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!

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!

Wait, so you’re suggesting it’s not as black and white as DCUM keyboard warriors believe?

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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…

Of course we did. Im not blaming the snow. I’m pointing out why it’s tone deaf to gloat about national weather emergencies giving you a couple days off work and school. Weather emergencies that cause crises for others and , in fact, kill others. But you’re all like, “I can’t wait to not work for a few more days after not working for 2 weeks this is amazing and you are a total buzzkill if you don’t agree!!!!” Like have some self awareness. Would it be appropriate to crow happily about days off work for hurricanes as your neighbors house floods? Or about getting to stay home for weeks and make sourdough and not work as people were dying from covid? This is the same thing, on a smaller scale. I’m fine with driving into work on Monday. We will make it work. But you are tone deaf to brag about how amazing a snowstorm will be for you, in your WFH bubble in your house with heat and your very non essential job

Your tantrum is noted.

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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”.

The latest runs of both EURO and GFS are higher, more like 12”.

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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.

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!

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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”.

The latest runs of both EURO and GFS are higher, more like 12”.

Yep. I saw that.

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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…

Did you think this was clever? You’re responding to me. I’m perfectly happy with the snow day(s), and never indicated otherwise. It’s the “WAAHHH STOP BEING HAPPY I HAVE TO GO TO WORRRRRKKKK” people who are being ridiculous.

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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!

DP
My DW teaches secondary math classes. She suggests taking off the material you didn’t get to for the final summative. Could you do that?

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

Where are you seeing this? I can't find anything on the public website or the Hub, nor has there been any emails from Reid.

My DD texted me from a friends house telling me the same thing -- they heard Mon/Tues are snow days.

I'm certain tomorrow will be a snow day but if Tuesday as well, woooo! ; )

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

Where are you seeing this? I can't find anything on the public website or the Hub, nor has there been any emails from Reid.

My DD texted me from a friends house telling me the same thing -- they heard Mon/Tues are snow days.

I'm certain tomorrow will be a snow day but if Tuesday as well, woooo! ; )

Not announced yet, but WTOP is a great place to see who has announced and who hasn't: https://wtop.com/closings-and-delays/

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

Where are you seeing this? I can't find anything on the public website or the Hub, nor has there been any emails from Reid.

My DD texted me from a friends house telling me the same thing -- they heard Mon/Tues are snow days.

I'm certain tomorrow will be a snow day but if Tuesday as well, woooo! ; )

NOTHING has been announced by FCPS for any day of this week.
Who has posted? Culpeper County.
https://www.culpeperschools.org/

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

Where are you seeing this? I can't find anything on the public website or the Hub, nor has there been any emails from Reid.

My DD texted me from a friends house telling me the same thing -- they heard Mon/Tues are snow days.

I'm certain tomorrow will be a snow day but if Tuesday as well, woooo! ; )

NOTHING has been announced by FCPS for any day of this week.
Who has posted? Culpeper County.
https://www.culpeperschools.org/

That's what I thought. It's almost guaranteed but nothing in stone until the email goes out!

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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.

I’m empty nester, former SAHM with a marketing degree from a party school.

THERE WILL BE NO SCHOOL ON MONDAY.

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I am really expecting no school next week at all! I really need the kids to go back to school they are driving me crazy

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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!

Wait, so you’re suggesting it’s not as black and white as DCUM keyboard warriors believe?

Indeed, although they believe teaching is a job that a monkey could just rock up and do, there is some degree of thinking that has to go into it.

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Anonymous wrote:I am really expecting no school next week at all! I really need the kids to go back to school they are driving me crazy

At all? Nah they’ll be back in by Thursday for sure with Wednesday a 50/50. But Monday and Tuesday are a lock.