Melanie Meren's FB post about the calendar

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Anonymous wrote:I’d be happy enough with the 26-27 calendar as is, as long as the dumb 3 hour early releases are going the way of the dodo. My kids’ ES has given up on any instruction on those days. They use them for class test makeups if a kid was sick and then spend the rest of the time for all the other kids on “team building activities” and playing games. Meanwhile SOL’s are sneaking up on us … only March, April, and maybe a week of May left to go and we have to get through spring break in there …

My guess is, if they can get rid of the early release, Meren can declare victory. It’s an intensely unpopular policy.

Hopefully, they can draw some guidelines for commonsense reformed to the calendar going forward: TW/SD days only permitted on Monday or Friday, teacher training moved virtual and carried out to some extent during snow days, TW days layered on top of either federal or religious holidays, whichever makes more sense.

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Anonymous wrote:Great to hear from high school parents whose kids can 1) stay home alone 2) for free 3) can study on their own 4) have no early release nonsense - how they love this calendar and how they don't care.

HS parent here - this calendar is awful. We don't love it and more importantly my kids have complained about it.

We need to get in a learning groove and this fractured calendar has been disastrous for that.

So no, it isn't HS parents that love it. We HATE it. We also hate that there are so many school days in June when we know very little learning will be happening after tests.

But AGAIN. You are looking at the calendar with a TON of snow days. Why are you all so unable to do the calendar by itself and not see past how much the snow days impacted the last few weeks?
Without snow days, the calendar would have been fine. It is the snow days which have blown off the track. And so all of you having a temper tantrum about it will whine to get change but when there are no snow days, you will pull your kids out for long weekends to go skiing or whatever.

Go count the number of weeks with a day off and tell me it’s fine. We are surprised when they string together three 5 day weeks now.

Sure thing. In the months of Jan Feb ( you started complaining in Feb) there were supposed to be 5 weeks of 5 days of school. This was out of 8 weeks. There were 2 weeks that had federal holidays and one with the traditional end of semester days off.
It is the SNOW that has given us very few full weeks of school.

Mmm, a well run school system would recognize the issue with weather closures in Jan/Feb and attempt to maximize instructional time before those months.

But FCPS is not a well run school system.

Nah- you just think a well run school system would agree with you. You have no metric to judge whether a school system is “well run” except your own opinion of whether it serves you well. We have LOTS of snow days built in. In the Boston area there are no snow days, but my friend’s kids were out of school several times this year. They will now be in school until June 27th to make up the days. They also had a week off in February for “break.” I prefer the way FCPS does it.

… Who do you think a school system is supposed to serve if not the students and their families? A school system that doesn’t serve them well, isn’t well run.

No, that is a selfish view. A well run school system has to serve the majority kids well, not one individual parent and their individual scheduling needs. It isn’t instagram or facebook. It is a school system. Greater good and all.

Sure, and the greater number of parents are saying is the schedule doesn't serve them. Early release was imposed on a lie. That vastly eroded trust. Now there is accountability.

Again, you are aiming weird unproven statements like “the greater number of parents”. As listed in what survey. You don’t have any real data except more people are complaining to the board and more people are complaining NOW as the snow days are interfering with the regular calendar making it FEEL like the calendar is horrible.
The calendar has been the same for years. It was set early this year. AS far as early release is concerned, they should move back to Mondays being short days for elementary. It only affects elementary students and there are programs for those parents who are inflexible situations.

Like I said, Boston schools will be in school until June 26 or 27tth because of snow days and they had a week last week before their latest snow storm as a built in holiday.

This is a strange attempt at gaslighting. The board has been getting hammered on the calendar since September and before. Early release met intense opposition. Yes how Reid handles snowstorms doesn’t build confidence in her but, the disaster calendar complaints started long before the snow did.

You literally can’t have an opposing opinion without some Karen on here saying you’re “gaslighting” them. It’s honestly comical how often people throw that term out nowadays.

No one has any data. No one has taken a poll. There’s no survey being referenced. All Karen has is her social circle that she complains and gripes to. Misery loves company, so Karen’s friends agree and complain about it too. That doesn’t make Karen’s opinion the majority or the greater number of parents.

