How many days has school been closed this year due to snow days or elections?

[Anonymous]

Every one of them was appropriate

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Anonymous wrote:And to answer the questions. There are 180 days planned. The equivalent of 1080 hours (at 6 hours per day.) To meet 990 hours, they start with 90 extra hours.

- There are 4 planned early releases at the end of each quarter. A total of 8 hours. 82 hours remain.
- There are two special elections. A total of 12 hours. 70 hours remain.
- There were 4 snow days and one partial snow day (4 hours). A total of 28 hours. 42 hours remain.
- There were 6 delayed openings. A total of 12 hours. 30 hours remain.
- There is one 3 hour early release due to weather. 27 hours remain.

However, elementary schools have the additional 3 hour early releases.
- There are 8 early releases scheduled. A total of 24 hours. 3 hours remain for elementary schools.

That is why elementary parents are asking to cancel the April and May dates. What if there’s another freak thunder storm that requires a closure? Would we rather seek a waiver for less than 990 credit hours than try to get a few instructional hours back? April is getting a full planning day due to the election. It makes no sense to hold onto the April early release.

The school day is 7 hours, not 6.

I’m pretty sure they use 6. I don’t think lunch and recess count toward hours. If they used 7 hour days, we’d have 38 snow days available.

Pp here. Thank you for clarifying that. I did not know that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And to answer the questions. There are 180 days planned. The equivalent of 1080 hours (at 6 hours per day.) To meet 990 hours, they start with 90 extra hours.

- There are 4 planned early releases at the end of each quarter. A total of 8 hours. 82 hours remain.
- There are two special elections. A total of 12 hours. 70 hours remain.
- There were 4 snow days and one partial snow day (4 hours). A total of 28 hours. 42 hours remain.
- There were 6 delayed openings. A total of 12 hours. 30 hours remain.
- There is one 3 hour early release due to weather. 27 hours remain.

However, elementary schools have the additional 3 hour early releases.
- There are 8 early releases scheduled. A total of 24 hours. 3 hours remain for elementary schools.

That is why elementary parents are asking to cancel the April and May dates. What if there’s another freak thunder storm that requires a closure? Would we rather seek a waiver for less than 990 credit hours than try to get a few instructional hours back? April is getting a full planning day due to the election. It makes no sense to hold onto the April early release.

The school day is 7 hours, not 6.

I’m pretty sure they use 6. I don’t think lunch and recess count toward hours. If they used 7 hour days, we’d have 38 snow days available.

It’s 6 hours from bell to bell. Recess counts. I’m not sure about lunch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And to answer the questions. There are 180 days planned. The equivalent of 1080 hours (at 6 hours per day.) To meet 990 hours, they start with 90 extra hours.

- There are 4 planned early releases at the end of each quarter. A total of 8 hours. 82 hours remain.
- There are two special elections. A total of 12 hours. 70 hours remain.
- There were 4 snow days and one partial snow day (4 hours). A total of 28 hours. 42 hours remain.
- There were 6 delayed openings. A total of 12 hours. 30 hours remain.
- There is one 3 hour early release due to weather. 27 hours remain.

However, elementary schools have the additional 3 hour early releases.
- There are 8 early releases scheduled. A total of 24 hours. 3 hours remain for elementary schools.

That is why elementary parents are asking to cancel the April and May dates. What if there’s another freak thunder storm that requires a closure? Would we rather seek a waiver for less than 990 credit hours than try to get a few instructional hours back? April is getting a full planning day due to the election. It makes no sense to hold onto the April early release.

The school day is 7 hours, not 6.

I’m pretty sure they use 6. I don’t think lunch and recess count toward hours. If they used 7 hour days, we’d have 38 snow days available.

It’s 6 hours from bell to bell. Recess counts. I’m not sure about lunch.

Sorry. PP here. I meant 6 hours and 45 minutes from bell to bell.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How many unscheduled days off have we had?

I think you have to include delayed start as they had a massive impact as well. Especially since half of those 5.5 remaining hours is lunch and recess so when are they learning?

Please stop. We did not have recess on those delay-opening days. If you recall, it was about 18 degrees and the playgrounds were covered in snowcrete.

They had indoor recess. We want INSTRUCTIONAL TIME.

Which ES is having recess on delayed opening days? Ours, and a few others I know of, never have it on late start and early release days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And to answer the questions. There are 180 days planned. The equivalent of 1080 hours (at 6 hours per day.) To meet 990 hours, they start with 90 extra hours.

- There are 4 planned early releases at the end of each quarter. A total of 8 hours. 82 hours remain.
- There are two special elections. A total of 12 hours. 70 hours remain.
- There were 4 snow days and one partial snow day (4 hours). A total of 28 hours. 42 hours remain.
- There were 6 delayed openings. A total of 12 hours. 30 hours remain.
- There is one 3 hour early release due to weather. 27 hours remain.

