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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Counterpoint: we should stop bickering about religious holidays and random Fridays and reckon with the reality that kids need more than 180 days in school. Especially after the disaster of the past two years. Kids are way behind and its going to take more than cheerful press releases from Gatehouse to catch them up.

FCPS should use federal funds to renegotiate teacher contracts and get kids in seats for at least 200 days/year. [/quote]

Will never, ever happen.[/quote]they aren’t even using the 180 days well. For first 2 weeks at our elementary, it is just team building and stay in homeroom. For week 3, they just begin to switch classes and learn new routines with brand new teachers.  No real instructions or lessons have started and it’s Week 4. The past 3 weeks have been a waste of time.  They should have used that time for review of last year material or time to fill in a gap. They don’t teach cursive or even penmenship. They have skipped other topics in the recent years due to Covid yet no plan is used to fill in those gaps. Moreover, the workshop model is not good for all types of learners.  It’s a shame, but I can see why test results dropped. [/quote]

Don't forget after SOLs, it suddenly becomes movies, assemblies and extra recess for the last month of school.[/quote]+1 correct. The first quarter is chock full of assessments:  spelling, some DRA reading (there is a new one this year) assessment done by individual, I ready for reading, I ready for math, vga, social emotional learning, just to name a few, then on top of it they try to do teambuilding for the first couple of weeks, they keep showcasing the positivity project for about three or four years in a row now , they have to address the portrait of a graduate topics, The principal has an assembly on SRR, there are lots of rules and routines to discuss in every classroom that they trade off into, binders and name covers are created—— this leads to minimal instruction in the first nine weeks.  This all comes at the cost of learning foundational material and filling in the holes from the virtual year.  Then there are two decent quarters of instructional learning albeit back out with holidays and other days off.  The final fourth-quarter has more of a focus on the SOL and reviewing for it and then just rapidly tapering off with in-class movies.  The first quarter and the fourth quarter could and should be used to fill in some of this learning loss.[/quote]

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