Is there a lot of absents on Tuesday ?

[Anonymous]

Having Nov 3,4, and 11 were useless. They should shift two of those days to Nov 24 and 25.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The reason parents hate this is the calendar has endless (pointless) days off where no one cares about pacing and mandatory test dates and oh look now we have to jam up a major holiday week because we wasted all this other time.

How wrong you are, on so many counts.

1. Teachers have cared about pacing all along. How dare you say "no one cares about pacing." Teachers have been concerned about pacing since before school started.

2. Teachers are not wasting "all this time." They are teaching on all instructional days. They dont have time to waste. What a disgusting accusation to make.

3. Are you calling TEACHING on instructional days, "jamming up a major holiday week"? Do you have any concept of how contradictory and hypocritical your argument is?

4. If your offensive post is not about teachers and is instead an attack on the school board, you've done a piss-poor job communicating that since everything in your post is about teacher planning and pacing.

Honestly calm down. Parents and most teachers I know are tired and exhausted by poor planning in FCPS. Personally I feel bad for all involved in this hot mess of a school district. I feel for students, teachers, and parents. We are the ones taking a hit while Gatehouse sits comfy in their offices making more work and chaos for everyone spinning their wheels at the school level. Place your anger where it needs to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason parents hate this is the calendar has endless (pointless) days off where no one cares about pacing and mandatory test dates and oh look now we have to jam up a major holiday week because we wasted all this other time.

How wrong you are, on so many counts.

1. Teachers have cared about pacing all along. How dare you say "no one cares about pacing." Teachers have been concerned about pacing since before school started.

2. Teachers are not wasting "all this time." They are teaching on all instructional days. They dont have time to waste. What a disgusting accusation to make.

3. Are you calling TEACHING on instructional days, "jamming up a major holiday week"? Do you have any concept of how contradictory and hypocritical your argument is?

4. If your offensive post is not about teachers and is instead an attack on the school board, you've done a piss-poor job communicating that since everything in your post is about teacher planning and pacing.

See how much the teachers hate the Board and Gatehouse too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Having Nov 3,4, and 11 were useless. They should shift two of those days to Nov 24 and 25.

November 3 was a PD day and November 4 was a teacher work day to get 1st quarter grades in. Teachers need those work days. The 11th could have totally been a school day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Having Nov 3,4, and 11 were useless. They should shift two of those days to Nov 24 and 25.

November 3 was a PD day and November 4 was a teacher work day to get 1st quarter grades in. Teachers need those work days. The 11th could have totally been a school day.

The 11th could have been the work day and Monday could have been the PD day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason parents hate this is the calendar has endless (pointless) days off where no one cares about pacing and mandatory test dates and oh look now we have to jam up a major holiday week because we wasted all this other time.

How wrong you are, on so many counts.

1. Teachers have cared about pacing all along. How dare you say "no one cares about pacing." Teachers have been concerned about pacing since before school started.

2. Teachers are not wasting "all this time." They are teaching on all instructional days. They dont have time to waste. What a disgusting accusation to make.

3. Are you calling TEACHING on instructional days, "jamming up a major holiday week"? Do you have any concept of how contradictory and hypocritical your argument is?

4. If your offensive post is not about teachers and is instead an attack on the school board, you've done a piss-poor job communicating that since everything in your post is about teacher planning and pacing.

Good Lord, take it down a notch. Go have some eggnog or something. Take the day off and give your students a break.

One of my child’s teachers nixed her own plan today and said, “forget the packet pages. You all have been working so hard.” She gave them a break for the rest of the period. She’s also no longer requiring them to finish the pages over break and said we will do it in class after the break. So they got 30 minutes to catch up on other work. How amazing! She is wonderful.

I’m a different teacher.

Administration would not see this teacher as “amazing” and “wonderful.” We are evaluated on how productively we use our class time, not on how cool and casual we are.

And I’m going to be honest with you as someone with 25 years of experience texting. Students weren’t spending 30 minutes catching up on work. They were relaxing, catching up on shows or time with friends.

Maybe they were but mine was preparing for an AP History test. The extra time was appreciated. If some kids wanted to relax that’s their business. I like that the teacher isn’t assigning work over the break.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason parents hate this is the calendar has endless (pointless) days off where no one cares about pacing and mandatory test dates and oh look now we have to jam up a major holiday week because we wasted all this other time.

How wrong you are, on so many counts.

1. Teachers have cared about pacing all along. How dare you say "no one cares about pacing." Teachers have been concerned about pacing since before school started.

2. Teachers are not wasting "all this time." They are teaching on all instructional days. They dont have time to waste. What a disgusting accusation to make.

3. Are you calling TEACHING on instructional days, "jamming up a major holiday week"? Do you have any concept of how contradictory and hypocritical your argument is?

