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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did y’all really read the DL info sheet for ES closely?  It seems like you didn’t.

It’s says FCPS staff (not just the teachers— special, guidance lessons, etc count too)  will provide 2.5 to 3.5 hours of direct, synchronous instruction (whole group, small group, individual).

The 2.5 to 3.5 hours is the time a teacher or staff member  spends teaching that day.  Not the amount of direct contact time your kid has. Especially since ES does not do well with 3.5 hours of a teacher lecturing the whole class.

So, 3.5 hours for 4th grade might well be a 20 minute morning meeting, 1 hour of actual instruction (20 LA, 20 math, 20 science or SS), 1 hour of small groups for reading and math, and if it’s not your kids day they log off (because the teacher can’t monitor, and groups will happen less often with larger class sizes). 30 minutes of specials.  And 40 minutes of office hours during which the teacher works 1:1 or with small groups in areas where they are struggling.

If your kid doesn’t happen to have small group scheduled or need 1:1 that day, their direct contact time is more like 2 hours, morning meeting, 1 hour of direct instruction, and specials.  The rest of the time they are doing worksheets and reinforcing concepts.

So, OP’s schedule is dead on. When they say an hour of La, they don’t mean an hour of Hs or college level English lit lecture. They mean 20 minutes of ABCs and sight words and group learning and 40 minutes of reading groups.

And BTW, that’s what a kid in class gets too— a 15 minute lesson, then work on stations or a worksheet during reading groups.  you kid don’t get 3.5 hours of actual academic instruction during normal times in school until late ES/MS.

If you read the actual language of what you were promised, that’s it. [/quote]

Thanks so much for the clarification! It certainly has helped me make up my mind about what my option will be this fall. We'll be going hybrid.[/quote][/quote]

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