Did teachers get paid the regular way or did they have to use sick time or vacation time for time lost from Sandy ..Or did they have to apply for unemployment like so many had to do ??

you know, the other loca school districts are all taking MLK day, presidents day and 2 from spring break. why do we have to suffer? Which parents did they poll? PTA parents? teachers who have kids in the district? Not me!!!! I don't agree with this. they should take the days NOW. Why wait? if the last 2 months are any indication of what is to come, then we are screwed on days. From the mayor to the superintendent they are all corrupt. Our kids are made to suffer and we are right along with them. They should really rethink their unthought about plan.

This is stupid it will cost the school system big bucks, extend the school year you have to bay the teachers, bus, lunch staff and keep the schools open longer, my stupid idea is to they have to make up about 90 hours extend the school day by one hr. in elementary school in middle and high school add between 5 and 10 minutes each period that’s 5 hrs. each week , cut spring break (2 days)days by a few days as well as Christmas week (2 days) Presidents day, MLK’s birth day and the time would be made up by the end of March. And as for the Superintendent surveying the schools I have many friends in the system and they knew nothing of this!

What does anyone expect to get out of these few last days anyway. Half these kids can't even make it at walmart as it is, why spend any more of my money.

They took away 1 day from the spring break, presidents day & a 1/2 day on Martin Luther King Jr. Day instead of a full day off. I am also a resident with a child in the school system and I was not asked if I wanted my child to go to to school this long. I mean I understand it is and extra 3 days, but what about children that have asthma and these schools don't have a/c only in the business offices. Obviously they don't care. Can you think in 100 degree weather?

I don't get why people are complaining that they are taking days at the end of the year to comply with the state requirement of 180 days in school for the students. This is the way that Brick Schools have done it for at least the last 20 years. Take from the end of June till they can't go due to contracts and then pick away at the other breaks and days off. So why it is such a big deal now just confuses me.

When I was reading this story my though was 'duh, of course they are taking day in June.'

Teachers won't get paid more they are salary and they have to work the set amount of days and if those are snow days or hurricane days it is all the same. They chose not to have their spring break taken away so now our children pay by going to school in the early summer. I know in past years they took a poll and if a staff memeber had vacation planned for spring break they had to show proof they booked this vacation before the time off occurred and if not then they had to work those days taken away.

Teachers get paid a salary. They didn't get docked pay when school was closed for sandy, but will also not get extra pay for the extended year. If a teachers salary is 50k....that's what they will be paid....there is no overtime pay in education. And if it is too hot outside towards the end of June the district will call for half days....so everyone who is so worried will still be able to get to the beach with their kid on those days. Suck it up people, things happen....if they took away spring break, you would have people on here complaining about that. The only thing that would change any of this is if the state declared certain districts exempt from the 180 rule this year, and they will not do that because all the districts who didn't have to close for sandy will be angry. And BTW, its not just about the teachers being contracted to work a set amount of days....it is the law for students to be in session for 180 days (minus sick days) or they are not considered to have completed that school year.

1) kids should NOT be off for MLking day anyway ...
2) most parents that have to work during the day & have younger children this will actually help, NOT worrying where they are going to have the kids in Feb ( winter break)
3) After memorial day its just going threw the motions, lets be honest, class rooms over 80 degrees children are not learning anyway ....

@ Kate If the kids are called out on 1/2 a days ( do the teachers still get paid for a full day? is that deduced from the salary?)
NO sure what you are talking about going to the beach????
MOST ( not all) people work year round.. they don't get " summers off.
I've been retired for 6 years, & I meet more teachers on the beach then any other profession. & yes they take their vacation days those days it to hot to be in the classrooms YET, the kids are expected to be in the classroom learning) seems very hypocritical to me

You are right, bayboat. And, we have lots of winter ahead of us, so the Board may have to chip away at other days before we're done. Mother Nature obviously doesn't check the school calendar before she dumps on us. So no more complaining, please. You're not setting a good example for the kids.

Meteorologists, weathermen, climatologists, politicians and illusionists.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

if only 7 days need to be made up so why not just do some 1/2 days on saturdays for a few weeks instead of running into the end of June. Make up the time now as quickly as possible before (if) any snow days hit. Afterall it's the work that was missed this semester (especially for the HS students w/ the block schedule and their finals) that needs to be covered not material to be covered for the upcoming semester.

The teachers' contract is from Sept.1st until June 30th.

We just had the biggest storm ever to hit New Jersey and you people still manage to blame teachers. If you think teachers have it made in the shade, you too could have gone to college to become a teacher.

Teachers get paid for 180 days; There is no union involved unless it goes over the last day of June which is when their contract runs out. I personally think they should use spring break; no matter what they use someone would complain!