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Anonymous wrote:My tenth grader has had assignments, projects, tests, and labs up until today. Finals start tomorrow and I am thankful her finals schedule is more project based than test based this year.

I am this poster and my kid goes to Woodson…I am so confused by the large amount of complaints? Where are your kids in school that they have not been doing anything for a month?!?

Anonymous wrote:Our MS is having "field day" all day Tues. 6/16. This involves students choosing where to go around the school property all day long - no requirement to sign up for something or stay for a period or an hour or anything. Teachers have been told students will go to 1st period for attendance, then roam around the grounds all day, then report to last period for attendance before busses/dismissal to see if anyone is missing. We were also told students will have their phones on them in case parents need to communicate or pickup. I'm not even exaggerating...how is this safe, legal, or OK? I can't say my MS here because I work there and don't want to get in trouble but I am very concerned.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a direct result of the ridiculous school calendar.

School should have been over last week. Continuing to stagger into June is idiotic. The people have spoken, will the School Board listen?

THIS! If you care about the quality of education, you need to be pushing for a school calendar that gets out earlier. MUCH earlier. First week of June at the very latest. They are literally just killing time at school to fill up the required hours now and that goes for all grades, even elementary. My 4th grader is turning in their laptops at the end of the day Thursday but they still have 3.5 days after that. What’s the point?!

Either you don't understand how 4th grade works or your child is at a really crappy school. My 4th grader's laptop stays at school, and is really only used for mandatory things (assessments, lexia, etc), so it wouldn't be a big deal at all if it got "turned in". I volunteered today and the teacher has the schedule for the next week written out, they have a LOT to finish up and are going to be doing school work up until the last day.

I will tell you right now Thursday is going to be the last day for anything. They do have a test that day. Then the computers get turned in for good and I don’t think are even in the classrooms anymore. The SBTS has to make sure everything is accounted for and check whose computer is busted and everything and it takes a long time. For kids in instrumental music their instruments were turned in late last week or early this week so there’s no more music specials either.

It’s going to be 3.5 days of watching movies, parties, and playing games. There’s a family picnic on Monday and a lot of kids are going to go home afterward. Even field day is today. It’s literally just fudging time at this point. We could have been done much earlier without a bunch of dragging out of the calendar.

Anonymous wrote:My son is finishing up projects this week and has finals this week and next (everyday until Tuesday). Why don’t your kids have finals?!?!

Anonymous wrote:This year reminds me of the calendar about 15 years ago. I was teaching 8th grade in FCPS. We had SIX full weeks of school after the SOLS. We had to cram most of the last quarter of material into just a few weeks so that kids knew the material for the SOL. Fortunately, my team was on board to do a bunch of projects that kept kids engaged, but it would have been very easy to not go that route.
The whole thing was nuts and it's one of the reasons that FCPS switched to starting before labor day. However, with so many additional holidays and teacher workdays starting before labor day no longer seems to mean an earlier end to the school year.