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Anonymous wrote:It’s almost as if many, many of their other friends and cousins and neighbor kids are already enjoying summer break, and the ridiculous school year that your leadership has created and stretched out instead of building in an appropriate amount of weather event dates is causing the kids to be fatigued and ready for summer already.

Op here--trust me I am not happy with my leadership about this and many other things. But these behaviors aren't the "I'm bored and antsy for summer! So hard to concentrate!" Behaviors. These are the--IDGAF when someone tells me to sit down in the cafeteria for the 10th time, I will throw food across 3 tables just to piss off the cafeteria monitor. It's the I'm going to start a fight on the playground and kick and hurt the admin when they come to break it up. I will scream my head off when I don't get my way and it's so loud it makes other kids cry. That kind of thing. It's not excessive giggling or the lines in the hallways being crazy because they're all wiggly that has been happening the last week of school for a thousand years. It's all very amplified this year. And they just don't care, which is scary. Because the teachers can't keep any semblance of control unless the students are taught to respect adults, and if that dwindles--the education system as we know it will be in crisis. It already is, but it's not yet at the tipping point. Imagine where your kids would go if there just weren't enough humans to safely staff a school. There won't be schools! Then where will your kids go during the day to learn and be careful for while parents work? How will we have an educated populace? I'm truly worried about this.

Sounds like the teacher in this case can't control their classroom. I'm sorry your kids have teachers like this but this seems to be more of an exception than anything else.

What an ignorant, inflammatory and judgment response. Walk in her shoes.

It is so sad and frustrating when people flippantly replace empathy and care with judgment. Ugh.

Teachers have had an insanely difficult couple of years. Kids ARE acting out way more than before. We should be supporting and encouraging them. Not tearing them down to score points on DCUM.

The teachers and administrators need to start calling and emailing the parents and demanding they either sit in the classroom and deal with the behavior or pick up their kids and deal with them. At some point, enough is enough. Hold parents accountable.

Parents get defensive and believe their children can do no wrong. Some parents don't even respond to emails. The admin can do this, but it's not always effective.

I have heard parents say “larla doesn’t do this at home, so it must be the fault of the school”. Usually that’s because the parent doesn’t set any limits or boundaries at home giving the kid free reign. It is the parent excuse to blame the school rather than themself.

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Anonymous wrote:They were supposed to be out today. But they extended thru Friday because iof snow days.

And what are they doing in class? Watching movies. These are AP classes. Why are we potentially exposing kids to COVID to watch movies? This is stupid

My junior's AP classes are not full of movies. They're doing AP World History and AP Calculus until the bitter end, it seems!

Didn't they take the AP exams a month ago? Why are they still teaching content now -- seems a little too late.

I’m an AP teacher. We worked hard all year until the AP exam. Since then we just relaxed and had fun.

A well earned rest!

No, this is so flawed. You and your students have the entire summer to rest. TEACH something - another AP teacher

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Anonymous wrote:They were supposed to be out today. But they extended thru Friday because iof snow days.

And what are they doing in class? Watching movies. These are AP classes. Why are we potentially exposing kids to COVID to watch movies? This is stupid

My junior's AP classes are not full of movies. They're doing AP World History and AP Calculus until the bitter end, it seems!

Didn't they take the AP exams a month ago? Why are they still teaching content now -- seems a little too late.

I’m an AP teacher. We worked hard all year until the AP exam. Since then we just relaxed and had fun.

A well earned rest!

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My kids' teachers basically stopped teaching the Friday before Memorial Day. June has been a complete waste, with nearly zero learning going on. The only teachers who seem to give a damn are the band teachers. Kids have been asking if they even need to go in this week because it's just movies and down time. I don't want to hear one word about learning loss when teachers basically gave up these last 3 weeks.



We had to stop teaching to get in all of the ridiculous testing. The testing windows end before school does so it's a lot of time with nothing to do.

So there's literally nothing that you can review or teach or go further in depth on? These kids were out of school for a year and are behind. Reviewing core math concepts and reading a short book for the last few weeks of school doesn't seem like too big a stretch.

