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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you’ve ever spent time in a classroom, you’d see how much ‘filler’ time there is. [/quote]

There is little to no filler time in my classroom. 
And to PP who said their notes and recordings are posted for students to catch up on their own - I would love to have a class full of students who all are capable to learn material on their own. Sometimes this happens (lesson is easy enough and student is able to find time to complete practice tor missed lessons on top of  current lessons) but most often this is not the case. 
Obviously, life happens and students must miss a class every now and then. But there are consequences that I outlined in my original post above. Parents who take kids out of school for vacations (saying missing school is not a big deal) are robbing their kids of practice time with immediate feedback that teacher provides. They do it again and again.  Then they don’t understand why their kid is struggling later in a year or two years down the road. [/quote]

There is filler in EVERY class. Even my kid's AP math class has had filler time/days. Less than others, for sure. But it's still there. [/quote]

AP math teacher and I call B.S. The timeline to teach all the concepts required for the AP Exam is so tight that there is no such thing as filler time in AP classes. Maybe students are given a review day before the test so that they are able to go over the last quiz that they just took in the unit , study in class and ask any questions they have, but that's not a filler day. My AP students vary wildly in the way they use that day. The slackers pretend to work or work on homework they need to imminently finish for another class and may call it a "filler" day, while the better students put it to use for what it was intended for.

Everything the math teachers on this page have said is correct. Those of you who insist on contradicting them think you know everything about school because you attended one once. You're probably the type of people who also go see your doctor and demand tests and medication based on something you read on the internet.[/quote]

+1 another math teacher. To all the parents who think their kids can catch up easily after taking vacation during school year: the gaps will surface much later: think kids who drop calculus class in September because now you actually are supposed to know everything from the last five years of math and the teacher does not reteach old concepts. [/quote]

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