Anonymous
03/23/2015 14:06
Subject: Fcps elementary school time change
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I have about 5 school years between my two kids. I have noticed a shift from parents of kids the same age as my #1, to parents of kids same age as my #2. Kids the same age as my #2 come off far more high maintenance and seem to fail to see that some decisions are designed to meet the public good, not their individual work schedules. It's not completely universal, of course, but I have noticed a shift.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Maybe FCPS should be offering resiliency presentations to FCPS parents, and not the students.
This is funny as shit. These are parents were raised as special "snowflakes". God help us all.
Some of the attitudes here really puzzle me.
I went to the same elementary school as my mother and grandmother. That school's start time didn't change in 60 years (and likely didn't change after I left).
Meanwhile, my 6th grader has seen three changes since he started seven years ago.
My guess is that if the elementary school you went to hasn't changed or gotten bigger in 60 years, the area around it has. FCPS is huge compared to what it was even a generation ago. The area is growing like crazy. I sympathize, but I think people here will have to get used to change at least for the next decade or so.
I don't think it's snowflake-like to be annoyed by your early-morning schedule changing every few years. Does your start time at work change, too?
Anonymous
03/23/2015 13:37
Subject: Fcps elementary school time change
Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I have about 5 school years between my two kids. I have noticed a shift from parents of kids the same age as my #1, to parents of kids same age as my #2. Kids the same age as my #2 come off far more high maintenance and seem to fail to see that some decisions are designed to meet the public good, not their individual work schedules. It's not completely universal, of course, but I have noticed a shift.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Maybe FCPS should be offering resiliency presentations to FCPS parents, and not the students.
This is funny as shit. These are parents were raised as special "snowflakes". God help us all.
Some of the attitudes here really puzzle me.
I went to the same elementary school as my mother and grandmother. That school's start time didn't change in 60 years (and likely didn't change after I left).
Meanwhile, my 6th grader has seen three changes since he started seven years ago.
I don't think it's snowflake-like to be annoyed by your early-morning schedule changing every few years. Does your start time at work change, too?
Anonymous
03/23/2015 09:43
Subject: Fcps elementary school time change
Honestly, I have about 5 school years between my two kids. I have noticed a shift from parents of kids the same age as my #1, to parents of kids same age as my #2. Kids the same age as my #2 come off far more high maintenance and seem to fail to see that some decisions are designed to meet the public good, not their individual work schedules. It's not completely universal, of course, but I have noticed a shift.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Maybe FCPS should be offering resiliency presentations to FCPS parents, and not the students.
This is funny as shit. These are parents were raised as special "snowflakes". God help us all.
Anonymous
03/22/2015 18:33
Subject: Fcps elementary school time change
^^PP, the principal has already informed parents that she will be meeting with the administration next week about this. I don't know the back story, but she's a good person and I think she will fight for us.
Anonymous
03/22/2015 15:35
Subject: Fcps elementary school time change
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It concerns me that they sent an advance email before posting the schedule....like a warning for us to brace ourselves for big changes.
The changes for elementaries, announced this week, range from five minutes' to fifteen minutes' difference from this year's start or ending times, as far as I can see. Not sure if you consider those big changes. I don't.
The process for changing these times was open to the public, and FCPS notified parents on its web site, by e-mails, on school web sites, etc. of public meetings about start time changes. Those meetings gave information about how much start times would change in ES, MS and HS under each potential option. Though the meetings did not list specific schools (nothing like "Sally Jones Elementary will begin at 8:10 a.m."), they did mention a range of times -- such as, under option one, ES start times would be five to 10 minutes earlier, or under another option, start times would be the same, etc. The options were on their web site for a long time for parents to see, though you could not have looked up your one specific school until this week. But a change in the range of five to 15 minutes should not come as a surprise to anyone.
Our ES is starting 25 min. later, and dismissing 40 minutes later- it is a substantial change (and a very long day for the Kindergarteners).
If your school is an outlier, get busy. Clearly there's something going on if your school is that far off the overall changes, which are not a big deal. So organize parents, get the PTA involved, whatever. Point out the disparity between nearly every other ES and your ES. FCPS may not change anything but at least you will have tried. Don't just vent, do something. I hope you do, because the times you cite are so far off the rest of the ES changes that parents at this school deserve a detailed explanation at the very least. Demand one. If you don't ask, you'll never know what's behind it and whether mobilized parents can get it altered at all.