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Originally Posted by Major Major
With all this talk from UCP about irreparable harm to students learning, I am curious why they didn't make provisions to make up that instructional time. CBE students lost 15 instructional days. That can be made up for by eliminating fall break next week, eliminating PD days and extending the school calendar to July 3.
Every minute of school could have been made up for without touching a single day of spring break, Christmas or any stat.
Provide some online course work for teachers to do in the summer to complete their PD responsibilities. There was no emergency here.
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There isn’t much to move in Elementary or Junior High. But high schools will depend on whether January diplomas are still a go. System level professional learning is canceled until January so maybe there’s some PD days there, not sure yet.
CBE directors have created 3 different scenarios depending on whether diplomas are still happening, optional, or canceled. If it’s canceled, they will also cancel exam break, which will provide 72 instructional days in high schools. With 78 before the strike, that means high schools will only have lost 6 instructional days.
But apparently, whatever is happening with the diplomas appears to be the premier’s decision. Moving forward with it doesn’t seem to be a good choice as students are already pissed off, but who knows; I also didn’t predict that they’d use the notwithstanding clause so what do I know.