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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]K orientation was nice to give PK kids who are nervous about starting school a chance to meet the teachers, but it was not essential from that perspective—and it meant that K students had to miss a couple of days of school, which is certainly disruptive.

Did teachers find K orientation useful for creating balanced classes? That would be a good reason to keep it in place.[/quote]

Why would K students miss "a couple days" of school? How long do you think orientation was?[/quote]

Last year it was two days long. [/quote]

My kid started kindergarten in MCPS this year. Orientation was 2 hours. I think you chose between two days. Where was it two days long?[/quote]

But presumably the current kindergartners weren't there those two days? They had to be gone for two days for each incoming kindergartner to get 2 hours in the classroom.[/quote]

They were in the gym. Why would you think they'd have to keep the kids home for a 1 hour orientation?[/quote]

The kindergarteners at our school were out for two days last year- on pretty short notice FWIW.  Maybe it's different depending on the school and whether there would be staff to watch an entire grade in the gym all day?  The teachers were in the classrooms for orientation...[/quote]

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