Anonymous wrote:Everyone acting like these teacher workdays are where they are for an actual reason relating to the teachers' needs. Nah. Any workdays not tied to the end of the quarter or beginning/end of the school year are specifically being used for giving a cultural, religious, or federal day off without calling it that. Stop blaming teacher workdays for the calendar. We know they don't belong randomly in the middle of the week in the middle of the quarter. We don't need them then either. They're just a cover for the school board's desire to give everybody everything.

TW 9/9 - Special election
TW 10/13 - Indigenous People Day
TW 2/17 - Lunar New Year
SP 4/6 - Easter Monday (although this coincides with the end of the quarter so SHOULD be a TW, not an SP and the one that follows on Friday that week should have been right after it on Tuesday)
TW 4/10 - Orthodox Good Friday
TW/PD 4/21 - Special election
TW 5/26 - sandwiched between Memorial Day and Eid al-Adha so we wouldn't come back for one day and then be off again for another religious holiday.

And actually, there's only supposed to be 15 additional teacher work days and they've got 16 scheduled AND just added another one. So now we're up to 17. So, that's annoying too.

Anonymous wrote:And to answer the questions. There are 180 days planned. The equivalent of 1080 hours (at 6 hours per day.) To meet 990 hours, they start with 90 extra hours.

- There are 4 planned early releases at the end of each quarter. A total of 8 hours. 82 hours remain.
- There are two special elections. A total of 12 hours. 70 hours remain.
- There were 4 snow days and one partial snow day (4 hours). A total of 28 hours. 42 hours remain.
- There were 6 delayed openings. A total of 12 hours. 30 hours remain.
- There is one 3 hour early release due to weather. 27 hours remain.

However, elementary schools have the additional 3 hour early releases.
- There are 8 early releases scheduled. A total of 24 hours. 3 hours remain for elementary schools.

That is why elementary parents are asking to cancel the April and May dates. What if there’s another freak thunder storm that requires a closure? Would we rather seek a waiver for less than 990 credit hours than try to get a few instructional hours back? April is getting a full planning day due to the election. It makes no sense to hold onto the April early release.

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Anonymous wrote:And to answer the questions. There are 180 days planned. The equivalent of 1080 hours (at 6 hours per day.) To meet 990 hours, they start with 90 extra hours.

- There are 4 planned early releases at the end of each quarter. A total of 8 hours. 82 hours remain.
- There are two special elections. A total of 12 hours. 70 hours remain.
- There were 4 snow days and one partial snow day (4 hours). A total of 28 hours. 42 hours remain.
- There were 6 delayed openings. A total of 12 hours. 30 hours remain.
- There is one 3 hour early release due to weather. 27 hours remain.

However, elementary schools have the additional 3 hour early releases.
- There are 8 early releases scheduled. A total of 24 hours. 3 hours remain for elementary schools.

That is why elementary parents are asking to cancel the April and May dates. What if there’s another freak thunder storm that requires a closure? Would we rather seek a waiver for less than 990 credit hours than try to get a few instructional hours back? April is getting a full planning day due to the election. It makes no sense to hold onto the April early release.

The school day is 7 hours, not 6.

I’m pretty sure they use 6. I don’t think lunch and recess count toward hours. If they used 7 hour days, we’d have 38 snow days available.

It’s 6 hours from bell to bell. Recess counts. I’m not sure about lunch.

Sorry. PP here. I meant 6 hours and 45 minutes from bell to bell.

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Anonymous wrote:How many unscheduled days off have we had?

I think you have to include delayed start as they had a massive impact as well. Especially since half of those 5.5 remaining hours is lunch and recess so when are they learning?

Please stop. We did not have recess on those delay-opening days. If you recall, it was about 18 degrees and the playgrounds were covered in snowcrete.

They had indoor recess. We want INSTRUCTIONAL TIME.

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Anonymous wrote:And to answer the questions. There are 180 days planned. The equivalent of 1080 hours (at 6 hours per day.) To meet 990 hours, they start with 90 extra hours.

- There are 4 planned early releases at the end of each quarter. A total of 8 hours. 82 hours remain.
- There are two special elections. A total of 12 hours. 70 hours remain.
- There were 4 snow days and one partial snow day (4 hours). A total of 28 hours. 42 hours remain.
- There were 6 delayed openings. A total of 12 hours. 30 hours remain.
- There is one 3 hour early release due to weather. 27 hours remain.

However, elementary schools have the additional 3 hour early releases.
- There are 8 early releases scheduled. A total of 24 hours. 3 hours remain for elementary schools.

That is why elementary parents are asking to cancel the April and May dates. What if there’s another freak thunder storm that requires a closure? Would we rather seek a waiver for less than 990 credit hours than try to get a few instructional hours back? April is getting a full planning day due to the election. It makes no sense to hold onto the April early release.

The school day is 7 hours, not 6.

I’m pretty sure they use 6. I don’t think lunch and recess count toward hours. If they used 7 hour days, we’d have 38 snow days available.

It’s 6 hours from bell to bell. Recess counts. I’m not sure about lunch.

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Anonymous wrote:And to answer the questions. There are 180 days planned. The equivalent of 1080 hours (at 6 hours per day.) To meet 990 hours, they start with 90 extra hours.

- There are 4 planned early releases at the end of each quarter. A total of 8 hours. 82 hours remain.
- There are two special elections. A total of 12 hours. 70 hours remain.
- There were 4 snow days and one partial snow day (4 hours). A total of 28 hours. 42 hours remain.
- There were 6 delayed openings. A total of 12 hours. 30 hours remain.
- There is one 3 hour early release due to weather. 27 hours remain.

However, elementary schools have the additional 3 hour early releases.
- There are 8 early releases scheduled. A total of 24 hours. 3 hours remain for elementary schools.

That is why elementary parents are asking to cancel the April and May dates. What if there’s another freak thunder storm that requires a closure? Would we rather seek a waiver for less than 990 credit hours than try to get a few instructional hours back? April is getting a full planning day due to the election. It makes no sense to hold onto the April early release.

The school day is 7 hours, not 6.

I’m pretty sure they use 6. I don’t think lunch and recess count toward hours. If they used 7 hour days, we’d have 38 snow days available.

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Anonymous wrote:And to answer the questions. There are 180 days planned. The equivalent of 1080 hours (at 6 hours per day.) To meet 990 hours, they start with 90 extra hours.

- There are 4 planned early releases at the end of each quarter. A total of 8 hours. 82 hours remain.
- There are two special elections. A total of 12 hours. 70 hours remain.
- There were 4 snow days and one partial snow day (4 hours). A total of 28 hours. 42 hours remain.
- There were 6 delayed openings. A total of 12 hours. 30 hours remain.
- There is one 3 hour early release due to weather. 27 hours remain.

However, elementary schools have the additional 3 hour early releases.
- There are 8 early releases scheduled. A total of 24 hours. 3 hours remain for elementary schools.

That is why elementary parents are asking to cancel the April and May dates. What if there’s another freak thunder storm that requires a closure? Would we rather seek a waiver for less than 990 credit hours than try to get a few instructional hours back? April is getting a full planning day due to the election. It makes no sense to hold onto the April early release.

The school day is 7 hours, not 6.

I’m pretty sure they use 6. I don’t think lunch and recess count toward hours. If they used 7 hour days, we’d have 38 snow days available.