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Subject: What are "spares"??

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Pam

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Date Posted: 13:39:55 10/07/02 Mon
In reply to: Hope 's message, "Too many" on 13:18:31 10/07/02 Mon

I've never heard of spares. I assume they're some sort of days that high schoolers can take off?

The snow days here are a weird thing. Oklahoma generally doesn't get much snow, there have been years when there wasn't even any snow at all on any school day, let alone enough to close school. There are two built in snow days to cover it if school has to close, if they're not used they give them to the kids later. Kids are required to be in school a certain number of days per year, so if they didn't budget in snow days, and school was out, they'd have to take them away from another vacation or add them on to the end of the school year. Last year when we had the ice storm, that took the two snow days, and they had to cover the last one by taking a day away from Easter break.

Pam

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Hope
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Date Posted: 14:21:37 10/07/02 Mon

During a school day the kids here have several classes. Their day is broken up into 4 blocks. 2 before lunch and 2 after. Sometimes there are no classes in a block so they have a spare. It's suppose to be used so they have extra time to study but it's used more for them to goof off.

M started with only D block as a spare but now that he's changed his math to a 3 semister split, and it doesn't start until next month, he's got 2 spares now... A and D block. Really tough eh? Most days he doesn't even have to be at school until 9:30. He better be coming home with some incredible grades in the two classes he does have left... LOL

H