Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
> Did you not have to make up snow days later on in the school year, on > a Saturday or some day which would have otherwise been a holiday?
Erik replied:
My wife is a gradeschool music teacher and between field experience while still a student, student teaching, and actual jobs, has been involved with 5 different school districts in 2 different states.I never had to. I think if there were more than X snowdays ( I can't remember what X is) then we would have to make it up. But we never exceeded X.
Most or all states have a minimum required number of days where the students must be in class (with allowances made for sick days). Some districts plan extra days into their schedule for snowdays, some districts don't. In districts that have extra days in their schedule, if no snowdays are taken, some close up a week early, some don't. At least one district of which I am aware has teacher work days and meetings scheduled for the week after students are let out, and if there are unused snowdays, the students are let out early by that number of days but the teachers are still required to come, but those days count as the teacher work days.
How a district handles snowdays, and also heat schedule days (KCMO public schools had a couple of weeks of early release due to the heat, reducing the number of student contact hours and counting basically the same as half-snowdays) usually depends on a combination of state law, local law, and the contract negotiated for that district by the teachers union(s).
Reggie Bautista
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