Karen also doesn’t know that the board is being “hammered” by complaints just because her and her miserable friends sat on their couches and sent a couple emails. I’d bet my salary that if you ask each school board member what the biggest complaint email they receive is on a regular basis is, the lack of 5 day weeks wouldn’t be in the top 5.

…and here comes “you’re gaslighting me” response in 3, 2, 1…

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Anonymous wrote:Great to hear from high school parents whose kids can 1) stay home alone 2) for free 3) can study on their own 4) have no early release nonsense - how they love this calendar and how they don't care.

HS parent here - this calendar is awful. We don't love it and more importantly my kids have complained about it.

We need to get in a learning groove and this fractured calendar has been disastrous for that.

So no, it isn't HS parents that love it. We HATE it. We also hate that there are so many school days in June when we know very little learning will be happening after tests.

But AGAIN. You are looking at the calendar with a TON of snow days. Why are you all so unable to do the calendar by itself and not see past how much the snow days impacted the last few weeks?
Without snow days, the calendar would have been fine. It is the snow days which have blown off the track. And so all of you having a temper tantrum about it will whine to get change but when there are no snow days, you will pull your kids out for long weekends to go skiing or whatever.

Go count the number of weeks with a day off and tell me it’s fine. We are surprised when they string together three 5 day weeks now.

Sure thing. In the months of Jan Feb ( you started complaining in Feb) there were supposed to be 5 weeks of 5 days of school. This was out of 8 weeks. There were 2 weeks that had federal holidays and one with the traditional end of semester days off.
It is the SNOW that has given us very few full weeks of school.

Mmm, a well run school system would recognize the issue with weather closures in Jan/Feb and attempt to maximize instructional time before those months.

But FCPS is not a well run school system.

Nah- you just think a well run school system would agree with you. You have no metric to judge whether a school system is “well run” except your own opinion of whether it serves you well. We have LOTS of snow days built in. In the Boston area there are no snow days, but my friend’s kids were out of school several times this year. They will now be in school until June 27th to make up the days. They also had a week off in February for “break.” I prefer the way FCPS does it.

… Who do you think a school system is supposed to serve if not the students and their families? A school system that doesn’t serve them well, isn’t well run.

No, that is a selfish view. A well run school system has to serve the majority kids well, not one individual parent and their individual scheduling needs. It isn’t instagram or facebook. It is a school system. Greater good and all.

Sure, and the greater number of parents are saying is the schedule doesn't serve them. Early release was imposed on a lie. That vastly eroded trust. Now there is accountability.

Again, you are aiming weird unproven statements like “the greater number of parents”. As listed in what survey. You don’t have any real data except more people are complaining to the board and more people are complaining NOW as the snow days are interfering with the regular calendar making it FEEL like the calendar is horrible.
The calendar has been the same for years. It was set early this year. AS far as early release is concerned, they should move back to Mondays being short days for elementary. It only affects elementary students and there are programs for those parents who are inflexible situations.

Like I said, Boston schools will be in school until June 26 or 27tth because of snow days and they had a week last week before their latest snow storm as a built in holiday.

This is a strange attempt at gaslighting. The board has been getting hammered on the calendar since September and before. Early release met intense opposition. Yes how Reid handles snowstorms doesn’t build confidence in her but, the disaster calendar complaints started long before the snow did.

You literally can’t have an opposing opinion without some Karen on here saying you’re “gaslighting” them. It’s honestly comical how often people throw that term out nowadays.

No one has any data. No one has taken a poll. There’s no survey being referenced. All Karen has is her social circle that she complains and gripes to. Misery loves company, so Karen’s friends agree and complain about it too. That doesn’t make Karen’s opinion the majority or the greater number of parents.

Karen also doesn’t know that the board is being “hammered” by complaints just because her and her miserable friends sat on their couches and sent a couple emails. I’d bet my salary that if you ask each school board member what the biggest complaint email they receive is on a regular basis is, the lack of 5 day weeks wouldn’t be in the top 5.

…and here comes “you’re gaslighting me” response in 3, 2, 1…

The board meeting from September was posted already. The board says they’re receiving more complaints and need to address it. You think the board member time traveled from February??

