Hey everyone, I have a GREAT idea! Let's make up snow days AFTER the DC-CAS! Obviously, it would make the most sense to make up for the lost instructional time following the big test. Oh wait, that's what we're doing? Are you f*cking serious?!
Here's the make-up dates: March 19 will convert from a Professional Development day to a regular instruction day. May 17, a parent-teacher conference day will now also be a regular instruction day. June 18, a current half day will convert into a full regular instruction day. We will use the designated make up days June 21 and June 22. The last day of school for students and teachers is June 22.
This is so insanely moronic. It just adds to the list of things I hate about this school district. And I know it seems little to a lot of people, but when you witness terrible decisions being made every day, it accumulates. I am so done with you DCPS.
Why are we making up FIVE days. We missed four & a "half" (an early dismissal always counts as a full day, right?). Also, the students are going to school for 182 days. Why are we making up days to go beyond the federal mandate of 180?!
Posts
14 comments:
Stupid? Yes. Surprising? Not at all.
Sphere: Related ContentYou know, this is actually pretty smart. She releases the calendar on a FRIDAY AFTERNOON when she KNOWS people won't be paying attention. And I agree WHY are we making up 5 days???
Sphere: Related ContentWe are just stupid. If we wanted to be smart we should all use our leave on the make up days. Especially the ones in June.
Sphere: Related ContentYou missed 4 and a half days, and you are making up 4 and a half days. Since three of the days are conversions, you are actually getting three extra days of paid leave this year. WHAT are you complaining about?
Sphere: Related ContentNot having PD, not having parent-teacher conferences and adding meaningless days after June 18th that will be poorly attended.
Sphere: Related ContentI for one am HAPPY to give up the crappy PD my school offers for more time with my students. Although I also thought we already had 2 days built in....
Sphere: Related ContentDon't be an idiot Anon @ 2:54.
Sphere: Related ContentWe should not be making up the early dismissal Friday. It was a half day. A half day equals a school day. Hence, no need to make it up. It's simply adding a day onto the school year.
Talk about wasting money.
Are you now a reformed Rhee Pimp?
Sphere: Related ContentThese blogs are getting more difficult to read every day: negativity, rumor-mongering, fanaticism, and conspiracy theories.
Sphere: Related ContentThe attendance rate is horrible in DCPS although it is never publicized. The attendance rate will drop at the beginning of June. By June 18th the schools will house mostly teachers.
Sphere: Related ContentMost students do not care about school nor their attendance after the DCCAS. Too much emphasis on DCCAS!
Just another poor decision by Rhee to appease the public.
Today, I think Dee is right.
Sphere: Related ContentAnonymous 4:58: At least we have these blogs, to vent, share ideas, give opinions, express our anger/outrage or support. Keep on blogging Dee. We now have a bunch of education/teacher blogs in DC, some support Rhee, some don't, and some "it depends"! We need to have an outlet for all voices.
These blogs are all we have. We have a union who tells us nothing, so where can we go for information? We have a chancellor who pretends to support teachers, but only TFA/DCTF and f**k the rest of them, she wishes they'd quit, but we aren't going anywhere, save for another RIF. We have administrators, many of them hand-picked by the chancellor, who can't keep order in the schools. And now they're so busy finishing up cycle 2 of IMPACT, that they can't even try to keep order. They're locked in their offices writing reports and revising their budgets, not walking the halls. Oh, I forgot; it's the teachers who must keep order; discipline's completely on us. So we have Candi's blog, where Rhee is the anti-Christ. Sometimes I see her point. Others used to love Rhee, but have had a Saul of Tarsus conversion experience on some road to Damascus (not bad for a Jewish girl to know all this, but hey, DC teachers are educated). Was it the RIF that changed their minds? Was it the Fast Company diarrhea of the mouth? Still other teacher bloggers keep their Rhee-ligion to themselves and blog on more on daily experiences. But you bloggers are all we have, negativity, conspiratorily and full of rumors, which is often all the news we ever get.
Sphere: Related Contentah, yes - attendance problems. Even the most effective teacher can't improve the scores of students who are not there.
Sphere: Related Contenti am so done with dcps also.
Sphere: Related ContentPost a Comment