Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand all these posts about excessive homework and studying. Granted, I have a sophomore and I understand junior year is more intense, but he is in all honors and AP classes at one of the top FCPS high schools, getting all As and I see him do maybe 30 minutes of homework/studying outside of school.

He’s not brilliant or anything and only normal-level organized. Why are so many kids spending so much time on class work (obviously taking out kids who have learning disabilities)?

My initial reaction is that it’s a great week to assign a test or some extra homework since they have Wednesday afternoon off! Surprised to see people complaining.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand all these posts about excessive homework and studying. Granted, I have a sophomore and I understand junior year is more intense, but he is in all honors and AP classes at one of the top FCPS high schools, getting all As and I see him do maybe 30 minutes of homework/studying outside of school.

He’s not brilliant or anything and only normal-level organized. Why are so many kids spending so much time on class work (obviously taking out kids who have learning disabilities)?

My initial reaction is that it’s a great week to assign a test or some extra homework since they have Wednesday afternoon off! Surprised to see people complaining.

I have a sophomore taking all honors and 3 APs. She's normally a straight A student, but has a couple of A- right now. She has an extraordinary amount of work, because she has terrible teachers, and is essentially teaching herself the content in all her AP classes. Which means that she sits in classes for 7 hours a day trying to make sense of it all, then has to spend 3-4 hours at home self studying to actually understand the material, and then spends hours doing homework (she tries to read/study ahead, before going to class, but some of the teachers are so bad, they confuse the kids about materials they already know). Typically, she has something like 40 problems to do for two of her classes, and each one is due the next class. On top of that, she has her ECs too. All this is translating to essentially working non-stop until she goes to bed, including doing her work in the car.

This week is not terrible because she has extra hours to study on Wednesday. But there are two summatives, two formatives, and a writing assignment on Thursday/Friday. For one of the summatives, the teacher hasn't even taught the material yet, so I'm assuming there will be a short lecture, followed by testing on that material.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand all these posts about excessive homework and studying. Granted, I have a sophomore and I understand junior year is more intense, but he is in all honors and AP classes at one of the top FCPS high schools, getting all As and I see him do maybe 30 minutes of homework/studying outside of school.

He’s not brilliant or anything and only normal-level organized. Why are so many kids spending so much time on class work (obviously taking out kids who have learning disabilities)?

My initial reaction is that it’s a great week to assign a test or some extra homework since they have Wednesday afternoon off! Surprised to see people complaining.

Anonymous wrote:I assume your DC is at GCM? I am so miffed. DS has 3 tests on Thursday and a paper due Friday.

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Anonymous wrote:They're done at noon, right? Doesn't that give them an extra 3 hours to get stuff done Wednesday afternoon?

I don't love that a school day is lost for an exam that students can take on the weekend, but if they're going to lose a day let's keep it to one day, not multiple because the SAT is too stressful.

Have you seen kids after these tests? They are dead. PSAT and SAT are exhausting tests.

+1,000 shame on teachers for having major work due Thursday and Friday (summatives) this week when they know it’s the PSAT.

All my DS tests are summatives this week. All of them.

That’s so ridiculous and I’m so sorry. We should all be complaining to admin.

Yeah, then the teachers will take it out on our children.

Anonymous wrote:The teachers have been backed into a corner with all the days off. They have to continue their pacing as planned.

Would you really rather that assessments got pushed and units got lengthened to accommodate every disruption? The flipside is your students will not get the full curriculum. When it comes time to take the AP or IB exam, they'll only have seen 80-90% of it vs all of it. Or when they head to Spanish 3 they'll only have covered 4/5 of Spanish 2.

There isn't any wiggle room in the pacing this year, especially since they have to give the mandatory county created assessments in a certain window for math/english (maybe science too?)

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Anonymous wrote:They're done at noon, right? Doesn't that give them an extra 3 hours to get stuff done Wednesday afternoon?

I don't love that a school day is lost for an exam that students can take on the weekend, but if they're going to lose a day let's keep it to one day, not multiple because the SAT is too stressful.

Have you seen kids after these tests? They are dead. PSAT and SAT are exhausting tests.

+1,000 shame on teachers for having major work due Thursday and Friday (summatives) this week when they know it’s the PSAT.

All my DS tests are summatives this week. All of them.

That’s so ridiculous and I’m so sorry. We should all be complaining to admin.

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Anonymous wrote:They're done at noon, right? Doesn't that give them an extra 3 hours to get stuff done Wednesday afternoon?

I don't love that a school day is lost for an exam that students can take on the weekend, but if they're going to lose a day let's keep it to one day, not multiple because the SAT is too stressful.

Have you seen kids after these tests? They are dead. PSAT and SAT are exhausting tests.

+1,000 shame on teachers for having major work due Thursday and Friday (summatives) this week when they know it’s the PSAT.

All my DS tests are summatives this week. All of them.

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Anonymous wrote:They're done at noon, right? Doesn't that give them an extra 3 hours to get stuff done Wednesday afternoon?

I don't love that a school day is lost for an exam that students can take on the weekend, but if they're going to lose a day let's keep it to one day, not multiple because the SAT is too stressful.

Have you seen kids after these tests? They are dead. PSAT and SAT are exhausting tests.

+1,000 shame on teachers for having major work due Thursday and Friday (summatives) this week when they know it’s the PSAT.

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Anonymous wrote:School wide email comes out saying get a good night’s rest. lol. Hard to when teachers assigned new assignments on Monday and Tuesday to be due Thursday and Friday, as well as a test and quiz. I don’t understand why they don’t give these kids any kind of a break.

The kids have had a break 1 day every week for the whole school year.

Yeah, religious holidays. My DS was doing HW on Yom Kippur, which is OUR holiday.

Okay, then your child can have a day off on 10/15 for Indigenous people's day and 10/23 since they won't be celebrating Diwali.

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Anonymous wrote:because parents will get mad.....
we had a parent mad that they had a free day on the first 2 days of school.

Now that's a stupid parent. I am talking about now. Kids have PSAT and all the school work.