Anonymous wrote:no dice on this approach this year huh?

There is a different one. More complicated but DD got her schedule (and hates it). If it’s posted here, FCPS closes it so have your kids reach out to other kids.

no dice on this approach this year huh?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know why they don’t release early-

Because my freshman kid’s English teacher, who is named in ParentVUE, has left the county so it will be a surprise I guess when he gets to the classroom to see who he has.
And his world history geography class literally has no teacher. It’s the last class of the day and it says Online—with no indication of where he is actually supposed to go in the school.

If I had this information ahead of time, we would have been calling.

Now, he gets to learn some resilience by walking into an unknown?

There was probably a class conflict, which means your student will be taking the class online through FCPS’ online program. My kids; class was held int he evening, so they put in another elective for that hour in school.

NOPE - just a total screw up. The counselor today (who is brand new to the school and FCPS) said she noticed this when she was going through her students and thought - Mmm, I wonder why he is taking this online -- but assumed it was correct. Until this morning when my kid, who didn't have an 8th period to attend, showed up at her office.

Anonymous wrote:I know why they don’t release early-

Because my freshman kid’s English teacher, who is named in ParentVUE, has left the county so it will be a surprise I guess when he gets to the classroom to see who he has.
And his world history geography class literally has no teacher. It’s the last class of the day and it says Online—with no indication of where he is actually supposed to go in the school.

If I had this information ahead of time, we would have been calling.

Now, he gets to learn some resilience by walking into an unknown?

There was probably a class conflict, which means your student will be taking the class online through FCPS’ online program. My kids; class was held int he evening, so they put in another elective for that hour in school.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know why they don’t release early-

Because my freshman kid’s English teacher, who is named in ParentVUE, has left the county so it will be a surprise I guess when he gets to the classroom to see who he has.
And his world history geography class literally has no teacher. It’s the last class of the day and it says Online—with no indication of where he is actually supposed to go in the school.

If I had this information ahead of time, we would have been calling.

Now, he gets to learn some resilience by walking into an unknown?

If your kid is in 9th grade, they wouldn't know anything about any of the teachers anyway, unless they have older siblings. The teacher is basically irrelevant to a 9th grader in terms of finding out the schedule. They just need enough information to figure out which friends wre in their classes. In the case of no teacher named, just compare the class period and room number with the friends to see if there are friendly faces in the room.

YES - older sibling is a Senior at the same school.

Turns out - school screwed up - he should have had a regular World History/Geography class and there is no easy fix unfortunately. Counsellor has been working it but he may not have his schedule until Monday.

Yep - if only we had known his schedule a few days ago, we could have had a fix before the first day of school!

They were working on the schedules up until this morning and are still working on them. You think this could have been fixe yesterday, as if that is somehow much better than getting fixed tomorrow or next Wednesday. But there are thousands of students at every high school, with schedules that are being finalized and then fixed. Let them do their job. And take a deep breath.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know why they don’t release early-

Because my freshman kid’s English teacher, who is named in ParentVUE, has left the county so it will be a surprise I guess when he gets to the classroom to see who he has.
And his world history geography class literally has no teacher. It’s the last class of the day and it says Online—with no indication of where he is actually supposed to go in the school.

If I had this information ahead of time, we would have been calling.

Now, he gets to learn some resilience by walking into an unknown?

If your kid is in 9th grade, they wouldn't know anything about any of the teachers anyway, unless they have older siblings. The teacher is basically irrelevant to a 9th grader in terms of finding out the schedule. They just need enough information to figure out which friends wre in their classes. In the case of no teacher named, just compare the class period and room number with the friends to see if there are friendly faces in the room.

YES - older sibling is a Senior at the same school.

Turns out - school screwed up - he should have had a regular World History/Geography class and there is no easy fix unfortunately. Counsellor has been working it but he may not have his schedule until Monday.

Yep - if only we had known his schedule a few days ago, we could have had a fix before the first day of school!

Exactly this. They are so stupid.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know why they don’t release early-

Because my freshman kid’s English teacher, who is named in ParentVUE, has left the county so it will be a surprise I guess when he gets to the classroom to see who he has.
And his world history geography class literally has no teacher. It’s the last class of the day and it says Online—with no indication of where he is actually supposed to go in the school.