4. If your offensive post is not about teachers and is instead an attack on the school board, you've done a piss-poor job communicating that since everything in your post is about teacher planning and pacing.

Good Lord, take it down a notch. Go have some eggnog or something. Take the day off and give your students a break.

One of my child’s teachers nixed her own plan today and said, “forget the packet pages. You all have been working so hard.” She gave them a break for the rest of the period. She’s also no longer requiring them to finish the pages over break and said we will do it in class after the break. So they got 30 minutes to catch up on other work. How amazing! She is wonderful.

Curious how you know that since you shouldn't be texting your child during the school day.

I have collected 9 (NINE!) cell phones today from students whose moms (always the moms) were calling or texting them during class again. I'm a little salty. Decompressing for lunch, one more period...hopefully with no phones.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason parents hate this is the calendar has endless (pointless) days off where no one cares about pacing and mandatory test dates and oh look now we have to jam up a major holiday week because we wasted all this other time.

How wrong you are, on so many counts.

1. Teachers have cared about pacing all along. How dare you say "no one cares about pacing." Teachers have been concerned about pacing since before school started.

2. Teachers are not wasting "all this time." They are teaching on all instructional days. They dont have time to waste. What a disgusting accusation to make.

3. Are you calling TEACHING on instructional days, "jamming up a major holiday week"? Do you have any concept of how contradictory and hypocritical your argument is?

4. If your offensive post is not about teachers and is instead an attack on the school board, you've done a piss-poor job communicating that since everything in your post is about teacher planning and pacing.

Good Lord, take it down a notch. Go have some eggnog or something. Take the day off and give your students a break.

One of my child’s teachers nixed her own plan today and said, “forget the packet pages. You all have been working so hard.” She gave them a break for the rest of the period. She’s also no longer requiring them to finish the pages over break and said we will do it in class after the break. So they got 30 minutes to catch up on other work. How amazing! She is wonderful.

Curious how you know that since you shouldn't be texting your child during the school day.

I have collected 9 (NINE!) cell phones today from students whose moms (always the moms) were calling or texting them during class again. I'm a little salty. Decompressing for lunch, one more period...hopefully with no phones.

My child told me when arriving home. I ask how each class was. He excitedly told me about the extra time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason parents hate this is the calendar has endless (pointless) days off where no one cares about pacing and mandatory test dates and oh look now we have to jam up a major holiday week because we wasted all this other time.

How wrong you are, on so many counts.

1. Teachers have cared about pacing all along. How dare you say "no one cares about pacing." Teachers have been concerned about pacing since before school started.

2. Teachers are not wasting "all this time." They are teaching on all instructional days. They dont have time to waste. What a disgusting accusation to make.

3. Are you calling TEACHING on instructional days, "jamming up a major holiday week"? Do you have any concept of how contradictory and hypocritical your argument is?

4. If your offensive post is not about teachers and is instead an attack on the school board, you've done a piss-poor job communicating that since everything in your post is about teacher planning and pacing.

Good Lord, take it down a notch. Go have some eggnog or something. Take the day off and give your students a break.

One of my child’s teachers nixed her own plan today and said, “forget the packet pages. You all have been working so hard.” She gave them a break for the rest of the period. She’s also no longer requiring them to finish the pages over break and said we will do it in class after the break. So they got 30 minutes to catch up on other work. How amazing! She is wonderful.

Curious how you know that since you shouldn't be texting your child during the school day.

I have collected 9 (NINE!) cell phones today from students whose moms (always the moms) were calling or texting them during class again. I'm a little salty. Decompressing for lunch, one more period...hopefully with no phones.

My child told me when arriving home. I ask how each class was. He excitedly told me about the extra time.

He's home already? School doesn't end until 3.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason parents hate this is the calendar has endless (pointless) days off where no one cares about pacing and mandatory test dates and oh look now we have to jam up a major holiday week because we wasted all this other time.

How wrong you are, on so many counts.

1. Teachers have cared about pacing all along. How dare you say "no one cares about pacing." Teachers have been concerned about pacing since before school started.

2. Teachers are not wasting "all this time." They are teaching on all instructional days. They dont have time to waste. What a disgusting accusation to make.

3. Are you calling TEACHING on instructional days, "jamming up a major holiday week"? Do you have any concept of how contradictory and hypocritical your argument is?

4. If your offensive post is not about teachers and is instead an attack on the school board, you've done a piss-poor job communicating that since everything in your post is about teacher planning and pacing.

Good Lord, take it down a notch. Go have some eggnog or something. Take the day off and give your students a break.

One of my child’s teachers nixed her own plan today and said, “forget the packet pages. You all have been working so hard.” She gave them a break for the rest of the period. She’s also no longer requiring them to finish the pages over break and said we will do it in class after the break. So they got 30 minutes to catch up on other work. How amazing! She is wonderful.

