If there’s something more astoundingly wonderful when you’re a kid than waking up on a school day and seeing mountains of snow and ice covering the roads, we’re not sure what it is.
Snow days, simply put, are pure gold. They’re a god-given right of every kid living in cities with actual winters, moments of pure joy when an otherwise awful Tuesday is blessed by six inches of fresh snow and, bam!, suddenly it’s time for video games all day.
No one would dare screw with the snow days, would they? That level of blasphemy simply wouldn’t be tolerated in America, right?
Apparently not.
One school near Columbus is intent on destroying the hallowed tradition of the Snow Day forever and ever.
This article appears in Oct 20-26, 2010.
I am from Mississinawa Vally School – I work there, this is my 26th year. We are not at all close to Columbus, Ohio. We are 2 hours west. The state line of Ohio/Indiana runs directly through the middle of our town. We are a very small community. Our total student population for preschool through grade 12 runs around 725.
You seem to be under the impression that our students are not going to get any snow days. This is not at all true. Our students are going to get 3 snow days like every other student who goes to school in Ohio. The difference comes when we get to day 4 and 5. Those are the days we will be using the internet lessons for. In past years the state of Ohio has allowed schools to have 5 snow days. This school year they reduced that to 3 with plans in the future to take those away as well. When other schools will have to actually use time later in the school year or summer to make these two days up, we will have already done that. The public is very misinformed about how this is going to work.
Those who work in education know how important it is to have the opportunity to have as many instructional days before the statewide testing that goes on in the spring is. This new and inovative concept will help achieve this goal.