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Finally had a normal day today. This week has been horrible, MLK Day inservice, early dismissal Tuesday, no school Wednesday, normal day today and tomorrow. Midterms start on Tuesday. Many students complained that they were taking 3-5 tests today. A test I gave today I'd been trying to give since last Wednesday. It's so hectic and I do feel bad for the kids BUT they had all this time off to study - of course they did not!
Admin's plan for what to do if there's snow during midterms (which are half days) next week: "Let's pray it doesn't snow!" Sounds like a great plan to me...
I would tell/ask his teacher, if he has any issues because he is extremely quiet when you meet with him.
School is closed again tomorrow. I see extended school days back in our future...*sigh*
Extended days are no fun. I remember doing that, but it was probably almost 20 years ago. With the way we do it now we'd have to miss 12 more days before having to make up a day and that's not likely to happen.
Our district re-opened today for the first time since before Christmas. At my school, some classrooms started out with heat, including mine, but before noon the boiler went out and probably won't be back on tomorrow. The low tonight is 18. We had water in the toilets, but it was the color of very strong tea and looked awful. They did flush, thank goodness. I don't know if the kitchen was under a boil water notice.
At other schools there were port-a-potties and hand sanitizer stations. The news is interviewing children who report that they had to put their toilet tissue in garbage cans and that the toilets were overflowing. It does not look good for tomorrow.
I hear that New Orleans is undergoing something similar. I know there are areas of the city with old pipes just like ours. They can't handle the shifts in the soil brought on by the sub-freezing weather.
We have an early release next Thursday, an "alternate work location" day Friday and then a staff development day the following Monday.
Our early release, next Friday, is now a make up day. No biggie since early release for us is just 2 hours. We have a teacher work day the following week. Well we did. They already pushed it back once after the first 5 snow days. Not sure if they'll push it back again. Some local cities just called off semester exams to help get back on track.
Our district re-opened today for the first time since before Christmas. At my school, some classrooms started out with heat, including mine, but before noon the boiler went out and probably won't be back on tomorrow. The low tonight is 18. We had water in the toilets, but it was the color of very strong tea and looked awful. They did flush, thank goodness. I don't know if the kitchen was under a boil water notice.
At other schools there were port-a-potties and hand sanitizer stations. The news is interviewing children who report that they had to put their toilet tissue in garbage cans and that the toilets were overflowing. It does not look good for tomorrow.
I hear that New Orleans is undergoing something similar. I know there are areas of the city with old pipes just like ours. They can't handle the shifts in the soil brought on by the sub-freezing weather.
That sounds like pure hell. I hope, the building still smells pleasant for the most part.
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Extended days are no fun. I remember doing that, but it was probably almost 20 years ago. With the way we do it now we'd have to miss 12 more days before having to make up a day and that's not likely to happen.
Not at all. Waste of 30 minutes because you can barely teach in the allotted time. Even more annoying that we don't have to make up the days legally but our super will make it happen anyhow.
That sounds like pure hell. I hope, the building still smells pleasant for the most part.
Not at all. Waste of 30 minutes because you can barely teach in the allotted time. Even more annoying that we don't have to make up the days legally but our super will make it happen anyhow.
Either they are trying to collect the state dollars because of the way the state calculates their contribution or they are mollifying parents. It is never done "in the best interest of the child."
Pretty much every teacher will tell you adding minutes to remaining days is a waste of time at best and can create a potential additional classroom management problem due to the extra down time, especially beyond elementary school. Adding somewhere between 4-10 minutes on every period in middle or high school only means they have 4-10 minutes extra to do the same lesson they would have done that day anyway. At least in elementary school they can add the 30-40 minutes as an enrichment because one teacher gets the entire 30-40 minutes.
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Our district just dismissed early due to low pressure or no water at 60% of the schools. Our school had pressure and could flush toilets, but the problem was too widespread. I got home to find that our outside spigot had burst and we had to turn our water off. Fun fun.
Either they are trying to collect the state dollars because of the way the state calculates their contribution or they are mollifying parents. It is never done "in the best interest of the child."
Pretty much every teacher will tell you adding minutes to remaining days is a waste of time at best and can create a potential additional classroom management problem due to the extra down time, especially beyond elementary school. Adding somewhere between 4-10 minutes on every period in middle or high school only means they have 4-10 minutes extra to do the same lesson they would have done that day anyway. At least in elementary school they can add the 30-40 minutes as an enrichment because one teacher gets the entire 30-40 minutes.
Pretty much.
For us, we had this earlier in the fall to make up one snow day. An extra 20-25 minutes but admin decided to go with a writing initiatives instead of allowing us to use our time. By the time, we switch back, the kids get settled and we begin the lesson, it was time for dismissal. An utter waste of time. Near the end of the time, I just went to showing videos based on whatever I was teaching earlier in the day because it was too much or just went ahead finished lessons from earlier in Social Studies.
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