Will DCPS ignore snow days again in June?

[Anonymous]

The best solution for the snow day problem (and many others) is to get rid of most of the f***ing useless PD days that everyone hates.

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Anonymous wrote:I went back to look at how this went down last year, and it seems like they found some technical way to claim that they fulfilled the 180 day requirement despite two snow days. But there was never a formal announcement explaining the decision; the only thing i can find is a Twitter post in late April reiterating that the last day of school was still June 17.

I assume something similar will happen this year, assuming no additional snow days. Otherwise, presumably the last day of school will move to Friday, 6/20, with the teacher records day moving to Monday, 6/23.

Our charter school had “asynchronous learning” days during spring break last year. This year they proactively added them in November. The kids did worksheets. No one learned anything.

It didn’t bother me because our kids are in lower elementary, and I wouldn’t have sent them for days added at the end of the year anyway because we scheduled summer travel for the day after the last day of school. But as they get older loss of instructional time is going to be a bigger issue.

Charters are really abusing the rules, much more than DCPS. Some of them are not even in the ballpark of 180 days.

At least DCPS tallies up the 180 days on the calendar: https://dcps.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcps/publication/attachments/SY%2024-25%20Calendar%20Final_03202024_English.pdf

Which charters are egregiously shirking on the 180 day requirement? Can anyone link to calendar examples?

No one can point to the examples because they don't exist. In this entire thread, despite numerous posts that there are schools skirting the 180 days requirement, not one actual school doing so is named nor is there a single calendar link provided showing a school with less than 180 days. I love this forum - one random anonymous person claims wrongdoing without pointing to any evidence, then a bunch of people pile on to the mistruth.

Er, well, there's multiple charter schools that have professional development days every week. It's not possible to have 180 days if you take weekly PD days on top of snow cancellations unless you're going to school well into the summer, and they aren't.

Name a school and let see their calendar. Continuing to say that it's happening but then unable or unwilling to name a single school -- just seems like a very made up, false claim.

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Anonymous wrote:I went back to look at how this went down last year, and it seems like they found some technical way to claim that they fulfilled the 180 day requirement despite two snow days. But there was never a formal announcement explaining the decision; the only thing i can find is a Twitter post in late April reiterating that the last day of school was still June 17.

I assume something similar will happen this year, assuming no additional snow days. Otherwise, presumably the last day of school will move to Friday, 6/20, with the teacher records day moving to Monday, 6/23.

Our charter school had “asynchronous learning” days during spring break last year. This year they proactively added them in November. The kids did worksheets. No one learned anything.

It didn’t bother me because our kids are in lower elementary, and I wouldn’t have sent them for days added at the end of the year anyway because we scheduled summer travel for the day after the last day of school. But as they get older loss of instructional time is going to be a bigger issue.

Charters are really abusing the rules, much more than DCPS. Some of them are not even in the ballpark of 180 days.

At least DCPS tallies up the 180 days on the calendar: https://dcps.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcps/publication/attachments/SY%2024-25%20Calendar%20Final_03202024_English.pdf

Which charters are egregiously shirking on the 180 day requirement? Can anyone link to calendar examples?

No one can point to the examples because they don't exist. In this entire thread, despite numerous posts that there are schools skirting the 180 days requirement, not one actual school doing so is named nor is there a single calendar link provided showing a school with less than 180 days. I love this forum - one random anonymous person claims wrongdoing without pointing to any evidence, then a bunch of people pile on to the mistruth.

Er, well, there's multiple charter schools that have professional development days every week. It's not possible to have 180 days if you take weekly PD days on top of snow cancellations unless you're going to school well into the summer, and they aren't.

Name a school and let see their calendar. Continuing to say that it's happening but then unable or unwilling to name a single school -- just seems like a very made up, false claim.

Haynes has early dismissal on Wednesdays. But it's just a couple of hours. I don't think anyone takes the whole day off.

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Anonymous wrote:I went back to look at how this went down last year, and it seems like they found some technical way to claim that they fulfilled the 180 day requirement despite two snow days. But there was never a formal announcement explaining the decision; the only thing i can find is a Twitter post in late April reiterating that the last day of school was still June 17.

I assume something similar will happen this year, assuming no additional snow days. Otherwise, presumably the last day of school will move to Friday, 6/20, with the teacher records day moving to Monday, 6/23.

Our charter school had “asynchronous learning” days during spring break last year. This year they proactively added them in November. The kids did worksheets. No one learned anything.

It didn’t bother me because our kids are in lower elementary, and I wouldn’t have sent them for days added at the end of the year anyway because we scheduled summer travel for the day after the last day of school. But as they get older loss of instructional time is going to be a bigger issue.

Charters are really abusing the rules, much more than DCPS. Some of them are not even in the ballpark of 180 days.

At least DCPS tallies up the 180 days on the calendar: https://dcps.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcps/publication/attachments/SY%2024-25%20Calendar%20Final_03202024_English.pdf

Which charters are egregiously shirking on the 180 day requirement? Can anyone link to calendar examples?

