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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again, I still do not understand: If this "transition day" is for K, 6 and 9, new transfer students or special education students, what is the guidance for all of the teachers and students for whom that DOES NOT apply to? Stay home?
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It's just not a school day for them. I don't know why you don't understand. The elementary schools in our area always have a day the week before school when K students and parents can come visit. Assuming it's the same for MS and HS. Don't yours? [/quote]

Correct. That's what I have experienced.

So if this new transition day is just the same thing we've always been doing, what was the point of making it an official part of the MCPS calendar and making it a non-instructional day?[/quote]

Because Taylor's previous school systems have done it that way and he liked it.[/quote]

Doesn't seem like that rationale is persuading either the board or the community of its value.[/quote]

Maybe not the community, but the board voted to approve it.[/quote]

If you watched the board meeting, several board members asked and remained confused about the purpose, and asked what the transition day was replacing given the long-established orientation activities that have happened the Thursday before the first day of school, and cited the major confusion about the full day vs half-day nature of the transition day.

Again, the rationale and reason for this transition day has been poorly articulated and communicated, which is why it's not going over very well with both the board and the community.[/quote]

Yes, but either the full board or the policy management committee could have asked for a calendar without a transition day, yet they never did.[/quote]

The point that is confusing everyone is that a transition half-day already existed for secondary schools.  It occurred the Thursday before school started and buses ran to all the MS/HS.  If you want to include the K'ers, okay fine, but now you're just increasing time and cost for a bunch of kids who don't switch classes often and for whom traditionally the entire first week of school is essentially a transition time.  And doing so at a time when you're supposed to be trying to find ways to save money and put to other things like Special Education.

And even if we say, yes let's include the K'ers, what the heck is everyone doing ALL DAY long.  What are the 1st-5th grade teachers doing?  What are the majority of 7th-8th grade teachers doing?  How about the teachers who teach mostly 10th-12th graders? [/quote]

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