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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Middle school parent here. That's false. I just pulled up my DD's schedule. They have the 10-day rotation (A-J).

Math: 7x in 10 days
Science: 7x in 10 days
English: 7x in 10 days
Foreign Language: 7x in 10 days

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That's the ideal, not what actually happens regularly.[/quote]

How does it not happen? The "letter" days shift if school has a day off due to holiday.

Sounds like someone doesn't know what they're talking about, when faced with real facts.

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I'm looking at the number of class meetings in an actual two weeks, not theoretical. In addition to holidays and other breaks, there are other schedule disruptions. All these things make it so you don't ACTUALLY see your teachers 7 times in two weeks.[/quote]

Anybody who pays any attention to school schedules knows that it's all theoretical.  Just look at a true block schedule like many public schools have.  In theory classes meet 5 times every two weeks.  Except they don't.  Because many many weeks aren't five days.  So kids oven see teachers only 3 or 4 times in two weeks.  Add to that the extra disruptions that are common in private schools for special events and kids never see their teachers as often as promised.[/quote]

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