snow days

[aliki]

News reporters are calling it the "February Fury". School was canceled on both Thursday and Friday for me, and our cars are still snowed in, so I bet I'm going to get cabin fever fairly soon.

This makes it the fifth snow day this school year. We only have two school days built into our schedule around Memorial Day, so I'm sure a lot of people are upset that instead of getting 5-days off from school that week, we're only getting that Monday off.

And then all additional snow days are added on to the end of the school year, meaning that instead of graduating on June 17th this year, with the three remaining make-up days, it'll be June 20th... and if we get more snow days, it'll just keep getting pushed back farther.

Makes no difference to me because I'll be on maternity leave, so bring on the snow days between now and March 19th (my last day)!! Hehehe!!

I've been watching the Winter Olympics (the daytime stuff, like curling!), doing lesson plans, grading lab reports, and cleaning up the house.

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[falls2climb.livejournal.com]

Some of the schools in NC are already doing that, and I remember it happening a couple of times when I was little. They only go until noon on Saturdays when it happens, but it's a huge pain and most of the kids don't come.

[aliki.livejournal.com]

Don't you have an attendance requirement for it to count as a school day?

In our district, I believe you need at least an 80% attendance or it doesn't count! Which is a real big deal for us when seniors decide to do a "cut day" or if a town is closed and they don't send the buses to pick up the students to bus to our school...