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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The best scenario is probably replacing a professional day with a school day.  In terms of adding on days in June, at the high school level at least, it is well after AP exams, so there's a sense it is more done for show and not for a real educational purpose.  [/quote]

I can't speak to what most schools do as I have limited experience and this year has been unusual for this area, but I will agree with this poster.  Adding days for the sake of days only costs the schools money and doesn't really benefit anyone.  Think about it.... for anything after elementary there are semester courses for many courses and often the snow days are in a different semester than the end of the year, so you're not adding days where the missed content can be made up. Most deadlines for graduation, exams, report cards and so forth remain the same, so again, you are not making up days to make up missed instruction, just to satisfy someone's sense of "fairness".

Additionally, it costs the schools more money to heat/air condition and function for any additional days added.  Some employees are hourly, and would have to get paid for the additional days/hours.  Custodial staff are already working overtime on many snow days to clear the snow for when school resumes.

Trust me, your school will figure out how to make up for lost time and course material will get covered, with or without days added to the calendar, just like you will get the work you missed doing on snow days finished one way or another.
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