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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 450.1 | What school? | KEENIE::NEWMAN | OpenVMS Marketing - DTN 293-5360 | Tue Nov 16 1993 11:54 | 7 |
| What school? Our son is in Fowler and we had our conference in the
evening a few weeks ago. I agree that conferences should be held in
the early evenings (or maybe before school?) so that parents can
attend in person. I do not think that a conference by phone is a good
idea.
Just my opinion...
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| 450.2 | school | AKOCOA::LESAGE | | Tue Nov 16 1993 13:45 | 4 |
| It was the Green Meadow school. I do not know if it was just my kids
teachers or the whole school.
Paul
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| 450.3 | Teacher's Choice | AKOCOA::THORP | | Tue Nov 16 1993 14:32 | 10 |
| It depends on the teacher too. The kids will still get the half day
off, but my daughter's teacher is holding evening conferences. He is
also holding 1/2 hr conferences vs the usual 10-15 mins and has invited
the child to come along as well.
Now, about the Fowler Conferences. I don't recall receiving notice.
Either 7th grade conferences are delayed because of a string of outings
they've been on, or your Den Chief is in deep sneakers.
Chris
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| 450.4 | | REALAD::MGILBERT | Education Reform starts at home.... | Wed Nov 17 1993 11:28 | 23 |
| This is currently an issue across the state. The bottom
line here is that the state board of education sets
a MINIMUM number of days in a school year (180) but
does not define the length of a school day to be anywhere
near what the average person would assume. A school day
in Massachusetts currently is considered countable as
full day if students are in the school for 2.5 hours.
The Education Reform Act of 1993 gives the power to the
Massachusetts Board of Education to define the length of
day. There is a currently a state task force on time
and learning that will be making recommendations to the
board on measures to increase time on task. I suggest
that you, as a parent, do 2 things. One is to lobby your
legislators to ask the board to set the minimum length
of day for students at 6.5 hours for grades 1-12. The
second is to lobby your local school officials not only
to support this but to develop new calandars and to
negotiate with the local teachers to facilitate
professional development activities and conference times
without the use of half days.
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