FCPS teachers getting a free day off for Tuesday's snow cluster, thoughts?

[Anonymous]

I know an excellent FCPS who spent 3 hours getting to school Tuesday. Anything they give her for that is a small price. She puts in so many extra hours over the summer, an extra day off would still leave a YOU-OWE-Her on your tax balance.

[Anonymous]

I live in an upper middle-class area of Fairfax. Half our teachers were late couldn't make it in because they were driving from the outer burbs; they can't afford to live in the neighborhood.

If anything, this episode brings to light the shameful salaries we pay our teachers.

[Anonymous]

^ And today it's about the shameful maintenance on our buses or our inability to pay for decent buses. I'm not taking the blame off the SB for not setting the right priorities after last winter, but something is really wrong.

I don't think most teachers care about the leave. They just want the system to make the right decisions. The faith that the teachers have in the administration has been waning for years and an episode like this just makes it worse. They can't make up for it with a "free day" off. The real losers are the students in any case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in an upper middle-class area of Fairfax. Half our teachers were late couldn't make it in because they were driving from the outer burbs; they can't afford to live in the neighborhood.

If anything, this episode brings to light the shameful salaries we pay our teachers.

+1000 and I'm a parent, not a teacher.

[Anonymous]

I posted earlier, but noting "free day off..."

If you don't teach, you have no idea how much work a "free day off " requires.

If a teacher is out, not only do they need to make up the work the students missed, they need to provide something for the substitute to do. For many conscientious teachers, that means creating a worthwhile lesson, and trying to explain in writing to an unknown sub how to implement it.

It's at least twice the work of doing it yourself. (Yeah, I know sometimes the kids just get junk, when there's no alternative....unanticipated illness/emergency, etc. But a planned day out--even for professional development -- is a heap of work.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Waah, waah, waah! Hers is bigger than mine and it's totally not fair!! Waah, waah, waah! She always get what she wants. It's not fair. STOMP STOPM STOMPing off now.

Pretty much. I don't want anyone to have what I don't have. Boohoo!

[Anonymous]

I met my sister (an FCPS teacher) for dinner Tuesday night and she was in tears from having such a stressful day. Her commute took 5 times as long as it normally does and she narrowly avoided several accidents herself and drove past numerous others. And then when she got to work she had to deal with kids going bonkers because of the snow while being pulled in 47 different directions trying to cover her own class and others for all the teachers that were not able to make it in. She works so hard for her kids and her school and I absolutely do not begrudge her (or any of the teachers) the extra day off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I met my sister (an FCPS teacher) for dinner Tuesday night and she was in tears from having such a stressful day. Her commute took 5 times as long as it normally does and she narrowly avoided several accidents herself and drove past numerous others. And then when she got to work she had to deal with kids going bonkers because of the snow while being pulled in 47 different directions trying to cover her own class and others for all the teachers that were not able to make it in. She works so hard for her kids and her school and I absolutely do not begrudge her (or any of the teachers) the extra day off.

First, everyone had a bad commute.

Second, b/c your sister was all-hands-on-deck and did something outside of her job description she got stressed and is granted a free day. Wow, I'm in the wrong career field.

[Anonymous]

^ Yes, go get your certification and start teaching. You will never understand otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I met my sister (an FCPS teacher) for dinner Tuesday night and she was in tears from having such a stressful day. Her commute took 5 times as long as it normally does and she narrowly avoided several accidents herself and drove past numerous others. And then when she got to work she had to deal with kids going bonkers because of the snow while being pulled in 47 different directions trying to cover her own class and others for all the teachers that were not able to make it in. She works so hard for her kids and her school and I absolutely do not begrudge her (or any of the teachers) the extra day off.

First, everyone had a bad commute.

Second, b/c your sister was all-hands-on-deck and did something outside of her job description she got stressed and is granted a free day. Wow, I'm in the wrong career field.

Nah, with that attitude, you'd never survive.

[Anonymous]

I am amazed that to some people the teachers are still the bad guys in all of this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^ Yes, go get your certification and start teaching. You will never understand otherwise.

No, don't. That isn't fair to the kids.

[Anonymous]

Hey OP. Most everybody agrees with you. Though not the ones likely to post here.

Starbucks was fully staffed. They all made it in. I made it to work, traffic was bad so I left early. Life it is......

There is no reason to get an extra day off for coming to work.

[Anonymous]

After going through quite a bit to get my kids to school in Tuesday, some if them watched a movie instead of being taught. And it wasn't because teachers hadn't made it in. The teachers were there pushing play on the movie and then chatting in the back. Ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Geeze I hope they all wrote a Thank You note to the county for this "credit". See "waiting on a thank you note thread"