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Do kids have zoom classes for weather days?

Posted on 1/25/26 at 11:57 am
Posted by Rouge
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Posted on 1/25/26 at 11:57 am
They did it for a year during Covid. Seems to reason that an easy transition to a day of home learning is already in place.
Posted by bad93ex
Walnut Cove
Member since Sep 2018
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Posted on 1/25/26 at 11:58 am to
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They did it for a year during Covid. Seems to reason that an easy transition to a day of home learning is already in place.



They stopped it because the days it took to lesson plan would be astronomical.
Posted by Aguga
Member since Aug 2021
3833 posts
Posted on 1/25/26 at 11:58 am to
In some places yes, in others no.
Posted by DustyDinkleman
Here
Member since Feb 2012
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Posted on 1/25/26 at 11:59 am to
Covid created the invention of NTI days and we have had them every year since.

Anytime the weather is bad they make it an NTI day.
Posted by Rouge
Floston Paradise
Member since Oct 2004
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Posted on 1/25/26 at 12:00 pm to
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They stopped it because the days it took to lesson plan would be astronomical.


Please help me understand why the lesson plan would change. We are talking about a change of learning medium and not a change of what's going on in the class.
Posted by Rouge
Floston Paradise
Member since Oct 2004
138309 posts
Posted on 1/25/26 at 12:02 pm to
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NTI


I am not familiar with this acronym
Posted by danilo
Member since Nov 2008
25183 posts
Posted on 1/25/26 at 12:02 pm to
Do all students have laptop, iPads, or reliable internet to do this? Think those were given out due to the prolonged nature of the lab made China virus
Posted by LSUguy2023
St. George
Member since Oct 2021
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Posted on 1/25/26 at 12:04 pm to
Zoom classes and remote learning are just a way for school boards and admin to make themselves feel good.

All a parent and or kid has to say is “my internet went out due to the weather. It’s not fair that I’m getting a zero on this assignment and didn’t get the notes”

So all these BS remote learning days do is make extra work for the teachers, but hey admin and school boards feel good about themselves.
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
14358 posts
Posted on 1/25/26 at 12:09 pm to
Yeah, remote learning worked so well during COVID that
quote:

We find that a year of school closure is associated with learning loss equivalent to 1.1 years’ worth of learning and that school reopening reduced these losses down to 0.5 years. While partial recovery is observed, some learning losses persisted even after schools reopened


It's a fricking joke. Even now that every kid in my school district is issued a crapbook (Chromebook, but that's how my teenager refers to it,) they barely learn shite, because they're typing, and not writing. Most of them are multi tasking, distracted, etc.
Posted by nicholastiger
Member since Jan 2004
54836 posts
Posted on 1/25/26 at 12:13 pm to
They have days this year since no hurricane delays
Not putting kids at the bus stop is a wise move tomorrow morning
Posted by TigerintheNO
New Orleans
Member since Jan 2004
44501 posts
Posted on 1/25/26 at 12:20 pm to
My niece and nephew go to school in Indiana and they have zoom classes on snow days
Posted by MSTiger33
Member since Oct 2007
21516 posts
Posted on 1/25/26 at 12:21 pm to
NYC public schools. Mamdani said frick them kids. Private schools get the snow day
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
73109 posts
Posted on 1/25/26 at 12:22 pm to
Nah, if they have the weather days let them use them. They're figured into the calendar for a reason. Doing remote or zoom classes should only happen after you've ran out of weather days.
Posted by UKWildcats
Lexington, KY
Member since Mar 2015
19292 posts
Posted on 1/25/26 at 12:32 pm to
I don't have kids, but my opinion is I was born in '83 and we go to go out and play with our friends on snow days and then make up the days during the remainder of the year.

Older me initially thinks like OP.....they have the means to have classes now regardless. But I think they'd be better served getting to experience snow days with their friends and having their butts in their seats in front of their teacher. I've done plenty of online learning classes....in person is a much much better way to go.
Posted by HogBalls
Member since Nov 2014
9070 posts
Posted on 1/25/26 at 12:36 pm to
quote:

They did it for a year during Covid. Seems to reason that an easy transition to a day of home learning is already in place.


“That’s racist!! Some POC do not have access to WI-FI!!” ~ Some stupid white liberal
This post was edited on 1/25/26 at 12:37 pm
Posted by Ryan3232
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Member since Dec 2008
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Posted on 1/25/26 at 12:37 pm to
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Covid created the invention of NTI days and we have had them every year since. Anytime the weather is bad they make it an NTI day.
Would have been nice for you to explain what this means.

Posted by Bubb
Member since Mar 2010
4250 posts
Posted on 1/25/26 at 12:44 pm to
Probably not if we don't have power. And some students do not have computers at home.
Posted by Jmcc64
alabama
Member since Apr 2021
1953 posts
Posted on 1/25/26 at 12:45 pm to
our local county schools had remote learning last Friday due to so many kids sick.
Posted by Coach72
Lafayette
Member since Dec 2009
1730 posts
Posted on 1/25/26 at 1:34 pm to
No, because many of our urban yutes and country bumpkins wouldn't do the assignmnet, would claim they don't have the technology or means to, and it would therefore be discriminatory to hold them accountable - and then they'd have to do grade recovery, credit recovery, attandance recovery (on the taxpayers dime) to make up for it.

Safety nets - safety nets everywhere.
This post was edited on 1/25/26 at 1:36 pm
Posted by dallastigers
Member since Dec 2003
10044 posts
Posted on 1/25/26 at 1:40 pm to
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quote:

NTI


I am not familiar with this acronym


I didn’t get it either and had to look it up.

The below is from a school district in Kentucky
quote:

A Non-Traditional Instruction (NTI) Day allows learning to continue when inclement weather prevents students from attending school in person. Instead of a traditional snow day that must be made up later, students complete assignments at home while being counted present for the day. These assignments come from core subjects including reading, mathematics, science, and social studies and allow students to continue learning even during weather disruptions.
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