Poll of the Day > Schools closed for the rest of the school year.

(+) Yeah! (+)

Kids pass with their current grade and receive all credits. They now have the next 5.5 months off.

Teachers are to work on a "supplemental program with distance and alternative learning" for students who wish to keep learning. In other words, busy work in order to justify continuing to pay them (and they should still get paid, to be clear).

Was expecting classes to get cancelled. Wasn't expecting them to cancel the entire school year.

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Lol the kids likely won't even be noticably effected. Just swap the ancient cronies for college subs.
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It's late enough in the year that I'm inclined to agree. First semester of University could be rough if the new grads choose to go that route, as they'll be missing some important material. But for the most part, playing catch-up shouldn't be too bad.

I certainly feel for the parents that need to come up with a 6 month child care plan though, especially with daycares also closing. And you aren't supposed to get the grandparents to do it, even if that's normally an option for you.

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Dynalo posted...

Kids pass with their current grade and receive all credits. They now have the next 5.5 months off.

Teachers are to work on a "supplemental program with distance and alternative learning" for students who wish to keep learning. In other words, busy work in order to justify continuing to pay them (and they should still get paid, to be clear).

Was expecting classes to get cancelled. Wasn't expecting them to cancel the entire school year.

What if somebody was failing already?
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It just said that they will receive a grade "based on their current grade" and "students will progress to the next grade"

So likely if they had a failing grade, it'll get bumped up to a bare minimum passing grade.

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Dynalo posted...

It just said that they will receive a grade "based on their current grade" and "students will progress to the next grade"

So likely if they had a failing grade, it'll get bumped up to a bare minimum passing grade.

Sounds like you lucked out, Revelation!

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*kid pries eyes from phone* Whats school? That place I play mobile fortnite?

Sarcasthma posted...

Sounds like you lucked out, Revelation!

How can I luck out over grades if I have no grades?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBqiC5ox8Bw

Where are you, TC? Almost sounds like Alberta, except students don't pass with their current grade.

We worked our asses off today. We're coming up with a unified approach to dealing with these class cancellations.

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Not surprised, last I heard they were recommending keeping them closed 8 weeks. Given that it is already mid-March, if they do only make it 8 weeks it will already be less then a month before summer break (here at least, I know some places end sooner)

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faramir77 posted...

Where are you, TC? Almost sounds like Alberta, except students don't pass with their current grade.

We worked our asses off today. We're coming up with a unified approach to dealing with these class cancellations.

Sask. They did a complete 180. Said yesterday that schools will remain open. Then this morning said to keep your kids home if you can, and you have until the end of the week to figure out arrangements for child care.

The teachers were left completely in the dark. It literally hit the media before the teachers were told a damn thing. So this whole coming up with a plan for distance/alternative learning wasn't at all discussed with them and made public anyways. For most of them though, they'll get to "work" from home, so it's basically just a few extra months off with pay. That being said, things could change for the teachers, given that they have not been involved in any of the plans whatsoever so far.

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Dikitain posted...

Not surprised, last I heard they were recommending keeping them closed 8 weeks. Given that it is already mid-March, if they do only make it 8 weeks it will already be less then a month before summer break (here at least, I know some places end sooner)

What most people were expecting was being closed all of March and April, plan to go back in May, extend school to the end of July and only have one month of holidays. Completely shutting down and passing all students was a bit unexpected for everyone.

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quigonzel posted...

Is this confirmed? Last I heard was just until the end of the month.

https://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/news-and-media/2020/march/16/class-suspensions


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Revelation34 posted...

How can I luck out over grades if I have no grades?

thatsthejoke.png

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Lol the kids likely won't even be noticably effected. Just swap the ancient cronies for college subs.

*Affected.

Can't help it, the now inactive teacher in me is restless.


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Schools are pretty empty today I hear. Not at all surprising.

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Bloodychess posted...

*Affected.

Can't help it, the now inactive teacher in me is restless.

Technically "effected" could work in that sentence, it'd just pretty much completely reverse the meaning of it.

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Things are already re-opening here for final-exams year students...

Everything is just so confusing for me right now...

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Dynalo posted...

Kids pass with their current grade and receive all credits. They now have the next 5.5 months off.

Teachers are to work on a "supplemental program with distance and alternative learning" for students who wish to keep learning. In other words, busy work in order to justify continuing to pay them (and they should still get paid, to be clear).

Was expecting classes to get cancelled. Wasn't expecting them to cancel the entire school year.

Eh, it's public education. I'm sure the aggregate learning will be the same.

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in Los Angels, schools out for a few weeks, i wonder if they'll make it permanent also, ok?

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dedbus posted...

*kid pries eyes from phone* Whats school? That place I play mobile fortnite?

haha kids phones funny

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There was no joke. Just being actual factual.

Teachers are now just off with pay next week while the school board figures out what they want them to work on while the kids are off. They'll go back to work in April, likely with instructions to create some kind of distance learning program.

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And we've declared a state of emergency. Fun times had by no one.

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I wish my grad school would close for the year >_>

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The universities just transitioned to only online classes. No free pass for them.

I'm interested to see how this will impact the grade 12 students who wish to go to university. They'll be missing nearly 4 months of material, assuming the universities even choose to recognize that they have the required credit.

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I was already doing online classes anyway I just don't want to finish this semester <_<

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I'm a Saskatonian and this is the first I've heard of this.
Man I would have loved to have a 5.5 month long Summer break as a kid. That would have been like a dream come true.

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