Reply to New school start times survey

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "New school start times survey"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parent of a new 7th grader here (my first). I know a lot of parents and literally NONE of them want middle school start times to change to the 9:30 - 4:00 option. Most of them don't want to change to the 8:00pm option at the expense of elementary schoolers. I want them to keep everything as is.[/quote]

See, and I'm a middle school parent (7th grader) AND MS teacher and I do want the start times changed later. 7:30 start time is ridiculous. Would rather the county could figure it out without making unpopular ES schedules, but the fact is no school should start before 8AM. [/quote]

Would you prefer 9:35 - 4:20? Because that is 100% what they are going with, as a way to eliminate county funding for the middle school after school program. We know that's what they want to do because they tried to do it this year.[/quote]

I'm a different MS teacher and I think you're right. I also think there will be a huge exodus if they do it. I can try to dig up the survey from last year where well over half the middle school teachers were very opposed to the plan. [/quote]

They're opposed but are likely not independently wealthy, so let's be real about the exodus. I wish the Superintendent and SB would propose better options too but when it comes down to it don't have the ability to walk away.[/quote]

Yes. But they can switch counties. Fairfax is already competing with Arlington, Loudoun, and PWC for teachers. The hardest to staff schools tend to be the late ES. We have lost many candidates cause they preferred ES that ended earlier. [/quote]

+1, and many have endorsements that will let them teach at the HS level. I’m licensed K-12 in special ed and would never go back to elementary but high school wouldn’t be a hard sell. [/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