Snow days a thing of the past?? Say hello to "Connected Learning Day"!

[Kaido]

Holy wall-o-text Kaido...I didn’t know you were a woman.

(Because only women use 14,000 words to say something simple) 😛

Sometimes the ole' ADHD hyperfocus kicks in man, what can I say 😵 Gotta keep the post count up somehow!

 

[Majes]

Our school system was supposed to try this last year. Every student has an iPad and we were supposed to create offline assignments for them in case of a weather event. We went through, created all the plans, and then someone on the board shot down the idea so it was all wasted time.

I don't care too much either way. It's great for kids to be kids, but it's also an opportunity to get some learning in and to not make up the day in the summer. I thought a balance could have been found.

Today's an interesting one at the moment. We had a storm forecast for 1-2 inches of snow starting at 7 AM-ish. It's been super cold all week so all of the snow was clearly going to stick. They decided to have school anyway, but around 9 they upped the totals to 2-5 inches which we would have surely cancelled for. So now people are wondering if they will close early. Personally i think closing early would just send the kids back home in the middle of the storm. It's probably best to wait to the end of the day when it will be done snowing for the later schools.

Our country is known for being open when every other county is closed. But I would have kept the kids home today.

 

[LTC8K6]

FANTASTIC!
And not just snow days but should be EVERY DAY.
I mean seriously.... with the technology off today why build expensive hard to maintain brick and mortar schools when every American kid could do their education at home. At the computer.
IT COULD BE DONE, if society and the tax payers really wanted to.
We already have work from home and college classes from home so why not?

I think the socialization, bonding, participation in group events, and friendship building at school is pretty important.
You'd lose all that.

 

[rh71]

Snow days are fun but it sounds like a lot of you treat school as nothing more than a babysitter.

 

[lxskllr]

and to not make up the day in the summer. I thought a balance could have been found.

I don't see why anything has to be "made up". The "extra days" are nothing but a waste of time. Meeting some arbitrary number doesn't do anyone any good. I think you're supposed to be in school 180 days in MD. If kids only go to school 175 days will the sun burn out or something? If some freak catastrophe happens, it can be arbiraily dealt with. Otherwise, make a best effort attempt at a normal school year, and if you blow it by a couple percent, it's no big deal. Seriously. It's really no big deal. There's nothing to be "fixed".

 

[Chaotic42]

I feel really lucky to have been raised by people who were highly education focused. Too much, in some regards, but I think that's better than using school as a baby sitter and then leaving the kids to rot while they're at home.

 

[pmv]

As someone who never got such a day (in my day), if technology is taking away 'northern climate zone privilege' that's fine by me!

 

[bbhaag]

I feel really lucky to have been raised by people who were highly education focused. Too much, in some regards, but I think that's better than using school as a baby sitter and then leaving the kids to rot while they're at home.

Hahaha your and @rh71 post might be the most pretentious words I have ever read on Anandtech.

Tell me more about your highly educational focused family and how you define us plebs as seeing public education as baby sitters for our children.

 

[Chaotic42]

Hahaha your and @rh71 post might be the most pretentious words I have ever read on Anandtech.

Tell me more about your highly educational focused family and how you define us plebs as seeing public education as baby sitters for our children.

I was responding to rh71's post, not saying that you were a "pleb" or that you see public education as a baby sitter.