Reply to DCPS Survey - Increase Instructional Time

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "DCPS Survey - Increase Instructional Time"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We don't need a longer school year. DCPS needs to stop having 4 day weeks. 1/2 day for records keeping? An entire day off for parent-teacher conferences that are 15 minutes long and don't start before 8am or occur after 5pm? I think there was only one full week of instruction in the month of October.[/quote]

I am a parent and DCPS teacher and our conferences always start at noon (I sometimes meet with parents before if need be because I am always there by 10am on those days) and our conferences go until 7pm. This is the way it has ALWAYS been when I worked WOTP and EOTP. [/quote]

You are proving my point. If the conferences don't start until noon, why give the entire day off? But my real gripe is that the conferences are at times that are very inconvenient for working parents. Those coveted spots before 9am or after 4pm go fast and it's not always easy to stop working in the middle of the day to travel back to your neighborhood school for a 15 minute meeting. This is assuming you are one of the list cry ones with backup care for the day.[/quote]

Because the teacher in this case is working until 7 pm? [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics