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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, finals are the last week of school. I teach at Robinson, we have explicitly been told we must give a final project or activity during the last block, it cannot be a party/movie/origami/field games day.

Read the syllabi for the classes. We were required to write if we intended to do a project or exam when we wrote them back in August.[/quote]

Does the syllabus say you're doing the exam the last three half-days of school specifically? I looked at ours, and they do not. I've had at least one kid at another FCPS HS for five years now, and they've [i]never [/i]had final exams the last three half days of school, and sending out the notice in April that they're suddenly requiring the final/project on those specific days is ridiculous.

My junior is registered for an academic camp that directly aligns with their intended major that was only offered at that time and had to be booked in January. It's basically to help them decide if they want to commit to this specific field, which is very rigidly scheduled and tough to transfer to other majors if they decide they don't want to do it. This is the only time any of our kids have ever missed school for anything other than illness or a doctor's appointment that could not be scheduled on a non-school day, so I'm kind of pissed that they picked this year to decide that "mandatory" finals are going to be on the last three days of school when when they've never been anything but yearbook signing and end-of-year social time.
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Please tell me which FCPS high school has not given any finals for five years. I understand that most AP classes have "finals" in late April as a practice for the AP tests. But your sophomores did not have finals in Biology or World History? Your freshmen did not have finals in their math classes?[/quote]

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