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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCPS has over 180,000 students.

The school system has more buses than Greyhound.

A couple days every year is not really a big deal in the grand scheme of things.

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This is true when you have a major snowstorm or event that really would bring even the most durable folks to their knees like the year of Snowmageddon.   This hasn't been that.  This has been a year of interruptions -- this past one for a week when you didn't know from one minute to the next what was going to happen when the snow event fizzled and kids used high temperatures to snowboard outside in hoodies.  There is no excuse for this kind of arbitrariness.

And I realize I am in the minority in high achieving FCPS, but these kind of weeks are murder for my kid, an honors high schooler who really gets off track when there is no school and his teachers check out as well.  Getting him back in the groove after all the time off, let alone to stay in the groove during the downtime is murder.  I realize I'm alone in this, as most kids are getting homework from their teachers and staying in close touch with them via email, not to mention doing their sports teams workouts on their own, coming up with extra service work and cooking for their families, but it is what it is.  [/quote]

???? [b]Does your DS have trouble getting back in the groove after weekends as well?[/[/b]quote]

No.  On a typical weekend, he's on a more organized schedule because he usually has a sports competition and/or a practice so he has to organize his work around that.  Teachers are also pretty good about giving homework on weekends, as opposed to snow days where, this week, for example, he had an assignment (reading) in one class out of seven.

Last year, a couple of his grades fell to C's in the second quarter after all the snow days.  I don't want that to happen again.  The fact that you have such a superior attitude about this suggests your kids don't have these problems -- if you even have kids, or more than 1.  You might consider yourself lucky as opposed to be so judgmental.    [/quote]

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