Snow day

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If there are no snow days, teachers work 13 additional days with no extra pay. For those who don’t teach, you can at least attempt to empathize. Don’t blame teachers, blame governments that can’t figure out how to make an instructional calendar. We all know your local school board will never shorten the year if we use zero snow days.

That’s not true. We are contracted for 195 days. We have 195 days on our work calendar. The district builds in extra instructional hours, but no extra days.

+100, hours are built in, not days.

Don't be so pedantic. Those "hours" are served as "days." You're not given "X hours off school today", you're given a day.

They aren't the same calculation. The state rule is either 990 hours or 180 days. FCPS chose the 990 hours minimum. 990 hours at the current length of the day (minus lunch break) is roughly 167 days. That way they can miss several days and not need to make up any. But do you think those extra long days are helping kids get extra learning?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If there are no snow days, teachers work 13 additional days with no extra pay. For those who don’t teach, you can at least attempt to empathize. Don’t blame teachers, blame governments that can’t figure out how to make an instructional calendar. We all know your local school board will never shorten the year if we use zero snow days.

That’s not true. We are contracted for 195 days. We have 195 days on our work calendar. The district builds in extra instructional hours, but no extra days.

+100, hours are built in, not days.

Don't be so pedantic. Those "hours" are served as "days." You're not given "X hours off school today", you're given a day.

That's not being pedantic. There are no extra "days", only extra hours. It's not the same. A PP said teachers are working 13 days for free, which isn't the case. We work the number of days on the contract.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If there are no snow days, teachers work 13 additional days with no extra pay. For those who don’t teach, you can at least attempt to empathize. Don’t blame teachers, blame governments that can’t figure out how to make an instructional calendar. We all know your local school board will never shorten the year if we use zero snow days.

I need some explanation on this?

The PP is incorrect. We are contracted for 195 days. We have 195 days on our work calendar. The district builds in extra instructional hours, but no extra days. We aren’t working an extra 13 days.

If we have a snow day we are actually working one less day than contracted.

It's also because the school day is so stupidly long. A more reasonable school district would have better school day hours and a couple extra days in the schedule for snow days.

Nope. FCPS is handling it perfectly using the parameters set by the state of Virginia.

Superintendent Reid is that you getting a feel for what parents expect from you next week?

Nope. Just a longtime teacher who appreciates knowing what the calendar is and not having it extended at the end of the year or losing spring break because of some freak blizzard year. Moving to the 990 hours/13 built in snow days was a move that Garza made, and it was brilliant.

Garza LOVED her ice on a sidewalk in Herndon days off.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If there are no snow days, teachers work 13 additional days with no extra pay. For those who don’t teach, you can at least attempt to empathize. Don’t blame teachers, blame governments that can’t figure out how to make an instructional calendar. We all know your local school board will never shorten the year if we use zero snow days.

I need some explanation on this?

The PP is incorrect. We are contracted for 195 days. We have 195 days on our work calendar. The district builds in extra instructional hours, but no extra days. We aren’t working an extra 13 days.

If we have a snow day we are actually working one less day than contracted.

It's also because the school day is so stupidly long. A more reasonable school district would have better school day hours and a couple extra days in the schedule for snow days.

Nope. FCPS is handling it perfectly using the parameters set by the state of Virginia.

Superintendent Reid is that you getting a feel for what parents expect from you next week?

Haha

She always send emails out to staff first and in the email yesterday she said they will monitor the weather and make the safest decision for Monday and we can’t wait to get back to class!

I would rather this happen in February. I don’t know if anyone has looked ahead but there are only 4-5 days off before spring break and a few are teacher work days.

[Anonymous]

See everyone Wednesday if we are lucky they go back then. This looks like a real one. Been a while.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:If there are no snow days, teachers work 13 additional days with no extra pay. For those who don’t teach, you can at least attempt to empathize. Don’t blame teachers, blame governments that can’t figure out how to make an instructional calendar. We all know your local school board will never shorten the year if we use zero snow days.