No one can point to the examples because they don't exist. In this entire thread, despite numerous posts that there are schools skirting the 180 days requirement, not one actual school doing so is named nor is there a single calendar link provided showing a school with less than 180 days. I love this forum - one random anonymous person claims wrongdoing without pointing to any evidence, then a bunch of people pile on to the mistruth.

Er, well, there's multiple charter schools that have professional development days every week. It's not possible to have 180 days if you take weekly PD days on top of snow cancellations unless you're going to school well into the summer, and they aren't.

Name a school and let see their calendar. Continuing to say that it's happening but then unable or unwilling to name a single school -- just seems like a very made up, false claim.

They're thinking of schools that have half days for PD every Wednesday. There are lots of them. However, under the OSSE regulations, those still count as days.

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Anonymous wrote:I went back to look at how this went down last year, and it seems like they found some technical way to claim that they fulfilled the 180 day requirement despite two snow days. But there was never a formal announcement explaining the decision; the only thing i can find is a Twitter post in late April reiterating that the last day of school was still June 17.

I assume something similar will happen this year, assuming no additional snow days. Otherwise, presumably the last day of school will move to Friday, 6/20, with the teacher records day moving to Monday, 6/23.

Our charter school had “asynchronous learning” days during spring break last year. This year they proactively added them in November. The kids did worksheets. No one learned anything.

It didn’t bother me because our kids are in lower elementary, and I wouldn’t have sent them for days added at the end of the year anyway because we scheduled summer travel for the day after the last day of school. But as they get older loss of instructional time is going to be a bigger issue.

Charters are really abusing the rules, much more than DCPS. Some of them are not even in the ballpark of 180 days.

At least DCPS tallies up the 180 days on the calendar: https://dcps.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcps/publication/attachments/SY%2024-25%20Calendar%20Final_03202024_English.pdf

Which charters are egregiously shirking on the 180 day requirement? Can anyone link to calendar examples?

No one can point to the examples because they don't exist. In this entire thread, despite numerous posts that there are schools skirting the 180 days requirement, not one actual school doing so is named nor is there a single calendar link provided showing a school with less than 180 days. I love this forum - one random anonymous person claims wrongdoing without pointing to any evidence, then a bunch of people pile on to the mistruth.

Er, well, there's multiple charter schools that have professional development days every week. It's not possible to have 180 days if you take weekly PD days on top of snow cancellations unless you're going to school well into the summer, and they aren't.

Name a school and let see their calendar. Continuing to say that it's happening but then unable or unwilling to name a single school -- just seems like a very made up, false claim.

They're thinking of schools that have half days for PD every Wednesday. There are lots of them. However, under the OSSE regulations, those still count as days.

If you're taking a half day off every single week of the year, then by definition you're not providing 180 days of instruction, except under the funny accounting allowed by OSSE.

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Anonymous wrote:I went back to look at how this went down last year, and it seems like they found some technical way to claim that they fulfilled the 180 day requirement despite two snow days. But there was never a formal announcement explaining the decision; the only thing i can find is a Twitter post in late April reiterating that the last day of school was still June 17.

I assume something similar will happen this year, assuming no additional snow days. Otherwise, presumably the last day of school will move to Friday, 6/20, with the teacher records day moving to Monday, 6/23.

Our charter school had “asynchronous learning” days during spring break last year. This year they proactively added them in November. The kids did worksheets. No one learned anything.

It didn’t bother me because our kids are in lower elementary, and I wouldn’t have sent them for days added at the end of the year anyway because we scheduled summer travel for the day after the last day of school. But as they get older loss of instructional time is going to be a bigger issue.

Charters are really abusing the rules, much more than DCPS. Some of them are not even in the ballpark of 180 days.

At least DCPS tallies up the 180 days on the calendar: https://dcps.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcps/publication/attachments/SY%2024-25%20Calendar%20Final_03202024_English.pdf

Which charters are egregiously shirking on the 180 day requirement? Can anyone link to calendar examples?

No one can point to the examples because they don't exist. In this entire thread, despite numerous posts that there are schools skirting the 180 days requirement, not one actual school doing so is named nor is there a single calendar link provided showing a school with less than 180 days. I love this forum - one random anonymous person claims wrongdoing without pointing to any evidence, then a bunch of people pile on to the mistruth.

Er, well, there's multiple charter schools that have professional development days every week. It's not possible to have 180 days if you take weekly PD days on top of snow cancellations unless you're going to school well into the summer, and they aren't.

Name a school and let see their calendar. Continuing to say that it's happening but then unable or unwilling to name a single school -- just seems like a very made up, false claim.

They're thinking of schools that have half days for PD every Wednesday. There are lots of them. However, under the OSSE regulations, those still count as days.

If you're taking a half day off every single week of the year, then by definition you're not providing 180 days of instruction, except under the funny accounting allowed by OSSE.

They count the hours too. It's a requirement of 180 days and/or 1080 hours.