Probably gonna have a snow day on Monday - 8 to 10 inches forecast. |
I don’t mind actual snow days. But I’d rather have fewer built into the calendar and then get out earlier. We get out SO late, and it’s unnecessary. |
It’s a late end to the school year because of all of the religious holidays. |
PP. I love snow days. I miss the school calendars under Murphy. |
Good. Let kids have snow days. |
It's because we start so late. Move that up a week and we could get out earlier. I like the religious holidays. |
So late? We used to start after Labor Day & still get out earlier (or at least not later). |
maybe for the whole week! |
APS still starts very late compared to most other school districts. Do the comparisons. Google is your friend. |
Plus the minor federal holidays and teacher work days/early releases. We should really choose between MLK day, Veteran's day, Diwali, Presidents Day, Columbus Day, Easter Monday, Eid, and the various teacher work days, etc. We don't need all of them. |
Given the temps this is my guess (still plenty of snow days left even if we do though 😁). |
The holidays are there for equity, not everyone is a white Christian (like you I'm guessing). We could start a week earlier like Fairfax does. Problem solved! |
There are other ways to be equitable. For instance, APS added two days this year for virtual learning for teachers. There are no teachers who celebrate all of the religious holidays. There's no reason a teacher couldn't be asked to choose two of the religious holidays to do their learning, as they'd still be able to observe their own religious holidays. As for holidays like MLK or Veterans day, it's totally possible to do an educational program to observe the holiday as part of the school day. |
+1 All material needs to be taught and reviewed prior to the SOL tests that all school systems are currently beholden to. All subject area assessments like reading testing take place prior to that, too.Until the data-driven model we currently use changes, there’s no persuasive reason to keep going once the SOL window closes. |
Easter is on a Sunday. No reason to have Monday off. Drop Diwali and Eid, too. |