[Year 12 IT Apps] OT - De facto student free day

[Robert]

Hi Judee,

Interesting figures about your "local cup" day. I am no longer living 
permanently in the Valley, I oscillate between Yinnar and Richmond. However 
I understood from the LV Express online that the Moe Cup was cancelled due 
to the recent heavy rains :-)

Just shows though that the Dept/Govt is not in tune with what is actually 
happening. Why not tell the racing fraternity that Melbourne Cup Day will 
henceforth be on the first Monday in November, or just cancel the public 
holiday :-)  ( As Jeff did for Show Day)

Robert Hind (Semi-retired)
Ashwood and Traralgon
robert at yinnar.com




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Judee Hobbs" <forscutt.judee.k at edumail.vic.gov.au>
To: "'Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List'" 
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Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 11:17 AM
Subject: RE: [Year 12 IT Apps] OT - De facto student free day


> The government now made it law that regional Victoria take Melb. Cup Day 
> as
> a holiday (we used to have our local cup), so
> On our local cup day we had about 20% attendance, and today I just had a
> class of 8 out of 22 present. We have actually got an even greater waste 
> of
> resources etc.
> Judee Forscutt-Hobbs
> Lowanna College.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au 
> [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au]
> On Behalf Of Cameron Bell
> Sent: Monday, 2 November 2009 10:43 AM
> To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] OT - De facto student free day
>
> Sorry for the OT post, but couldn't think of any other vic-specific
> forums that I could ask.
>
> Well its Monday and tomorrow is the Cup Day holiday here in (metro)
> Victoria.
> As you would imagine, many people take today off to have a 4 day
> holiday. Due to this known behaviour many city schools used to have
> today as a curriculum day.
> Now thanks to the decision that all student free days must be taken at
> the start of the year (Except 1 report writing day and 1 at school
> discretion) we are all here.
> When I say "all" I mean all the staff and the 20% of the student
> population who has turned up. I have just had a class of 4 students
> and I bet I am not the only one across the city.
> What a monumental waste of our time and resources.
> Students and staff are actually running sweeps - not on the cup, but
> on how many kids will be in each class. What a joke.
> At least some classes are being collapsed on an ad-hoc basis as we see
> the numbers at start of each period.
>
> QUESTION: I, and the rest of our staff are genuinely curious as the
> situation in other Vic metropolitan schools - are we the norm or an
> anomaly? Is it a school culture thing?
> What is your attendance like today? Did your school move 1 of their
> student free days to today?
>
>
> Thanks in anticipation
> Cameron
>
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