Snow Days

[GMDino]

(10-30-2019, 09:37 AM)michaelsean Wrote: First of all, eff them on working snow days unless if becomes double digits or something.  That really doesn't happen here very often but maybe where you live it does.

And that lady's response is ridiculous.  Kids use the internet to do their homework all of the time.  You get communications from the school via email.

It varies from year to year but our district works in a number of "make up days" so if we have a bad winter (we have mountain schools in our district) they will have their Spring break cut short, go to school on Martin Luther King Day, something like that.

One year we had a devastating flood and school started a week or so late and the state waived the number of days so the students were not going to school into the end of June.

I just know if I was still in school I'd rather get some homework to do on a snow day to do at my leisure than have to go a full day later in the year.

Now if they want me to sit in from of the computer for a full "class" that might be harder.

I should add another argument in that thread being made against it is that if the student doesn't have a computer or if the family does not have the internet.  I'd add that slow internet or an outage should be taken into consideration if that is the path the schools decided to follow.