FCPS Early Release Mondays

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How much is this training going to cost FCPS? The worst of this is that, 1) the literacy science isn't actually settled 2) this kerfuffle has been created by various for-profit curriculum companies all vying to have different school districts buy their multi-million dollar curriculums and pay for their expensive curriculum training 3) the only people that are going to suffer are the kids that will end up with still less education.

This isn’t the curriculum training.

Yeah, it would be sooo much better to skip this training, save the money, and keep those kids in school for 21 hours (out of 1,000 for the year). No need to learn about teaching phonics or fluency. Let’s just keep doing what we’ve been doing for the last 25 years. Because THAT has worked so well. /s

If the training was that important, they should do it before school starts, not wait for random days throughout the year.

[Anonymous]

I just think this whole thing is ironic. FCPS had a big push this year to address chronic absenteeism because being in school was sooooo important.

We heard about the importance of being in school all year long, signs, flyers, emails, awards!

And then bam - 1/2 day Mondays. It seems super hypocritical. Pay the teachers to get the training outside of instructional hours. If it is so important to do this training do it over the summer (1 and 1/2 times pay) so it can be implemented next year. Come on! Guess kids next year don’t need this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just think this whole thing is ironic. FCPS had a big push this year to address chronic absenteeism because being in school was sooooo important.

We heard about the importance of being in school all year long, signs, flyers, emails, awards!

And then bam - 1/2 day Mondays. It seems super hypocritical. Pay the teachers to get the training outside of instructional hours. If it is so important to do this training do it over the summer (1 and 1/2 times pay) so it can be implemented next year. Come on! Guess kids next year don’t need this.

The chronic absenteeism was part the 5day Covid policy and people not sending kids to school with runny noses. It is annoying that they think they “solved the problem” anyway when the entire issue was temporary. My kids got sick much more often - we all had crazy things like hand foot and mouth, rsv not to mention Covid.

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An already sparse calendar’: Some Fairfax Co. parents frustrated with extra elementary early release days

https://wtop.com/fairfax-county/2024/06/an-already-sparse-calendar-some-fairfax-co-parents-frustrated-with-extra-elementary-early-release-days/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just think this whole thing is ironic. FCPS had a big push this year to address chronic absenteeism because being in school was sooooo important.

We heard about the importance of being in school all year long, signs, flyers, emails, awards!

And then bam - 1/2 day Mondays. It seems super hypocritical. Pay the teachers to get the training outside of instructional hours. If it is so important to do this training do it over the summer (1 and 1/2 times pay) so it can be implemented next year. Come on! Guess kids next year don’t need this.

I guess teachers would push back against shortening their summer, even for extra pay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just think this whole thing is ironic. FCPS had a big push this year to address chronic absenteeism because being in school was sooooo important.

We heard about the importance of being in school all year long, signs, flyers, emails, awards!

And then bam - 1/2 day Mondays. It seems super hypocritical. Pay the teachers to get the training outside of instructional hours. If it is so important to do this training do it over the summer (1 and 1/2 times pay) so it can be implemented next year. Come on! Guess kids next year don’t need this.

Omg. Teachers just aren’t available for overtime just because you want them to be. It’s mandatory state training. It has to be done during teacher contract hours and the pre-established calendar year.

Also, breaking up the training is better for teacher learning and implementation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just think this whole thing is ironic. FCPS had a big push this year to address chronic absenteeism because being in school was sooooo important.

We heard about the importance of being in school all year long, signs, flyers, emails, awards!

And then bam - 1/2 day Mondays. It seems super hypocritical. Pay the teachers to get the training outside of instructional hours. If it is so important to do this training do it over the summer (1 and 1/2 times pay) so it can be implemented next year. Come on! Guess kids next year don’t need this.

1.5x pay? Ha, no! FCPS was offering other paid training for the new ELA curriculum for $25/hour, which would be almost 50% of my hourly rate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just think this whole thing is ironic. FCPS had a big push this year to address chronic absenteeism because being in school was sooooo important.

We heard about the importance of being in school all year long, signs, flyers, emails, awards!

And then bam - 1/2 day Mondays. It seems super hypocritical. Pay the teachers to get the training outside of instructional hours. If it is so important to do this training do it over the summer (1 and 1/2 times pay) so it can be implemented next year. Come on! Guess kids next year don’t need this.

I guess teachers would push back against shortening their summer, even for extra pay.

Teachers have summer plans as well. You just can’t tell them to attend training when they’re off contract.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just think this whole thing is ironic. FCPS had a big push this year to address chronic absenteeism because being in school was sooooo important.

We heard about the importance of being in school all year long, signs, flyers, emails, awards!

And then bam - 1/2 day Mondays. It seems super hypocritical. Pay the teachers to get the training outside of instructional hours. If it is so important to do this training do it over the summer (1 and 1/2 times pay) so it can be implemented next year. Come on! Guess kids next year don’t need this.

