Any New englanders losing april break?

[ccgirl]

We have missed 7 days so far. 2 for the hurricane, and 5 for the blizzard. We got hit hard. They can not take away April vacation, i think its in the teachers contracts.
I am so glad we start before Labor Day.
What do you mean "forgiven". Every year, no matter if its a state of emergency. you need to go 180 days, so if you have a snow day, you make it up in June. Short summer break this year.

Bolded mine. Not if the Governor signs the order. For the blizzard, the Governor declared a State of Emergency and signed the order the day does not need to be made up. So, students in MA wil only be going 179 days. We start before Labor Day as well.

However, my DD is in private school and her school elected to still make up the day. We go longer than the 180 days anyway so it really doesn't make sense.

 

[3girls4me05]

Bolded mine. Not if the Governor signs the order. For the blizzard, the Governor declared a State of Emergency and signed the order the day does not need to be made up. So, students in MA wil only be going 179 days. We start before Labor Day as well.

However, my DD is in private school and her school elected to still make up the day. We go longer than the 180 days anyway so it really doesn't make sense.

You sure about that? We are making it up at the end of the year. We started early enough so we are now getting out the 21st.

 

[jmb912]

We are in northeast PA. We lost two days to Sandy and two snow days so far (with a bunch of delays and earlier releases too). We had to make-up a day on Presidents' Day and we are losing one day of our "spring break". The sad thing is our break was only Thursday, Friday and Monday around Easter! That's it! We only moved here a year ago and it is the weirdest schedule I ever saw. They don't build in any snow days so the other two days have been tacked on at the end. I pray there are no more snow days. We moved from MS and we are used to getting out around may 16 so this is gonna be painful!!!

 

[wdwnuts]

Wow! I feel so lucky to be a teacher in Upstate South Carolina. I can use my 12 personal days for whatever reason I wamNt. No questions asked. Even using 2 to go to The World Spring Break.

 

[Hasil72]

We're in NJ and the school I work for took away two days from Easter break because of the hurricane. We're heading to WDW for the week so luckily I'm a 12 month employee and I can use vacation time. My kids' district added the days to the end of the year.

 

[ryalluvdiz]

Funerals, accompany a family member to a medical procedure, other personal business that can't be conducted during school hours.

Our district is strict too, we can't use a personal day before a vacation week. If you call out sick then you risk being called in to the Superintendent's office too. Luckily I work in a position that means I have Fridays off. So I can call out for the Thursday and leave Wed. night (therefore saving me over $1000 in airfare) and go early. Which is what I plan to do

Wow... We get to use sick days for a funeral and if i have to take my son to the doctor i can use a sick day also.... We report it as illness in immediate family...our personal days are used more like "mental health" days... If you know what i mean!

 

[shan136]

We are in CT and lost 5 days for Sandy (power outages) and 5 days for Blizzard (36 inches, eek!) and 1 day for another random power outage.

We had already lost all of our April vacation because of Sandy but our district held fast on February break which meant 2 weeks off for my DD (ugh). They will be extending our school year past June 21, which is unfortunate because we are away on our summer vacation as of June 22.

Some of the towns around us that eradicated winter and spring vacations in order to make up days were very emphatic that families that had vacation plans during these weeks should not cancel their plans because family time is just as important as school time, which I 100% agree with. I personally find adding days on to the end of the school year in order to "make up time" arbitrary as the grades have already been submitted and it is way too hot in the classrooms to learn anything.

 

[Amymarie0606]

New Englander here - we have 5 days built in to the schedule in our District, with any additional tacked onto the year in June. The latest we've gone is June 28th.

So far, we've used 4. I think our vacation week (also week of April 15th) is safe!

 

[Brian_WDW74]

Since this thread isn't really about theme park attractions and strategies, I've moved it to the Theme Parks Community board.

 

[Luvin*Livvy]

Nope, but we will be in school until June 26th right now! Last year we got out June 15th! I wish they would've taken away this past Tuesday...they gave us off Mon and Tues for President's Weekend....and I wish they'd take away the Monday after Easter...we have the week leading up to Easter off for Spring Break already...we don't need Monday too! I'd rather that then be in school until July!

I'm in NJ and we got hit hard during the Hurricane...had off for a full week...and then also 2 days for snow so far! We have 3 days built it...so far we only made up the 2 on Teachers Convention.

 

[Tropical Wilds]

See my post above yours. I am not worried about it but IF they did take some April vacation days away and people had already paid and planned their vacations then how can they cost people all that money in lost vacation funds? I have already paid for my trip in full, including the air fare. We are talking about thousands of dollars. If you have gotten your vacation approved, paid thousands of dollars for your trip and then had your boss change his mind four weeks before you left, what would you do? Keep in mind that we aren't talking about then you would have to push back your vacation by a week or two. It would be cancelled and you would be out a ton of money

I work from home and we're pretty lax about the schedules we follow, but that said, if I'm told a day I'd asked for off I now had to work, I'd be taking my job into my hands if I didn't show up. My husband's work I know, for a fact, he'd be fired. It's not unheard of for the boss to take back an approved vacation... It happened to one manager when the surprise audit happened the week he asked for off, it happened to another manager when a third manager went into labor 4 weeks early... Heck, when I was pregnant, there was, literally, one day the whole month that I couldn't go into labor because he couldn't get the day off. It was a mandatory audit and only he could run it... Naturally, I went into labor, he called his boss and said he couldn't come in because I was in labor. He missed one day, was back at work the day after our son was born, and went straight to the manager's office for his writeup. It even came up on his review.

Not sure why adding days at the end of the school year is such an unthinkable option. In our district in the midwest (with lots of snow) they don't even build in snow days. Parents (and teachers) just know not to schedule anything that can't be changed in the week or 2 immediately following the end of the year. Snow days are added on at the end. Seniors still graduate on time, as printed on the invitations.

