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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are there snow days when you are DL?  Or, am I asking a dumb question?  I live in another state.[/quote]

It’s not a dumb question. First of all, nutrition and custodial staff and admin have to report to the building if it’s a school day. Bus drivers have to be out delivering meals if it’s a school day. If those would be compromised due to travel conditions, calling a snow day means they do not have to report.

For the kids, snow days are fun. Distance learning is hard and tedious. The days are built into the calendar whether we use them or not, so using them allows kids to take a break and play and enjoy snow. As a teacher, I don’t do “nothing,” those days are super productive for me because I can do all the other stuff [b]there is usually little time for: planning, grading, pulling data[/b] for students with interventions, making parent contact. [/quote]

Are they still built into the calendar even though we took two weeks off at the start of the year?  And I’m not even going to talk about Mondays because I know they count as school days for some totally cockamamie reason. [/quote]

Yes they are. The 2 weeks students weren’t in, staff were, [b]and Mondays are counted as school days[/b] because students have morning meetings, intervention/small group, meeting with teachers for office hours and are expected to complete any work from the week before and submit it. [/quote]

LOL[/quote]

Parents like to b*tch but them counting Mondays is a good thing because your kids get credit and seat hours without enduring YET ANOTHER full day online and they get a chance to catch up on work and teachers get at least a couple hours between other meetings and groups to plan something which would be impossible if it was all day online 5 days a week. [/quote]

F8ck off. My child is actually learning stuff on school days. Mondays are a waste of time. [/quote]

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