Snow make-up days

[Anonymous]

FYI, see below snow-make-up plans. Seems pretty fair, but parents be aware that this Monday, March 1 is the last planned parent teacher conference day of the year.


CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS

March 19 will convert from a Professional Development day to a regular instruction day.
May 17, a parent-teacher conference day will now also be a regular instruction day.
June 18, a current half day will convert into a full regular instruction day.
We will use the designated make up days June 21 and June 22.
The last day of school for students and teachers is June 22.
Summer school begins Monday, June 28.
OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
DCPS explored a number of options including adding time to individual instructional days, converting Emancipation Day (April 16) into a regular instructional day and adding time over Spring Break, ultimately these scenarios were too costly.

[Anonymous]

Ugh. My kid's camp is scheduled to start on 6/22 and it is already paid for. The director and several teachers are all DCPS teachers.

[Anonymous]

I am sure that the camps will follow suit and delay start dates. Why would cutting emanciaption day or shortening spring break be any more expensive than two more days at the end of the year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ugh. My kid's camp is scheduled to start on 6/22 and it is already paid for. The director and several teachers are all DCPS teachers.

same here
the last week of school is playtime anyway

[Anonymous]

Announcement is out. Last day of school is June 22. They have removed the conference day and the 1/2 day on June 18th.

[Anonymous]

Typo, sorry, last day of school is June 25th. Summer begins on the 28th.

http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/About+DCPS/Press+Releases+and+Announcements/Press+Releases/DCPS+Releases+Snow+Make+Up+Calendar+for+the+2009-2010+School+Year

[Anonymous]

correction to the PP - last day of school, as per the link posted and the original copying of that exact same link, is June 22.

The two snow make up days have been on the calendar since the beginning. While DCPS has rarely closed (especially in the last few years) because of snow, it is sometimes forced to and therefore the calendar year always has make up days built in. Since school was closed, it should come as no surprise to anyone that those make up days will be used to, you know, make up days.

[Anonymous]

DCPS also has 182 school days, exceeding the required 180 days by 2 (and that is not counting 1/2 days). By taking away a PD day and a Parent Teacher Conference day, there really is no need to use the make-up days at the end of the school year. Maybe that is why some people are confused. I know I am.

[Anonymous]

I didn't count the days on the calendar, but this is what they say on the website about the 2009-2010 calendar:

The new calendar has 178 regular full instructional days plus four half-days to make 180 total student days as required by DC Municipal Regulations Title V, Chapter 3. It also includes Emancipation Day, recognized as a city holiday in 2010.

[Anonymous]

I just looked at the large scale 2009-2010 calendar on the website and it says 182 student days. I didn't take the time to count but seems like a discrepancy somewhere.

[Anonymous]

I think the 182 days is counting the "snow make up days" of 6/21 and 6/22 that are on the 2009-2010 calendar. So those are two days that were built in, and we still have to make up the other 2.5 missed.