Hehe. Most of my teachers were absent, so we did absolutely no work all day.

I shoveled my house at 5:30am. I was in school by 7:30am.

The majority of our staff was here yesterday. We treated it like a regular day, regular instruction, etc.

Teaching isn't easy and tons of vacation is a definite perk. But a work day is a work day. Snow or not. If school is open I'm there (same goes for the majority of the people I work with).

Yeah but you get to come home to a Baby Friday. Not all people are so lucky.

I really wished for a snow day but sucked it up when it was not.

Baby Friday?

Not the "real" teacherman I guess...

I don't get it, it didn't even snow that much.

Trying telling that to many teachers who commute from the suburbs. The first order of business is shovel the driveway.

Bloomberg could have at least have the decently to announce a 2 hour delay.

If a teacher is late: fine. If a teacher decides not to show up because of less than a foot of snow: ridiculous. Teachers get the whole summer off, a winter break, holiday break, and a spring break. The least they could do is make it in each of the other days. The rest of us get 2 weeks off a year, and we suck it up and go in when the weather is bad. Yesterday's snow wasn't even that bad.

The rest of us, too, don't have to grade papers, write curricula, create tests, talk to parents, sponsor after-school activities, and generally work from 7am to 7 or 8pm every day.

Ah yes, those teachers have it easy!

At 5,6,7,8am it was bad. By late morning and afternoon everything was fine after the digging out process was just about done.

I went running at 6:30am. It was not bad. It was not even snowing.

Don't forget that many teachers live in NJ, CT, SI, and LI.

Berkeley Carroll canceled classes the night before!

5am notification is an idiotic policy.

when i was growing up this wasn't true... :-\