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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OMG it's a few hours!  Just deal with it and let the kids play outside or read!  [/quote]

You are making so many assumptions that every families' situation is just like yours[/quote]

The National average for paid time off is something like 17 days per year. Yeah this is a wealthy area but imagine thinking it’s acceptable to tell parents half their days off this year needs to be about teacher training days— hope you didn’t want to see family, and you and your kids don’t get sick! FCPS needs those early dismissals.[/quote]

When I had children, I realized and accepted that my days off would be about them, whether that be for their illnesses, their appointments, or their days off school. My children are my priority.

I feel bad for the teachers because I know the early release days are not enough for them to get their training completed.  My sister teaches in FCPS and she told me about the 30 hours of literacy training all teachers have to do in addition to the multiple days of training they had to do over the summer and the 20 hours of other training they had to do the first week back to work. [/quote]

Having worked in FCPS and taken some of the training, most of it is CYA on the district's part (or, where state-mandated, on the General Assembly or DOE's part) and not actually useful. The proliferation of training is a really big problem. Yes teachers need continuing education, but they don't need so many videos designed to allow the district to wash it's hands when something goes wrong.[/quote]

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