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Anonymous wrote:This was an interesting exchange on her FB thread.

Comment - (name removed) "The 26/27 school year is only 6 months away! If changes are going to be made (despite months and months of debating these calendars during school board meetings), please do them as soon as possible."

Reply from Melanie Meren, Fairfax County School Board, Hunter Mill
"Agreed. Please know I’ve been asking the Superintendent about this for months, since it’s an operational matter. However, without any action forthcoming, I’ve taken it up as Governance Chair (policy work) to bring forth the topic. I’m working in coordination with Members Ricardy Anderson (Mason District) and Mateo Dunne (Mt Vernon), and the Governance Committee will take this up on March 17."

Strange to out Dr. Reid like this and basically call her non-responsive. She and Meren must have a terrible relationship.

Also interesting that this will be discussed on March 17th. Makes me hopeful something could come of this.

Meren has made statements that she is on the outs with Reid and other Board members.

You say that as if it doesn't signal some renewed level of sanity.

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2019 was my child's first year in FCPS and it was, IMO, the BEST calendar year we've had in our time at FCPS.

https://teacherquality.nctq.org/dmsView/Fairfax_19-20-standard-school-year-calendar

There were a ton of 5 day weeks, there were NO early release days, and we ended in early June. Why can't we go back to this calendar?

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Anonymous wrote:My bottom line is simply to make the calendar available well in advance. I really appreciate that Dr. Reid provides a three-year calendar, I hate those days when it was February and we were still waiting for the new school year calendar. Please do NOT change the posted 26-27 calendar, just stop. Remember that no calendar will ever make everyone happy. We now have one for 26-27 and let us keep it. Go ahead and work on the 28-29 one if you must.

But 26–27 isn’t posted. Unless you’re saying that it’s been determined that early release is over.

26-27 is posted, google it and you will see it as the first link.

+1 yup, these people are idiots

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, love the non-5 day weeks. They are great. Summer is such a pain to plan, and we (and most of our friends) much prefer a day here and there, rather than additional weeks in the summer.

I agree! We love the 4 day weeks! It really helps with the sleep for middle and high schoolers.

Time to be a parent. The entire school system doesn't operate around the needs of your special child.

And it doesn’t operate around your need for a 5 day week. As long as the kids get in the required hours of instructional time I do not care. I prefer the 4 day weeks and so do a lot of parents and teachers. Your whining isn’t going to change that. Time to be a parent and deal with it.

Good to know you don't care about learning.

And no teacher likes the calendar.

Teacher here. I can assure you that the vast majority of us LOVE the current calendar. Makes it incredibly easy to take mini weekend vacations with our families without taking a ton of, if any, leave.

We hope for snow days, cherish the random holidays, and almost all of us can tell you how few "full weeks" we have until spring break and the end of the year.

Here's to hoping it snows on Monday, so we only have two full weeks before spring break!

+1, I love all the days off.

+2, we all do! You’d be hard pressed to find someone at my school who gets the snow day text and feels anything but happiness.

+3

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Anonymous wrote:I’d be happy enough with the 26-27 calendar as is, as long as the dumb 3 hour early releases are going the way of the dodo. My kids’ ES has given up on any instruction on those days. They use them for class test makeups if a kid was sick and then spend the rest of the time for all the other kids on “team building activities” and playing games. Meanwhile SOL’s are sneaking up on us … only March, April, and maybe a week of May left to go and we have to get through spring break in there …

My guess is, if they can get rid of the early release, Meren can declare victory. It’s an intensely unpopular policy.

Hopefully, they can draw some guidelines for commonsense reformed to the calendar going forward: TW/SD days only permitted on Monday or Friday, teacher training moved virtual and carried out to some extent during snow days, TW days layered on top of either federal or religious holidays, whichever makes more sense.

None of your ideas make sense and/or are feasible. Get real.

TW/PD on a Friday? Never going to happen. Fridays are not productive. No one ever schedules meetings for Friday afternoons. By then, teachers are exhausted.