I plan lessons but kids just stop coming. Kids had awful behavior this year and now have stopped showing up.

Umm so which is it? They stop coming or they come and have bad behavior? You teach the children that are there! Children need structure!

Really? Oh. I didn't know. Kids are allowed to get away with a lot of behavior now that they never used to before. Most have stopped showing up which is a blessing I teach the students who do show up. They are working in groups to create a product, market it and pitch it to the grade level.

Is this marketplace? My kids did that in 3rd grade. What a fun assignment! They key was not to hoard your money because, it would be worthless after the day. Mine amassed a small fortune selling HP wands that she made from tree branches and then bought out all the cake pops and brownies. Success! Hope this assignment is a bright spot for you, Teacher, and that you are getting parent support. Thank you for all you do.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s almost as if many, many of their other friends and cousins and neighbor kids are already enjoying summer break, and the ridiculous school year that your leadership has created and stretched out instead of building in an appropriate amount of weather event dates is causing the kids to be fatigued and ready for summer already.

Op here--trust me I am not happy with my leadership about this and many other things. But these behaviors aren't the "I'm bored and antsy for summer! So hard to concentrate!" Behaviors. These are the--IDGAF when someone tells me to sit down in the cafeteria for the 10th time, I will throw food across 3 tables just to piss off the cafeteria monitor. It's the I'm going to start a fight on the playground and kick and hurt the admin when they come to break it up. I will scream my head off when I don't get my way and it's so loud it makes other kids cry. That kind of thing. It's not excessive giggling or the lines in the hallways being crazy because they're all wiggly that has been happening the last week of school for a thousand years. It's all very amplified this year. And they just don't care, which is scary. Because the teachers can't keep any semblance of control unless the students are taught to respect adults, and if that dwindles--the education system as we know it will be in crisis. It already is, but it's not yet at the tipping point. Imagine where your kids would go if there just weren't enough humans to safely staff a school. There won't be schools! Then where will your kids go during the day to learn and be careful for while parents work? How will we have an educated populace? I'm truly worried about this.

This is sad. Probably a lot of issues going on here. Teachers aren't teaching any new material, and haven't been for the past month for the most part, so students aren't learning anything - boredom might be a factor, along with stress and the need for attention/stimulation. And of course some parents in some of these schools don't seem to have control over their children and aren't making sure their children don't mistreat others, but that has always been a problem.

My kids aren't experiencing this at their schools, thankfully. I'm taking that these are schools in rougher, lower income areas like Silver Spring?

Funny, my Silver Spring kid hasn’t experienced this. But go ahead with the insults if you must.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s almost as if many, many of their other friends and cousins and neighbor kids are already enjoying summer break, and the ridiculous school year that your leadership has created and stretched out instead of building in an appropriate amount of weather event dates is causing the kids to be fatigued and ready for summer already.

Op here--trust me I am not happy with my leadership about this and many other things. But these behaviors aren't the "I'm bored and antsy for summer! So hard to concentrate!" Behaviors. These are the--IDGAF when someone tells me to sit down in the cafeteria for the 10th time, I will throw food across 3 tables just to piss off the cafeteria monitor. It's the I'm going to start a fight on the playground and kick and hurt the admin when they come to break it up. I will scream my head off when I don't get my way and it's so loud it makes other kids cry. That kind of thing. It's not excessive giggling or the lines in the hallways being crazy because they're all wiggly that has been happening the last week of school for a thousand years. It's all very amplified this year. And they just don't care, which is scary. Because the teachers can't keep any semblance of control unless the students are taught to respect adults, and if that dwindles--the education system as we know it will be in crisis. It already is, but it's not yet at the tipping point. Imagine where your kids would go if there just weren't enough humans to safely staff a school. There won't be schools! Then where will your kids go during the day to learn and be careful for while parents work? How will we have an educated populace? I'm truly worried about this.

Sounds like the teacher in this case can't control their classroom. I'm sorry your kids have teachers like this but this seems to be more of an exception than anything else.

What an ignorant, inflammatory and judgment response. Walk in her shoes.

