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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I support ending transition day.  We were new to the county last year and had kids attending transition day at both the elementary and middle school levels.  A full day of "orientation" activities was just too much.  A shorter orientation activity prior to the first week of school would have served that purpose much better.  Both schools, in our experience, were just trying to fill the time that day, kind of waiting it out before starting school the next day.  And then they seemed to repeat similar activities on the first day of school, which certainly didn't make my sixth grader happy.  Kids can only do so many scavenger hunts and team building games before they are entirely over it.  I personally wouldn't even send my kids to transition day again if it applied to us.[/quote]

Does anyone understand where this concept came from or why Taylor clings to it for dear life?  It's so counterintuitive to introduce kids of any age to a new environment by subjecting them to six hours of orientation.  And to use a full day for this instead of using it to start the year off strong at the start of a week seems very shortsighted.  I'm just not sure why Taylor and the Board don't let it go, return that lost emergency day, and move on.[/quote]

It was an "innovation" he brought from his last school district.[/quote]

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