Virtual teacher training on snow days. doesn’t make sense as teachers’ own children would be at home. A snow day means teachers are off period.

TW on a religious or federal holiday? I don’t think so.

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Anonymous wrote:Great to hear from high school parents whose kids can 1) stay home alone 2) for free 3) can study on their own 4) have no early release nonsense - how they love this calendar and how they don't care.

HS parent here - this calendar is awful. We don't love it and more importantly my kids have complained about it.

We need to get in a learning groove and this fractured calendar has been disastrous for that.

So no, it isn't HS parents that love it. We HATE it. We also hate that there are so many school days in June when we know very little learning will be happening after tests.

But AGAIN. You are looking at the calendar with a TON of snow days. Why are you all so unable to do the calendar by itself and not see past how much the snow days impacted the last few weeks?
Without snow days, the calendar would have been fine. It is the snow days which have blown off the track. And so all of you having a temper tantrum about it will whine to get change but when there are no snow days, you will pull your kids out for long weekends to go skiing or whatever.

Go count the number of weeks with a day off and tell me it’s fine. We are surprised when they string together three 5 day weeks now.

Sure thing. In the months of Jan Feb ( you started complaining in Feb) there were supposed to be 5 weeks of 5 days of school. This was out of 8 weeks. There were 2 weeks that had federal holidays and one with the traditional end of semester days off.
It is the SNOW that has given us very few full weeks of school.

Mmm, a well run school system would recognize the issue with weather closures in Jan/Feb and attempt to maximize instructional time before those months.

But FCPS is not a well run school system.

Nah- you just think a well run school system would agree with you. You have no metric to judge whether a school system is “well run” except your own opinion of whether it serves you well. We have LOTS of snow days built in. In the Boston area there are no snow days, but my friend’s kids were out of school several times this year. They will now be in school until June 27th to make up the days. They also had a week off in February for “break.” I prefer the way FCPS does it.

… Who do you think a school system is supposed to serve if not the students and their families? A school system that doesn’t serve them well, isn’t well run.

No, that is a selfish view. A well run school system has to serve the majority kids well, not one individual parent and their individual scheduling needs. It isn’t instagram or facebook. It is a school system. Greater good and all.

Sure, and the greater number of parents are saying is the schedule doesn't serve them. Early release was imposed on a lie. That vastly eroded trust. Now there is accountability.

Again, you are aiming weird unproven statements like “the greater number of parents”. As listed in what survey. You don’t have any real data except more people are complaining to the board and more people are complaining NOW as the snow days are interfering with the regular calendar making it FEEL like the calendar is horrible.
The calendar has been the same for years. It was set early this year. AS far as early release is concerned, they should move back to Mondays being short days for elementary. It only affects elementary students and there are programs for those parents who are inflexible situations.

Like I said, Boston schools will be in school until June 26 or 27tth because of snow days and they had a week last week before their latest snow storm as a built in holiday.

This is a strange attempt at gaslighting. The board has been getting hammered on the calendar since September and before. Early release met intense opposition. Yes how Reid handles snowstorms doesn’t build confidence in her but, the disaster calendar complaints started long before the snow did.

You literally can’t have an opposing opinion without some Karen on here saying you’re “gaslighting” them. It’s honestly comical how often people throw that term out nowadays.

No one has any data. No one has taken a poll. There’s no survey being referenced. All Karen has is her social circle that she complains and gripes to. Misery loves company, so Karen’s friends agree and complain about it too. That doesn’t make Karen’s opinion the majority or the greater number of parents.

Karen also doesn’t know that the board is being “hammered” by complaints just because her and her miserable friends sat on their couches and sent a couple emails. I’d bet my salary that if you ask each school board member what the biggest complaint email they receive is on a regular basis is, the lack of 5 day weeks wouldn’t be in the top 5.

…and here comes “you’re gaslighting me” response in 3, 2, 1…

+1,000

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Anonymous wrote:2019 was my child's first year in FCPS and it was, IMO, the BEST calendar year we've had in our time at FCPS.

https://teacherquality.nctq.org/dmsView/Fairfax_19-20-standard-school-year-calendar

There were a ton of 5 day weeks, there were NO early release days, and we ended in early June. Why can't we go back to this calendar?