Curious how you know that since you shouldn't be texting your child during the school day.

I have collected 9 (NINE!) cell phones today from students whose moms (always the moms) were calling or texting them during class again. I'm a little salty. Decompressing for lunch, one more period...hopefully with no phones.

My child told me when arriving home. I ask how each class was. He excitedly told me about the extra time.

He's home already? School doesn't end until 3.

This was yesterday

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason parents hate this is the calendar has endless (pointless) days off where no one cares about pacing and mandatory test dates and oh look now we have to jam up a major holiday week because we wasted all this other time.

How wrong you are, on so many counts.

1. Teachers have cared about pacing all along. How dare you say "no one cares about pacing." Teachers have been concerned about pacing since before school started.

2. Teachers are not wasting "all this time." They are teaching on all instructional days. They dont have time to waste. What a disgusting accusation to make.

3. Are you calling TEACHING on instructional days, "jamming up a major holiday week"? Do you have any concept of how contradictory and hypocritical your argument is?

4. If your offensive post is not about teachers and is instead an attack on the school board, you've done a piss-poor job communicating that since everything in your post is about teacher planning and pacing.

Good Lord, take it down a notch. Go have some eggnog or something. Take the day off and give your students a break.

One of my child’s teachers nixed her own plan today and said, “forget the packet pages. You all have been working so hard.” She gave them a break for the rest of the period. She’s also no longer requiring them to finish the pages over break and said we will do it in class after the break. So they got 30 minutes to catch up on other work. How amazing! She is wonderful.

Curious how you know that since you shouldn't be texting your child during the school day.

I have collected 9 (NINE!) cell phones today from students whose moms (always the moms) were calling or texting them during class again. I'm a little salty. Decompressing for lunch, one more period...hopefully with no phones.

My child told me when arriving home. I ask how each class was. He excitedly told me about the extra time.

He's home already? School doesn't end until 3.

This was yesterday

Correct. It was yesterday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason parents hate this is the calendar has endless (pointless) days off where no one cares about pacing and mandatory test dates and oh look now we have to jam up a major holiday week because we wasted all this other time.

How wrong you are, on so many counts.

1. Teachers have cared about pacing all along. How dare you say "no one cares about pacing." Teachers have been concerned about pacing since before school started.

2. Teachers are not wasting "all this time." They are teaching on all instructional days. They dont have time to waste. What a disgusting accusation to make.

3. Are you calling TEACHING on instructional days, "jamming up a major holiday week"? Do you have any concept of how contradictory and hypocritical your argument is?

4. If your offensive post is not about teachers and is instead an attack on the school board, you've done a piss-poor job communicating that since everything in your post is about teacher planning and pacing.

Good Lord, take it down a notch. Go have some eggnog or something. Take the day off and give your students a break.

One of my child’s teachers nixed her own plan today and said, “forget the packet pages. You all have been working so hard.” She gave them a break for the rest of the period. She’s also no longer requiring them to finish the pages over break and said we will do it in class after the break. So they got 30 minutes to catch up on other work. How amazing! She is wonderful.

I’m a different teacher.

Administration would not see this teacher as “amazing” and “wonderful.” We are evaluated on how productively we use our class time, not on how cool and casual we are.

And I’m going to be honest with you as someone with 25 years of experience texting. Students weren’t spending 30 minutes catching up on work. They were relaxing, catching up on shows or time with friends.

Wrong again. She’s known for being an amazing teacher. Admin doesn’t care about the day before a break - they are honestly just happy to have a warm body in that day. Plus I made a point to email the admin to let them know how much we appreciate her.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a secondary teacher. I am teaching actual curriculum on Monday and Tuesday of next week. If students are absent, they are responsible for the work they are missing. We don't have time for fluffy, feel-good, filler activities. We have curriculum to cover and I am not slowing down just because it's Thanksgiving week.

Parents who choose to pull their kids out of school next week need to understand that their kids are missing work and assessments and they will be responsible for all of it when they return to school.

I had to double take that I didn't post this. Same exact thing in my classes. I told kids they were responsible for finding the notes on schoology, printing the assignments, and getting them turned in the day they returned.

You sound nice! Let the kids have a freaking break for once!!

????

I actually AM super nice! The kids tell me I’m too nice, most of the time.

I told the kids as long as they are in class on Tuesday they’d have no work over the break, it would all be done in class.

The ones who skip will need to make it up before they return, just like if they skipped any other Tuesday.

Maybe they aren’t skipping. Maybe their parents are taking them out of town for Thanksgiving. Or maybe they are sick. No one should have to do work over the break, even if they miss Tuesday. Get real. They are entitled to one makeup day for every day absent.

There is no assigned homework over the actual break, which is Wednesday through Sunday.

If you choose to take your child out early, or to return late, they are missing instruction and classwork. That is what must be made up and completed in the child's own time.