It is so sad and frustrating when people flippantly replace empathy and care with judgment. Ugh.

Teachers have had an insanely difficult couple of years. Kids ARE acting out way more than before. We should be supporting and encouraging them. Not tearing them down to score points on DCUM.

The teachers and administrators need to start calling and emailing the parents and demanding they either sit in the classroom and deal with the behavior or pick up their kids and deal with them. At some point, enough is enough. Hold parents accountable.

Parents get defensive and believe their children can do no wrong. Some parents don't even respond to emails. The admin can do this, but it's not always effective.

Anonymous wrote:All ready to set up the gaming machine in class today. Mario, FTW!

Anonymous wrote:It's really, really bad. Even the "good" kids are acting out. Students do not respect the adults in the building or the rules and routines of the year.

I'm not surprised so many teachers are quitting

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Anonymous wrote:It’s almost as if many, many of their other friends and cousins and neighbor kids are already enjoying summer break, and the ridiculous school year that your leadership has created and stretched out instead of building in an appropriate amount of weather event dates is causing the kids to be fatigued and ready for summer already.

Op here--trust me I am not happy with my leadership about this and many other things. But these behaviors aren't the "I'm bored and antsy for summer! So hard to concentrate!" Behaviors. These are the--IDGAF when someone tells me to sit down in the cafeteria for the 10th time, I will throw food across 3 tables just to piss off the cafeteria monitor. It's the I'm going to start a fight on the playground and kick and hurt the admin when they come to break it up. I will scream my head off when I don't get my way and it's so loud it makes other kids cry. That kind of thing. It's not excessive giggling or the lines in the hallways being crazy because they're all wiggly that has been happening the last week of school for a thousand years. It's all very amplified this year. And they just don't care, which is scary. Because the teachers can't keep any semblance of control unless the students are taught to respect adults, and if that dwindles--the education system as we know it will be in crisis. It already is, but it's not yet at the tipping point. Imagine where your kids would go if there just weren't enough humans to safely staff a school. There won't be schools! Then where will your kids go during the day to learn and be careful for while parents work? How will we have an educated populace? I'm truly worried about this.

This is sad. Probably a lot of issues going on here. Teachers aren't teaching any new material, and haven't been for the past month for the most part, so students aren't learning anything - boredom might be a factor, along with stress and the need for attention/stimulation. And of course some parents in some of these schools don't seem to have control over their children and aren't making sure their children don't mistreat others, but that has always been a problem.

My kids aren't experiencing this at their schools, thankfully. I'm taking that these are schools in rougher, lower income areas like Silver Spring?

Funny, my Silver Spring kid hasn’t experienced this. But go ahead with the insults if you must.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s almost as if many, many of their other friends and cousins and neighbor kids are already enjoying summer break, and the ridiculous school year that your leadership has created and stretched out instead of building in an appropriate amount of weather event dates is causing the kids to be fatigued and ready for summer already.

Op here--trust me I am not happy with my leadership about this and many other things. But these behaviors aren't the "I'm bored and antsy for summer! So hard to concentrate!" Behaviors. These are the--IDGAF when someone tells me to sit down in the cafeteria for the 10th time, I will throw food across 3 tables just to piss off the cafeteria monitor. It's the I'm going to start a fight on the playground and kick and hurt the admin when they come to break it up. I will scream my head off when I don't get my way and it's so loud it makes other kids cry. That kind of thing. It's not excessive giggling or the lines in the hallways being crazy because they're all wiggly that has been happening the last week of school for a thousand years. It's all very amplified this year. And they just don't care, which is scary. Because the teachers can't keep any semblance of control unless the students are taught to respect adults, and if that dwindles--the education system as we know it will be in crisis. It already is, but it's not yet at the tipping point. Imagine where your kids would go if there just weren't enough humans to safely staff a school. There won't be schools! Then where will your kids go during the day to learn and be careful for while parents work? How will we have an educated populace? I'm truly worried about this.

