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The more interesting part of the article, though, is that these Columbus, Ohio students had fewer snow days than we did!
That's because they don't wait for every square inch of pavement to be clean and clear before resuming life as usual. It makes me laugh that people from the south think "they have more equipment so the roads must be perfect within hours of a storm". Check some recent pictures of Boston.
The disgruntled parent harps on a breach of contract and says that WCPSS should abide by the published calendar (and makeup days). Very disingenuous argument. Last year WCPSS went against the published calendar and opted to extend the school year (instead of shortening spring break as published).
Sorry state of affairs that parents have to resort to inane arguments to protect a vacation.
A friend in GA said they give the kids an option to make up the work online....that wouldn't work for all families but my kids would love it.
Online time cannot count for class time unless it is for an online course, but I agree that the option would be great! School still has to be in face-to-face session a certain number of hours/days per year.
The disgruntled parent harps on a breach of contract and says that WCPSS should abide by the published calendar (and makeup days). Very disingenuous argument. Last year WCPSS went against the published calendar and opted to extend the school year (instead of shortening spring break as published).
Sorry state of affairs that parents have to resort to inane arguments to protect a vacation.
There's a lot more at stake than protecting parents' vacation. The board has created a huge human resources problem for WCPSS that could potentially cost the county a pretty good amount of money.
They keep saying that they need to protect relevant instructional time, yet schools are sending out surveys asking whether kids will be in school or not and schools are polling their employees, knowing they can't hold them to the "you can't take leave when the kids are in school" rule that usually applies. So there's actually going to be very little relevant instruction going on, in all likelihood. But it's free babysitting for the 3 days so working parents who didn't plan a vacation are absolutely thrilled.
I do think it's time for Wake to split. At least into a few pieces.
I agree, sorry to be off topic.
We discussed the financial costs of these storms to taxpayers in the storm thread. If rescheduling classes to spring break costs the district more money that is insult to injury especially for teachers.
They also aren't charging teachers for subs. That means WCPSS will be entirely footing the bill for subs. The lowest paid subs make $75 a day; if they can't get subs to come in they will have to pay teacher assistants $150 a day.
Additionally, since staff (including support staff) now has to work on what was previously allotted annual leave days (spring break comes out of annual leave), that staff should accrue additional annual leave - which the district pays for if it goes unused when said employee terminates their employment.
Staff who came in and worked on the snow days will also be owed time.
The one hand doesn't know what the other is doing.
They also aren't charging teachers for subs. That means WCPSS will be entirely footing the bill for subs.
Shouldn't they be doing that anyway? What other job would make you pay for someone to cover you when you use leave you've earned??
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