How is that concept so difficult for some of you to understand?

Our school always has homework over the break. My child will have math on Tuesday before the break with a regular assignment due the next class period after the break. My child also has an in class summative already scheduled for the third day of the first week of return. They will obviously have to prepare over the break. My child will also probably work ahead in one of their AP classes so they aren’t slammed the day they return. So much for “no work.”

You are complaining that your kid has a test the Wednesday after Thanksgiving and they will have to study for it over the break? These teachers really can’t win

Yes. Why should kids have to study over their Thanksgiving break? Either have the test before the break or wait until the end of the week back or the next week. It’s not that hard.

Truly, teachers cannot win. No matter what they do, you people complain.

So you want teachers to either test before break, when they might not have finished reviewing the concepts in the test? Or you want them to wait to test until after they started the next unit, so kids might be multiple days removed from the content on the test? Neither of those seem ideal.

It’s appalling that teachers have to be told not to assign work over winter break. They can’t figure it out. It’s common sense and basic decency and yet they still can’t follow the rules. Last year we had the math teacher assigning a homework assignment the last day before break that was due the first period back and there was a test on the third day back from winter break.

If they aren’t ready for the test before the break, then spend some time upon return from the break finishing the unit plus have one additional period for class review. Why is this hard??

The math teacher assigning work over winter break should be an anomaly. Most teachers follow the rules.

The person complaining about a test the Wednesday after Thanksgiving break has no leg to stand on because that teacher is following the rules. Teachers are not supposed to give assessments the first block back from an extended break, so that means Monday and Tuesday after an extended break. Wednesday is permitted. [/quote
I understand that but it’s still not nice. There’s obviously going to have be some review over the break so they don’t forget anything.

It's only 5 days. If they "forget" it over 5 days then they never learned it in the first place. They shouldn't be given extra time to do something they were already given time to do before the break.

In high school it will be 6 days because of block schedules.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason parents hate this is the calendar has endless (pointless) days off where no one cares about pacing and mandatory test dates and oh look now we have to jam up a major holiday week because we wasted all this other time.

How wrong you are, on so many counts.

1. Teachers have cared about pacing all along. How dare you say "no one cares about pacing." Teachers have been concerned about pacing since before school started.

2. Teachers are not wasting "all this time." They are teaching on all instructional days. They dont have time to waste. What a disgusting accusation to make.

3. Are you calling TEACHING on instructional days, "jamming up a major holiday week"? Do you have any concept of how contradictory and hypocritical your argument is?

4. If your offensive post is not about teachers and is instead an attack on the school board, you've done a piss-poor job communicating that since everything in your post is about teacher planning and pacing.

Good Lord, take it down a notch. Go have some eggnog or something. Take the day off and give your students a break.

One of my child’s teachers nixed her own plan today and said, “forget the packet pages. You all have been working so hard.” She gave them a break for the rest of the period. She’s also no longer requiring them to finish the pages over break and said we will do it in class after the break. So they got 30 minutes to catch up on other work. How amazing! She is wonderful.

Curious how you know that since you shouldn't be texting your child during the school day.

I have collected 9 (NINE!) cell phones today from students whose moms (always the moms) were calling or texting them during class again. I'm a little salty. Decompressing for lunch, one more period...hopefully with no phones.

You have time to get on DCUM during work?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason parents hate this is the calendar has endless (pointless) days off where no one cares about pacing and mandatory test dates and oh look now we have to jam up a major holiday week because we wasted all this other time.

How wrong you are, on so many counts.

1. Teachers have cared about pacing all along. How dare you say "no one cares about pacing." Teachers have been concerned about pacing since before school started.

2. Teachers are not wasting "all this time." They are teaching on all instructional days. They dont have time to waste. What a disgusting accusation to make.

3. Are you calling TEACHING on instructional days, "jamming up a major holiday week"? Do you have any concept of how contradictory and hypocritical your argument is?

4. If your offensive post is not about teachers and is instead an attack on the school board, you've done a piss-poor job communicating that since everything in your post is about teacher planning and pacing.

Good Lord, take it down a notch. Go have some eggnog or something. Take the day off and give your students a break.

One of my child’s teachers nixed her own plan today and said, “forget the packet pages. You all have been working so hard.” She gave them a break for the rest of the period. She’s also no longer requiring them to finish the pages over break and said we will do it in class after the break. So they got 30 minutes to catch up on other work. How amazing! She is wonderful.

Curious how you know that since you shouldn't be texting your child during the school day.

I have collected 9 (NINE!) cell phones today from students whose moms (always the moms) were calling or texting them during class again. I'm a little salty. Decompressing for lunch, one more period...hopefully with no phones.

You have time to get on DCUM during work?

They were posting during their lunch, so yes, they have time.