FCPS early release Mondays- updates?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought kids could stay at school until let out (normal time). What am I missing?

How will this work? It seems odd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this for sure happening? Trying to plan out Thanksgiving and if we have an early release Monday, we are going to take the whole week off.

Took me 5 seconds:
https://www.fcps.edu/family-resources/safety-and-transportation/limited-early-release-mondays

Yes, I"m aware of that website, I am also aware that FCPS has previously announced things and reneged on them. Wondering if this has been discussed at recent school board meetings, if anything came out of the community meetings, etc.

But thanks for your incredibly helpful link

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this for sure happening? Trying to plan out Thanksgiving and if we have an early release Monday, we are going to take the whole week off.

Took me 5 seconds:
https://www.fcps.edu/family-resources/safety-and-transportation/limited-early-release-mondays

Yes, I"m aware of that website, I am also aware that FCPS has previously announced things and reneged on them. Wondering if this has been discussed at recent school board meetings, if anything came out of the community meetings, etc.

But thanks for your incredibly helpful link

DP. The website answers your question with details, and as a prior poster indicated last week they passed a $700k budget line item to support this program for the year. If that's not enough certainty for you then either you have unreasonable expectations, just like taking pot shots at FCPS, or both.

[Anonymous]

Just got an email from my kids' elementary school about early release. The text explicitly says that students will dismiss at 12:25 pm. Not one word about even the possibility of aftercare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this for sure happening? Trying to plan out Thanksgiving and if we have an early release Monday, we are going to take the whole week off.

Took me 5 seconds:
https://www.fcps.edu/family-resources/safety-and-transportation/limited-early-release-mondays

Yes, I"m aware of that website, I am also aware that FCPS has previously announced things and reneged on them. Wondering if this has been discussed at recent school board meetings, if anything came out of the community meetings, etc.

But thanks for your incredibly helpful link

That link is actually quite helpful. It seems you are concerned over nothing. The dates are set.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just got an email from my kids' elementary school about early release. The text explicitly says that students will dismiss at 12:25 pm. Not one word about even the possibility of aftercare.

It’s because they don’t want kids to to stay beyond that point. The initial message said that if you don’t have any other options so they are trying to push parents to choose other options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought kids could stay at school until let out (normal time). What am I missing?

They can. Everyone is getting their knickers in a knot over nothing. This will not impinge on parents in the least.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do all the teachers attend the training? Apologies if that’s a silly question. Just wondering if there were any exempt teachers (e.g., specials teachers) who could help supervise the enrichment.

Specialists, IAs, and teachers already trained in SOR do not attend the training. They will be providing a lot of the coverage during the 3 hour early releases..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do all the teachers attend the training? Apologies if that’s a silly question. Just wondering if there were any exempt teachers (e.g., specials teachers) who could help supervise the enrichment.

Specialists, IAs, and teachers already trained in SOR do not attend the training. They will be providing a lot of the coverage during the 3 hour early releases..

We will see.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought kids could stay at school until let out (normal time). What am I missing?

They can. Everyone is getting their knickers in a knot over nothing. This will not impinge on parents in the least.

I wouldn’t count on ANYTHING until your individual school has verified that your SPECIFIC student is staying after school for these 7 Mondays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just got an email from my kids' elementary school about early release. The text explicitly says that students will dismiss at 12:25 pm. Not one word about even the possibility of aftercare.

I noticed this today, too. It makes me wonder if they are trying to walk it back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do all the teachers vattend the training? Apologies if that’s a silly question. Just wondering if there were any exempt teachers (e.g., specials teachers) who could help supervise the enrichment.

Specialists, IAs, and teachers already trained in SOR do not attend the training. They will be providing a lot of the coverage during the 3 hour early releases..

The trainings are brand new and not even done yet. They are several hours long and won’t be completed until next summer based on this schedule. No one is going to be done with these.

But it seems they are excusing teachers who are trained in OG or LETRS so they might be used for childcare. And IAs won’t be doing the same trainings as teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just got an email from my kids' elementary school about early release. The text explicitly says that students will dismiss at 12:25 pm. Not one word about even the possibility of aftercare.

I noticed this today, too. It makes me wonder if they are trying to walk it back.

It’s going to be one of those things that is desperately uneven at different schools. If your school has an involved PTA, you’ll have extra programming to choose from but it will be $$. If your kids are in SACC, they’ll just have extra SACC hours on those days. If you don’t have much of a PTA, it’ll be crickets and “remember to pick up your kids at 12:25, see you tomorrow!”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do all the teachers vattend the training? Apologies if that’s a silly question. Just wondering if there were any exempt teachers (e.g., specials teachers) who could help supervise the enrichment.

Specialists, IAs, and teachers already trained in SOR do not attend the training. They will be providing a lot of the coverage during the 3 hour early releases..

The trainings are brand new and not even done yet. They are several hours long and won’t be completed until next summer based on this schedule. No one is going to be done with these.

But it seems they are excusing teachers who are trained in OG or LETRS so they might be used for childcare. And IAs won’t be doing the same trainings as teachers.

This is a great way to retain staff

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do all the teachers vattend the training? Apologies if that’s a silly question. Just wondering if there were any exempt teachers (e.g., specials teachers) who could help supervise the enrichment.

Specialists, IAs, and teachers already trained in SOR do not attend the training. They will be providing a lot of the coverage during the 3 hour early releases..

The trainings are brand new and not even done yet. They are several hours long and won’t be completed until next summer based on this schedule. No one is going to be done with these.

But it seems they are excusing teachers who are trained in OG or LETRS so they might be used for childcare. And IAs won’t be doing the same trainings as teachers.

This is a great way to retain staff

+1, I was thinking the same thing. I left the classroom two years ago, and when I saw that they may use teachers for childcare, I thought “oh boy”, they’re going to lose a lot more teachers.