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Anonymous
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given DCPS added 4 days to the school year - what if anything are the privates doing?
For example, Beauvoir is adding 30 minutes to the early Friday dismissal (so 2:30 to 3:00) from first week of april to first week of june...which comes to approx. 4 hours of makeup time. |
Anonymous
| Sidwell turned one teacher work day into a school day, and turned one no-classes day into a regular school day. Other days had already been built into the calendar. |
Anonymous
| The independents don't have to teach to the test nor have to follow federal guidelines for minimum number of school days. |
Anonymous
| yeah, most probably won't make it up |
Anonymous
| GDS also switched an in-service day to a regular school day. |
Anonymous
| Burke switched two in-service days and a conference day to regular days. They also delayed the end of the second trimester by a couple of days, to even things out. |
Anonymous
| Primary Day extended conference early dismissal days with resource teachers taking over the classrooms. |
Anonymous
| St. Patricks has done nothing, and frankly I find it objectionable. |
Anonymous
| CHDS only missed 4 days total so are not doing any make up days. |
Anonymous
| Norwood turned one early dismissal day into a full day, that's it. A bit surprised and disappointed! |
Anonymous
| GDS parent: very upset that there is only going to be one makeup. |
Anonymous
| Beauvoir has extended the remaining Fridays into a full day as opposed to the usual early dismissal day. |
Anonymous
| I was worried that they'd pile on the home work as a substitute for make up days. Glad that hasn't happened, but on the other hand homework has basically ceased! Strange. |
Anonymous
We are at St. Pat's, too, and I am on the fence about how I feel. I am just glad that they didn't cancel conferences as I think they are really important. However, with 2 weeks of spring break coming up our kids will have been home for 5 weeks since mid December... |
Anonymous
| beauvoir parent here - that 30 minutes extra for 8 weeks is almost funny. |