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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not sure what’s being argued anymore. That days should be added to the calendar because teachers could have worked on snow days and now their scheduled work days are unnecessary? How is that less disruptive to families? Many have already scheduled around these days. They’ve signed up for camps. Scheduled vacations. Squeezed in routine appointments. What’s done is done with the snow days. There were even two scheduled work days within those snow days.

This year’s calendar is exceptionally bad but it’s an anomaly. The next two school years are better. I do wish they’d either get rid of 3 hour early releases or figure out a more consistent way of implementing them.

The February date for half the district is ridiculous. The Wednesday after an extra long President’s Day weekend? Attendance is going to be horrendous.

Based on communication received by teachers reminding us of the next early release Wednesday, they seem to be over them too. [/quote]

What’s being argued? Is that early release should be canceled for the remainder of 25-26, and not restored. The board doesn’t have the courage to do that, so instead, they should end them for 26–27 with the express requirement that no days be used as telework workday to make up for the “lack of planning”. Any additional required planning time should be tacked onto vacations that have been extended such as Thanksgiving, Memorial Day, or winter break. Or FCPS can continue to use federal holidays as they do for indigenous peoples for that requirement, they should work with the teachers to find out which would be less onerous.[/quote]

So is your argument that teachers should receive no dedicated work time to do what can be done at home during their own time? Like planning lessons or grading papers?

Teachers are already doing most of that type of work at hime. Occasionally, we are given time AT work to do it. Is it that unreasonable to you that teachers are given work time to complete work? [/quote]
Yeah, Im not sure what the expectations are. [b]If the point of these three hour early releases is to catch up on planning and grading, then how can they be effectively substituted during a week of snow days[/b]? The work didn’t exist yet.

However, this school year is already padded with several unusual mid quarter TW, so I’m not sure, for example why a TW is needed Tuesday next to a 3 hour early release. Or in April right after a TW that is scheduled right after Spring Break. Or in May when there’s a random TW to justify Memorial Day and Eid closures. That issue is unrelated to snow days, though, and more to do with why we had 3 hour early releases this year when there were already an abnormal number of TW. [/quote]

Only half of each of the early releases is designated for planning/grading. The other 1.5 hrs is admin directed. That should all be made available online. And if teachers had two planning days first week feb they shouldn’t be behind and need to catch up now in the third week of feb.[/quote]

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