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How FCPS screws you and your kid on snow days
Posted by:
legerdemain
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Date: February 27, 2015 02:58PM
FCPS used to have 6 planned snow days (maybe 5?), with the school calendar running from Labor day till 3 weeks into June. By eliminating 1/2 day Monday's from ES's, we now have 13 snow days with the exact same calendar. So now instead of HS and MS kids possibly missing about 40 hours of instruction (6 snow days * 6.5 hours per day) on the old calendar, they can now miss potentially 84 hours of instruction. And that's on top of the commitment to always take two weeks off at Christmas..., sorry, Winter Break.
As with all things FCPS, what is spun is not what it seems. FCPS will make damn sure that they take all 13 snow days (that's what they are there for), so that while claiming credit for extending ES Monday's and adding maybe 60 hours of instruction to ES, MS and HS kids will actually spend less time in school. A bureaucratic home run for the FCPS, and as usual kids and taxpayers get screwed.
If you like this one, wait until you see how the later HS start times work out in reality.
As with all things FCPS, what is spun is not what it seems. FCPS will make damn sure that they take all 13 snow days (that's what they are there for), so that while claiming credit for extending ES Monday's and adding maybe 60 hours of instruction to ES, MS and HS kids will actually spend less time in school. A bureaucratic home run for the FCPS, and as usual kids and taxpayers get screwed.
If you like this one, wait until you see how the later HS start times work out in reality.
Re: How FCPS screws you and your kid on snow days
Posted by:
elementary school
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Date: February 27, 2015 04:36PM
You really have no clue whatsoever. The change is because FCPS now has full day Monday's. They had fewer snow make-up days in the past because of the elementary schools that had half-day Mondays. No change in the hours AT ALL.
Re: How FCPS screws you and your kid on snow days
Posted by:
LMFGDAO
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Date: February 27, 2015 04:37PM
Well done, "elementary school"!
Smoked OP, anyone?
Smoked OP, anyone?
Re: How FCPS screws you and your kid on snow days
Posted by:
DERP
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Date: February 27, 2015 10:24PM
The OPs math skills...he must have went to TC.
Re: How FCPS screws you and your kid on snow days
Posted by:
Mick
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Date: February 27, 2015 10:31PM
DERP Wrote:
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> The OPs math skills...he must have went to TC.
And where did you went?
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> The OPs math skills...he must have went to TC.
And where did you went?
Re: How FCPS screws you and your kid on snow days
Posted by:
Mathy
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Date: February 27, 2015 10:58PM
elementary school Wrote:
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> You really have no clue whatsoever. The change is
> because FCPS now has full day Monday's. They had
> fewer snow make-up days in the past because of the
> elementary schools that had half-day Mondays. No
> change in the hours AT ALL.
No change in the hours but 13 snow days versus 6? OP has a point. They haven't done it in a few years, but they used to drop days off the end for unused snow days. So in a mild winter they could now drop 2 weeks off the end?
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> You really have no clue whatsoever. The change is
> because FCPS now has full day Monday's. They had
> fewer snow make-up days in the past because of the
> elementary schools that had half-day Mondays. No
> change in the hours AT ALL.
No change in the hours but 13 snow days versus 6? OP has a point. They haven't done it in a few years, but they used to drop days off the end for unused snow days. So in a mild winter they could now drop 2 weeks off the end?
Re: How FCPS screws you and your kid on snow days
Posted by:
Redt
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Date: February 27, 2015 11:03PM
FCPS has been going down hill over the last 7 years. FCPS use to be one of the top school systems in the US. Now they'll be lucky to have one school in the top 20. It's a shame for the kids.