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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a secondary teacher. I am teaching actual curriculum on Monday and Tuesday of next week. If students are absent, they are responsible for the work they are missing. We don't have time for fluffy, feel-good, filler activities. We have curriculum to cover and I am not slowing down just because it's Thanksgiving week.

Parents who choose to pull their kids out of school next week need to understand that their kids are missing work and assessments and they will be responsible for all of it when they return to school. [/quote]

I had to double take that I didn't post this.  Same exact thing in my classes. I told kids they were responsible for finding the notes on schoology, printing the assignments, and getting them turned in the day they returned.[/quote]

You sound nice! Let the kids have a freaking break for once!![/quote]

????

I actually AM super nice! The kids tell me I’m too nice, most of the time.

I told the kids as long as they are in class on Tuesday they’d have no work over the break, it would all be done in class.

The ones who skip will need to make it up before they return, just like if they skipped any other Tuesday.[/quote]

Maybe they aren’t skipping. Maybe their parents are taking them out of town for Thanksgiving. Or maybe they are sick. No one should have to do work over the break, even if they miss Tuesday. Get real. They are entitled to one makeup day for every day absent. [/quote]

There is no assigned homework over the actual break, which is Wednesday through Sunday.

If you choose to take your child out early, or to return late, they are missing [i]instruction and classwork[/i]. That is what must be made up and completed in the child's own time.

How is that concept so difficult for some of you to understand?[/quote]

Our school always has homework over the break. My child will have math on Tuesday before the break with a regular assignment due the next class period after the break. My child also has an in class summative already scheduled for the third day of the first week of return. They will obviously have to prepare over the break. My child will also probably work ahead in one of their AP classes so they aren’t slammed the day they return. So much for “no work.”[/quote]

[b]You are complaining that your kid has a test the Wednesday after Thanksgiving and they will have to study for it over the break[/b]? These teachers really can’t win [/quote]

Yes. Why should kids have to study over their Thanksgiving break? Either have the test before the break or wait until the end of the week back or the next week. It’s not that hard.[/quote]

:roll: Truly, teachers cannot win. No matter what they do, you people complain.

[b]So you want teachers to either test before break, when they might not have finished reviewing the concepts in the test[/b]? Or you want them to wait to test until after they started the next unit, so kids might be multiple days removed from the content on the test? Neither of those seem ideal.[/quote]

No dingbat. Use the week back to finish up the unit plus review so the test is at the end of the week, not the beginning. JFC.[/quote]

You don’t understand county-dictated pacing guides. When teachers do what you are suggesting, parents complain because that stretches out some units and compresses others, or it means that not all units are covered before SOLs or AP exams. Is that your wish? [/quote]

This seems like a lot of excuses that boil down to poor time management. Another reason FCPS should get back to five day weeks if this is such a challenge.[/quote]

DP here and I’m not sure you understand pacing guides. Teachers can’t slow down units, changing dates of tests, etc. If they do that, they have to rush later units to catch up. THAT would be poor time management. 
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