CALENDAR: O days and new material

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. I’ll be teaching new content and offering to stay late with anyone who needs additional support. I’ll go into greater detail with rigor the new content after the O day. But I am not doing zilch on those days.

I asked if I could do that (introduce a new concept if it was going to have additional days of instruction). Got a resounding “no” from admin and central office when one administrator reaches out for clarification. The first day of a concept cannot be on an O day. Period.

It’s idiotic. I literally printed out first day of school team building activities because there is nothing we can review yet (2 whole days of content so far!)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. I’ll be teaching new content and offering to stay late with anyone who needs additional support. I’ll go into greater detail with rigor the new content after the O day. But I am not doing zilch on those days.

I asked if I could do that (introduce a new concept if it was going to have additional days of instruction). Got a resounding “no” from admin and central office when one administrator reaches out for clarification. The first day of a concept cannot be on an O day. Period.

It’s idiotic. I literally printed out first day of school team building activities because there is nothing we can review yet (2 whole days of content so far!)

Not sure what you teach, but you can review previous grades concepts that you might need to review anyway.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. I’ll be teaching new content and offering to stay late with anyone who needs additional support. I’ll go into greater detail with rigor the new content after the O day. But I am not doing zilch on those days.

I asked if I could do that (introduce a new concept if it was going to have additional days of instruction). Got a resounding “no” from admin and central office when one administrator reaches out for clarification. The first day of a concept cannot be on an O day. Period.

It’s idiotic. I literally printed out first day of school team building activities because there is nothing we can review yet (2 whole days of content so far!)

Not sure what you teach, but you can review previous grades concepts that you might need to review anyway.

An AP level course with no pre reqs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Seems like it would have been easier to just have the four originally proposed days off.

Easier yes. Legal. No.

Then again, this is very much not legal.

The O days are not legal in the slightest. They are picking and choosing religious holidays to honor w/o a secular basis. Their own data do not support these days. Their own lawyers told them not to do it.

Is there a legal challenge in the works?

What law are they breaking?

Establishment Clause of the Constitution

Freedom of religion includes the right to be free from religion. Here, FCPS is favoring some religions over others. And worse, is forcing all learning to pause based on religious holidays without a compelling secular reason. Absolutely illegal.

I hope someone is suing.

I'm Christian and no one seemed to mind when they added an extra week to winter break. That revolves around Christmas. If it was just "winter" break, they'd just decouple it from Christmas and have two weeks off at the end of the first semester. That would make more sense than breaking up the quarter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. I’ll be teaching new content and offering to stay late with anyone who needs additional support. I’ll go into greater detail with rigor the new content after the O day. But I am not doing zilch on those days.

I asked if I could do that (introduce a new concept if it was going to have additional days of instruction). Got a resounding “no” from admin and central office when one administrator reaches out for clarification. The first day of a concept cannot be on an O day. Period.

It’s idiotic. I literally printed out first day of school team building activities because there is nothing we can review yet (2 whole days of content so far!)

I’ll seek forgiveness after the fact. I didn’t ask. So I don’t know really what my school is following

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. I’ll be teaching new content and offering to stay late with anyone who needs additional support. I’ll go into greater detail with rigor the new content after the O day. But I am not doing zilch on those days.

I asked if I could do that (introduce a new concept if it was going to have additional days of instruction). Got a resounding “no” from admin and central office when one administrator reaches out for clarification. The first day of a concept cannot be on an O day. Period.

It’s idiotic. I literally printed out first day of school team building activities because there is nothing we can review yet (2 whole days of content so far!)

I’ll seek forgiveness after the fact. I didn’t ask. So I don’t know really what my school is following

A parent is going to be super upset and report you. It’s completely unfair to the Jewish students what you’re doing. No new content, lady. Deal with it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. I’ll be teaching new content and offering to stay late with anyone who needs additional support. I’ll go into greater detail with rigor the new content after the O day. But I am not doing zilch on those days.

I asked if I could do that (introduce a new concept if it was going to have additional days of instruction). Got a resounding “no” from admin and central office when one administrator reaches out for clarification. The first day of a concept cannot be on an O day. Period.

It’s idiotic. I literally printed out first day of school team building activities because there is nothing we can review yet (2 whole days of content so far!)

I’ll seek forgiveness after the fact. I didn’t ask. So I don’t know really what my school is following

Honestly, there was a training. It is not what the school is following. It is a county wide initiative. Don’t teach new content. It isn’t a hard concept. I don’t agree with it by any means, but to say you don’t know what the school is doing is wrong. Practice a skill that you will be doing many times a year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. I’ll be teaching new content and offering to stay late with anyone who needs additional support. I’ll go into greater detail with rigor the new content after the O day. But I am not doing zilch on those days.

I asked if I could do that (introduce a new concept if it was going to have additional days of instruction). Got a resounding “no” from admin and central office when one administrator reaches out for clarification. The first day of a concept cannot be on an O day. Period.

It’s idiotic. I literally printed out first day of school team building activities because there is nothing we can review yet (2 whole days of content so far!)

I’ll seek forgiveness after the fact. I didn’t ask. So I don’t know really what my school is following

Honestly, there was a training. It is not what the school is following. It is a county wide initiative. Don’t teach new content. It isn’t a hard concept. I don’t agree with it by any means, but to say you don’t know what the school is doing is wrong. Practice a skill that you will be doing many times a year.

100%, this is why the parents get upset . There’s always a handful of teachers who break the rules and make the rest of look bad.

[Anonymous]

“ It’s completely unfair to the Jewish students what you’re doing. No new content, lady. Deal with it.”

No actually it is unfair to the 95% of kids that will be in school that they are forced to waste the day rather than just letting those missing the day have time to make it up and learn the new info.

[Anonymous]

So pretty much what we expected - a useless day at school. For our 1 MS and 1 HS kids it was - a movie in history class, a Kahoot followed by free time in Health, a non-graded quiz followed by free time in Geometry, finish any unfinished work followed by free time in Chemistry.

Only what 12 more days like this? Yay can’t wait

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So pretty much what we expected - a useless day at school. For our 1 MS and 1 HS kids it was - a movie in history class, a Kahoot followed by free time in Health, a non-graded quiz followed by free time in Geometry, finish any unfinished work followed by free time in Chemistry.

Only what 12 more days like this? Yay can’t wait

Wait until the snow days kick in. This is what you should have been fighting the SB on versus calling teachers lazy mother****.

[Anonymous]

I’m going to take my ES kid out of school on the next one and take them on a fun outing instead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“ It’s completely unfair to the Jewish students what you’re doing. No new content, lady. Deal with it.”

No actually it is unfair to the 95% of kids that will be in school that they are forced to waste the day rather than just letting those missing the day have time to make it up and learn the new info.

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[Anonymous]

ES parent here. Our teachers most definitely did not follow the rules. My child had a new math lesson with new content today. Plus new homework supporting that content.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So pretty much what we expected - a useless day at school. For our 1 MS and 1 HS kids it was - a movie in history class, a Kahoot followed by free time in Health, a non-graded quiz followed by free time in Geometry, finish any unfinished work followed by free time in Chemistry.

Only what 12 more days like this? Yay can’t wait

Wait until the snow days kick in. This is what you should have been fighting the SB on versus calling teachers lazy mother****.

Yeah thanks but some of us never called the teachers names and have always understood the issue is the school board and superintendent. It’s why we transferred our youngest to private.

January is going to be super fun with 2 O days right, after 2 week winter break, plus a holiday, 2 teacher workdays, and 1 early release day