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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let’s take a breath and understand that it will be what it will be! It is what it is.

Parents should let their kids navigate the process by themselves. Put your helicopters in their hangers.

Try to put yourself in the minds of the administrators, counselors and teachers who are still figuring out conflicts and other issues with the master.

How do I know? Parent of three, grandparent of 10 and FCPS teacher for over three decades. The kid who learns to self advocate will be a success! [/quote]

FCPS hides them until 6 am the day of orientation annd only one day before the weekend. It’s absolutely ridiculous. They should release them Monday so kids can compare and everyone can check for errors before school starts. [/quote]

If they have schedules complete, they should be visible so the kids can check for mistakes and the counselors can fix their errors before school starts. Really, its absurd. [/quote]

They are still enrolling students and in some cases hiring teachers.

Parents bothering them all this week and swamping the office staff with calls when they are trying to get the year on track, just so they complain about getting the math teacher that they heard grades to hard or because their kid wants the cool science teacher instead of the old boring one will only slow things down and throw a monkey wrench in the back to school operation

Your kids are closer to college than kindergarten, and closer to having babies than being babies.  [b]They are fully capable of meeting with the counsellr the first week to correct any mistakes in their schedules.
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Thursday is plenty of time to get your kids schedule.[/quote]

There shouldn't be any mistakes. How do mistakes happen?[/quote]

[b]Our FCPS high school has almost 3000 students[/b], with new transfers coming in every day.  Mistakes happen, and staffing can change at the last minute.

FCPS (most districts, actually,) does not allow people moving  in from out of state to register until you are physically located in the area, even if you have a signed lease.  For schools with higher military transfers, this means last minute schedule changes happen regularly as staffing ratios change.

For example,  in elementary school years ago, my kid's grade had 5 very full classes at max capacity.  A couple of military kids registered the week before school started, just enough to put one or 2 of the classes over the state maximum.  This meant that the week before school started, that grade went from 5 classes at state capacity levels, to 6 classes of around 26 students each.

My kid was one of the kids moved at the last minute to the newly created class without a permanent teacher.  They were given an experienced sub for first semester until the replacement could be found and the background check completed.

Things like this happen all the time.

We knew the class situation by Open House, but if we had hacked the schedule a few days earlier, it would have displayed an entirely different teacher and classroom, with completely different classmates when the friends compared notes.

Another example from high school is electives.  My kid made advanced orchestra as a sophomore, which is a bit rare.  The counselors accidentally put my kid in the 2nd tier orchestra.  When my kid went to correct the schedule, it created a snowball of conflicts.

Most of the advanced electives are only offered for 1 session.

Since the advanced electives are almost entirely filled with seniors, they go on the master schedule opposite underclassmen electives, so they don't conflict with senior classes.   Advanced choir is ususlly not scheduled opposite the only Theater 3 or 4 class.  Multivariable Calculus is usually not scheduled opposite Advanced Orchestra or the only session of AP Latin.

Making the schedule make the most sense possible for most students means that there will be mistakes or conflicts when a kid is much more advanced or much more behind in one subject that typical.[/quote]

Yes, our school has 2800 kids and 10 counselors. Only a small percentage of a counselor's 280 students will have any changes or problems at all. There is no reason 
for mistakes not to be caught or fixed or changes processed before school starts. [/quote]

How long have you worked as a counselor for FCPS? How many mistakes do you usually find each year? How many parents/students contact you with desired changes in the month of August? It must be a lot. [/quote]

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