[Regarding “BCS Revises Academic Calendar After Weather Cancellations,” March 12, Xpress:]
Buncombe County needs to seriously reexamine its policies and procedures for “winter weather.” I put that in quotation marks because every other Buncombe County Schools (BCS) parent I know knows that what qualifies as “winter weather” in this county does not need to be particularly wintry and doesn’t even need to actually manifest as actual weather for there to be cancellations or delays.
The option to make an easy decision to go to remote learning only makes this worse. Remote learning is, especially for younger students, largely laughable. It’s not enough work with enough engagement. It is essentially busy work that gets qualified as “instruction time.” I believe that the intent is for more than that…