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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a HS teacher the reality is that few kids show up. Grades are in and finals have been taken. What kind of instruction do you really expect to take place?[/quote]

Have some imagination and teach some of the stuff you always wanted to but complain the SOL demands squeeze out.

If you teach a math class, have a couple of days on the stock market or personal finance. If you teach social studies, play the World Trade game. If you are in English, do a little reader's theater. This isn't hard.[/quote]

My kids charter (BASIS DC) does a school-wide version of this - called project week for the last week of school (finals are always second to last week).

A month or so before the end of school a project week syllabus comes out. Students rank their top 3 choices and are assigned one. Some are more academic than others, and some are executed better but there's a range of choices -- over our years at the school there have been camping trips, trips to Montreal and New York City, an anime unit, a dissection unit, art in the city, 'game of life' (personal finance/applying for jobs/college/paying taxes), history of video games. It's fun, no homework and most projects involve at least one field trip and a movie or two. It's a nice way for everyone to end the school year and students and teachers seem to really look forward to it.
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This is how it should be. My kids were previously in private school and this is how things were handled.[b] I'm kind of baffled by DCPS (high school) apparently using an entire week to allow kids who are failing to do makeup work[/b], while kids who aren't failing either a) come to school and watch movies/play on their phones all day while teachers clean out their classrooms OR b) stay home, with parents dutifully reporting them as sick all week.

I'm all for paying teachers to clean out their classrooms, but let them do it after the kids have finished school, and have them plan and carry out a final week of projects, field trips, and/or community service. What does it say about how we, as a city, value education (and how teachers & DCPS value education) that as soon as finals are over, the learning stops? So crazy.[/quote]

Well as the mom of a HS kid who carried 2 Fs and a D most of the advisory I'm thrilled for the opportunity for DC to make up some work, do quiz corrections, etc.  Some kids need this time.  [/quote]

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