Rabbitch

If they called it District Wide My God We Need Happy Hour day, no one would keep their kids home.
 

I wouldn't even dignify that day by naming it Fred.
 

We had the day and a half off for parent/teacher conferences. Which about 10 days out suddenly became half day Thursday, all day Friday, AND all day Monday off. Which a few days later became ALL DAY off Thursday, Friday, and Monday. Because it's not like knowing in advance might be convenient or anything!!!
 

So you guys have those days up there, too, eh? I swear we didn't have that many days off when I was in school...
 

Just asked DH what a curriculum day is (he teaches 6th Grade). He said, "professional day". I asked what they do...he said, "I dunno, depends on the school".

Useful, huh?

But, really what I do know is that they have people teach them better ways to teach kids who have challenges, better ways to deal with kids who are bullying other kids, and there is a certain amount of teaching the newer ways to teach...Which is also what your preschool had...how to deal with recalcitrant toilet learners, for instance ;-)

Probably, the teachers are learning about or working to put together parts of a new curriculum. It's a good thing ;-)
 

I totally understand what you mean by a teacher that "gets" your kid. Seth (my oldest) has had a couple of those. Be thankful, very thankful. If only the world had more teachers like that.
 

I'm SO GLAD you have a teacher that gets you and E!!! And I'm so glad E has a mom like you!
And yes, the number of days that teachers get off is RIDICULOUS!! At least here in the US. Yes, come at me teachers! You'all work the equivalent of a part-time job. Yes, that is true. I dare any of you to work years in a row with only 2 weeks off!! That's 10 days for the entire year! And that's working 9-6 minimum every single week. Over and over and over again.

charli
charlizeen yahoooooooooo
 

Like my commuter train with "Efficiency Testing". They unexpectedly, during normal train operations, stop the trains, make them travel at very specifics speeds over a certain length of track, etc. This makes the train late, which the passengers do not see as "efficient" at all!
 

My favourite is when my BIL tells us they really need all this time off in the summer because of all the stress they deal with during the school year. Like no-one else ever has stress in their job...
My husband (owns his own business) often says he'd like a planning day, but hey, in the real world, life does tend to go on.
 

To paraphrase from Mandy himself in Princess Bride, "I don't think that word means what you think it means" may be the best response for Curriculum Implementation Day!
 

A voice in the wilderness here... yeah, it's a bad name for a workday of Professional Continuing Education (and it _is_ work for the teachers). But 9 to 6? _Only_ 9 to 6? Easy. Teachers work a lot of unpaid hours at home preparing lessons for classes and grading schoolwork.
 

Ugh, professional development days...I hate 'em. We have to sit all day through lecture after lecture of how to use the new curriculum and they they say "We'll be in next week to make sure you are all doing this right at exactly the same time, right after we re-do the bell schedule, ruin your art and music time, and rearrange all your classes, but only for 2 hours a day." No pressure there.
 

Ah, yes. Our school district has Staff Development Days, Classified Staff Holidays, Classified Holidays, and Teacher Work Days.

Which are mostly School Closed days, God forbid we actually *say* that.

And yes, God bless the daycares that potty train our kids! And tiny porcelain toilets! Yessssss.