So when is a decision actually made?

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Anonymous wrote:I understand that teacher work days count toward the 180 hours. Why dont they let the kids out at 2 and tge teachers will have plenty of time during working hours. I dont understand why the kids have to be there. It is too much ! There is no reason for the school year to be stretched so long.

What does this mean?

As you say, the students have to have 180 days. Whether the teachers have 2 hour early release or 3 hour early release days it won't change the length of the school year.

Teacher work days count towards the 180 days. Put a teacher work day/staff development day/ school planning day at the end of every school day. Let the students go home. Stop the early release dats. Shorten the school year calendar.

Teacher work days do not count towards the 990 hours that are required. Teacher's contracts are for 194 days, which is an [b]additional 2 weeks on top of what is required of students. FCPS is no longer counting days anyway due to the waiver. They are counting hours, which have to add up to 990.

From Board Docs" http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/9NSFW841032B/$file/R1344.pdf

"The school year consists of 180 days or a minimum 990 hours of class for students and 194 days of employment for most teacher-scale employees."

Is the above poster actually suggesting that every day teachers stay for a few extra hours? 99% of the teachers I know chose the profession so that they could be on the same schedule as their children.

It’s actually just one day short of being 3 weeks more than the student calendar.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I understand that teacher work days count toward the 180 hours. Why dont they let the kids out at 2 and tge teachers will have plenty of time during working hours. I dont understand why the kids have to be there. It is too much ! There is no reason for the school year to be stretched so long.

What does this mean?

As you say, the students have to have 180 days. Whether the teachers have 2 hour early release or 3 hour early release days it won't change the length of the school year.

[b]

Teacher work days count towards the 180 days. Put a teacher work day/staff development day/ school planning day at the end of every school day. Let the students go home. Stop the early release dats. Shorten the school year calendar.

Nope. Won't work. You're presuming that all the planning & prof development only happens at the school with the staff there. There are so many trainings that happen in large groups so that information and learning can happen more efficiently on a large scale. For example, all the elementary art teachers will meet for several hours of professional learning. That can't happen if you take away the school prof dev days because schools all end at different times. Some schools dismiss at 3pm and others dismiss at 4:10pm.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I understand that teacher work days count toward the 180 hours. Why dont they let the kids out at 2 and tge teachers will have plenty of time during working hours. I dont understand why the kids have to be there. It is too much ! There is no reason for the school year to be stretched so long.

What does this mean?

As you say, the students have to have 180 days. Whether the teachers have 2 hour early release or 3 hour early release days it won't change the length of the school year.

[b]

Teacher work days count towards the 180 days. Put a teacher work day/staff development day/ school planning day at the end of every school day. Let the students go home. Stop the early release dats. Shorten the school year calendar.

Teacher work days do not count towards the 990 hours that are required. Teacher's contracts are for 194 days, which is an additional 2 weeks on top of what is required of students. FCPS is no longer counting days anyway due to the waiver. They are counting hours, which have to add up to 990.

From Board Docs" http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/9NSFW841032B/$file/R1344.pdf

"The school year consists of 180 days or a minimum 990 hours of class for students and 194 days of employment for most teacher-scale employees."

Is the above poster actually suggesting that every day teachers stay for a few extra hours? 99% of the teachers I know chose the profession so that they could be on the same schedule as their children.

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know where to find the spring testing calendar for FCPS?

SOL tests?

Your school will set those dates, but they might not have done so yet.

Does anyone know where to find the spring testing calendar for FCPS?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I understand that teacher work days count toward the 180 hours. Why dont they let the kids out at 2 and tge teachers will have plenty of time during working hours. I dont understand why the kids have to be there. It is too much ! There is no reason for the school year to be stretched so long.

What does this mean?

As you say, the students have to have 180 days. Whether the teachers have 2 hour early release or 3 hour early release days it won't change the length of the school year.

[b]

Teacher work days count towards the 180 days. Put a teacher work day/staff development day/ school planning day at the end of every school day. Let the students go home. Stop the early release dats. Shorten the school year calendar.

Or...put them at the beginning of each day then the kids could "sleep in" since the study FCPS conducted said they need more sleep!

yeah, that's going to work out well! Not.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I understand that teacher work days count toward the 180 hours. Why dont they let the kids out at 2 and tge teachers will have plenty of time during working hours. I dont understand why the kids have to be there. It is too much ! There is no reason for the school year to be stretched so long.

What does this mean?

As you say, the students have to have 180 days. Whether the teachers have 2 hour early release or 3 hour early release days it won't change the length of the school year.

[b]

Teacher work days count towards the 180 days. Put a teacher work day/staff development day/ school planning day at the end of every school day. Let the students go home. Stop the early release dats. Shorten the school year calendar.

Or...put them at the beginning of each day then the kids could "sleep in" since the study FCPS conducted said they need more sleep!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I understand that teacher work days count toward the 180 hours. Why dont they let the kids out at 2 and tge teachers will have plenty of time during working hours. I dont understand why the kids have to be there. It is too much ! There is no reason for the school year to be stretched so long.

What does this mean?

As you say, the students have to have 180 days. Whether the teachers have 2 hour early release or 3 hour early release days it won't change the length of the school year.

[b]

Teacher work days count towards the 180 days. Put a teacher work day/staff development day/ school planning day at the end of every school day. Let the students go home. Stop the early release dats. Shorten the school year calendar.

Or...put them at the beginning of each day then the kids could "sleep in" since the study FCPS conducted said they need more sleep!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I understand that teacher work days count toward the 180 hours. Why dont they let the kids out at 2 and tge teachers will have plenty of time during working hours. I dont understand why the kids have to be there. It is too much ! There is no reason for the school year to be stretched so long.

What does this mean?

As you say, the students have to have 180 days. Whether the teachers have 2 hour early release or 3 hour early release days it won't change the length of the school year.

[b]

Teacher work days count towards the 180 days. Put a teacher work day/staff development day/ school planning day at the end of every school day. Let the students go home. Stop the early release dats. Shorten the school year calendar.

Anonymous wrote:When is school start for 2018-2019? Is it last week of August? I'm trying to plan vacation and want to make sure we be back the week of school starts.

Not decided yet.

When is school start for 2018-2019? Is it last week of August? I'm trying to plan vacation and want to make sure we be back the week of school starts.

Anonymous wrote:I understand that teacher work days count toward the 180 hours. Why dont they let the kids out at 2 and tge teachers will have plenty of time during working hours. I dont understand why the kids have to be there. It is too much ! There is no reason for the school year to be stretched so long.

What does this mean?

As you say, the students have to have 180 days. Whether the teachers have 2 hour early release or 3 hour early release days it won't change the length of the school year.

[b]

Anonymous wrote:I understand that teacher work days count toward the 180 hours. Why dont they let the kids out at 2 and tge teachers will have plenty of time during working hours. I dont understand why the kids have to be there. It is too much ! There is no reason for the school year to be stretched so long.

Are you drunk? This post makes no sense.

I understand that teacher work days count toward the 180 hours. Why dont they let the kids out at 2 and tge teachers will have plenty of time during working hours. I dont understand why the kids have to be there. It is too much ! There is no reason for the school year to be stretched so long.