Thanks to the almost 80 of you who took the time out of your crazy
last days to let me know about your schedule! 95% of you were from
NJ, PA or neighboring states. 99% of you were east of the
Mississippi. Being a California Girl and now living in a place where
we get snow but not many snow days it was enlightening to see that
many of you have to plan for NUMEROUS snow days (and some had already
had several!). Many also reported that they do get 2 weeks off, but
don't return until Jan 9! (With company coming I prefer to have my
time before Christmas!) I was amazed at how many had teacher days
scheduled for Jan 2 which is the official federal holiday, but many
are also going back the 3rd. One person pointed out that it was
still better than those in the business world get!
Also enlightening was how many of you also have days off in the fall
for the Jewish holidays, still have a day off for Columbus day and
also Good Friday. Many have a week in February along with a week in
April. In addition, there are many east coast districts/states that
have 7 inservice days throughout the year.
In our district we start just before Labor Day, have Vet's Day, TG
and 2 weeks at Christmas. We have 4 days for Prez weekend (one is
labeled as a potential snow make up day) and a week in April and
Memorial day. We have 3 Learning Improvement Days, 3 late starts and
7 'deemed done' days instead of the inservice days. Some districts
called them TRI days (Time, Responsibility and Incentive). What it
boils down to is we have the same number of days of pay, but the
district acknowledges that we have worked that amount of time with
extra stuff we do outside of the school day.
I will boldly say Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah (or is it Chanukah?)
instead of the Happy Holidays that seems to be running rampant with
political correctness this year! Have a safe and happy time with your
friends and family and see you all back here when we recover!
Barb
Barb Engvall
=^..^=
Teacher-Librarian
John Campbell Elem
Selah, WA
macbarb@charter.net
http://www.selah.k12.wa.us/JC/jc.cfm
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