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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The next three days are painful. More movies and TV series played in all classes.  Laptops collected tomorrow, too.  This is drawn out this year. [/quote]

Which annoys me because they do consider these instructional days.  They aren’t.  And it isn’t just these last two weeks, for elementary it is all those early releases.  Our school did virtually nothing learning on those days.

So those that argue this calendar provided the same amount instruction are missing the bigger picture.[/quote]

+100.

Everyone who argued all year that FCPS was meeting their legal requirement never considered how low that legal requirement was. Said it before and I will say it again, meeting the legal requirement isn't enough and FCPS needs to do better!!  We should not be in school this late in June and we need to have more consistent 5 day weeks in the Fall and Winter. Weather happens but we can control every other random day off on the Calendar.

This isn't about childcare but about improving education.  The system is very broken.[/quote]

DP. Agree.  Teachers used to grade during school days—give the kids some worksheets and move on. My MS has done nothing at school for the last week and a half. [/quote]

That's because teachers have to watch middle school kids [u]constantly[%u]. They can't give worksheets to keep kids busy because the kids are feral (due to lack of parenting) and cannot be trusted to do the work so the teacher can grade.

If parents would teach their kids to behave like civilized, polite humans, it would have a profound impact. [/quote]

I was at a really strict Catholic school with involved parents, and our 6th and 7th graders were feral way back then.

If you read literature from hundreds of years ago, even ancient people had the same conplaint about young teenagers.

Yes, middle schoolers have to be watched as much as toddlers.  Yes, they are feral.

But most of that is the age.[/quote]

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