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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has anyone looked at how all the Virginia districts that close 10+ days a year sometimes do it without making up a single day?[/quote]

No but I would be curious to know the answer to this. Do they extend the school day?

That's what we used to do where I grew up. I lived in an area that always got lots of snow and would periodically get a huge storm that would shut things down for a week or more. Once I missed two weeks of school because we got like 10 ft of snow over two days and they deemed the schools unsafe until snow could be cleared from the roofs. They would just add time to the school day every day for the rest of the year. We also had some built in snow days but they usually weren't all bundled at the end of the year. There would be professional development days scheduled near breaks so they could make up a snow day in January or March if necessary.

I'm guessing extending the school day would be a no go in DC for some reason. People freak out about everything here. But when we did it, it was no big deal. I think it was fairly easy for teachers to plan for -- usually it would just get scheduled in as solo work with tutoring time. So kids would do assigned reading, homework, etc. on their own while teachers circulated to provide 1:1 help to kids who needed it. This reduced homework time at home and resulted in extra 1:1 instruction for kids who were most in need of it. Win-win. [b]I'm sure if this was proposed in DC people would have some kind of epic meltdown for some reason though. I don't understand the weird combativeness around education in this city. It is abnormal.[/b][/quote]

In most of the country, teachers unions are weak or nonexistent so schools can do what they want without a lot of fuss. In DC, the union is powerful and it is reflexively opposed to anything that could possibly be construed as more work for teachers so every little thing becomes a giant fight. [/quote]

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