Just Wondering
The plans that six schools had for early release today have been cancelled, so those schools will release at the usual time: Eckstein, Madison, McClure, Hamilton and Whitman middle schools and Roosevelt High School.
Anyone know why those 6 schools were having an early release? I checked Roosevelt's website but couldn't find out.
FYI, I did see this at the RHS website if anyone is interested.
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Helen Schinske
BTW- the Superintendent originally wanted early release everyother Friday for teacher collaboration (or ed). The community complained. This option was taken off the table.
From the last board meeting...it appears the district wants to waiver our kids out of school for 3days. So, in effect isn't this a way for the district to continue eliminating educational time for our children...just a different way?!?!
I'd rather we just extended the year by 3 days, and paid the teachers for the extra time, but I don't see that happening right now. And, yes, I'd be more than happy to pay more taxes to support that.
ttln
Is it reasonable to expect this to possibly be used during their planning period- occasionally?
From what I have observed, early release days force periods to be half as long, which makes getting into subject matter a joke, after taking roll, etc. So the whole day, could be pretty much a wash as far as some classrooms go- so they might as well use a full day for " inservice".
The days WON'T be made up.
This proposal decreases the school year to 177 days.
A friend of mine who uses those programs never knows when it is an early release day, because it makes no difference. We don't, so we have to make arrangements. I don't know what position the bulk of parents are in.