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.<\/p>\n
Scratch\u00a0possibly<\/em>, but not because I think it’s moved up to number one. It’s definitely\u00a0not<\/em> the most foolish decision I’ve ever witnessed, because I’m now living through\u00a0this<\/em> week–the week of two-hour delays.<\/p>\n 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\u00a0Monday<\/em> for the entire week. (I’d never heard of calling more than one day at a time, even in a God damn blizzard.)<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n One word for this week…<\/p>\n weak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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\u00a0possibly, but not because I think it’s moved up to number one. It’s definitely\u00a0not … Continue reading