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What the heck is going on with the Wake county schools letting kids out early so the teachers can talk about teaching? Isn't it hard enough for parents to schedule around the normal school schedule, now they make it even worse. Why on earth can't teachers be expected to stay after school themselves to talk about teaching? This is making the county look like a bunch of idiots are running things.
What the heck is going on with the Wake county schools letting kids out early so the teachers can talk about teaching? Isn't it hard enough for parents to schedule around the normal school schedule, now they make it even worse. Why on earth can't teachers be expected to stay after school themselves to talk about teaching? This is making the county look like a bunch of idiots are running things.
There is a lot of emphasis on team teaching anymore....and that takes communication.
I really don't see what the big deal about this is. Guess what? School is not day care. They aren't baby sitters that have to work around parent's schedules. Parents work with the schools.
This small change (and it's small) shouldn't cause parents a problem...and if it does...they have much large issues that no school is going to solve.
Your comment about idiots will stay uncommented on.
Many parents have children in different schools on different schedules. This change is a major issue for many parents. I would think it would be less inconvenient for the smaller number of teachers to do their communication after hours, rather than to expect all the parents to adjust their schedules. It's purely idiotic to cater to the teachers this way.
This was rammed through and it is a logistical mess. Better to keep the teachers late every Wednesday and give them comp time or (gasp!) more $ than to adjust the classroom and transportation schedules for the families who, as the pp stated, often have children in more than 1 school.
I really don't see how the teachers can be very productive with just one hour to make it worth the inconvenience of changing the students' schedule. I think this could have been handled differently but it's just another symptom of a broken school system.
The school system I grew up in had shorter days on Wednesdays for as long as I can recall, so this is not a novel concept. I think it may just have been elementary school, though. I think the schools offered after school care (which they offered all the time anyway), so it was not as big of a scheduling issue for parents.
I remember always looking forward to getting done at 2:00 on Wednesdays. Good memories!
All the Catholic schools in my hometown did this, too--in fact, I seem to believe we got out at 1:15 on Mondays instead of 3:15 (at my particular school). I loved it
I work from home, thankfully, as does my husband, so I guess I kind of like it--the bus drops my kids an hour early and they have more time to play outside, which is major in the summertime since they're stuck in school as it is....
In California they have been doing early Wednesdays in elementary and middle schools for years....not a big deal in my opinion
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