Speaker Time - 6 pm Speaker - Mandy Larkins speaks on "Too Smart to Start, How to Keep Middle Schoolers from Starting Drug/Alcohol/Tobacco Use"
PTA Meeting Time- 6:30 -8 pm Principal DeRoo School Activity Update and Discussion of upcoming Events
Where - Bates Media Center
ALSO:
YOUR INPUT is requested on the school calendar change discussed below. Please give your comments to Kia Chandler, CAC Respresentative, at kchandler06@gmail.com or Teresa Tudor at ttudor@aacps.org
Calendar
Committee,
At
today’s board meeting one of the board members made a motion to change next
year’s calendar during exams. The motion was to have student’s come in two
hours late on days they have exams as opposed to how they do it now with a two
hour early dismissal. I went to the table and suggested that before they
consider this that I could take it back to the calendar committee to get input
from each of you. Please talk to your groups or offices and get back to me as
soon as possible about what your thoughts are to this change. They did withdraw
the motion until next board meeting when we give them our input.
Here
is just my two cents. On one hand it makes perfect sense that students could
either sleep in if they were up late studying or they could get up and review
just before they went to take the exam. It would also address the inequity that
we have now with half day preK and ECI students that go in the afternoon. With
all the early dismissals they miss a lot more time than their morning peers.
I
do want to know how parents with elementary and middle school students feel on
the subject because it would affect their children as well. I also would like
to see what teachers and principals feel about the change and our students
perspective. Look forward to hearing from all of you.
Teresa
Tudor
Senior Manager
Office of School
& Family Partnerships
Anne Arundel County
Public Schools
(410) 222-5414 ttudor@aacps.org
