Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. I thought the Principal was right with "an FCPS" since F starts with a vowel sound ("eff").

The cited rule is correct but I don't consider it to be a vowel sound.

You don't consider the letter name F to start with a vowel sound? The letter name for F starts with exactly the same sound as the word ebb or the name Ed, at least to my ear.

I'd use an if I was saying the letter names, and a if I was reading FCPS as "Fairfax County Public Schools". I'd also say "an FBI agent" but "a FEMA employee" because in the latter case, even though FEMA is an acronym I don't pronounce the F as a letter.

I think I'm in love with you.

I wish there was a policy like this for all jobs.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. I thought the Principal was right with "an FCPS" since F starts with a vowel sound ("eff").

The cited rule is correct but I don't consider it to be a vowel sound.

You don't consider the letter name F to start with a vowel sound? The letter name for F starts with exactly the same sound as the word ebb or the name Ed, at least to my ear.

I'd use an if I was saying the letter names, and a if I was reading FCPS as "Fairfax County Public Schools". I'd also say "an FBI agent" but "a FEMA employee" because in the latter case, even though FEMA is an acronym I don't pronounce the F as a letter.

Anonymous wrote:NP. I thought the Principal was right with "an FCPS" since F starts with a vowel sound ("eff").

The cited rule is correct but I don't consider it to be a vowel sound.

NP. I thought the Principal was right with "an FCPS" since F starts with a vowel sound ("eff").

Anonymous wrote:Totally not okay. "Babysitting" videos are prohibited at our school regardless of the weather or how many days of school are left in the year.

--principal of an[u] FCPS school

Best learn when to use "an" and "a" then.

Anonymous wrote:My kid watched Frozen at school.

My high school student watched Frozen (in English) in his foreign language class because the teacher was grading tests at the end of Q3. I thought that was the height of ridiculousness. Surely there's a documentary on a country where they speak the language they can throw on.

But a movie once or twice instead of elementary school PE, I can totally live with. By this point in the year homework's done, the pool's open, it's light until late. Kids have lots of opportunities to exercise outside of school that they don't have in February. If the teacher's covered all the standards, and the gym isn't available, I'm OK with that. While it wasn't scorching hot on Friday, or hot enough to cancel recess IMO, it was pretty warm to be outside with class after class after class. In addition, we don't even know if the playground was available. At my school, they're hesitant to mix big and little kids on the playground so if Kindergarten is out, for example, then taking the fourth graders out isn't an option or vice versa.

I don't care if my kids watch movies the last week of school.

Anonymous wrote:Totally not okay. "Babysitting" videos are prohibited at our school regardless of the weather or how many days of school are left in the year.

--principal of an FCPS school

Perfectly fine these last few days as far as I am concerned.

It totally sucks for the kids that they are still in school and it is almost the fourth of July.

So what if they watch a little Frozen?

This whole last week at fcps is a joke anyway.

Totally not okay. "Babysitting" videos are prohibited at our school regardless of the weather or how many days of school are left in the year.

--principal of an FCPS school

My kid watched Frozen at school.

Our schools still ran recesses on the playground.

The playgrounds were full of kids who were already scheduled to be out there.

Likely adding another 100 or so PE kids to the mix, plus having an open campus that day with all the families there for the ceremony, would have been too much of a supervision nightmare for the schools.

Op here, Ok maybe that I will believe. No access to the gym. But did they also close off the playground for graduation? It was a really nice day on Friday. It couldn't be that hard to take them to the playground for PE instead. The high ended up being 85 degrees, but that was in the afternoon. My kid has PE in the morning. Oh well - I guess that was considered too hot for the PE teacher (or the playground was blocked off too).

Are you sure that was the reason?

And not the sixth grade promotion ceremony?

I am guessing that something got lost in translation between your child and the actual reason.

All of the elementaries in our area had the sixth grade ceremony in the gym on Friday.

My kids are at two different schools. At both of them the classes that normally had a Friday PE hlwent to another room and did either indoor recess or indoor movies instead.

With set up, the ceremony, tear down and clean up the gyms were just not usable most of Friday.

Ok, I understand it's the end of the school year and the kids are going to be watching movies at school - but during PE - really! And that wasn't even one of the hot days this past week. It was on Friday which was a nice day. Our school also has a separate gym they could have run around in if the teacher thought it was too hot. Unbelievable. And no, it was not an educational, PE related video. It was a Disney video or something. Ugh. We still have 3 more days of school too - if you don't want to do anything, at least let them play on the playground! OK rant over.