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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our school does the ridiculous thing where they rotate the K classes with all the teachers so they can pick out which teacher gets which students.  It's crazy.

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Why is it ridiculous?[/quote]

Because the kids are 5.  They are not middle schoolers.  Kids that age do better knowing what to expect.  K is already too long of a day (our K kids don't get out until 3:57, get off the bus at 4:20) and it's a demending day.  Any K teacher will tell you that the expectations put on these 5 year olds is too much.  But additionally, it's benefitical for the incoming K kid to know beforehand who will be his teacher.  And to actually meet that teacher and talk to him/her.  It helps parents to talk about how 'Larlo, you'll be in Mr. Green's class' with Larlita and Benny.  Mr. Greene has a fish in the classroom.  This will be your desk.'

When they rotate the kids around, there is an additional week of instability/adjustment for the incoming K kids.[/quote]

And then the rest of the school year is spent in classes made up by teachers who had better knowledge of the incoming K kids. Is it worth it? Evidently the teachers/administration believe it to be so. If I were you, I would not immediately assume that it's not.[/quote]

Not at our ES.  Several of the K teachers at our ES have commented that they don't like it.  Teachers don't have much of a say as far as I can tell.  Administration made the decision last year and it is not done this way at all of the ESs in MCPS so it's obviously not widely accepted practice.[/quote]

We've done it this way for a few years and I'll admit I was extremely upset with the decision initially. I didn't think having kids rotate daily for a week would help us get to know them any better.  In the end, it really helped ensure we made classes that were balanced and we all got a chance to know the entire grade level and just not the kids in our own classrooms.  We actually look forward to it now.  
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