As a student back in the dark ages I remember waking up to snow outside and racing to the television to see if school had been called off. My brother and I would wait and wait and wait until our town came on the screen. On those rare days when it happened, it was the best news anyone could ever hear. I could go back to sleep, play with friends and go sledding on the street I lived on because the town would always plow the street in at the bottom.. As we got older we would go to Isaac E. Young Junior High School that had a really steep hill. We would make jumps to see if we could catch some air. We were lucky if we came back without someone getting hurt but we would still go every time we could. As we got even older, it was a great way to make money because we would go from street to street to see if someone would pay us to shovel out their driveway or house ( This was back in the day when snow blowers were very uncommon.) Those were great days.
I hope it is the same for our students in the Hudson School District. The drama of waiting to see if your school's name came across the screen on the TV has gone away with the use of the Alert Now System. The phone call comes early in the morning and it wakes up the whole house. For parents, many times they can't get back to sleep and then for the younger students finding day care has to become the priority. When the day does not go as normal, people get out of sync and the day can start off bad. For the students, having the day off is a great thing but making up days, now 5 days, up in mid-June when it is hot is something people are going to complain about. Plans to go away have to be changed, for AHS students finding a way to get exams in is always a concern. This is the down side.
I would hope that everyone would remember in June the elation of finding out they had a day off in January. When it is really really hot on the third floor on June 21st while you are taking an exam, remember that really great feeling of turning off the alarm, rolling over and gently falling back to sleep.
Students, enjoy the snow days while you can. When you are out of school, you still have to go into work even when it snows just like me.
This post made me smile so much! When i read it I thought of this year and how on every snowday we have had so far my sister and i got all of our snow gear on and ran outside. We grabed our tubes and went tubing down the hill in our front yard.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand I'm not happy about the extended school days, but I'm ok with them as long as i get to make the most out of this winter!
Is it possible to just get rid of February vacation? Wouldnt giving a 5 day weekend instead be easier to make up the extra snow days and still kind of have a vacation?
ReplyDeleteI have lived here for 10 years and this is the most snow ever. i have built 2 snow caves and one tunnle. one of the caves could fit me, my mom, my sister and my beagl, brandy!
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