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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]

That is your ES. Our ES does not have kids changing Teachers for different subjects. The first week is learning about each other and a general reintroduction to school. The second week included worksheets and assignments that helped the Teachers see where kids were after summer vacation. The third week was iReady and starting to teach new material. And not every school skipped those topics. Our ES was clear that they were going to continue to teach the full curriculum and did just that. I know that incomplete work is being sent home and kids in DS's class are being asked to complete it at home and return it, so some kids have homework already.

We are not in the McLean or Langley pyramid, just in case people think it is something associated with those schools or high SES. We are in a pretty solidly MC neighborhood.

Each school decides how to run it's year and how to approach these issues. Our school is in week 4 and the kids are balancing between finishing assessments and learning new material. [/quote]

Well, la di da. I would bet more schools are different than yours than share your experience. Our AAP center ES, AAP MS, and the HS too def are slow to teach new material and the last several weeks of school after AP exams, SOLs, and in between finals are a waste. The HS is a ghost town but it still claims those hours as part of the school year. [/quote]

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