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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does the last date for seniors change? If not that is 5 weeks early for them. What about senior teachers, what do they do for 5 weeks without students?
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The kids in mixed classes generally don't do much after AP exams.  It makes it hard when you have freshman to seniors in the same classes.  Most senior teachers have some other kids mixed in and they just hang out.  A rare few teachers teach.[/quote]

Yeah it’s a hard sell to make them get up and go when they know the majority of their classes will just be doing nothing.  If they were playing trivia games or doing fun experiments it would be easier.  But I’d imagine the science teachers don’t have th budget to add on extra fun experiments for the end of the year anyway.  And you can’t really do an experiment in the 20 minutes they give you.  I hope the HS will at least do block scheduling do all those half days which would increase the odds the teachers will do anything.  I think my kids would for the classes they like if the teachers said “we’re going to do …..” and it sounded intetesting or fun.  Sometimes they do debates on stuff like — who was the best president — or pick your top three favorite chemical elements—or something like that which is moderately fun for the kids who liked the class at least.  But you can’t really do it in 20 minute classes.[/quote]

Your science teachers do experiments?   Nice, ours don’t.  Must be a w school. [/quote]

What school is that?  Experiments are part of the standard MCPS MS/HS curriculum from what I see from my kid's syllabus.  Maybe your kid doesn't tell you these things.[/quote]

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