That has to be a joke because 2019-2020 was the Covid shutdown year. Schools closed in March. You’re saying that was your child’s best year??

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Anonymous wrote:My bottom line is simply to make the calendar available well in advance. I really appreciate that Dr. Reid provides a three-year calendar, I hate those days when it was February and we were still waiting for the new school year calendar. Please do NOT change the posted 26-27 calendar, just stop. Remember that no calendar will ever make everyone happy. We now have one for 26-27 and let us keep it. Go ahead and work on the 28-29 one if you must.

But 26–27 isn’t posted. Unless you’re saying that it’s been determined that early release is over.

26-27 is posted, google it and you will see it as the first link.

+1 yup, these people are idiots

No, the point just went over your head. That calendar shows no elementary early release days, so unless early release has been ended, is not a complete calendar. Obviously changes are still quite possible.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d be happy enough with the 26-27 calendar as is, as long as the dumb 3 hour early releases are going the way of the dodo. My kids’ ES has given up on any instruction on those days. They use them for class test makeups if a kid was sick and then spend the rest of the time for all the other kids on “team building activities” and playing games. Meanwhile SOL’s are sneaking up on us … only March, April, and maybe a week of May left to go and we have to get through spring break in there …

My guess is, if they can get rid of the early release, Meren can declare victory. It’s an intensely unpopular policy.

Hopefully, they can draw some guidelines for commonsense reformed to the calendar going forward: TW/SD days only permitted on Monday or Friday, teacher training moved virtual and carried out to some extent during snow days, TW days layered on top of either federal or religious holidays, whichever makes more sense.

None of your ideas make sense and/or are feasible. Get real.

TW/PD on a Friday? Never going to happen. Fridays are not productive. No one ever schedules meetings for Friday afternoons. By then, teachers are exhausted.

Virtual teacher training on snow days. doesn’t make sense as teachers’ own children would be at home. A snow day means teachers are off period.

TW on a religious or federal holiday? I don’t think so.

Bad news, this already exists. It’s called indigenous peoples day, and it’s a federal holiday.

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Anonymous wrote:Great to hear from high school parents whose kids can 1) stay home alone 2) for free 3) can study on their own 4) have no early release nonsense - how they love this calendar and how they don't care.

HS parent here - this calendar is awful. We don't love it and more importantly my kids have complained about it.

We need to get in a learning groove and this fractured calendar has been disastrous for that.

So no, it isn't HS parents that love it. We HATE it. We also hate that there are so many school days in June when we know very little learning will be happening after tests.

But AGAIN. You are looking at the calendar with a TON of snow days. Why are you all so unable to do the calendar by itself and not see past how much the snow days impacted the last few weeks?
Without snow days, the calendar would have been fine. It is the snow days which have blown off the track. And so all of you having a temper tantrum about it will whine to get change but when there are no snow days, you will pull your kids out for long weekends to go skiing or whatever.

Go count the number of weeks with a day off and tell me it’s fine. We are surprised when they string together three 5 day weeks now.

Sure thing. In the months of Jan Feb ( you started complaining in Feb) there were supposed to be 5 weeks of 5 days of school. This was out of 8 weeks. There were 2 weeks that had federal holidays and one with the traditional end of semester days off.
It is the SNOW that has given us very few full weeks of school.

Mmm, a well run school system would recognize the issue with weather closures in Jan/Feb and attempt to maximize instructional time before those months.

But FCPS is not a well run school system.

Nah- you just think a well run school system would agree with you. You have no metric to judge whether a school system is “well run” except your own opinion of whether it serves you well. We have LOTS of snow days built in. In the Boston area there are no snow days, but my friend’s kids were out of school several times this year. They will now be in school until June 27th to make up the days. They also had a week off in February for “break.” I prefer the way FCPS does it.

… Who do you think a school system is supposed to serve if not the students and their families? A school system that doesn’t serve them well, isn’t well run.

No, that is a selfish view. A well run school system has to serve the majority kids well, not one individual parent and their individual scheduling needs. It isn’t instagram or facebook. It is a school system. Greater good and all.

