Privates making up snow days?

[Anonymous]

Our private has school tomorrow to make up a day, and then is adding two at the end of the year to make up for this past Thursday and Friday.

[Anonymous]

Ours is using Monday as a make-up day, and it previously used a teacher development day as a make-up day. It also didn't close on the days where local districts were closed for temperature rather than snow. So after tomorrow no more make-up days are planned, unless it snows and school is closed again (in which case it will cancel a future teacher development day).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The best scenario is probably replacing a professional day with a school day. In terms of adding on days in June, at the high school level at least, it is well after AP exams, so there's a sense it is more done for show and not for a real educational purpose.

I can't speak to what most schools do as I have limited experience and this year has been unusual for this area, but I will agree with this poster. Adding days for the sake of days only costs the schools money and doesn't really benefit anyone. Think about it.... for anything after elementary there are semester courses for many courses and often the snow days are in a different semester than the end of the year, so you're not adding days where the missed content can be made up. Most deadlines for graduation, exams, report cards and so forth remain the same, so again, you are not making up days to make up missed instruction, just to satisfy someone's sense of "fairness".

Additionally, it costs the schools more money to heat/air condition and function for any additional days added. Some employees are hourly, and would have to get paid for the additional days/hours. Custodial staff are already working overtime on many snow days to clear the snow for when school resumes.

Trust me, your school will figure out how to make up for lost time and course material will get covered, with or without days added to the calendar, just like you will get the work you missed doing on snow days finished one way or another.

[Anonymous]

IMO there are insufficient days in the calendar as it is. Surely hope the days will be made up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:IMO there are insufficient days in the calendar as it is. Surely hope the days will be made up.

Read the other posts. If you still care then ask your school what its policy is and convey your opinion. If you still care after that, think about switching to a school system that places more of a value on the total days of instruction -- probably public school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The best scenario is probably replacing a professional day with a school day. In terms of adding on days in June, at the high school level at least, it is well after AP exams, so there's a sense it is more done for show and not for a real educational purpose.

this is what our private is doing. Teachers lost work days already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:IMO there are insufficient days in the calendar as it is. Surely hope the days will be made up.

Private schools often have fewer professional days and lose fewer days to testing than public schools. The difference is often not as significant as it first seems.

[Anonymous]

Our DC's preschool is not. And we are paying $875/ month.

[Anonymous]

Our school was only closed for one day so not too concerned about it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our DC's preschool is not. And we are paying $875/ month.

That's a bargain!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our DC's preschool is not. And we are paying $875/ month.

That's a bargain!

Please don't be a smart ass. I would pissed off too.