No More Snow Days?!

We have had much more than our fair share of snow days this school year.  But even should we see winters in the future as cold and snowy as this one, snow day vacations may be a thing of the past.

"At 9 a.m. on Thursday the snow was piling high outside and officials had long since made the call to shutter the local schools.

But Alexa H. Hirschberg, 17, was not curled up in bed, watching videos on her Netflix account or making plans on Facebook for sledding with her boyfriend. She was showered and dressed, seated before a laptop in her family’s kitchen searching for the day’s assignments her French teacher had left online. School was out, but she was in virtual class.

As classrooms become more electronically connected, public schools around the country are exploring whether they can use virtual learning as a practical solution to unpredictable weather, effectively transforming the traditional snow day into a day of instruction."

So, now we have something else to blame the Internet for.  Ha!  This type of virtual learning may take time to trickle down to schools nationwide, so you will all have likely graduated before it becomes a cause for concern.  But, you may one day feel very old when your children and grandchildren ask you about the strange, ancient rite of passage once known as the Snow Day.