Seriously FFX? why can't school start on Monday?

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Anonymous wrote:This is hilarious! The expectation in every profession is that individuals will grow and develop on the job. According to your logic a teacher at 32 should not be expected to grow professionally whatsoever beyond where they were intellectually a decade earlier.

If an English teacher has not read the classics how can they possibly teach the classics or comparative literature?

The problem with FCPS teachers is they have no desire for greatness. They are not inspired and they have no desire inspire greatness in their students. You throw them into groups and let them rot.

What I meant is there is a deference between knowledge and intelligence. The teacher will have more knowledge 10 years later, but won't be more intelligent, so will still be a mediocre teacher. Your expectations of where teachers should be 10 years later needs to take into consideration innate intelligence. Also, if a teacher is teaching the classics or comparative literature, they will have read what they are teaching. You can't possibly be suggesting they haven't read books they are teaching in class. You seem to think that there is a list of "great classics" that every English teacher must read, regardless of whether they cover those books in class. I disagree. Anyway, be realistic with your expectations. You can't start out with mediocre talent and expect greatness.

They can't even follow basic practices though? Their way of giving feedback on writing is to give a grade on it and nothing more. Never any comments. How can children learn this way?

You have to give up on this. You need to just supplement at home. FCPS is not good at teaching grammar or writing.

Fine if FCPS wants to agree on being a mediocre school system. They cannot continue to say they are a leader in education when they are not addressing some of the basics that other school districts address with ease.

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Anonymous wrote:care.com and stfu

I think most people already have coverage. FCPS is a public school system, so people are allowed to voice dissent if they are not happy with the choices being made. Sorry if that upsets you.

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GEEZ,, it's a multi-billion dollar school system and all they can say is STFU?

Their teachers are not mentally deficient, they are mentally and physically lazy. The only thing preventing academic quality is the emphasis on athletics and a complete disregard for employing scholarly teachers. Surely a 22 year old is not going to be and old sage, but if they are not by age 32 they must be fired.

The era of being a good coach or best friends with the Assistant Principal and a lazy teacher must end.

Principals get up off your collective asses and start doing your jobs. When the principals are present, the Assistant Princpals are circulating, the teachers know they must teach from skill and knowledge not from plagiarized lesson plans. Students will be educated. Poor instruction always translates into poor classroom management.

FCPS has lazy principals which trickle down to lazy Assistant Principals and lazy teachers. FCPS teachers are not bad because they are stupid, its because they are too lazy to become scholars in their own chosen disciplines and the principals don't really care.

FCPS schools are dysfunctional. Teachers are uninspired, students aren't learning, kids are bullied, less than popular students are ignored by their teachers who are hired to be their mentors and protectors.

Get your lazy gossiping asses out of the teachers lounges, read the content matter for today's lesson, really teach your classes instead of just going through the motions, teach and protect all of your students.

And stop trying to be buddies with the cool kids. You are just making an ass of yourself. They already have plenty of friends. They need scholarly educators who they can respect not some middle aged dork who desperately wants to be their buddy.

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Anonymous wrote:care.com and stfu

I arranged care for the one day but this is totally the response I expected from FCPS but thanks for confirming.

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Anonymous wrote:GEEZ,, it's a multi-billion dollar school system and all they can say is STFU?

Their teachers are not mentally deficient, they are mentally and physically lazy. The only thing preventing academic quality is the emphasis on athletics and a complete disregard for employing scholarly teachers. Surely a 22 year old is not going to be and old sage, but if they are not by age 32 they must be fired.

The era of being a good coach or best friends with the Assistant Principal and a lazy teacher must end.

Principals get up off your collective asses and start doing your jobs. When the principals are present, the Assistant Princpals are circulating, the teachers know they must teach from skill and knowledge not from plagiarized lesson plans. Students will be educated. Poor instruction always translates into poor classroom management.

FCPS has lazy principals which trickle down to lazy Assistant Principals and lazy teachers. FCPS teachers are not bad because they are stupid, its because they are too lazy to become scholars in their own chosen disciplines and the principals don't really care.

FCPS schools are dysfunctional. Teachers are uninspired, students aren't learning, kids are bullied, less than popular students are ignored by their teachers who are hired to be their mentors and protectors.

Get your lazy gossiping asses out of the teachers lounges, read the content matter for today's lesson, really teach your classes instead of just going through the motions, teach and protect all of your students.

And stop trying to be buddies with the cool kids. You are just making an ass of yourself. They already have plenty of friends. They need scholarly educators who they can respect not some middle aged dork who desperately wants to be their buddy.

+1 Teachers and principals at our school are just like the last two paragraphs. It's hard to take them seriously with that behavior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GEEZ,, it's a multi-billion dollar school system and all they can say is STFU?

