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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I take that back. Orientation last year at our school was one hour. [/quote]

You may ha be been there for an hour, but K orientation has kids and parents coming in and out for two days. That means current kindergarteners miss 2 days of school so rising kindergarteners can have orientation. [/quote]

You seem to be confusing the short orientation in the spring with the prep session right before school starts in August.

At least at our school, orientation was a scheduled one-hour block, and they were pretty strict about getting you out of there so they could bring the kids back to the classrooms.

I really don't understand why you would think they'd have the kindergarteners miss school those days.[/quote]

I hope you are being obtuse on purpose as a troll. This is my last shot at explaining it to you.

The spring orientation takes two days to get the PK-age kids in and out of classrooms. Kids go for an hour, but the kindergarten teachers spend two days doing this. Kindergarteners don’t have school those days.

Anyway, getting back to OP’s question, given that K orientation requires current kindergarteners to miss school, I don’t think I in is worth it unless that process is important to forming classes for the fall—but I would defer to teachers on that. [/quote]

What were the kindergarten teachers doing the other five hours those days? It's not like kids were going in and out- it was only for one hour and then parents and kids left.

Surely schools can come up with a way to accommodate orientation without keeping kids home those days.[/quote]

Just because your school does it one way doesn't mean you have to act like everyone else is lying.  Many schools have the rising kindergarteners come in small groups or one-on-one so they can get to know the children better, which means it takes one or two days to fit it all in.  The kindergarten teachers are busy with kids the whole time.  There is typically no school for the current kindergarteners that day.[/quote]

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