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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the options suck but esp the one that goes way late into June. No way![/quote]

Look at the calendar.  It doesn’t actually go to the end of June for students.  The last week is a fake week with Monday AND Wednesday off.  Students will be done by June 14th.

It does screw over teachers who work over the summer.  It pushes out their last day of work by 6 days. [/quote]

I will quit. 100%. I’m already getting fed up, and they keep adding days. One of the benefits of teaching is having that break during the summer, and if they keep adding on days to each end of it, I’m done. I’ve had enough of the meetings and the [b]professional development[/b]. Enough.[/quote]

I don't think I want my child to have a teacher who doesn't see the value in professional development. [/quote]

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[b]Well, the PD needs to be valuable. Sometimes it is, often it is not.[/b]

To the other PP, in my 30 years of teaching our contract was 194 days until this year when they added a day. I do agree though that I do not like starting at the end of the second week of August and ending June 20. [/quote]

Welcome to adulthood. I'm not sure why teachers -who I generally support- say things like this as if they should be exempt from things other professions have.[/quote]

The PP wrote, “ I don't think I want my child to have a teacher who doesn't see the value in professional development”. Don’t we all value PD that is worthwhile? I wasn’t saying we should be exempt from it, but I understand the frustration that comes from breaking up a week of school to attend PD that is indeed, not valuable.[/quote]

I am a teacher and find most PD unnecessary. I’d much rather have one day for report cards and any extra time to work in my room. Everything FCPS makes us do is to check the box and make us look like we are forward thinking and equitable. [/quote]

This!!!!
ES Teacher[/quote]

+1. The number of teacher workdays in the purple calendar is insane. If they were actual workdays, it would lighten the load, but anyone who has worked for fcps knows that they won’t be. It will be more meaningless training that I’ll sit in while making lists in my head of all the actually productive things I could be doing.  It is insane that we’d be going down to 177 student days, starting two weeks before Labor Day, and still getting out several days after FCPS got out in the early 2000s when we started after Labor Day and had 3 built in snow days, giving us 183 instructional days. [/quote]

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