That’s not true. We are contracted for 195 days. We have 195 days on our work calendar. The district builds in extra instructional hours, but no extra days.

+100, hours are built in, not days.

Don't be so pedantic. Those "hours" are served as "days." You're not given "X hours off school today", you're given a day.

That's not being pedantic. There are no extra "days", only extra hours. It's not the same. A PP said teachers are working 13 days for free, which isn't the case. We work the number of days on the contract.

It’s 6 of one, half dozen of the other. Remove your silly hours argument from the equation for a hot minute.

At the end of the DAY, teachers work between 182 to 195 days depending on how many snow days there are. No matter what the contract says, it’s impossible to not say that teachers work harder and longer for the same pay during years with no snow.

Therefore, again, have some empathy for teachers when they are excited. If you’re experiencing significant jealousy, I’d be happy to point you toward a great career switcher program.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If there are no snow days, teachers work 13 additional days with no extra pay. For those who don’t teach, you can at least attempt to empathize. Don’t blame teachers, blame governments that can’t figure out how to make an instructional calendar. We all know your local school board will never shorten the year if we use zero snow days.

That’s not true. We are contracted for 195 days. We have 195 days on our work calendar. The district builds in extra instructional hours, but no extra days.

+100, hours are built in, not days.

Don't be so pedantic. Those "hours" are served as "days." You're not given "X hours off school today", you're given a day.

That's not being pedantic. There are no extra "days", only extra hours. It's not the same. A PP said teachers are working 13 days for free, which isn't the case. We work the number of days on the contract.

It’s 6 of one, half dozen of the other. Remove your silly hours argument from the equation for a hot minute.

At the end of the DAY, teachers work between 182 to 195 days depending on how many snow days there are. No matter what the contract says, it’s impossible to not say that teachers work harder and longer for the same pay during years with no snow.

Therefore, again, have some empathy for teachers when they are excited. If you’re experiencing significant jealousy, I’d be happy to point you toward a great career switcher program.

I’m the PP you quoted. Notice in my post I said “we” in reference to teachers. I’m an ES teacher. We are a two teacher household.

Bring on the days off. 👍 The point is we aren’t working 13 days for free if we don’t use snow days as another post stated.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If there are no snow days, teachers work 13 additional days with no extra pay. For those who don’t teach, you can at least attempt to empathize. Don’t blame teachers, blame governments that can’t figure out how to make an instructional calendar. We all know your local school board will never shorten the year if we use zero snow days.

That’s not true. We are contracted for 195 days. We have 195 days on our work calendar. The district builds in extra instructional hours, but no extra days.

+100, hours are built in, not days.

Don't be so pedantic. Those "hours" are served as "days." You're not given "X hours off school today", you're given a day.

That's not being pedantic. There are no extra "days", only extra hours. It's not the same. A PP said teachers are working 13 days for free, which isn't the case. We work the number of days on the contract.

It’s 6 of one, half dozen of the other. Remove your silly hours argument from the equation for a hot minute.

At the end of the DAY, teachers work between 182 to 195 days depending on how many snow days there are. No matter what the contract says, it’s impossible to not say that teachers work harder and longer for the same pay during years with no snow.

Therefore, again, have some empathy for teachers when they are excited. If you’re experiencing significant jealousy, I’d be happy to point you toward a great career switcher program.

I’m the PP you quoted. Notice in my post I said “we” in reference to teachers. I’m an ES teacher. We are a two teacher household.

Bring on the days off. 👍 The point is we aren’t working 13 days for free if we don’t use snow days as another post stated.

You're so lazy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If there are no snow days, teachers work 13 additional days with no extra pay. For those who don’t teach, you can at least attempt to empathize. Don’t blame teachers, blame governments that can’t figure out how to make an instructional calendar. We all know your local school board will never shorten the year if we use zero snow days.

That’s not true. We are contracted for 195 days. We have 195 days on our work calendar. The district builds in extra instructional hours, but no extra days.

+100, hours are built in, not days.

