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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCPS has over 180,000 students.

The school system has more buses than Greyhound.

A couple days every year is not really a big deal in the grand scheme of things.

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This is true when you have a major snowstorm or event that really would bring even the most durable folks to their knees like the year of Snowmageddon.   This hasn't been that.  This has been a year of interruptions -- this past one for a week when you didn't know from one minute to the next what was going to happen when the snow event fizzled and kids used high temperatures to snowboard outside in hoodies.  There is no excuse for this kind of arbitrariness.

And I realize I am in the minority in high achieving FCPS, but [b]these kind of weeks are murder for my kid, an honors high schooler who really gets off track when there is no school and his teachers check out as well.  Getting him back in the groove after all the time off, let alone to stay in the groove during the downtime is murder.  I realize I'm alone in this, as most kids are getting homework from their teachers and staying in close touch with them via email, not to mention doing their sports teams workouts on their own, coming up with extra service work and cooking for their families, but it is what it is.  [[/b]/quote]

Why aren't your honors high schooler's teachers assigning work on Blackboard or Google Classroom over these snow days? Why do they"check out" when you know other kids' teachers DO give homework and stay in touch on these days? Don't put up with it -- you and other parents of kids in these classes need to push for these teachers to act like the other teachers you mention here and give your kids assignments.

Also, a high schooler in honors classes should have enough long-term assignments or just homework that's due the next week that he can have at least a little something do on snow days. But I still think you and other parents of these checked-out teachers need to say something.

Even my middle schooler had one teacher who promised them before the last storm, "If we're out of school Thursday and Friday, check Blackboard because I WILL assign something new with deadlines." And he did--one assignment due that Sunday, even. Between that and the homework that my kid had that was due the next week, she had plenty to occupy her and keep her on track, and still had time to do some fun stuff at home. A high school honors teacher should be aware of the weather forecasts and able and willing to make assignments on snow days. You know that it's not good for your son to have no assignments, so make that very clear to the teachers.[/quote]

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