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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ES parent here. Our teachers most definitely did not follow the rules. My child had a new math lesson with new content today. Plus new homework supporting that content. [/quote]

Good. After a year of learning loss, creating 15 more days on learning loss and justifying it in a public school based on religion is ridiculous. The sooner someone challenges this 100% illegal setup, the better. [/quote]

It’s actually only 11 days, but ok.
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And for kids on a block schedule in MS/HS, [b]it’s 22 days[/b]. Which is not okay. [/quote]

No it’s not. Math is not your strong suit. First of all, there are only a total only of 11 O days for the 21-22 school year. Not sure how you extrapolate to 22. A teacher on here explained it a while ago too. It’s 5 days on A days, and 6 days on B days. This is for the whole year. So it balances out.

They can be catch up days. Give the kids a break.
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Do you have little kids?

Middle and high school are on the block schedule.

They only have 4 classes per day.

The MS and HS schedules alternate  between A days and B days.

A and B days cover the same material every 2 days.

[b]So if AB chemistry has a zero day on the Monday A day, then AP chemistry that meets on B days cannot move forward on the material.[/b]

11 days becomes 22 days of no learning for HS and MS.[/quote]

Yes, I was right. You really aren’t getting it. Teachers are not going to hold the other class back on B day just because A day was an O day. They will be off by a few lessons. Big deal.[/quote]

Most teachers [b]ARE[/b] syncing their blocks, so it [b]IS[/b] like missing 22 days.

Because of things such as test security and organization, it is too difficult to have blocks too far off from one another. [/quote]

I'm a high school teacher on a block schedule.  I am 100% against these stupid religious observance days interfering with school. I would give just about anything to scrap them.  They make my life complicated, limit kids' instructional opportunities, and are a pain for everyone.

That said, if a teacher is using "it's too hard" as an excuse to get keep their blocks in synch, they are just being lazy.  I have 2 versions of tests--even day and odd day versions.  Everyone in my entire department is doing this. As far as I know, most of my school is (though I admittedly don't talk to many outside of my department or immediate vicinity).  It's not that difficult.  Annoying? Sure. But it's just a matter of staying slightly more organized.  (And I have 3 preps, 2 of which are on both even/odd days, so I have 5 different stacks of papers on my desk on any given day.  I know it's frustrating, but it's reality for this year if we want to have half a shot at finishing most of the curriculum).[/quote]

I have yet to win a battle on the grounds that “this course of action is to the benefit of the children and crucial to our mission to teach them,” so I have given in.  I am letting my HS students use O days to do catch up work.  I have found the two days we had this year gave me some time to help students one-on-one and grade piles of late work, so they ended up not being terrible.

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