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[quote=Anonymous]I teach high school in DCPS.

Before they start adjusting the schedule, perhaps they can work on addressing the low-hanging fruit. On average, I have about 40% of my students show up for my 1st period class. Other kids skip throughout the day and face zero consequences. 90% of the kids who show up don't have a backpack, paper, pencils, or any of their materials. They don't come to school ready to learn, and they're not held accountable for it. Extending the day or year won't change that. At the end of the term, I had twenty kids show up who had accumulated at least seven or eight absences and were failing my class. I was required to give them a chance to make up the grade, so they received C's by doing a quarter's worth of make-up work in one or two days. They didn't learn anything in that time. They just got a BS grade. I was told by the higher-ups that it would look bad on me and that I'd be forced to answer for the F if I didn't have "thorough documentation" of making every effort to contact all of their parents to get them to come to school. 
The same goes for standardized beginning of year tests. It's well known that it looks better on our Impact score for the kids to come in and BS through the exams to get low scores so that we can see substantial "growth" later in the year. Changing the schedule will only keep the charade going. [/quote]

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