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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

What school?

[Anonymous]

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

Acutally it is "Oops teacher not giving thanks" thread. - want to see some ridiculousness

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel this way when Feds get an extra day of vacation for no good reason, for example dec 26. Feds get so much vacation time already, can't u just use leave like the rest if us? How much does THAT cost tax payers?

Oh please. That is so not true. The vacation time I earn as a Fed is 1/2 of what my colleagues get in private industry. If you think its's so great you go work for the gov't. There are some of us who do it for reasons people like you can't fathom as we would make much more in industry. As a former teacher I can also second what a pp said about the work that goes into being out of the classroom for a day. Seriously, are we that petty that we are upset someone might have gotten an extra day off and we didn't? Sad...