Are snow days ancient history? What are your schools doing?

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Anonymous wrote:My DD is in a suburban DMV private (middle school age). We were told that students will have the first snow day as a real “snow day”, and subsequent snow days will be distance learning days (on Zoom). Is this weird or is this just what all the schools are doing now? I can’t imagine that time spent on Zoom being particularly valuable, if teachers have to plan for it last minute (and probably many kids not showing up for Zoom class, anyways). Can others please share what their schools are doing? Has it been successful or not? Thanks.

Your phrasing makes me think you are also an SSSAS parent. Maybe a new one? It works out fine. Remote school days suck and DC hates them, and I imagine the teachers aren’t super fond of them either, but no one wants extra days tacked on at the end of the school year, or days taken away from spring break or whatever. There are pros and cons to both snow days (no school) and e-learning days. There’s no perfect solution. This one works well enough.

Hi, yes. Would there really be days added to the end of the year (or taken from breaks etc) because of snow days? This is our first child but having attended a DMV private myself, I don’t recall ever having to “make up” any snow days. Have rules for school year lengths changed?

I am 10 yr+ SSSAS parent. If there are excessive snow days they will initially take away from Spring Break as opposed to add to the end of the year like public schools have done. They've done it before.

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At Holton we'll get 1 snow day. If we get more snow then it'll be on line.

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This town's approach to bad weather is absurd. Most of the "snow days" here end up bright, sunny and DRY!

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Anonymous wrote:This town's approach to bad weather is absurd. Most of the "snow days" here end up bright, sunny and DRY!

"this town"