No Snow days in ACPS—virtual learning

[Anonymous]

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I don’t even know what “ preserving any future days when schools may need to close” means.

[Anonymous]

Because virtual instruction was so meaningful last year…NOT!

My kids will enjoy the snow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://www.acpsk12.org/news/?p=18056&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=winter-weather-decisions-and-communications&fbclid=IwAR0PLKtrJsnfYdlS1yvPKswBJPT5qvWUlf5tcGbMkVXAptRGNrK4FO_Lwd4

I don’t even know what “ preserving any future days when schools may need to close” means.

Power outages, etc.

[Anonymous]

Does the district not have any extra time built into their calendar for inclement weather days?

[Anonymous]

This is not good news. Kids need a surprise day off every once in a while. Snow days are a great joy to most kids and it seems dumb that there would be virtual school instead of a day off. I think our kids will have unexcused absences. I'm not putting up with this silliness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because virtual instruction was so meaningful last year…NOT!

My kids will enjoy the snow.

And people are like this screaming OMG DL WAS SO HORRIBLE MY KIDS DIDN’T LEARN ANYTHING.

Gee, wonder why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does the district not have any extra time built into their calendar for inclement weather days?

No the trend is to provide the absolute bare minimum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does the district not have any extra time built into their calendar for inclement weather days?

Arlington has had 8 fewer days than fairfax already. I am not sure APS built in any snow days. At least not like they used to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because virtual instruction was so meaningful last year…NOT!

My kids will enjoy the snow.

And people are like this screaming OMG DL WAS SO HORRIBLE MY KIDS DIDN’T LEARN ANYTHING.

Gee, wonder why.

My kid sat in front of that screen for a year and a half and got nothing meaningful out of it. If it snows, he will enjoy the rare snow day. Nothing they do online for one day will be worthwhile. Even teachers must realize this (and I feel for those who will again have their own kids at home while simultaneously being expected to teach virtually on inclement weather days.

[Anonymous]

A week off for Thanksgiving and now no snow days. Lots of great decisons being made at central. What a joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because virtual instruction was so meaningful last year…NOT!

My kids will enjoy the snow.

And people are like this screaming OMG DL WAS SO HORRIBLE MY KIDS DIDN’T LEARN ANYTHING.

Gee, wonder why.

My kid sat in front of that screen for a year and a half and got nothing meaningful out of it. If it snows, he will enjoy the rare snow day. Nothing they do online for one day will be worthwhile. Even teachers must realize this (and I feel for those who will again have their own kids at home while simultaneously being expected to teach virtually on inclement weather days.

I wonder how this will work. I am an ES teacher in another NoVA district and when we were all virtual I went into the school and taught from the classroom, but like many teaching from home I had a second monitor (which helped a lot) and was preplanned specifically for distance learning. Would the instruction be synchronous? I'm not sure how adept my students would be at this point in knowing how to navigate DL.

[Anonymous]

Snow days are a special/exciting gift to students. Looking out of the window in the morning to see if the overnight snowfall materialized. ACPS just sucks the joy out of everything...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Snow days are a special/exciting gift to students. Looking out of the window in the morning to see if the overnight snowfall materialized. ACPS just sucks the joy out of everything...

And the reality is there are very few of them nowadays. We just don’t get that much snow inside the Beltway. Certainly not enough that learning will be so disrupted that virtual teaching will have enough impact.

ACPS loves to tout these pseudo-equity measures that don’t really achieve meaningful results. But now they can claim, “all students are learning and succeeding, all the time, regardless of the weather.” As if weather were to blame for the system’s many unaddressed problems. All for show, no substance.

[Anonymous]

For all the nonsense paid to equity, this is a shockingly inequitable policy. It seems to assume every elementary kid (especially K-3) has an attentive adult to help with DL. They do not. It is garbage. Stop pretending otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Snow days are a special/exciting gift to students. Looking out of the window in the morning to see if the overnight snowfall materialized. ACPS just sucks the joy out of everything...

And the reality is there are very few of them nowadays. We just don’t get that much snow inside the Beltway. Certainly not enough that learning will be so disrupted that virtual teaching will have enough impact.

ACPS loves to tout these pseudo-equity measures that don’t really achieve meaningful results. But now they can claim, “all students are learning and succeeding, all the time, regardless of the weather.” As if weather were to blame for the system’s many unaddressed problems. All for show, no substance.

Agreed. This is a 'form over substance' policy.