Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 19:35     Subject: Do teachers work on snow days?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher. Time off is for MY kids. Not yours. Do not email me on my family time.


Hold up. You think that parents/students shouldn't even send an email during hours that you are not working?

Just don't expect a response.


PP here. Thanks, I assumed that was what was intended but wanted to be sure.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 19:35     Subject: Do teachers work on snow days?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher. Time off is for MY kids. Not yours. Do not email me on my family time.


Hold up. You think that parents/students shouldn't even send an email during hours that you are not working?


Parents can email whenever they want. Doesn’t mean we will respond. I used to respond to emails at 10 pm or on weekends, I’m done getting taken advantage of for my time.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 19:34     Subject: Do teachers work on snow days?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Teachers deserve a damn snow day. F off!


I don't have a problem with teachers not working when classes are cancelled. BUT, this attitude bugs me. And it reveals that it actually IS seen as a free paid day off. As though it is some sort of bonus for them. It isn't. Snow days are an unfortunate necessity.


Unless it's one of the couple built in snow days, it's not a paid day off. It's traded for another day. It's like when you take a day of annual leave to watch your kids on a snow day. That's not a "paid day off" it's leave.

Unless you never post pictures or comments or tell people about your Christmas celebration, because you know that there are people working in ERs and first responders who don't get days off then, and never post about the vacations you take, because there are people working those days, and never post about the fact that you got to go to your kid's Halloween party at school, when teachers are working, then you're a hypocrite for thinking that teachers shouldn't enjoy the perks of their job.


PP here and that is a fair point. You are right that they should enjoy the break from teaching.

To be more precise, is the original post I responded to about teachers "deserving" it. That to me reads as giving teachers a day of is a *reason* to call a snow day, or that the snow day was "earned" by the difficult circumstances they are working in. The analogy there is hospital management deciding to give all ER doctors a spontaneous paid day off as a "bonus" for their work. And that, to me, is seriously flawed thinking.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 19:33     Subject: Do teachers work on snow days?
Anonymous wrote:Yes, these tax payers really feel entitled like they OWN public school teachers. My Lord.


+1 sad
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 19:33     Subject: Do teachers work on snow days?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher. Time off is for MY kids. Not yours. Do not email me on my family time.


Hold up. You think that parents/students shouldn't even send an email during hours that you are not working?

Just don't expect a response.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 19:31     Subject: Do teachers work on snow days?
Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher. Time off is for MY kids. Not yours. Do not email me on my family time.


Hold up. You think that parents/students shouldn't even send an email during hours that you are not working?
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 19:30     Subject: Do teachers work on snow days?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Lots of vitriol. What's wrong with people? I asked because DD emailed the teacher and did not hear back and I wanted to let her know whether the teacher had the day off. I assumed yes but didn't know the details so thanks to those who actually provided information.


Oh boy! Slave teacher did not email you back on a snow day in 30 minutes. I guess they better stay by their computers waiting to answer your every question that you have for her.


Why do you read all of that into PP's post? She wanted to confirm that the teacher was not working today so she could tell her kid not to worry that she did not get a response. She did not say AT ALL that she was in any way mad about the lack of response.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 19:25     Subject: Do teachers work on snow days?
Anonymous wrote:Teachers deserve a damn snow day. F off!


Why?
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 19:25     Subject: Do teachers work on snow days?
I am a teacher. Time off is for MY kids. Not yours. Do not email me on my family time.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 19:24     Subject: Do teachers work on snow days?
Anonymous wrote:Why do you care?


Because I pay their salary.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 19:22     Subject: Do teachers work on snow days?
Yes, these tax payers really feel entitled like they OWN public school teachers. My Lord.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 19:22     Subject: Do teachers work on snow days?
Anonymous wrote:Lots of vitriol. What's wrong with people? I asked because DD emailed the teacher and did not hear back and I wanted to let her know whether the teacher had the day off. I assumed yes but didn't know the details so thanks to those who actually provided information.


Oh boy! Slave teacher did not email you back on a snow day in 30 minutes. I guess they better stay by their computers waiting to answer your every question that you have for her.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 19:18     Subject: Do teachers work on snow days?
Lots of vitriol. What's wrong with people? I asked because DD emailed the teacher and did not hear back and I wanted to let her know whether the teacher had the day off. I assumed yes but didn't know the details so thanks to those who actually provided information.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 19:16     Subject: Do teachers work on snow days?
Anonymous wrote: In MCPS the snow days are built into the schedule ON TOP OF the required days for teaching. They are expected to taken off. If the the snow days are not used basically teachers are working an extra two days for free.


^^ this. goodness there are some insufferable people on here
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 19:16     Subject: Do teachers work on snow days?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Teachers deserve a damn snow day. F off!


I don't have a problem with teachers not working when classes are cancelled. BUT, this attitude bugs me. And it reveals that it actually IS seen as a free paid day off. As though it is some sort of bonus for them. It isn't. Snow days are an unfortunate necessity.


Unless it's one of the couple built in snow days, it's not a paid day off. It's traded for another day. It's like when you take a day of annual leave to watch your kids on a snow day. That's not a "paid day off" it's leave.

Unless you never post pictures or comments or tell people about your Christmas celebration, because you know that there are people working in ERs and first responders who don't get days off then, and never post about the vacations you take, because there are people working those days, and never post about the fact that you got to go to your kid's Halloween party at school, when teachers are working, then you're a hypocrite for thinking that teachers shouldn't enjoy the perks of their job.