Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 12:42     Subject: last day of school on 06/06/2025
Anonymous wrote:What on earth. Which schools are these? We are in the Marshall pyramid and my kids worked all the way until Friday. Promotion was yesterday with class parties today and early release tomorrow. It all feels appropriate to me.
Longfellow
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 09:07     Subject: last day of school on 06/06/2025
Anonymous wrote:What on earth. Which schools are these? We are in the Marshall pyramid and my kids worked all the way until Friday. Promotion was yesterday with class parties today and early release tomorrow. It all feels appropriate to me.


Is that ES? ES seems to be different.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 08:21     Subject: last day of school on 06/06/2025
What on earth. Which schools are these? We are in the Marshall pyramid and my kids worked all the way until Friday. Promotion was yesterday with class parties today and early release tomorrow. It all feels appropriate to me.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 08:17     Subject: last day of school on 06/06/2025
Yep, today is continuation of the movies that started. They picked long movies to cover the three days.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 08:15     Subject: last day of school on 06/06/2025
Two more days of movies 🍿 đŸŽ„!
This is the worst we’ve seen of ‘babysitting’ at FCPS in 10 years! Even PE class just had the kids sit on bleachers inside yesterday for the entire class. No exercise, no balls, no games, nothing. That’s a shame!
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 08:12     Subject: Re:last day of school on 06/06/2025
Our MS is having awards and field day activities this week (Monday-Tuesday). I think there is some movie watching, but for my student there was also history trivia and an international food festival in the language classes. These are certainly wasted days but at least some teachers are trying to make it fun!
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 08:08     Subject: last day of school on 06/06/2025
Anonymous wrote:Today was Jurassic Park, followed by The Sound of Music, followed by Puss in Boots Final Wish, followed by Angry Men, followed by Hidden Figures. The poor kids eyes looked red from staring at the screens. This is middle school. I wonder what the next 2 days will be like. Couldn’t the teachers break this up with a fun, educational game? Even doing flash card races was more fun than 5 movies straight. Poor FCPS. Reid should pay a visit.
Teachers should be more creative than this! Their grading was done by last Friday. The laptops were returned last Friday. They announced 5 movies. Yet, they wonder why parents take off for vacation or why kids don’t want to go to school. There is no incentive to go to middle school for 3 days if it’s consecutive movies from one class period to the next. The principals are showing poor leadership, too.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 07:39     Subject: Re:last day of school on 06/06/2025
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Such a shame to waste so much time. Kids could be learning all sorts of things - I think it shows lazy leadership.


+1. Absolutely. The entire school board should be ashamed. Movies should not be shown unless there is a clear educational link with the course content. It isn’t ethical to say you have a certain number of instructional days when they aren’t instructional at all! Older kid has a teacher who look them downtown by metro to a museum that meshed up with a book they read. That was a great use of an extra day! My middle schooler is brain dead from movies and is begging to stay home tomorrow. I am considering it.


This would never fly in ES. Not sure why middle/high school teachers are allowed to do this.


+1
From daily instruction, doing progress reports, and “packing up”, ES is very different, particularly from HS, at the end of the SY.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 06:34     Subject: Re:last day of school on 06/06/2025
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Such a shame to waste so much time. Kids could be learning all sorts of things - I think it shows lazy leadership.


+1. Absolutely. The entire school board should be ashamed. Movies should not be shown unless there is a clear educational link with the course content. It isn’t ethical to say you have a certain number of instructional days when they aren’t instructional at all! Older kid has a teacher who look them downtown by metro to a museum that meshed up with a book they read. That was a great use of an extra day! My middle schooler is brain dead from movies and is begging to stay home tomorrow. I am considering it.


This would never fly in ES. Not sure why middle/high school teachers are allowed to do this.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 06:08     Subject: last day of school on 06/06/2025
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Be sure to thank the school board for extending the school year with unnecessary religious holidays!


it the same as snow days


That has nothing to do with it. It would be the same whenever the last couple weeks of school would be. Get over it. [/quote

Well dummy, the last couple weeks of school would could be late May if the school board didn’t feel the need to pander to every little group that holds influence with the local Democratic Party operatives. Or we could start in late August instead of mid August. Everyone would be less burned out if the school year didn’t drag on and on.

The calendar has been ruined because of the political aspirations of school board members. That’s the reality and you know it. You just happen to align with them politically so you can’t bear to say anything remotely critical about them. The rest of us who don’t live and breathe our politics can see this was a huge screwup on their part.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 06:07     Subject: last day of school on 06/06/2025
Maybe they should pay teachers for a day or two past the last day of school so they can everything done (grading, room take down) without students.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 00:22     Subject: last day of school on 06/06/2025
Anonymous wrote:Today was Jurassic Park, followed by The Sound of Music, followed by Puss in Boots Final Wish, followed by Angry Men, followed by Hidden Figures. The poor kids eyes looked red from staring at the screens. This is middle school. I wonder what the next 2 days will be like. Couldn’t the teachers break this up with a fun, educational game? Even doing flash card races was more fun than 5 movies straight. Poor FCPS. Reid should pay a visit.


My God! My DC (middle) had such a bad headache today. I wonder if they had a similar number of movies. This makes me so angry. But FCPS isn’t a “babysitter”. Right. Not sure if this is any better, but last year my high schooler played blackjack in band the last week of school.