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are paid, either across the 10 months we work, or, more usually, across the 12 months of the year. We're paid for working a certain # of days. Inclement weather days aren't docked, because the state provides waivers and funds the district for them. At least, until there are too many and the days have to be made up after the school year was supposed to end.

That's been true for all the districts and both states I've taught in. Even though I don't have to go to work on a snow day, I usually show up for at least part of the day, because it gives me the chance to catch up on paperwork. In my area, we don't close schools very often. Instead, we "delay." School starts two hours late when it's too icy for the busses to run. I slide to work on time anyway, and get that extra time to catch up.

In one place in CA that I taught, we were more likely to have school called for flash flooding than snow; snow days happened every few years, but flash flooding happened every year. I was once stuck with my kids on a campus, watching parents floating in their cars past school, unable to get into the parking lot. I wished they'd called school that day.

That's something the general public doesn't seem to understand, when they talk about all those summers off, etc.; we are paid by the day, for a set # of days. All the rest is unpaid.

School cancellations, though, are funded by the state, so don't affect our pay.