Delays are rare in my district - its generally all or nothing. What weirds me out is seeing people here talk about converting to virtual days. What a bummer! Snow days as a kid (and for my kids now) were magical!
Yes, but then those days have to be made up. So here they are added on to the end of the year. I'd rather have a half ass virtual day than add days at the end. Especially for teachers. Students often skip those add-on days but teachers can't.
It's a giant cluster for my family. Worse than a day off even, at least more stressful.
Tuesday myself, my husband and our 1st and 4th grade children all had delays. I had to be in a 9:22, my husband at 10:30, and both children at 11:30 (!) For my children's elementary school in particular, a delayed opening means no before care and the bus arrives 2 hours later than normal. So the bus came to pick them up at 11:18 to take them to START school, which is absurd. All parents who work outside are the home are screwed in this scenario. My husband had to take two days off just this week for their delays, because he works an hour+ from home and would drive in to work just to turn around and come back home basically.
It's extra annoying because I am a teacher in a different district than my home district. My district very rarely gives delays/weather closures because we are a small high school only district with no buses. My children's district is very large with 12+ individual schools, lots of complicated bus routes, etc and they seem to delay or close very liberally. It's exhausting having to constantly scramble and debate with MH over who is going to stay home this time.
Post by redheadbaker on Jan 18, 2024 12:45:47 GMT -5
In our case, doors to the school open 2 hours later (10 a.m. vs 8 a.m.) and there's no before-school care. I don't know how the actual school day is structured once they get there.
Our district doesn't use buses at all, so the kids either walk (like mine) or parents drop off.
Delays are rare in my district - its generally all or nothing. What weirds me out is seeing people here talk about converting to virtual days. What a bummer! Snow days as a kid (and for my kids now) were magical!
Our district still gives the kids up to 2 "real" snow days -- if we need to close more than twice for weather, they will do virtual days to prevent extending the school year.
Post by secretagent on Jan 18, 2024 13:15:14 GMT -5
There's no before care and school starts 90 min late. It's a total nightmare for parents who work outside the home (we don't have bussing, so that is not an issue). I commute about an hour so, yeah.
in most areas as long as you serve lunch it counts as a school day which is why a 2 hour/3 hour delay is preferred to a day off which usually needs made up. but yes its annoying
Delays are rare in my district - its generally all or nothing. What weirds me out is seeing people here talk about converting to virtual days. What a bummer! Snow days as a kid (and for my kids now) were magical!
Our district still gives the kids up to 2 "real" snow days -- if we need to close more than twice for weather, they will do virtual days to prevent extending the school year.
We also get two snow days a year. But apparently they have to use them both before they can do a virtual. Which is annoying, because we were closed Monday for the holiday, had a snow day Tuesday and went in late on Wednesday. It is looking very likely they will be closed again tomorrow and I wish they would do a virtual day - we don’t need another day of no structure this week. We haven’t actually had a virtual day yet, but I expect it to be pretty light, but it would be nice to have something to do.
Delays are rare in my district - its generally all or nothing. What weirds me out is seeing people here talk about converting to virtual days. What a bummer! Snow days as a kid (and for my kids now) were magical!
Yes, but then those days have to be made up. So here they are added on to the end of the year. I'd rather have a half ass virtual day than add days at the end. Especially for teachers. Students often skip those add-on days but teachers can't.
Our district does a little bit of both. I think in PA you're allowed to have up to 5 Flexible Instructional Days (virtual days) so our district will use those, but they will usually throw in one good old fashioned snow day of nothing, too. Which has to be made up, unfortunately. I like the virtual days so that DS can still get done before Memorial Day, but totally get how they can be super inconvenient for people not lucky enough to WFH like me!
We've had 2 e-learning days, and I am flashing back to Covid shutdowns. DS failed a health quiz on an e-learning day because he didn't hear the teacher assign it and never took it.