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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a HS teacher whose planning got cut by more than half this year thanks to IPR hall duty and additional required CTs and department meetings, those random days off are the only reason I’m staying afloat this year. I use every holiday and snow day to plan/grade.

If they disappear, they have to take something else off my plate. I can’t do it all with less time.[/quote]

Everyone of those snow days and random days off is a tax of hundreds of thousands of dollars on the FCPS parent body. You are not presenting a good value proposition for keeping them.[/quote]

As I said, if you want to take them back, advocate to take something else off my plate. Otherwise, you aren’t going to get graded feedback weekly, updated gradebooks weekly, tutoring with kids after school, videos of lessons posted for absent kids, etc, etc. That’s the first thing that’s going to slip because it’s the only thing I can control.

I need smaller classes, less courses taught, fewer number of preps (I teach 3 different HS math courses across 5 sections + advisory lessons). Otherwise it takes a lot of time to plan and grade and remediate 150 students. That time has to come somewhere.

But please don’t pretend that a day off in October costs families $$$ and a day off in June is free. We go to school 180 days - snow days, whether those school days are in August, February, or June.[/quote]

No, a day off in June isn’t free, but cost about 2/3 of what a day off in October costs.

If you have problems with your employer, those are between you and your employer. Please feel free to advocate for fewer meetings or whatever makes you feel more satisfied. Or seek employment elsewhere.

Teacher planning days and early release cost Fairfax parents hundreds of thousands of dollars in childcare. They have had enough. [/quote]

Parents may have had enough, but FCPS doesn’t care - so little to nothing will change.[/quote]

FCPS is governed by an elected board, in a county where many supervisors are running on affordability platform. There is a revenue neutral way to save their constituents thousands of dollars, and campaign for higher office. They’re not going to miss the opportunity.[/quote]

Just keep telling yourself that. 😂[/quote]

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