However, elementary schools have the additional 3 hour early releases.
- There are 8 early releases scheduled. A total of 24 hours. 3 hours remain for elementary schools.

That is why elementary parents are asking to cancel the April and May dates. What if there’s another freak thunder storm that requires a closure? Would we rather seek a waiver for less than 990 credit hours than try to get a few instructional hours back? April is getting a full planning day due to the election. It makes no sense to hold onto the April early release.

The school day is 7 hours, not 6.

I’m pretty sure they use 6. I don’t think lunch and recess count toward hours. If they used 7 hour days, we’d have 38 snow days available.

It’s 6 hours from bell to bell. Recess counts. I’m not sure about lunch.

Sorry. PP here. I meant 6 hours and 45 minutes from bell to bell.

I’ve heard anywhere from 10-13 snow days built in to the calendar. That means a maximum of 6 hour per day are counted. If Reid popped in and announced that we actually have TWENTY extra days built into the calendar, the calls for calendar reform would be even more fierce. Like why would you even schedule 180 days in the first place?

[Anonymous]

when parents control keeping their kids in school and not checking them out at all hours of the school day, the days we have lost to inclement weather or religious holidays are still less than those skip+unexcused absences+cuts+cou+sick days kids get away with and still pass the school year: that is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And to answer the questions. There are 180 days planned. The equivalent of 1080 hours (at 6 hours per day.) To meet 990 hours, they start with 90 extra hours.

- There are 4 planned early releases at the end of each quarter. A total of 8 hours. 82 hours remain.
- There are two special elections. A total of 12 hours. 70 hours remain.
- There were 4 snow days and one partial snow day (4 hours). A total of 28 hours. 42 hours remain.
- There were 6 delayed openings. A total of 12 hours. 30 hours remain.
- There is one 3 hour early release due to weather. 27 hours remain.

However, elementary schools have the additional 3 hour early releases.
- There are 8 early releases scheduled. A total of 24 hours. 3 hours remain for elementary schools.

That is why elementary parents are asking to cancel the April and May dates. What if there’s another freak thunder storm that requires a closure? Would we rather seek a waiver for less than 990 credit hours than try to get a few instructional hours back? April is getting a full planning day due to the election. It makes no sense to hold onto the April early release.

They started on August 18, don't end till June 17 and elementary schools ONLY have 3 cushion hours left? That must be some masterful planning FCPS! Get rid of both early releases in April and May and open on April 10 with the school planning moved to April 21!

[Anonymous]

Everyone acting like these teacher workdays are where they are for an actual reason relating to the teachers' needs. Nah. Any workdays not tied to the end of the quarter or beginning/end of the school year are specifically being used for giving a cultural, religious, or federal day off without calling it that. Stop blaming teacher workdays for the calendar. We know they don't belong randomly in the middle of the week in the middle of the quarter. We don't need them then either. They're just a cover for the school board's desire to give everybody everything.

TW 9/9 - Special election
TW 10/13 - Indigenous People Day
TW 2/17 - Lunar New Year
SP 4/6 - Easter Monday (although this coincides with the end of the quarter so SHOULD be a TW, not an SP and the one that follows on Friday that week should have been right after it on Tuesday)
TW 4/10 - Orthodox Good Friday
TW/PD 4/21 - Special election
TW 5/26 - sandwiched between Memorial Day and Eid al-Adha so we wouldn't come back for one day and then be off again for another religious holiday.

And actually, there's only supposed to be 15 additional teacher work days and they've got 16 scheduled AND just added another one. So now we're up to 17. So, that's annoying too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone acting like these teacher workdays are where they are for an actual reason relating to the teachers' needs. Nah. Any workdays not tied to the end of the quarter or beginning/end of the school year are specifically being used for giving a cultural, religious, or federal day off without calling it that. Stop blaming teacher workdays for the calendar. We know they don't belong randomly in the middle of the week in the middle of the quarter. We don't need them then either. They're just a cover for the school board's desire to give everybody everything.

TW 9/9 - Special election
TW 10/13 - Indigenous People Day
TW 2/17 - Lunar New Year
SP 4/6 - Easter Monday (although this coincides with the end of the quarter so SHOULD be a TW, not an SP and the one that follows on Friday that week should have been right after it on Tuesday)
TW 4/10 - Orthodox Good Friday
TW/PD 4/21 - Special election
TW 5/26 - sandwiched between Memorial Day and Eid al-Adha so we wouldn't come back for one day and then be off again for another religious holiday.

And actually, there's only supposed to be 15 additional teacher work days and they've got 16 scheduled AND just added another one. So now we're up to 17. So, that's annoying too.

I agree with you on most of that, but where we really need a TW, at least at the ES level, is when grades are due for the fourth quarter. That would be 1.5-2 weeks before the last day of school. It makes no sense to me why there is never one set aside for 4th quarter grading, especially when the marks are doubled with the final grades.