Teacher's Travel To District Wide Staff Development Tomorrow

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The Diocese in charge of the Catholic School System that my school is a part of is hosting a district wide Staff Development day tomorrow in the Raleigh, the state capital. It will be an all day event, starting at 9am and running until 4pm. The timing means that those of us coming from out of town will have to fight our way through traffic to get there and again to get home. Makes me glad I am riding with a colleague who offered to drive if I'd help pay for gas. If the Diocese's training is anything like the Staff Development I attended over the years as a public school teacher, 90% of it will be completely useless and the other 10% that might be useful will be presented in such a way as to be too boring to pay attention to. Because some of our sister schools and their staff farther east in North Carolina are still struggling to recover from the recent hurricane, they will not be in attendance at tomorrows event. The rest of us are going to make a special offering at the Mass that opens the event to help those schools get back on their feet. Students get a day off tomorrow since all us teachers will be gone. In all honesty, my colleagues and me would rather have cancelled the staff development and used the day to make up one of the lost storm days. That was not an option. I'm sure we had days off from school for teacher training days when I was a kid but can't remember any specifically. I do remember having substitutes when one or the other of my junior high or high school teachers would take a couple days off to attend training. Do you remember being out of school for teacher conference days?