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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh Gosh.  I hope no more Monday half days.  We had that when I was a kid and was so bad for working parents.  I wish FCPS had some interest in our kids education and not just the welfare of the FCpS employees.[/quote]

When the elementary school teachers don't have enough planning time, that hurts students.  And that's bad for working parents.

Btw working parents are already paying for aftercare so a couple more hours one day a week isn't a problem for working parents.  It's more of an impact for SAHPs [/quote]

There are not a lot of school districts that provide half-day Mondays, are there? I was looking at the school calendars districts that rate highly on Niche and at least by a short look (not extensive at all, obviously) it looks like they go 5 days a week. And they manage to do it and provide excellent instruction so the students test highly. There's nothing that unique about FCPS. Unless someone has data to support that kids performed better when we were doing half-day Mondays, I don't see why we'd go back to that. Could we try to get rid of unnecessary meetings for teachers as a start instead?[/quote]

Arlington has them.  The school districts that DH and that I went to didn't do things this way, because different school districts do things differently.  This school district originally originally was designed for elementary school teachers to have weekly planning time; when they switched to full day Mondays, there was a transition period and then the planning time was gone.  So we should put it back.[/quote]
Arlington does not have half day Mondays and hasn’t for years. [/quote]

I thought they had half day Wednesdays? When did they get rid of them?[/quote]

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