'm assuming not much

The same thing they do when school is closed at other times. The kids go home. Get over it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What does this mean? Any guesses?

“ While these are designated as early release days — where necessary — we will ensure that every student has supervised enrichment activities at the school and returns home at the regular time if that is what works best for your family.”

[b]That means that SACC will be open and maybe expanded for those who need it on those days.

Um - no. If our SACC could hold more kids, it would.