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Where in the World Isn't Bob Saget?
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Wow, that's toasty. It barely got above a feels like temperature of 1 today. Actually, it didn't.
This morning we got our school calendar for next year. It will be quite a bit different than normal. We will have 3 inservice days before the start of the year, rather than the normal 2. We won't have a Friday off in October like we normally do. We WILL have the Wednesday before Thanksgiving off, December 23rd off, and January 2nd off, which we normally don't. We have a half-day for students, and the other half work time at the end of each quarter. And we will be ending our Wednesday early release PDs and instead go full days with students on Wednesdays, but have every second Monday without kids for PD.
Songbird76
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Out of curiosity, does the school use any sort of internet service/app for homework assignments, etc? Do your students ever try to contact you on the weekend to ask questions about homework, etc? I know when I was in school, we didn't really have the internet access we do now, or the messaging services, etc. I always said I didn't want my kids to have their own phones until they were around 15 or 16, but school here makes it necessary. Everything for school is done by phone. They have an app to get their schedule every week, they have an app for homework, and that was all BEFORE online instruction. As soon as E was in 7th grade, she needed a phone to access homework assignments and her schedule. If a teacher is sick, they cancel the class and it shows up in the app. And they don't have set classrooms per teacher, so the location of the class can change at any moment. They have to look at their phone in between classes to make sure nothing has changed. And the teachers put their assignments on the app, so they have to have a phone to know what their homework is, when they have a test to study for, etc....and if they have questions, they can send the teacher an email in the app. Like, if the teacher says "Do questions 1-6 on page 67" and there are only 3 questions on that page, they have to send the teacher a message. It's expected that the kids will take the initiative to find out what the actual assignment is. If they do the wrong assignment, they are the ones in trouble, because they should have asked. E's had problems before with a teacher assigning something from the wrong page, or with something not making sense in the homework, and she'll send an email, but the teacher doesn't respond, so she has to guess as to what to do. And I was wondering if that's just a Dutch thing, or if that's common in the US now with modern technology, too.
ajrwdwgirl
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Our school uses Google Classroom for assignments. I still hand out paper copies of what I can but everything is available for them in Google Classroom as well. Sometimes kids will email questions but I am pretty up front with them about when I check my email. If they have questions most just send a message on Google Classroom or wait to ask in person at school. Their grades are on a different system though. There isn't an app like you described and if a teacher is gone class isn't cancelled, a sub is called in for the class. Cancelling a class seems more like a college thing. Where do they go if their class is cancelled?
We have Google Classroom, too. At my age level, I really only use it to be a one stop shop for links to all of the websites we use. I never post assignments.
Snow day! Woo! We are only supposed to get up to 1 inch this morning, but the real problem is the heavy winds. Gusts up to 50 mph, and it's creating really bad drifting and blowing snow, and it's supposed to create whiteout conditions all day, especially in open areas. I'll take it!
Songbird76
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It depends on their year, really. Schedules are different here. We had the same schedule every day and you went from like 8-3 or something? with 50 minute classes and 4 minutes between classes to get to lockers and switch books, etc, and a half hour lunch hour. It was a real shock to me when E started secondary school because it's more like college, but for the first 2 years, you have a set class. You have every class with the same kids, and you all have the same classes....there are no electives. The school tells you what you are taking and everyone in a particular program has the exact same classes. In those first 2 years, you aren't allowed to leave campus, so if one of your classes is cancelled, you have to go to, for lack of a better word, the cafeteria. (There's no school lunch program here, but they do have a kitchen and they sell a few sandwiches and snacks.) Once you're in 3rd year, you still have that main class, but they sometimes combine classes because you have a couple of choices by that time, and you are allowed to leave campus, so a lot of the kids go to the grocery store if a class is cancelled. But most of the kids are biking from further away...some of them bike for an hour to get to school, so they don't have time to go home during that time. From 4th year on, you have mixed classes with kids from other "main" classes, because you have classes with other kids who chose your same profile, but not with kids from other profiles, so then it becomes more like what we know in the US, where every class has different kids in it.
We only live 5 minutes from the school, so E COULD come home now that she's in 4th year, but she doesn't usually because it's a pain to carry the books back and forth. They have lockers like you would have at a swimming pool....only like a foot and a half square, so they can't keep their books at school. It's only for their coats really. They aren't allowed to wear coats inside the school. They carry their bags with them the whole day. But 3rd years and up will usually go somewhere to hang out if a class is canceled. E had one day the week before school closed for Christmas break where she was supposed to have 3 hours in a row with no class. She was supposed to have the first hour off, then had one class, then had a free period, then one class, then 3 hours off, and then one or two more classes. She was feeling SO much stress that it was making her feel ill, so we called the school and told them she was taking a mental health day, so she skipped that day. She only missed 3 classes, because one of the classes she was supposed to have twice in that one day. But they take a LOT more subjects here, and their schedule changes. Like, you may regularly have Math on Monday and Thursday, but if the teacher is going to be gone on Thursday, they might put it on Wednesday instead if the teacher has a free period. Or it might normally be at the 4th hour, but the teacher has a meeting, so they move it to 1st hour instead. Or they just drop it altogether. They HAVE to have phones so they can see if the location or the time of that class has changed. E ALWAYS has the first 2 hours free on Fridays. And some days she only goes until the 5th hour and others she has class until the 9th hour, but usually with a couple of free hours in between. They have a 20 minute break at 10:00, and lunch at 12:50 for 25 minutes. And everyone has the same break times....all 1500 of them. So they can't all sit in the "cafeteria" at lunch.
But the app has everything on it....grades, schedule, etc. I can look up her grades whenever I want. They don't do report cards because parents can log in and see everything. I can log in and see if she was absent, or if she was late, or if she didn't turn homework in. EVERYTHING is done online.
MinnieM123
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You'd be surprised how many times I saw people down there doing this (without the table runner, though).
Yes, I've done it, too, and not just down there at the parks, either. 
The butler has always done at least that for us
trr1
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Songbird76
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I miss my college vocal jazz group a lot. It was a small group, so we were pretty close....at least the girls. I'm a soprano, and there was an alto whose voice is very similar to mine, so we blended really well. We had so much fun!
Goofyernmost
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Music has always been a big part of my family. My Father had been asked to sing at weddings and events for years and the was part of organizing a Barbershop chorus (a cappella) in our home town. His whole family was musical, but his voice was wonderful. He even had a Quartet that sang in different places. I also belonged to the chorus but was two young to feel the confidence require to be part of a four part harmony quartet. (especially trying to follow my dads voice)
My wife couldn't carry a note in a bucket along with my oldest daughter, but she did play trumpet in the school band. My youngest played piano and did a few recitals and she was in the HS chorus and also the High School Madrigal singers that performed for the state Governor at his inauguration. It makes me sad that she has now, like me, I guess, just stopped. I thought myself to play guitar in my 20's and also could pick out a few tunes and cords on the piano, but only at a self amusement level. She was used to singing along with me when she was very young. She was really good but seems to have lost all interest in music now. Life sometimes just alters the things that become important to us.
My wife couldn't carry a note in a bucket along with my oldest daughter, but she did play trumpet in the school band. My youngest played piano and did a few recitals and she was in the HS chorus and also the High School Madrigal singers that performed for the state Governor at his inauguration. It makes me sad that she has now, like me, I guess, just stopped. I thought myself to play guitar in my 20's and also could pick out a few tunes and cords on the piano, but only at a self amusement level. She was used to singing along with me when she was very young. She was really good but seems to have lost all interest in music now. Life sometimes just alters the things that become important to us.