Predictions on your private school and opening next week?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am fine with no academics. Life is short.

I meant no academics on snow days!

+100 Let kids enjoy snow days!!!!

Yes let them eat snow...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well I'm delighted to say that St Pats sent an email to 4-8th grade students' families admitting they may well not be open on Monday but there was work for all kids on Haiku so they didn't lose any learning time. Kudos to schools that do that. Love it.

The school is the best
Giving useless work so we
are insufferable

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well I'm delighted to say that St Pats sent an email to 4-8th grade students' families admitting they may well not be open on Monday but there was work for all kids on Haiku so they didn't lose any learning time. Kudos to schools that do that. Love it.

I just threw up at the smugness of this post

Smug and snow abound
Haiku doesn't count like math
I would not be pleased

[Anonymous]

I would imagine all schools will be closed tomorrow and some will be even closed on Tuesday.

Heck I can't even get out of my neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

WaPo says "Our next disturbance comes late Tuesday as a cold front moving through may trigger some rain or snow showers."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/01/24/d-c-area-forecast-sunny-sunday-as-the-dmv-digs-out/?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_forecast_cwg_705am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

If we get more precip and it freeze over, we can expect at least a delay on Wed.

[Anonymous]

I sent home a 'snow packet' once--got about three back. Then realized, what the heck am I doing? When the children are in school they work really, really hard. For all I know, right now if they are not out playing they may be helping shovel or shivering in a house with power out or laying about in their pajamas giggling. This is time to spend with your family and ride the ride. Many children who attend independent schools have plenty of enrichment opportunities at home: stocked bookshelves, board games, electronic learning, charades by the fire. All of that helps development too. They really don't need some dusty worksheets from me. All the children are out so teachers will make adjustments when school is back in session and move forward. Enjoy your time with your children!

[Anonymous]

All schools should be closed Monday and Tuesday. No late openings which just mess up everyone's schedule.

[Anonymous]

No plows yet in Chevy Chase above Jones Bridge!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't get why parents are put out by list learning days...schools build in extra snow days knowing we are going to miss some for snow. Schools in other locations just schedule fewer days. It evens out.

Actually, having lived a few years ago in a place where the streets were plowed regularly and with precision after even the heaviest snows, I can tell you that we had only two snow days in five years of school. The private schools there started the last week of August, and ended second week of June, so we actually had more school days. It is not like the rest of the country looks at the mid-Atlantic and sets their academic calendars to equal the number of school days minus snow days we have here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I sent home a 'snow packet' once--got about three back. Then realized, what the heck am I doing? When the children are in school they work really, really hard. For all I know, right now if they are not out playing they may be helping shovel or shivering in a house with power out or laying about in their pajamas giggling. This is time to spend with your family and ride the ride. Many children who attend independent schools have plenty of enrichment opportunities at home: stocked bookshelves, board games, electronic learning, charades by the fire. All of that helps development too. They really don't need some dusty worksheets from me. All the children are out so teachers will make adjustments when school is back in session and move forward. Enjoy your time with your children!

In the lower and middle schools, I agree with you, it really does not matter. When your child is in high school and they regularly miss enough school days over a few years to impact their learning of advanced math, accelerated chemistry, or ap physics, and thus their end-of-year performance on the ap exams, sat subject tests, or the actual sat or act, then you might not be quite so comfortable with it. Every year I hear parents lament about how just a few points more on this or that standardized exam, or a grade up in this or that class, might have made the difference between a top school and their student's safeties. When every little bit counts on a college application, then who are we to say that ten snow days of missed learning time with the private school teacher devoted to your student's chemistry or math or biology instruction might not have made a difference. And online learning and reading a textbook without the benefit of structured lectures and having questions answered as they come up in class, is not the same thing, otherwise we would all have our children enrolled in online learning. Oh well, we can always spend more money for a tutor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I sent home a 'snow packet' once--got about three back. Then realized, what the heck am I doing? When the children are in school they work really, really hard. For all I know, right now if they are not out playing they may be helping shovel or shivering in a house with power out or laying about in their pajamas giggling. This is time to spend with your family and ride the ride. Many children who attend independent schools have plenty of enrichment opportunities at home: stocked bookshelves, board games, electronic learning, charades by the fire. All of that helps development too. They really don't need some dusty worksheets from me. All the children are out so teachers will make adjustments when school is back in session and move forward. Enjoy your time with your children!

Thank you! ?

[Anonymous]

^^ question mark was supposed to be a smiley face.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well I'm delighted to say that St Pats sent an email to 4-8th grade students' families admitting they may well not be open on Monday but there was work for all kids on Haiku so they didn't lose any learning time. Kudos to schools that do that. Love it.

The school is the best
Giving useless work so we
are insufferable

Hahaha bravo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I sent home a 'snow packet' once--got about three back. Then realized, what the heck am I doing? When the children are in school they work really, really hard. For all I know, right now if they are not out playing they may be helping shovel or shivering in a house with power out or laying about in their pajamas giggling. This is time to spend with your family and ride the ride. Many children who attend independent schools have plenty of enrichment opportunities at home: stocked bookshelves, board games, electronic learning, charades by the fire. All of that helps development too. They really don't need some dusty worksheets from me. All the children are out so teachers will make adjustments when school is back in session and move forward. Enjoy your time with your children!

Thank you! ?

Thanks-love it!

[Anonymous]

Stone Ridge is officially closed on Monday. We haven't seen plows on our street yet so that's good! Our daughter has plenty of online resourcesm from SR if she wants to get some work done but right now she's shoveling and then hoping to sled.