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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The SMOB proposed that schools should invite parents to send their kids from any grade that day. They could still participate in the activities even though they wouldn't be new to the school. Staff said they are going to have a committee formed to iron out these kind of specifics of how transition day will work by March.[/quote]

Except that would defeat the purpose of it being a transition day.  At which point it should go back to just being a transition/orientation half day for secondary schools.  Many of which were already doing this the Thursday before school opened.[/quote]

+1 Exactly. I like the idea of a required transition day. All of DD's schools did that and it was really helpful.  [/quote]

+1 My child started K this year and I was not impressed that:

- Some elementary schools offered a day for incoming K students to visit the school in the spring, and others (including ours) didn't
- The "Open House" the Thursday in August before school was for all students and was super chaotic and not particularly helpful

We have friends out of state and their schools actually let incoming K students visit the school on multiple days in the Spring before they start. In one of the MCPS schools that did do a Spring orientation for incoming K students, they got to participate in a lesson with a teacher. I didn't go to MCPS until high school but when I did, in the late 90s there was a transition day for 9th grade.

This is doable and good for students and families. Lately, MCPS has been very combative towards parents and families. I haven't gotten the sense CO GAF about kids. They just want to do whatever is easier for them. It sounds like Taylor is challenging this attitude and I hope he succeeds.[/quote]

Here is the issue. Historically mcps would allow elementary schools to cancel school for just kindergarten and do orientation for incoming Kindergarten students. This practice was unfair to cancel school for one grade.

Mcps could have offered to pay Kindergarten teachers to do orientation during the summer but chose not do that. Some schools were able to scramble and figure out coverage so that schools could offer spring orientation or squeeze in a quick orientation event during a very busy pre-service week where everyone is franticly glorying to get their room ready plus attend dozens of first week of school meetings. So this solution does offer a way for teachers to be paid to do orientation [/quote]

Total failure on CO's part. Other districts do it just fine. MCPS sucks.[/quote]

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