Sure, and the greater number of parents are saying is the schedule doesn't serve them. Early release was imposed on a lie. That vastly eroded trust. Now there is accountability.

Again, you are aiming weird unproven statements like “the greater number of parents”. As listed in what survey. You don’t have any real data except more people are complaining to the board and more people are complaining NOW as the snow days are interfering with the regular calendar making it FEEL like the calendar is horrible.
The calendar has been the same for years. It was set early this year. AS far as early release is concerned, they should move back to Mondays being short days for elementary. It only affects elementary students and there are programs for those parents who are inflexible situations.

Like I said, Boston schools will be in school until June 26 or 27tth because of snow days and they had a week last week before their latest snow storm as a built in holiday.

This is a strange attempt at gaslighting. The board has been getting hammered on the calendar since September and before. Early release met intense opposition. Yes how Reid handles snowstorms doesn’t build confidence in her but, the disaster calendar complaints started long before the snow did.

You literally can’t have an opposing opinion without some Karen on here saying you’re “gaslighting” them. It’s honestly comical how often people throw that term out nowadays.

No one has any data. No one has taken a poll. There’s no survey being referenced. All Karen has is her social circle that she complains and gripes to. Misery loves company, so Karen’s friends agree and complain about it too. That doesn’t make Karen’s opinion the majority or the greater number of parents.

Karen also doesn’t know that the board is being “hammered” by complaints just because her and her miserable friends sat on their couches and sent a couple emails. I’d bet my salary that if you ask each school board member what the biggest complaint email they receive is on a regular basis is, the lack of 5 day weeks wouldn’t be in the top 5.

…and here comes “you’re gaslighting me” response in 3, 2, 1…

The board meeting from September was posted already. The board says they’re receiving more complaints and need to address it. You think the board member time traveled from February??

No Karen, I don’t think they time traveled.

They could’ve gotten 3 complaints in September and now with the snow days putting extra emphasis on the lack of full weeks, they’ve received “more”.

More is subjective, could be 1 more, could be thousands more. The key point is YOU do not know anymore than anyone else and acting as if you do is having the exact opposite effect you think it is when it comes to legitimizing your argument.

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Anonymous wrote:2019 was my child's first year in FCPS and it was, IMO, the BEST calendar year we've had in our time at FCPS.

https://teacherquality.nctq.org/dmsView/Fairfax_19-20-standard-school-year-calendar

There were a ton of 5 day weeks, there were NO early release days, and we ended in early June. Why can't we go back to this calendar?

That has to be a joke because 2019-2020 was the Covid shutdown year. Schools closed in March. You’re saying that was your child’s best year??

I’m sure a lot of kids would say the school year that ended in March was their best/favorite year lol

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Anonymous wrote:I’d be happy enough with the 26-27 calendar as is, as long as the dumb 3 hour early releases are going the way of the dodo. My kids’ ES has given up on any instruction on those days. They use them for class test makeups if a kid was sick and then spend the rest of the time for all the other kids on “team building activities” and playing games. Meanwhile SOL’s are sneaking up on us … only March, April, and maybe a week of May left to go and we have to get through spring break in there …

My guess is, if they can get rid of the early release, Meren can declare victory. It’s an intensely unpopular policy.

Hopefully, they can draw some guidelines for commonsense reformed to the calendar going forward: TW/SD days only permitted on Monday or Friday, teacher training moved virtual and carried out to some extent during snow days, TW days layered on top of either federal or religious holidays, whichever makes more sense.

None of your ideas make sense and/or are feasible. Get real.

TW/PD on a Friday? Never going to happen. Fridays are not productive. No one ever schedules meetings for Friday afternoons. By then, teachers are exhausted.

Virtual teacher training on snow days. doesn’t make sense as teachers’ own children would be at home. A snow day means teachers are off period.

TW on a religious or federal holiday? I don’t think so.

From the perspective of a normal professional adult who is also a parent, professional expectations in 2026 include working five day weeks (even Friday!) teleworking in inclement weather (even if children are home) and not having every religious or federal holiday as PTO. I believe our teachers are professional adults who can adapt to higher professional expectations to save taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.