Wow . A lot of people really didn ' t like this . To clarify , I teach at a school where our students are also enrolled at the local JC . Which our school pays for , for them . This is an optin school . The students are there by choice . College is in session that day . The school calendar is approved by the board and published the previous May . It ' s not like ' oh , surprise , you have to go to school today . '. They know 6 months in advance . That still hasn ' t stopped the occasional student from the week long cruise in September , or extending our 3 week winter break another MONTH visiting family out of the country . Normally , I work with kids , even for unexcused absences . I would NEVER not go over new material with a kid , or not review for a kid who needed it . My contractual day is 755320 . I arrive at 740 because I have to drop off my daughter at her school . Before , I used to arrive at 7 am . I stay after school to help my students until 430 or 5 pm almost every day . I rarely get lunch because I have kids in my room . Yes , i ' m strict . Many kids think I ' m mean . But I take 9 th grades who are generally at least 2 years behind where they should be , and over the course of 3 years , have them able to take Calc at the JC , and earn As and Bs . Yes , that ' s Alg 1 , 2 , Geo , and Precalculus , plus remediation in 3 years . Yes , I have them for 23 years . It ' s a smaller school . There is only one other math teacher . So , yes . I gave a quiz one of about 20 over the semester the day before break . One that is worth maximum 1 % of their grade . That they knew about a week in advance . Any kid who needed that 1 % that badly already had other options available to improve their grades . Like correcting previous tests for 12 credit on missed problems . One test correction can be with as much as 2 % of their grade , depending on how badly they bombed the test . Also , academically it makes sense , because it gives me the weekend to grade it and yes , I will be heading and lesson planning this weekend . As I do every weekend . I will then have a lesson for Monday designed to remediate and misunderstandings as well as extend for those who understand the topics . There is little point in assessing those who might have been gone that day , as the remediation lesson would have already occurred , and the grade impact is minimal at best .