Elementary Dissmissal (teachers please)?
Teachers, especially private school teachers,
How do you handle after-school dissmissal? Do the children stay in your classroom? What do you have them do?
I teach in a small private school and in Kinder/Pre-Kinder the kids get out a full 40 minutes before elementary and over an hour before high school. Right now we are trying to work out a system of what to do with the kids in the twenty minutes between elementary dismissal and high school dissmissal.
Administration doesn't want the little ones running around on the playground and cantina area, but we, the teachers don't want them in our classrooms still (they've already been in there an extra 40 minutes by this point). What does your school do?
We have after-school care at 2:45, but that's 15 minutes after high school gets out.
It technically is "after school" for our kids. We stop teaching 40 minutes before the rest of elementary gets out. Some kids get picked up, but most are still at school (and in our classroom) until high school gets out an hour later.
We've suggested extending the school day, but obviously that won't happen until next year.
Most students are driven to school by parents, and a few ride public busses home.
It technically is "after school" for our kids. We stop teaching 40 minutes before the rest of elementary gets out. Some kids get picked up, but most are still at school (and in our classroom) until high school gets out an hour later.
We've suggested extending the school day, but obviously that won't happen until next year.
Most students are driven to school by parents, and a few ride public busses home.