Snow Days

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(10-30-2019, 09:57 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: You cannot assume that a student actually has internet at their house outside of their smart phone. You also have the issue of teachers being told to create online lessons on a whim. The last thing I want to do is have to pull a lesson out of my ass when I am only going to reteach it when school is back. 

Many of our counties have rule against homework teaching new concepts.

I was hoping you'd jump in to give an educators perspective.

Obviously there are all sorts of nuances to how a rule like this would be written and enforced, I was more on the "the school better pay for my internet if my kids are gonna use it to learn" angle.  

But going off your post:  What if that was put in as part of the curriculum?  Some sort of plan that if there are days that fall within the rule there is a set program for the teacher to present to the student.  It could be as easy as (based on the grade level) a reading that would be discussed in the next class or a group of questions/problems based on what was taught in the first nine weeks as a refresher.  

To me it doesn't have to be a full class that continues to teach new things to move everyone forward but something to ease the pressure of the makeup days.