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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents of older children, how often in a week is your kid actually seeing their teachers? Are you finding classes only meet a couple times a week? Concerned about what I'm hearing.[/quote]

As someone earlier said, there are a lot disruptions and often last minute changes or changes that aren't well-thought out and require last minute fixes. There are very few weeks where they actually have classes for five days straight.
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What sort of disruptions are you talking about? There have been three public holidays and school conferences since the start of school. Are you saying they shouldn’t close to those?[/quote]

If you've got an upper or middle schooler, just pick a class and a random two weeks in September or October. How often did that class actually meet? What I'm seeing is sometimes only 4-5 class meetings over the course of two weeks because of schedule and calendar disruptions. Their peers are getting twice that number of class meetings over two weeks. How do you think that affects your child? How do you think that affects the curriculum?[/quote]

The wild number of disrupted weeks is not unique to Holton. Religious holidays, homecomings, Indigenous Peoples Day, community service days - September and October in DMV privates are not known for establishing clean rhythms. [/quote]

Holton operates a lettered day schedule to address this, A-J. In a normal week, M-F would be A-E, then the second week would be F-J. But let's say Monday in week 2 is a holiday. Then it all shifts so F is on Tuesday instead of Monday (and following weeks shift too). This ensure every class gets the same number of meeting days, even if there's a lot of holidays on Mondays for example.

I think a lot of schools do this for that reason.[/quote]

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