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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]6th grader is still being exposed to new things.  School continues.[/quote]

Same here. My 6th grader is still learning. Civil War in SS, U8 in Benchmark, health lessons, etc. the only thing they are done with is science cause they finished the unit for the quarter and grade level standards in math since they took the SOL and finished the content.  Teacher is keeping them busy learning. I know by the last five days it will be mostly cleaning up, EOY events, etc. [/quote]There is no Science SOL in 6th grade.  They take a science test in 8th grade with that content. [/quote]

Reread the post. I believe PP was talking about the math SOL. They said they finished the science unit for the quarter and grade level standards in math since they took the SOL…[/quote]

But the thread is about high school, likely about upper class students since the Oap is talking about the waste of time after AP exams.

Not elementary school which is a completely different ballgame
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The question then becomes, [b]why are high school teachers allowed to show movies and let their students just hang out after AP tests?[/b] Seems like an opportunity for extensions/enrichment. Work with kids on college essays if they are juniors. Do some career exploration with sophs/juniors.  It seems there are different standards held for secondary teachers vs elementary school. That is the larger problem. I do think next year moving SOL testing and requiring kids to take the exam will help with this stupidity.

My high school is NY did testing the last two weeks of school. We didn’t have wasted instructional time in May. Even with IB courses, you gad to take the regents test. [/quote]

We aren’t. We have been told many times that we are not allowed to show movies unless they someway are related to a standard. (English gets away with showing the movie adaptation of the book and having kids comparing contrast them.) No one should be watching Moana in math class.

If this is what is happening in your kids’ classrooms, please contact the administrator in charge of that teacher. As someone who is still writing and teaching full lesson plans each day, it is infuriating that my colleagues are checked out. It makes the behaviors and attendance in my class awful.[/quote]

So, is administration clueless this is actually happening? Enough kids/parents are saying this has been happening daily, so obviously the admin does not care or is completely unaware. [/quote]

Admin has been in my room for a grand total of 20 minutes all year. 5 minutes the first week of school when they try to get into all classrooms to “set the tone”, and 15 minutes to do my evaluation observation mid year. If there are no complaints, they never come in.

They have enough other issues they are dealing with (fights, drugs, vandalism, kids not on track to graduate, etc) that if it isn’t brought to their attention as an issue most won’t go looking for it. So whether they know it’s happening and they’re turning a blind eye because they’re tired or they truly don’t know it’s happening is moot. If you want something to change, bring it to their attention.[/quote]

NP and the last time an admin was in my room was for about 2 min for a walk though, right before the bell on Halloween.  This is a HS class.  I remember because I was in a costume. [/quote]

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