You’ve just received your new schedule for the spring semester and your eyes are staring wide open in confusion at the teacher and the board. “Do you understand this?” you ask a familiar face. It’s the same class, but not the same teacher.
“I have no current plan on annualizing the school calendar,” explained Principal Michael McDonnell. “Its teachers request.”
Some teachers would like to have an annualized school calendar next year, which means that all courses will be year long instead of switching teachers mid year.
Principal Michael McDonnell had and annualized school year when he was in high school. He said it was good and bad.
“It was good that you got to switch teachers and meet new kids,” said Principal Michael McDonnell “but if
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“Now we can start where we left off last year instead of wasting time the first week learning nothing.
I one hundred percent agree with Apphia the first week of delaney cards and the awkward moment on not knowing anybody in your class is a bore and waste of time.
“The Tolland Middle School in Connecticut saw an increase from 41% to 79% in writing competency scores from students who stick with the same teachers,”
Thhsclassic.com stated. “Joseph Rapp, the superintendent of the Attleboro, Massachusetts School System, had 26 elementary and middle school teachers move on with their students for two years. Over those two years, attendance rates and grades two through eight increased from 92% to 97.2%, while the teacher absence rate went down from 7 days to 3 days per year.”
“I would rather change to an annualized school calendar,” said Zola Marshall ’16. “Its just like in middle school, the same teachers you started with, in the beginning of the year, will be the same ones you end with.”
Study is shown that the attendance, class average and student involvement in school activities all increase as a result of keeping the same teacher year round. I think this is because teachers already know their students and their