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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Repeat after me: Every. School. Is different.

The county mandated that some sort of remediation time must occur during the school day.  If you don't like how your school is implementing it, let them know.  Some schools do 30 minutes a day, others do 90 minutes every other day, some do it 4 days a week.  At some it's a free for all, at others it is highly structured with assigned remediation help.  Some allow kids to go to other teachers, while others keep the kids in one block and use it as a study hall.  There are a ton of different models.  Everyone is still trying to figure out what is most successful.[/quote]

Lets hope our new superintendent reigns in some of the issues related to Every School is Different planning.[/quote]

I don't think it's a one size fits all. The sort of program that works at Langley vs. Lee is going to look very different.[/quote]

Isn't that a self fulfilling prophecy then? Why not have a class that allows for extra help verses having an entirely different required study hall period?[/quote]

Im don't understand what you're saying.

I just meant that where I teach, we place a lot more structure during the "free" period. Kids aren't allowed to go to any teacher whenever, because it ended up being a chaotic free for all with more fights/drugs/etc going on than any other time of day. Thus, kids at my school are assigned to extra help by their teachers, where they receive additional instruction on skills that are lacking (often prior grade backfilling). Some students are in intensive SOL review instead, because they are at risk of not graduating. The block is not intended to be homework time, that was just a bonus for kids who dont need intensive help.

When I taught at the other side of the county, it was much more "do what you need to do", because parents paid for tutors to get the extra support outside of school, so admin didn't require teachers to do additional lessons.[/quote]

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