This is sad. Probably a lot of issues going on here. Teachers aren't teaching any new material, and haven't been for the past month for the most part, so students aren't learning anything - boredom might be a factor, along with stress and the need for attention/stimulation. And of course some parents in some of these schools don't seem to have control over their children and aren't making sure their children don't mistreat others, but that has always been a problem.

My kids aren't experiencing this at their schools, thankfully. I'm taking that these are schools in rougher, lower income areas like Silver Spring?

Funny, my Silver Spring kid hasn’t experienced this. But go ahead with the insults if you must.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s almost as if many, many of their other friends and cousins and neighbor kids are already enjoying summer break, and the ridiculous school year that your leadership has created and stretched out instead of building in an appropriate amount of weather event dates is causing the kids to be fatigued and ready for summer already.

Op here--trust me I am not happy with my leadership about this and many other things. But these behaviors aren't the "I'm bored and antsy for summer! So hard to concentrate!" Behaviors. These are the--IDGAF when someone tells me to sit down in the cafeteria for the 10th time, I will throw food across 3 tables just to piss off the cafeteria monitor. It's the I'm going to start a fight on the playground and kick and hurt the admin when they come to break it up. I will scream my head off when I don't get my way and it's so loud it makes other kids cry. That kind of thing. It's not excessive giggling or the lines in the hallways being crazy because they're all wiggly that has been happening the last week of school for a thousand years. It's all very amplified this year. And they just don't care, which is scary. Because the teachers can't keep any semblance of control unless the students are taught to respect adults, and if that dwindles--the education system as we know it will be in crisis. It already is, but it's not yet at the tipping point. Imagine where your kids would go if there just weren't enough humans to safely staff a school. There won't be schools! Then where will your kids go during the day to learn and be careful for while parents work? How will we have an educated populace? I'm truly worried about this.

Sounds like the teacher in this case can't control their classroom. I'm sorry your kids have teachers like this but this seems to be more of an exception than anything else.

What an ignorant, inflammatory and judgment response. Walk in her shoes.

It is so sad and frustrating when people flippantly replace empathy and care with judgment. Ugh.

Teachers have had an insanely difficult couple of years. Kids ARE acting out way more than before. We should be supporting and encouraging them. Not tearing them down to score points on DCUM.

The teachers and administrators need to start calling and emailing the parents and demanding they either sit in the classroom and deal with the behavior or pick up their kids and deal with them. At some point, enough is enough. Hold parents accountable.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s almost as if many, many of their other friends and cousins and neighbor kids are already enjoying summer break, and the ridiculous school year that your leadership has created and stretched out instead of building in an appropriate amount of weather event dates is causing the kids to be fatigued and ready for summer already.

Op here--trust me I am not happy with my leadership about this and many other things. But these behaviors aren't the "I'm bored and antsy for summer! So hard to concentrate!" Behaviors. These are the--IDGAF when someone tells me to sit down in the cafeteria for the 10th time, I will throw food across 3 tables just to piss off the cafeteria monitor. It's the I'm going to start a fight on the playground and kick and hurt the admin when they come to break it up. I will scream my head off when I don't get my way and it's so loud it makes other kids cry. That kind of thing. It's not excessive giggling or the lines in the hallways being crazy because they're all wiggly that has been happening the last week of school for a thousand years. It's all very amplified this year. And they just don't care, which is scary. Because the teachers can't keep any semblance of control unless the students are taught to respect adults, and if that dwindles--the education system as we know it will be in crisis. It already is, but it's not yet at the tipping point. Imagine where your kids would go if there just weren't enough humans to safely staff a school. There won't be schools! Then where will your kids go during the day to learn and be careful for while parents work? How will we have an educated populace? I'm truly worried about this.

Sounds like the teacher in this case can't control their classroom. I'm sorry your kids have teachers like this but this seems to be more of an exception than anything else.

What an ignorant, inflammatory and judgment response. Walk in her shoes.

It is so sad and frustrating when people flippantly replace empathy and care with judgment. Ugh.

Teachers have had an insanely difficult couple of years. Kids ARE acting out way more than before. We should be supporting and encouraging them. Not tearing them down to score points on DCUM.