Snow days ... your opinion on making up lost time

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<p>I live in a mountain west state known for extreme winter weather. In the 17 years that I have lived here, I don’t remember a single snow day. It may be that I just don’t remember but they are very infrequent if they occur. Either the weather is not as extreme as advertised, or we are more extreme than advertised. When I grew up in upstate NY, we had at least a couple of snow days every winter.</p>

<p>BTW, current temp is -10 deg and not expected to go over 0 deg today. If it’s <10 deg out or <0 deg with windchill, the elementary kids stay in for recess :D.</p>

<p>In a tangential answer to the OP, I guess I would advocate less snow days. If the weather is so bad that parents can’t go to work, then OK on a snow day, but I expect that often parents are expected to, and do go to work, while the kids have to stay home.</p>

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<p>Our school turned all the half days left in the calendar to full days. No union, so the teachers who are doing in service on some of those days, have to do it after school. It was that , or extend the school year.</p>

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<p>Our district had 3 snow days built into the school calendar and we used all of them. </p>

<p>If we need to close for any subsequent snow days they will be made up during our April break, starting with the Monday of that week and continuing through the week as necessary.</p>

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<p>Med school DD had a snow day yesterday, she is wondering, based on how much info they cover each and every day, just how that will be made up.</p>

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<p>We know we will ALWAYS have snow days here in Maine! Theyare just added onto the original last day of school. HS seniors are lucky, because they don’t have to make up the days. The last day of school is always a half-day. A couple of years ago, that fell on a Monday. I didn’t even make my kids go - what a waste of time.</p>

<p>Adding days on is a problem in AP classes, since after the kids take the AP exams, the teachers don’t give them any “real” work. My son watched a lot of movies at the end of the year in his AP classes.</p>

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<p>Snow days are a problem for AP and IB students since the test dates can’t move. I know our IB and AP teachers are concerned, especially the IB teachers since this is only our district’s second year as an IB school. This will be the first set of scores for the HL classes.</p>

<p>Borders is going out of business here and today I thought about buying up the AP study guides. But they are only 20% off right now. I think I’ll wait for at least 40% off.</p>