Are weekly half days really going away?
May. 17th, 2015 04:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutI was looking at the 2015-2016 school calendars for my kids (so, two different towns involved), and I'm looking at _way_ fewer half days. It had gone down to every-other here in town (from 1 a week to 1 every other week). T.'s was still at 1 every week, but both towns now just have a very small number, and some months have none. Wacky! Kinda cool -- in theory, it would have been great if I could have scheduled something during the half day I had one kid, but more often than not, that was not possible (gymnastics was the most do-able, and it had a couple really long hiatuses).
If you are going, what's a weekly half day? Basically, 1 day a week (Wednesday in Littleton, Thursday in Acton), the elementary school lets out around lunch time. If you're going why, I have absolutely nothing to say to you. Nothing I was ever told made any sense. My favorite was, so teacher's could meet with parents. But of course, most parents I knew had a child care problem making _that_ impossible . . .
ETA: Oh, those little A's mean something. *sigh* Littleton seems to have gone to every other week half days, with exceptions.
ETAYA: Ha! Fairfax County is getting rid of half day Mondays. Teachers are Not Happy, but Parents are.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/no-more-half-day-mondays-in-fairfax-elementary-schools/2014/06/27/3a86c522-fe14-11e3-8176-f2c941cf35f1_story.html
If you are going, what's a weekly half day? Basically, 1 day a week (Wednesday in Littleton, Thursday in Acton), the elementary school lets out around lunch time. If you're going why, I have absolutely nothing to say to you. Nothing I was ever told made any sense. My favorite was, so teacher's could meet with parents. But of course, most parents I knew had a child care problem making _that_ impossible . . .
ETA: Oh, those little A's mean something. *sigh* Littleton seems to have gone to every other week half days, with exceptions.
ETAYA: Ha! Fairfax County is getting rid of half day Mondays. Teachers are Not Happy, but Parents are.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/no-more-half-day-mondays-in-fairfax-elementary-schools/2014/06/27/3a86c522-fe14-11e3-8176-f2c941cf35f1_story.html