Don't be so pedantic. Those "hours" are served as "days." You're not given "X hours off school today", you're given a day.

That's not being pedantic. There are no extra "days", only extra hours. It's not the same. A PP said teachers are working 13 days for free, which isn't the case. We work the number of days on the contract.

It’s 6 of one, half dozen of the other. Remove your silly hours argument from the equation for a hot minute.

At the end of the DAY, teachers work between 182 to 195 days depending on how many snow days there are. No matter what the contract says, it’s impossible to not say that teachers work harder and longer for the same pay during years with no snow.

Therefore, again, have some empathy for teachers when they are excited. If you’re experiencing significant jealousy, I’d be happy to point you toward a great career switcher program.

I’m the PP you quoted. Notice in my post I said “we” in reference to teachers. I’m an ES teacher. We are a two teacher household.

Bring on the days off. 👍 The point is we aren’t working 13 days for free if we don’t use snow days as another post stated.

On that we can all agree!

This teacher can’t to wait to be lazy AF on Monday and Tuesday.

And by lazy AF I mean I’ll be shoveling all my neighbors’ driveways, planning lessons for the week, and prepping some special snow-based science learning for my students. So lazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If there are no snow days, teachers work 13 additional days with no extra pay. For those who don’t teach, you can at least attempt to empathize. Don’t blame teachers, blame governments that can’t figure out how to make an instructional calendar. We all know your local school board will never shorten the year if we use zero snow days.

That’s not true. We are contracted for 195 days. We have 195 days on our work calendar. The district builds in extra instructional hours, but no extra days.

+100, hours are built in, not days.

Don't be so pedantic. Those "hours" are served as "days." You're not given "X hours off school today", you're given a day.

And that day equals hours (maybe 6 hours) that are subtracted from the total hours until we get to 990.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If there are no snow days, teachers work 13 additional days with no extra pay. For those who don’t teach, you can at least attempt to empathize. Don’t blame teachers, blame governments that can’t figure out how to make an instructional calendar. We all know your local school board will never shorten the year if we use zero snow days.

That’s not true. We are contracted for 195 days. We have 195 days on our work calendar. The district builds in extra instructional hours, but no extra days.

+100, hours are built in, not days.

Don't be so pedantic. Those "hours" are served as "days." You're not given "X hours off school today", you're given a day.

That's not being pedantic. There are no extra "days", only extra hours. It's not the same. A PP said teachers are working 13 days for free, which isn't the case. We work the number of days on the contract.

It’s 6 of one, half dozen of the other. Remove your silly hours argument from the equation for a hot minute.

At the end of the DAY, teachers work between 182 to 195 days depending on how many snow days there are. No matter what the contract says, it’s impossible to not say that teachers work harder and longer for the same pay during years with no snow.

Therefore, again, have some empathy for teachers when they are excited. If you’re experiencing significant jealousy, I’d be happy to point you toward a great career switcher program.

I’m the PP you quoted. Notice in my post I said “we” in reference to teachers. I’m an ES teacher. We are a two teacher household.

Bring on the days off. 👍 The point is we aren’t working 13 days for free if we don’t use snow days as another post stated.

You're so lazy!

DP, every single person on this forum would happily stay home and get paid versus going into work.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have 9-11 inches for Monday.

It doesn't matter what the forecast is wherever you live. It matters how much snow they get out in Clifton, Lorton, Great Falls, etc.

Are you characterizing this impending storm as inequitable? 😆

Yes, it’s clearly racist

[Anonymous]

What are people so upset about? I think it’s wonderful to have a snow day. Kids make memories and I’ve seen more kids play outside in the snow than the last 4 years.

[Anonymous]

My app shows 10 inches. I am predicting (praying) we get between 9-12 inches and at least 3 days off next week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are people so upset about? I think it’s wonderful to have a snow day. Kids make memories and I’ve seen more kids play outside in the snow than the last 4 years.

Not all are upset. Some of people here thinking its insensitive to cheers for additional break while some of them still have to go to work and find a care for their kids.