My middle school has a social emotional lesson once a quarter. Unless they improve the lessons, kids would be better off having options for how to use that time, like get extra help or read a book for pleasure or whatever.

Anonymous wrote:Teachers and students mostly hate any equity lessons. We find them oversimplified, demeaning, and performative. They don’t really address anyone’s needs. Students know talk is cheap.

If it mattered they would integrate the lessons into academic courses. If it doesn’t matter it gets shoved into home rooms to die. But CO admin will write a lovely email about how wonderful it is to take credit

Want to barf every time reading central's Crummy communication

Teachers and students mostly hate any equity lessons. We find them oversimplified, demeaning, and performative. They don’t really address anyone’s needs. Students know talk is cheap.

If it mattered they would integrate the lessons into academic courses. If it doesn’t matter it gets shoved into home rooms to die. But CO admin will write a lovely email about how wonderful it is to take credit

Worst having to cover for another class teacher shortage substitute shortage.

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Anonymous wrote:Advisory is such a joke. I click and read through some awful slide show someone with an office made while kids argue with me. This alternates between daily study hall where I get to spend the whole 25 minutes tracking down missing kids or arguing with the kids that are just making excuses to get out of the room

Agreed. Advisory is the only time in my entire career I've felt like an actual babysitter. 45 minutes a day. The kids are miserable. The adults are miserable. MCPS needs to do away with it, but of course, they don't actually listen to people in buildings, so it'll be here forever.

That's on your principal. Our MS only has 1 advisory a week most weeks.

You mean you don’t have a daily 25 minute period of babysitting?

Nope. Just once a week on the usual schedule. More at the beginning of school. Extra for report cards and the like.

Anonymous wrote:Worst part of my job? Exhaustion.

Mental physical social all around exhaustion.

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Anonymous wrote:Advisory is such a joke. I click and read through some awful slide show someone with an office made while kids argue with me. This alternates between daily study hall where I get to spend the whole 25 minutes tracking down missing kids or arguing with the kids that are just making excuses to get out of the room

Agreed. Advisory is the only time in my entire career I've felt like an actual babysitter. 45 minutes a day. The kids are miserable. The adults are miserable. MCPS needs to do away with it, but of course, they don't actually listen to people in buildings, so it'll be here forever.

That's on your principal. Our MS only has 1 advisory a week most weeks.

Nah,‘ it’s on MCPS for having advisory in the first place. We’re a military family, lived all over the country, been in many public schools…. so far, it’s only been MCPS that has this. It seems to me everyone else’s time could be spent on more productive endeavors. Also, why aren’t all middle schools using this time the same when MCPS is mad about equity?

They can't agree on what exactly is "equity"?

Worst part of my job? Exhaustion.

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Anonymous wrote:Advisory is such a joke. I click and read through some awful slide show someone with an office made while kids argue with me. This alternates between daily study hall where I get to spend the whole 25 minutes tracking down missing kids or arguing with the kids that are just making excuses to get out of the room

Agreed. Advisory is the only time in my entire career I've felt like an actual babysitter. 45 minutes a day. The kids are miserable. The adults are miserable. MCPS needs to do away with it, but of course, they don't actually listen to people in buildings, so it'll be here forever.

That's on your principal. Our MS only has 1 advisory a week most weeks.

Nah,‘ it’s on MCPS for having advisory in the first place. We’re a military family, lived all over the country, been in many public schools…. so far, it’s only been MCPS that has this. It seems to me everyone else’s time could be spent on more productive endeavors. Also, why aren’t all middle schools using this time the same when MCPS is mad about equity?

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Anonymous wrote:Advisory is such a joke. I click and read through some awful slide show someone with an office made while kids argue with me. This alternates between daily study hall where I get to spend the whole 25 minutes tracking down missing kids or arguing with the kids that are just making excuses to get out of the room

Agreed. Advisory is the only time in my entire career I've felt like an actual babysitter. 45 minutes a day. The kids are miserable. The adults are miserable. MCPS needs to do away with it, but of course, they don't actually listen to people in buildings, so it'll be here forever.

That's on your principal. Our MS only has 1 advisory a week most weeks.

You mean you don’t have a daily 25 minute period of babysitting?

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Anonymous wrote:Advisory is such a joke. I click and read through some awful slide show someone with an office made while kids argue with me. This alternates between daily study hall where I get to spend the whole 25 minutes tracking down missing kids or arguing with the kids that are just making excuses to get out of the room

Agreed. Advisory is the only time in my entire career I've felt like an actual babysitter. 45 minutes a day. The kids are miserable. The adults are miserable. MCPS needs to do away with it, but of course, they don't actually listen to people in buildings, so it'll be here forever.

Please teachers or your union, start movement to rid of advisory or reduce to once a week at most. Please and thank you.

And please go public to the board about how worthless and poorly it's going. MCPS staffers lie to them about how SEL is going.

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Anonymous wrote:Advisory is such a joke. I click and read through some awful slide show someone with an office made while kids argue with me. This alternates between daily study hall where I get to spend the whole 25 minutes tracking down missing kids or arguing with the kids that are just making excuses to get out of the room

Agreed. Advisory is the only time in my entire career I've felt like an actual babysitter. 45 minutes a day. The kids are miserable. The adults are miserable. MCPS needs to do away with it, but of course, they don't actually listen to people in buildings, so it'll be here forever.

That's on your principal. Our MS only has 1 advisory a week most weeks.

Anonymous wrote:MCPS not closing for the eclipse! Why didn't we? Complaints, concerns oh my!

Oh my exactly those questions from caretakers!

Instead of SEL lessons, how about each student meets with their counselor at least once in a school year or more as time permits. A 1:1 session for a few min. During that time, other students can do any academic work; be supervised (tweenteensat) in outside time; or if a school's PTSA is able to afford, arrange for an arts experience -bring in an artist/guest to do a video lesson for example on drawing etc.. or have someone in house lead an arts lesson. Better than the current SEL crap.

The SEL folks at CO have gone off the rails on this. Well-meaning SEL lessons are bombing in secondary schools.