I'm VERY anti "Remote Learning" on snow days.

[becomingwisest@hachyderm.io]

@futurebird I’m reminded of my kids school having a short winter holiday. Which has lead to kids missing school days because of covid, or other infections because they traveled back from visiting family just before school starts again. But it could allow parents to start summer sooner.

[theorangetheme@en.osm.town]

@futurebird It's so ridiculous. If I were a parent in the Year of our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-Six, I would simply shut the laptop and tell my kid(s) to go play in the snow. "Sorry, they won't be online today, they're 'sick'. Yeah, bad cold, going around. They'll be fine tomorrow."

Everyone needs a break, and no break hits quite like a snow day when you're a li'l nine-year-old. I have so many fond snow day memories. Kids have enough going on. We should let them take a day off to be kids.

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@futurebird @barrygoldman1 I so hate the "mandatory number of school days".

There should be a mandatory number of scheduled days, but with no make-up requirement for any sort of closure necessitated by weather/emergency unless it becomes extreme. Then what to do should be decided by actual people, not inflexible policy.

[geonz@mathstodon.xyz]

@futurebird @meltedcheese Baltimore called off school for a hurricane when I was a teacher and similar sleep deprived and the storm went out to sea after an hour of rain. I invented Saint Murphy who gives you a break when you need it out of the blue

[iams@mastodon.social]

@futurebird We recently had a one hour remote session (snow day) which my child was very excited to participate in. They used it as a means of being in charge -- selecting which device to use, where in the house to set-up, and practiced the remote-in process. This session was an hour. While I had no remote learning as a kid, I can understand and support these short "check-ins". For mine the routine matters. I can also understand that it may challenge some families, or teachers, esp. if all-day.

[iams@mastodon.social]

@futurebird At their age they have no control over when, how, or where they go to school -- and it is expected that they go. A very short session where they have control, meet expectation, can see their peers, and spend the rest of the day in play at homr seems like a positive. That was our experience, anyway. All criticism thus far voiced is absolutely valid. I expect our experience is the exception.

[rvlara23@mastodon.social]

@futurebird

Absolutely.

And to that end, everyone should get to mail it in, adults too.

Bc work is fucking stupid everyday.

[extra_special_carbon@mastodon.world]

@futurebird Yeah, around here the kids get AMI days, which are packets they do instead of school. In reality, this is just trying to get out of the mandatory minimum school days so they don’t have to add days at the end of the year.

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@RVLara23

God did not put me on this Earth to work. I was born into this world for THREE things: to count ants, make puns, and spout nonsense.

[marcushayes@union.place]

@futurebird

Our elementary district's policy is that the first legit snow day -not for extreme cold or a burst pipe- is a full cancelation for kids to play and have the day. After that, they do e-learning days, which is good so summer break can start on time.

[donray@mastodon.online]

@futurebird

That would be fair. It could lead to a few kids getting the extra attention they need.

[rvlara23@mastodon.social]

@futurebird

Exactly. No one was put here to work.

We were put here to enjoy life. To enjoy friends and family. To relax and have fun.

Working to death for some company that will never give a shit about you is one of the dumbest goals anyone could ever have.

Planning to work until you're 70 or 75 is ridiculous.

We should be figuring out how we can work less not more.

[flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange]

@futurebird @RVLara23
> I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.

-Kurt Vonnegut

[lupus_blackfur@mastodon.world]

@futurebird
@briankrebs

➕➕➕💯💯💯

As it was in my youth...

Dad had my 5yr old self sledding in the front yard. In South Fort Worth.

Good times.

[rvlara23@mastodon.social]

@flyingsaceur @futurebird

A freaking MEN

[log@mastodon.sdf.org]

@futurebird Everything that can be done to give a child a fleeting moment of magic, should be done, because each memory adds 1MP to their mana pool, to cast spells to benefit the next generation.

[life_is@no-pony.farm]

---->Friedrich Merz: es ist falsch halbtagsarbeit zu verbieten. es geht darum ameisen zu zählen, heiẞe schokolade zu trinken, schlitten zu fahren und eine kerze am lübckedenkmal anzuzünden.

[paulwermer@sfba.social]

@futurebird

I'm an old guy, and I still remember my grade school snow days with pleasure. Excitement, freedom, joy. Eagerly listening to the morning radio to find out if my school was on the closed list. Those are good memories.

[lovestha@floss.social]

@futurebird @gbargoud union says no?

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@futurebird I think I'd be okay with it if there's more than two consecutive days of snow. Otherwise, seems like a lot of effort for nowhere near enough gain.