I guess teachers would push back against shortening their summer, even for extra pay.

I doubt that.... but FCPS does not have the money because I know several teachers doing training this summer without compensation as usual. We all know corporate and government workers would never have to do that. So enough going after teachers. If teachers are going to a summer training then they should earn their hourly rate. Everyone is done working for free in education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just think this whole thing is ironic. FCPS had a big push this year to address chronic absenteeism because being in school was sooooo important.

We heard about the importance of being in school all year long, signs, flyers, emails, awards!

And then bam - 1/2 day Mondays. It seems super hypocritical. Pay the teachers to get the training outside of instructional hours. If it is so important to do this training do it over the summer (1 and 1/2 times pay) so it can be implemented next year. Come on! Guess kids next year don’t need this.

I guess teachers would push back against shortening their summer, even for extra pay.

Teachers have summer plans as well. You just can’t tell them to attend training when they’re off contract.

I know two teachers that are attending training next week. How are they doing that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just think this whole thing is ironic. FCPS had a big push this year to address chronic absenteeism because being in school was sooooo important.

We heard about the importance of being in school all year long, signs, flyers, emails, awards!

And then bam - 1/2 day Mondays. It seems super hypocritical. Pay the teachers to get the training outside of instructional hours. If it is so important to do this training do it over the summer (1 and 1/2 times pay) so it can be implemented next year. Come on! Guess kids next year don’t need this.

I guess teachers would push back against shortening their summer, even for extra pay.

Teachers have summer plans as well. You just can’t tell them to attend training when they’re off contract.

I know two teachers that are attending training next week. How are they doing that?

They volunteered to attend it (ant a lower pay rate), obviously not all teachers are in that training or volunteering for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just think this whole thing is ironic. FCPS had a big push this year to address chronic absenteeism because being in school was sooooo important.

We heard about the importance of being in school all year long, signs, flyers, emails, awards!

And then bam - 1/2 day Mondays. It seems super hypocritical. Pay the teachers to get the training outside of instructional hours. If it is so important to do this training do it over the summer (1 and 1/2 times pay) so it can be implemented next year. Come on! Guess kids next year don’t need this.

I guess teachers would push back against shortening their summer, even for extra pay.

Teachers have summer plans as well. You just can’t tell them to attend training when they’re off contract.

I know two teachers that are attending training next week. How are they doing that?

The summer basal training is paid and optional. All other summer trainings are optional and typically unpaid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just think this whole thing is ironic. FCPS had a big push this year to address chronic absenteeism because being in school was sooooo important.

We heard about the importance of being in school all year long, signs, flyers, emails, awards!

And then bam - 1/2 day Mondays. It seems super hypocritical. Pay the teachers to get the training outside of instructional hours. If it is so important to do this training do it over the summer (1 and 1/2 times pay) so it can be implemented next year. Come on! Guess kids next year don’t need this.

I guess teachers would push back against shortening their summer, even for extra pay.

Teachers have summer plans as well. You just can’t tell them to attend training when they’re off contract.

I know two teachers that are attending training next week. How are they doing that?

I signed up for it 6 months ago before I made vacation plans, FCPS is paying me nothing, and I am missing the last day so I will get no credit but am okay with that because the content is valuable to me.

None of that applies to this new literacy piece. They didn’t know details 6 months ago, since it’s not voluntary they have to pay, and if teachers dont attend all of it they aren’t certified.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How much is this training going to cost FCPS? The worst of this is that, 1) the literacy science isn't actually settled 2) this kerfuffle has been created by various for-profit curriculum companies all vying to have different school districts buy their multi-million dollar curriculums and pay for their expensive curriculum training 3) the only people that are going to suffer are the kids that will end up with still less education.

This isn’t the curriculum training.

Yeah, it would be sooo much better to skip this training, save the money, and keep those kids in school for 21 hours (out of 1,000 for the year). No need to learn about teaching phonics or fluency. Let’s just keep doing what we’ve been doing for the last 25 years. Because THAT has worked so well. /s

If the training was that important, they should do it before school starts, not wait for random days throughout the year.

The training is being released BY THE STATE in dribs and drabs throughout the year. If you want to blame someone, look at VDOE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just think this whole thing is ironic. FCPS had a big push this year to address chronic absenteeism because being in school was sooooo important.

We heard about the importance of being in school all year long, signs, flyers, emails, awards!

And then bam - 1/2 day Mondays. It seems super hypocritical. Pay the teachers to get the training outside of instructional hours. If it is so important to do this training do it over the summer (1 and 1/2 times pay) so it can be implemented next year. Come on! Guess kids next year don’t need this.

Talk to the Youngkin administration. They’re the ones that don’t have the training ready and will be releasing it one module at a time throughout the year.