If I had this information ahead of time, we would have been calling.

Now, he gets to learn some resilience by walking into an unknown?

If your kid is in 9th grade, they wouldn't know anything about any of the teachers anyway, unless they have older siblings. The teacher is basically irrelevant to a 9th grader in terms of finding out the schedule. They just need enough information to figure out which friends wre in their classes. In the case of no teacher named, just compare the class period and room number with the friends to see if there are friendly faces in the room.

YES - older sibling is a Senior at the same school.

Turns out - school screwed up - he should have had a regular World History/Geography class and there is no easy fix unfortunately. Counsellor has been working it but he may not have his schedule until Monday.

Yep - if only we had known his schedule a few days ago, we could have had a fix before the first day of school!

Anonymous wrote:Another new MS parent, does the daily block schedule populate somewhere or do kids need to just keep track of it? Schoology and sis is populated with all classes every day.

If you click on Class Schedule on Parentview, you'll land on a page that is currently blank. It is the schedule for the day. Once school starts, it will tell them what classes they have on that day. It's also not hard to figure out, as most schools have their calendar online (For example, if you scroll down here: https://rockyrunms.fcps.edu/about/bell-schedules). Day 1 is odd numbered classes; Day 2 is even numbered classes. If you are in a school where they have an anchor day, it's even simpler, because the day of the week will always have the same classes. So for instance, if you have a Wednesday anchor day, Monday and Thursday will always have odd classes, and Tuesday and Friday will always have even classes.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First time MS parent here, so sorry for the dumb question:

How can I tell when my kid has lunch? There are three shifts at his MS, but it doesn't show on his schedule. Is it a surprise first day?

The teachers tell the students. It is not online.

The 5th and 6th grade teachers will let them know. Lunch occurs during these periods. I agree it is stupid they don’t just assign the lunch periods and put it on their schedules.

I think last year for 7th grade their schedules had the lunch period on it, but this year it doesn't.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First time MS parent here, so sorry for the dumb question:

How can I tell when my kid has lunch? There are three shifts at his MS, but it doesn't show on his schedule. Is it a surprise first day?

The teachers tell the students. It is not online.

The 5th and 6th grade teachers will let them know. Lunch occurs during these periods. I agree it is stupid they don’t just assign the lunch periods and put it on their schedules.

Anonymous wrote:I know why they don’t release early-

Because my freshman kid’s English teacher, who is named in ParentVUE, has left the county so it will be a surprise I guess when he gets to the classroom to see who he has.
And his world history geography class literally has no teacher. It’s the last class of the day and it says Online—with no indication of where he is actually supposed to go in the school.

If I had this information ahead of time, we would have been calling.

Now, he gets to learn some resilience by walking into an unknown?

If your kid is in 9th grade, they wouldn't know anything about any of the teachers anyway, unless they have older siblings. The teacher is basically irrelevant to a 9th grader in terms of finding out the schedule. They just need enough information to figure out which friends wre in their classes. In the case of no teacher named, just compare the class period and room number with the friends to see if there are friendly faces in the room.

Another new MS parent, does the daily block schedule populate somewhere or do kids need to just keep track of it? Schoology and sis is populated with all classes every day.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First time MS parent here, so sorry for the dumb question:

How can I tell when my kid has lunch? There are three shifts at his MS, but it doesn't show on his schedule. Is it a surprise first day?

The teachers tell the students. It is not online.

That solves it then, thank you!

Anonymous wrote:First time MS parent here, so sorry for the dumb question:

How can I tell when my kid has lunch? There are three shifts at his MS, but it doesn't show on his schedule. Is it a surprise first day?

The teachers tell the students. It is not online.

Anonymous wrote:First time MS parent here, so sorry for the dumb question:

How can I tell when my kid has lunch? There are three shifts at his MS, but it doesn't show on his schedule. Is it a surprise first day?

I don't really remember how it worked, TBH, but the teachers and kids figure it out and it is no big deal. It can also change if you have block scheduling.