Snow day

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

Same! I'll take every snow day they offer.

[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.

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.

There are 13 extra "days" worth of hours included in the calendar because FCPS extended the school day beyond the state requirements to include enough time for 13 snow days. So while not working/having 13 extra individual "days" of school, there is a lot of extra time included in the calendar, and as a result, in teacher contracts.

[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.

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.

There are 13 extra "days" worth of hours included in the calendar because FCPS extended the school day beyond the state requirements to include enough time for 13 snow days. So while not working/having 13 extra individual "days" of school, there is a lot of extra time included in the calendar, and as a result, in teacher contracts.

My "contracted day" 30 years ago was 7.5 hours. It's still 7.5 hours. That hasn't changed.

Student arrival, dismissal and hours were added to count as student hours, but that didn't affect the teacher contract.

It's still disingenuous to claim we are working 13 days for free if we don't use 13 inclement weather days.

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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.

There are 13 extra "days" worth of hours included in the calendar because FCPS extended the school day beyond the state requirements to include enough time for 13 snow days. So while not working/having 13 extra individual "days" of school, there is a lot of extra time included in the calendar, and as a result, in teacher contracts.

My "contracted day" 30 years ago was 7.5 hours. It's still 7.5 hours. That hasn't changed.

Student arrival, dismissal and hours were added to count as student hours, but that didn't affect the teacher contract.

It's still disingenuous to claim we are working 13 days for free if we don't use 13 inclement weather days.

+1, a decade or so ago there may have been some snow days included in the calendar, but that's not been the case for quite a while.

[Anonymous]

AccuWeather now says 6-10 inches.

[Anonymous]

NWS has upgraded us to a Winter Storm Warning

[Anonymous]

23 pages and the storm is still over 24 hours away.

[Anonymous]

When will fcps announce that there’s no school on Monday? We all know it’s going to be closed. Lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When will fcps announce that there’s no school on Monday? We all know it’s going to be closed. Lol.

Bets? I call 9 p.m. on Sunday

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When will fcps announce that there’s no school on Monday? We all know it’s going to be closed. Lol.

I’m going with 5pm.

[Anonymous]

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

Same! I'll take every snow day they offer.

TWC seems to be going in the wrong direction (contrary to everything else). I see 1-3” now during the day Monday and less than an additional inch Monday night.

[Anonymous]

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

Same! I'll take every snow day they offer.

TWC seems to be going in the wrong direction (contrary to everything else). I see 1-3” now during the day Monday and less than an additional inch Monday night.

I think you’re missing the additional 3-5 inches predicted Sunday night. They also have a winter storm alert posted which predicts 5-9 inches and 10-12 inches localized areas.

[Anonymous]

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

Same! I'll take every snow day they offer.

TWC seems to be going in the wrong direction (contrary to everything else). I see 1-3” now during the day Monday and less than an additional inch Monday night.

I think you’re missing the additional 3-5 inches predicted Sunday night. They also have a winter storm alert posted which predicts 5-9 inches and 10-12 inches localized areas.

Ah! I was missing the 3-5” Sunday night.

[Anonymous]

Call will be made between 11AM and 2PM on Sunday the 5th.

[Anonymous]

As a teacher I'd wish they'd announce it now so I can know for sure and plan accordingly. It's underrated how much time it can take to readjust lesson plans/pacing!