Snow day

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Anonymous wrote: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!

If I were a betting person, I'd tell you that you will have plenty of time to readjust. I sure wouldn't do it tonight.

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Anonymous wrote: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!

I’m a principal. Let me help you:

There will be no school on Monday.

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Anonymous wrote:Empty nester here who’s obsessively monitoring the weather…and this thread!

I’m pulling for a Snow Week!

Let’s get cozy! Charge those devices! Gas up your cars! Do laundry!

My husband and I both work in health care and our kids just had 2 weeks off school. I truly don’t know what we will do if we get a week of snow days. You sound like the sort of person who is wistful about Covid lockdowns and how cozy it was

Best comment today!

I was working all during Covid in healthcare support thank you very much.

Must have been really difficult for you as an empty nester. (Or, maybe some high school aged kids still home). I had infant twins and a 4 year old when lockdown started and was (still am) working as a nurse. Nothing about lockdown was pleasant. Nothing about a week off of school right after a 2 week break will be pleasant. (These kids are now in K and 4th so they still need child care). And boomers wonder why younger working parents are stressed out.

I’ve never uttered these words or entertained this thought. Surely we can make the best of it. Sledding, ⛄️, hot chocolate, baking cookies. Something (not nothing).

That sounds like a cozy and amazing day. I’m scheduled to work in the ER and so is my husband, on Monday. I’m 7-7 and he is 12-12. So, we won’t be doing any of that, we will be begging friends and neighbors to take our kids.

Oh and I forgot, risking our lives driving to and from work too.

If only you’d know that would be the expectation when you chose your professions.

Oh wait…

If only you knew there would be snow days when you had kids.

Oh wait…

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Anonymous wrote: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!

Calling it two nights before is a little ridiculous. The night before is sufficient.

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Anonymous wrote: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!

Calling it two nights before is a little ridiculous. The night before is sufficient.

Fair! I'm new to the area so I was hoping we'd follow Culpepper's lead

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Anonymous wrote: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!

Calling it two nights before is a little ridiculous. The night before is sufficient.

Fair! I'm new to the area so I was hoping we'd follow Culpepper's lead

Fairfax doesn't follow anyone's lead; they follow ours. But in general, Fairfax does not call early, even when it might make sense.

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Anonymous wrote: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!

Calling it two nights before is a little ridiculous. The night before is sufficient.

Fair! I'm new to the area so I was hoping we'd follow Culpepper's lead

DP
Yesterday I saw they had already announced for Monday and Tuesday.

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Anonymous wrote: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!

Huh? Whatever plans you had for Monday just get shifted to the next day you’re back in school. This isn’t rocket science. Are you a first year teacher?

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Anonymous wrote: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!

Calling it two nights before is a little ridiculous. The night before is sufficient.

Fair! I'm new to the area so I was hoping we'd follow Culpepper's lead

Fairfax doesn't follow anyone's lead; they follow ours. But in general, Fairfax does not call early, even when it might make sense.

They’ve gotten better about calling it the night before, I will say. I remember the “olden days” when we had to get up early just to see if school was off and then we couldn’t go back to sleep of course. But these days they usually make the call by 9 pm the night before which is helpful.

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Anonymous wrote: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!

Huh? Whatever plans you had for Monday just get shifted to the next day you’re back in school. This isn’t rocket science. Are you a first year teacher?

If she teaches high school, this now means the quarter could potentially start on Tuesday B day, which means B could get ahead of A, which we rarely want. So then you have to decide does B get ahead or do you build in a “stall” day to keep A day leading with fresh content? But if we get enough snow, and we probably will, Tuesday will also be canceled in which case we start on a Wednesday A day…. So we’d be good to go with Monday’s original plan. Unless it’s a delay start which throws off how much A day can get done on a reduced schedule even though B day classes will surely be on the normal full block schedule by Thursday. So do they still end up ahead or do you throttle them to keep them where A day is?

It’s a little more nuanced than your post suggests. Not impossible but when the snow days start piling up and one of the block days gets way off track of the other, it does take some finagling to get everyone reasonably in the same place again. Stuff has to get cut or added to account for the disparity of days missed.

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9 inches for Fairfax!

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CWG says 5-8 inches, boom at 8-12 inches, and 6-10 inches is highly likely in some areas. NWS says 9 inches.

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Anonymous wrote: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!

Calling it two nights before is a little ridiculous. The night before is sufficient.

Fair! I'm new to the area so I was hoping we'd follow Culpepper's lead

Fairfax doesn't follow anyone's lead; they follow ours. But in general, Fairfax does not call early, even when it might make sense.

They’ve gotten better about calling it the night before, I will say. I remember the “olden days” when we had to get up early just to see if school was off and then we couldn’t go back to sleep of course. But these days they usually make the call by 9 pm the night before which is helpful.

Ha! The "olden days" was getting up early to painfully watch the list of school closures scroll by one at a time in alphabetical order on a fuzzy TV screen. It sucked if just missed your system and have to wait for it to come around again.

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Anonymous wrote: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!

Huh? Whatever plans you had for Monday just get shifted to the next day you’re back in school. This isn’t rocket science. Are you a first year teacher?

If she teaches high school, this now means the quarter could potentially start on Tuesday B day, which means B could get ahead of A, which we rarely want. So then you have to decide does B get ahead or do you build in a “stall” day to keep A day leading with fresh content? But if we get enough snow, and we probably will, Tuesday will also be canceled in which case we start on a Wednesday A day…. So we’d be good to go with Monday’s original plan. Unless it’s a delay start which throws off how much A day can get done on a reduced schedule even though B day classes will surely be on the normal full block schedule by Thursday. So do they still end up ahead or do you throttle them to keep them where A day is?

It’s a little more nuanced than your post suggests. Not impossible but when the snow days start piling up and one of the block days gets way off track of the other, it does take some finagling to get everyone reasonably in the same place again. Stuff has to get cut or added to account for the disparity of days missed.

DP but my classes are also semester-based so I need to make sure they take their final summative within the next week or so. Definitely stressful for me!

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Anonymous wrote:CWG says 5-8 inches, boom at 8-12 inches, and 6-10 inches is highly likely in some areas. NWS says 9 inches.

They just upped that to 6-10”.