A crappy long weekend

[shade_42]

I should probably figure out how many long weekends Japan has. Because it feels like quite a lot. I remember in highschool beginning to think that we couldn't go 3 weeks without running into a statutory holiday or a ped day (Interesting aside: the term ped day appears to maybe be an Anglo-Montreal regionalism. No really, try googling it.). It

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[ramou]

pedagogical day is the full term. ped day was common use outside Montreal as well.

[quikchange]

I never heard the term used in Ontario.

[ramou]

I'd believe it might be a Quebec term, used possibly because of the French, I'm just sure it's not a Montreal-specific term.

[shade_42]

I think you figured it out. Journee pedagogique probably grew into pedagogical days for Anglo-Quebec.

[shade_42]

So what did you call days when teachers go into school to prepare lesson plans and whatnot but students don't attend?

[quikchange]

PD (professional development) days. Sounds pretty similar ;-)

[shade_42]

I think you are from close enough to Montreal that you could be part of the regionalism.