It's funny but I just told my own senior he got the short end of the stick having had only 2 snow days to get out of so far this season. Now there's a huge storm rolling in and it appears he'll be up to 4 freebies soon.

We used to add days, but the year in question, if we hadn't gotten our forgiveness, school was going to end the last week of June and senior graduation was going to have to be pushed back. My mother was a teacher and the amount of pandemonium it was causing was insane. Underclassmen were due to get out the last week of June, graduation was supposed to be moved from the third to the fourth week of June, despite invitations being printed that said otherwise... People were freaking out because absolutely none of the schools in our district had air conditioning, so there were questions on if it'd even be appropriate for school to last that long if they couldn't keep the building cool... It was a mess. We missed like 8 or 9 days of school due to weather that year.

People decided that didn't work anymore for us, especially after the accident, so we built in snow days and that, paired with the forgiveness thing, took care of the issue.

What do you mean "forgiven". Every year, no matter if its a state of emergency. you need to go 180 days, so if you have a snow day, you make it up in June. Short summer break this year.

Our state has forgiveness that's issued when certain criteria are met. So like they have 5 snow days built in, we've taken 7 days total, and 5 have been forgiven by the state. So we're 2 days into our buildup of 5.

For our district, school ends pretty much every year with the seniors graduating the second Friday of June, then the underclassmen and elementary schools finishing the third Friday of June. School starts the Tuesday after Labor Day. And our 5 built in days aren't really "built in," they're taken elsewhere from the year. So we don't have a fall break in Oct, Thanksgiving break is only Thurs and Fri, teachers gave up "in service days," and we go to school until Dec 23rd, always always, and are back on the Jan 2. We used to gain a day by not taking off MLK day, but that changed after I graduated.

 

[mom2rtk]

I work from home and we're pretty lax about the schedules we follow, but that said, if I'm told a day I'd asked for off I now had to work, I'd be taking my job into my hands if I didn't show up. My husband's work I know, for a fact, he'd be fired. It's not unheard of for the boss to take back an approved vacation... It happened to one manager when the surprise audit happened the week he asked for off, it happened to another manager when a third manager went into labor 4 weeks early... Heck, when I was pregnant, there was, literally, one day the whole month that I couldn't go into labor because he couldn't get the day off. It was a mandatory audit and only he could run it... Naturally, I went into labor, he called his boss and said he couldn't come in because I was in labor. He missed one day, was back at work the day after our son was born, and went straight to the manager's office for his writeup. It even came up on his review.



We used to add days, but the year in question, if we hadn't gotten our forgiveness, school was going to end the last week of June and senior graduation was going to have to be pushed back. My mother was a teacher and the amount of pandemonium it was causing was insane. Underclassmen were due to get out the last week of June, graduation was supposed to be moved from the third to the fourth week of June, despite invitations being printed that said otherwise... People were freaking out because absolutely none of the schools in our district had air conditioning, so there were questions on if it'd even be appropriate for school to last that long if they couldn't keep the building cool... It was a mess. We missed like 8 or 9 days of school due to weather that year.

People decided that didn't work anymore for us, especially after the accident, so we built in snow days and that, paired with the forgiveness thing, took care of the issue.



Our state has forgiveness that's issued when certain criteria are met. So like they have 5 snow days built in, we've taken 7 days total, and 5 have been forgiven by the state. So we're 2 days into our buildup of 5.

For our district, school ends pretty much every year with the seniors graduating the second Friday of June, then the underclassmen and elementary schools finishing the third Friday of June. School starts the Tuesday after Labor Day. And our 5 built in days aren't really "built in," they're taken elsewhere from the year. So we don't have a fall break in Oct, Thanksgiving break is only Thurs and Fri, teachers gave up "in service days," and we go to school until Dec 23rd, always always, and are back on the Jan 2. We used to gain a day by not taking off MLK day, but that changed after I graduated.

It just seems like a lot of unnecessary drama.

We start in mid to late August. We live in a hot area with old schools. So over the past 10 to 15 years we passed bond issues to air condition the buildings. We end up with a scheduled last day of school in late May. But everyone knows there are no snow days built into the schedule, in spite of being in the midwest with lots of snow. We had over a foot of it just today. No school today or tomorrow. But we can all count, and just know the days will be added on. If anyone schedules a non-refundable vacation in the week or two immediately following the planned last day of school, they know they're taking a risk.

No confusion. No angst. No drama. No forgiveness needed. And my son will graduate on time in May regardless of what happens. He's a very happy camper to be up to 4 snow days he knows the underclassmen will make up after he graduates.

 

[ccgirl]

We are in CT and lost 5 days for Sandy (power outages) and 5 days for Blizzard (36 inches, eek!) and 1 day for another random power outage.

We had already lost all of our April vacation because of Sandy but our district held fast on February break which meant 2 weeks off for my DD (ugh). They will be extending our school year past June 21, which is unfortunate because we are away on our summer vacation as of June 22.

Some of the towns around us that eradicated winter and spring vacations in order to make up days were very emphatic that families that had vacation plans during these weeks should not cancel their plans because family time is just as important as school time, which I 100% agree with. I personally find adding days on to the end of the school year in order to "make up time" arbitrary as the grades have already been submitted and it is way too hot in the classrooms to learn anything.

Bolded mine. Your school submits grades before school is even over? In our school, only the last day of school is a free day. Grades aren't submitted until the second to last day of school, even if the school year is extend - which it has been each and every year thus far. Way too hot in the classrooms to learn anything in June?

Again, as a PP mentioned I know snow days are added on to the schedule. Therefore, I don't schedule any vacations until July. That way; we're covered.