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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As an ES teacher I don't need 3 or 4 PD days at the end of the SY. I need a TW just before 4th quarter grades are due, which is a week or two before the end of the quarter.[/quote]

Do you not want the full 15 TWs? [/quote]

If they were actually teacher workdays, most teachers would be thrilled to have those days. But they aren't days for teachers to do planning, grading, data, or other tasks related to their classroom. Instead, those days are almost exclusively taken up by meetings, trainings, and team-building activities that are rarely helpful and are instead infuriating because teachers need time in their classrooms, not in meetings.[/quote]

Ate least you don’t have to take a day off to go to those trainings. When I taught in FCPS, a lot of times we had to get subs to cover our classes to go these worthless trainings. Talk about infuriating![/quote]

I've worked for the county for almost 25 years, so I was around when there were meetings we had to take a sub day to attend, as well.

The useless meetings we have now aren't like the ones of the past. Administrators are basically tasked to keep us busy during those professional development days, so we have endless meetings about the same thing again and again. FCPS just changes the acronym and then makes us re-train about the same thing. One of our recent professional development days was teachers reading articles about collaboration and then building card houses and taking turns coloring to show we know how to collaborate. That went on for four hours, and they took attendance repeatedly to make sure we didn't sneak out. Useless.
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