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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They’d have to pay the teachers an extra day?[/quote]

Yeah, but it would be worth it. Freshman would get a day to learn the building, test out their schedule, make friends from the other feeder schools, and engage in meaningful activities[b] before the upperclassmen come bac[/b]k. I could especially see something like this being useful for 9th graders entering DCC high schools.

Even colleges do the same thing. Freshman generally move in a day or two before the upperclassmen do.[/quote]

But why is it preferable to have them do all of those things without upperclassmen present?  I don't get it.[/quote]

I'm answering as a high school teacher, and as a parent of kids who went to orientation, although none of us are in MCPS.

It's nice for 9th graders to have a chance to learn to navigate the building when the halls aren't super crowded, and the only older students are ones who were particularly chosen because they are kind and helpful.  At transitions in many public high schools the halls are so crowded it can be hard to see the room numbers on the doors, and many schools don't have intuitive numbering systems.

It sounds like MCPS does this, which is great.  My kids and my students have benefited from those days too.[/quote]

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