Weather Watch 2014 episode 7,302

[same_sky]

And the weather watching begins anew. When the superintendent of schools called with her recorded message on Friday morning, she sounded...terse. We've had four snow days (maybe five?) so far, which is four (maybe five?) days more than she would prefer. It's a thankless job, to be sure. No matter what they do, someone is going to be unhappy and

Comments

[e11en]

It's so funny that you guys are having such a challenging winter. I wonder if it will cause them to bump the last day of school later? Here there is a state mandate that you MUST have at least 180 days of school, no two ways about it. If you don't get them in during the regularly scheduled school calendar, you either have tack days on the end or take back vacation days. Some years around here they've done both. They have finally wised up and left a week and a half between the last scheduled day of school and high school graduation so they can stop worrying about whether or not they need to move the graduation date.

Up in Maine, they used to just let the seniors graduate while the rest of us kept going to school. Whatever works, I guess. One recent year, they had so many snow days up there that my brother's kids had to go to school on Saturdays for three weekends in June to make it up, plus having the last day on the last possible Friday in June.

[same_sky]

In this county, they have a lot of random days off during the school year. It's kind of cool, because it gives the students a break. It's irritating for working parents, of course, but it has already been firmly established that schools do not care about working parents, right? Anyway, I think they use up a lot of their margin that way. As soon as you miss one day, they start taking those random days back

[same_sky]

That is, today we were supposed to be off school, but then they said we had to go to make up a previous snow day, and then it was canceled again. I think I made a mess of that in the first comment.