Last week when my local school district called five snow days in a row I thought it was possibly the most foolish decision I’d ever witnessed.

Scratch possibly, but not because I think it’s moved up to number one. It’s definitely not the most foolish decision I’ve ever witnessed, because I’m now living through this week–the week of two-hour delays.

Yeah, my local school district (that would be Loudoun County Public Schools) has called for five consecutive two-hour delays, an unprecedented move set in place Monday for the entire week. (I’d never heard of calling more than one day at a time, even in a God damn blizzard.)

The two-hour delay schedule exacerbates one of the great problems in education today: too much “teacher” time and not enough “student” time. Squeezing the student-facing time a little more just makes the not-enough-time problem a little more not-enough.

One word for this week…

weak.