Their teachers are not mentally deficient, they are mentally and physically lazy. The only thing preventing academic quality is the emphasis on athletics and a complete disregard for employing scholarly teachers. Surely a 22 year old is not going to be and old sage, but if they are not by age 32 they must be fired.

The era of being a good coach or best friends with the Assistant Principal and a lazy teacher must end.

Principals get up off your collective asses and start doing your jobs. When the principals are present, the Assistant Princpals are circulating, the teachers know they must teach from skill and knowledge not from plagiarized lesson plans. Students will be educated. Poor instruction always translates into poor classroom management.

FCPS has lazy principals which trickle down to lazy Assistant Principals and lazy teachers. FCPS teachers are not bad because they are stupid, its because they are too lazy to become scholars in their own chosen disciplines and the principals don't really care.

FCPS schools are dysfunctional. Teachers are uninspired, students aren't learning, kids are bullied, less than popular students are ignored by their teachers who are hired to be their mentors and protectors.

Get your lazy gossiping asses out of the teachers lounges, read the content matter for today's lesson, really teach your classes instead of just going through the motions, teach and protect all of your students.

And stop trying to be buddies with the cool kids. You are just making an ass of yourself. They already have plenty of friends. They need scholarly educators who they can respect not some middle aged dork who desperately wants to be their buddy.

I think you also posted a similar message in the MD Schools Forum. Though that one seemed very focused on sports and teachers who also coach. Have you also posted on PGCPS and DCPS?

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For all of you FCPS haters: Which Virginia school system is better than FCPS?

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Anonymous wrote:For all of you FCPS haters: Which Virginia school system is better than FCPS?

Henrico County, City of Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, ...

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Anonymous wrote:For all of you FCPS haters: Which Virginia school system is better than FCPS?

Henrico County, City of Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, ...

How so?

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Anonymous wrote:For all of you FCPS haters: Which Virginia school system is better than FCPS?

Henrico County, City of Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, ...

How so?

It was a question.

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I've been getting emails from typical extracurricular facilities nearby about camps on Monday. If you are tuned in to the teacher workday camps, you should be able to find care.

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Anonymous wrote:why is there a teacher workday on Monday? School starts on Tuesday? Why can't they just be normal and even considerate to all the working parents and start school on a Monday??

Teachers want to be ready for your child.

School ended in June. So they had 50 work days since then that they could have used to be "ready". But for some reason they had to use August 27 instead of (say) one of the days the previous week. Whatever...

Except teachers aren't paid in the summer, and most schools don't allow the teachers in the buildings during the summer until 1 or 2 weeks beforehand.

Teachers have to pack up their entire classrooms every year at the end. The new room is t assigned until shortly before school starts. They have numerous required meetings. They then personalize the classrooms, unpack everything, organize it and work on lesson plans. Believe it or not, this isn’t a conspiracy against you.

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Anonymous wrote:why is there a teacher workday on Monday? School starts on Tuesday? Why can't they just be normal and even considerate to all the working parents and start school on a Monday??

Teachers want to be ready for your child.

School ended in June. So they had 50 work days since then that they could have used to be "ready". But for some reason they had to use August 27 instead of (say) one of the days the previous week. Whatever...

Except teachers aren't paid in the summer, and most schools don't allow the teachers in the buildings during the summer until 1 or 2 weeks beforehand.

Teachers have to pack up their entire classrooms every year at the end. The new room is t assigned until shortly before school starts. They have numerous required meetings. They then personalize the classrooms, unpack everything, organize it and work on lesson plans. Believe it or not, this isn’t a conspiracy against you.

How did teachers manage last year when they started on Monday. Or the other years when they started on Tuesday but the Monday wasn't a teacher workday?

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Anonymous wrote:I've been getting emails from typical extracurricular facilities nearby about camps on Monday. If you are tuned in to the teacher workday camps, you should be able to find care.

After figuring out care for 10 weeks, it's annoying the FCPS has made the schedule so that parents have to also figure out a full day of care the first week back. I don't think most people are still trying to find care at this point. Some people can't afford expensive day camps and need to take time off. School is not daycare, but it would be nice if the school system took working parents into consideration when scheduling teacher workdays. While the day would be scheduled at some other point in the school year, for many people that's better than another day off directly after 10 weeks of camp and time off from work. I don't expect bureaucrats to care or understand, but people can still voice their displeasure with the schedule.

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Anonymous wrote:For all of you FCPS haters: Which Virginia school system is better than FCPS?

Henrico County, City of Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, ...

How so?

Those school systems have high standardized test scores and good graduation rates. Their schools, with a few exceptions, are consistently good. In FCPS, you really have a lot of disparity, with some schools performing very well and others really struggling to meet state standards. Parents in FCPS really have to research where to live based on the neighborhood school performance. I don’t get the sense that these other districts have such variation from school to school.

FCPS is much larger, though - with probably more challenges in terms of ESOL and FARMS.