I'm VERY anti "Remote Learning" on snow days.
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Here in Minnesota, the snow days are when it gets below -35 F or when the snow is too thick for the buses to run.
@michael_w_busch @futurebird @hallvors In Saskatchewan, the school busses will run unless the air temp is below -40C, or the windchill is below -45C, or the road is listed as "travel not recommended" (which doesn't happen very often, pretty much blizzards only). But they never ever cancel school!
But I agree, in places with reasonable snow day rules, kids should go play in it, not do online school.
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@michael_w_busch @futurebird @hallvors In Saskatchewan, the school busses will run unless the air temp is below -40C, or the windchill is below -45C, or the road is listed as "travel not recommended" (which doesn't happen very often, pretty much blizzards only). But they never ever cancel school!
But I agree, in places with reasonable snow day rules, kids should go play in it, not do online school.
@sundogplanets @futurebird @hallvors
You have the real cold-weather gear.
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@michael_w_busch @futurebird @hallvors In Saskatchewan, the school busses will run unless the air temp is below -40C, or the windchill is below -45C, or the road is listed as "travel not recommended" (which doesn't happen very often, pretty much blizzards only). But they never ever cancel school!
But I agree, in places with reasonable snow day rules, kids should go play in it, not do online school.
@sundogplanets @michael_w_busch @futurebird @hallvors Kids deserve snow days.
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If they don't have a "remote learning day" then they need to tack an extra day on at the end of the year to make up for time.
I think that admins and posh parents who want to buy plane tickets early are behind all of this.
I love that our local school district still does real snow days, especially since most of the surrounding districts do not. They also build in extra days and in the 20+ years my kids attended they never had to add on days when surrounding districts did. The district has some other issues, but they get those two things.
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I remember when I was working two jobs and in grad school. I got home from teaching my night course at the community college and stayed up studying Galois theory till three am convinced I'd do poorly on the comp the next day.
I woke up and the whole city was silent, covered in soft sparkling white snow.
I went right back to bed after reading the email... then studied in a more healthy way that weekend.
Those snow flakes were the most beautiful things I've ever seen.
Lovely story!
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If they don't have a "remote learning day" then they need to tack an extra day on at the end of the year to make up for time.
I think that admins and posh parents who want to buy plane tickets early are behind all of this.
@futurebird Iām reminded of my kids school having a short winter holiday. Which has lead to kids missing school days because of covid, or other infections because they traveled back from visiting family just before school starts again. But it could allow parents to start summer sooner.
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I'm VERY anti "Remote Learning" on snow days. Snow days are magical and young people should play video games and have snowball fights.
Or go sledding.
And pester their parents who are doing remote office work to make hot chocolate.
Hmph.
@futurebird It's so ridiculous. If I were a parent in the Year of our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-Six, I would simply shut the laptop and tell my kid(s) to go play in the snow. "Sorry, they won't be online today, they're 'sick'. Yeah, bad cold, going around. They'll be fine tomorrow."
Everyone needs a break, and no break hits quite like a snow day when you're a li'l nine-year-old. I have so many fond snow day memories. Kids have enough going on. We should let them take a day off to be kids.
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If they don't have a "remote learning day" then they need to tack an extra day on at the end of the year to make up for time.
I think that admins and posh parents who want to buy plane tickets early are behind all of this.
@futurebird @barrygoldman1 I so hate the "mandatory number of school days".
There should be a mandatory number of scheduled days, but with no make-up requirement for any sort of closure necessitated by weather/emergency unless it becomes extreme. Then what to do should be decided by actual people, not inflexible policy.
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I remember when I was working two jobs and in grad school. I got home from teaching my night course at the community college and stayed up studying Galois theory till three am convinced I'd do poorly on the comp the next day.
I woke up and the whole city was silent, covered in soft sparkling white snow.
I went right back to bed after reading the email... then studied in a more healthy way that weekend.
Those snow flakes were the most beautiful things I've ever seen.
@futurebird @meltedcheese Baltimore called off school for a hurricane when I was a teacher and similar sleep deprived and the storm went out to sea after an hour of rain. I invented Saint Murphy who gives you a break when you need it out of the blue
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I'm VERY anti "Remote Learning" on snow days. Snow days are magical and young people should play video games and have snowball fights.
Or go sledding.
And pester their parents who are doing remote office work to make hot chocolate.
Hmph.
@futurebird We recently had a one hour remote session (snow day) which my child was very excited to participate in. They used it as a means of being in charge -- selecting which device to use, where in the house to set-up, and practiced the remote-in process. This session was an hour. While I had no remote learning as a kid, I can understand and support these short "check-ins". For mine the routine matters. I can also understand that it may challenge some families, or teachers, esp. if all-day.
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@futurebird We recently had a one hour remote session (snow day) which my child was very excited to participate in. They used it as a means of being in charge -- selecting which device to use, where in the house to set-up, and practiced the remote-in process. This session was an hour. While I had no remote learning as a kid, I can understand and support these short "check-ins". For mine the routine matters. I can also understand that it may challenge some families, or teachers, esp. if all-day.
@futurebird At their age they have no control over when, how, or where they go to school -- and it is expected that they go. A very short session where they have control, meet expectation, can see their peers, and spend the rest of the day in play at homr seems like a positive. That was our experience, anyway. All criticism thus far voiced is absolutely valid. I expect our experience is the exception.
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I'm VERY anti "Remote Learning" on snow days. Snow days are magical and young people should play video games and have snowball fights.
Or go sledding.
And pester their parents who are doing remote office work to make hot chocolate.
Hmph.
Absolutely.
And to that end, everyone should get to mail it in, adults too.
Bc work is fucking stupid everyday.
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Absolutely.
And to that end, everyone should get to mail it in, adults too.
Bc work is fucking stupid everyday.
God did not put me on this Earth to work. I was born into this world for THREE things: to count ants, make puns, and spout nonsense.
