The anthem of summer break; the warmth of the sun on your face, the breeze caressing
your cheeks and sleeping until the sun comes through your window. We always long for more
schoolless
days as the next school year draws near, so why yearn for more snow days when
they take away your glorious summer break?
Last year, LHS had eight snow days, which took away a week and three days from our
summer break. I noticed when I was deprived of eight glorious days of sleeping until noon. I
know the coldness of winter days make your bed look extremely friendly, but the way school
feels when it is dark and gloomy outside makes the day go by fast. Teachers feel the same
dull and drowsy feeling we do, making lesson plans slide into stories and class bonding time.
When we were in elementary school, snow days meant sledding, snowball fights, and
building snowmen. However, as highschoolers, we usually end up in our pajamas all day,
watching movies and doing homework that was due the same day, things we could have done
on the weekend. As high schoolers we are expected to continue our studies even on days we
have off. Teachers still send us lessons we must complete on snow days, making these “off
days” full of more work than we would have done at school.
Last year on one of our many snow days, I woke up around nine thinking of nothing but hot
chocolate and movies. These thoughts were immediately crushed when I looked at my phone
to see a Remind101 from one of my teachers, saying we had to read an article and answer
comprehensive questions, making that snow day more work than I wanted it to be.
May I remind you that ACT and EOC testing dates don’t change. So while we were having
an all right time at home doing nothing productive we could have been receiving valuable
lessons on how to be prepared and ready for the tests that may or may not determine how our
futures turn out. When do we usually have snow days? During the beginning of the new year,
closest to these important tests. I need those days of teaching by my teachers so I can learn
any last minute facts that may be on the tests.
Snow days happen in the middle of the school year when teachers administrators and
students are still stressing over the year, meaning those days aren’t spent in total relaxation.
Summer days, however, are spent with little to no thought of school giving us a whole new
degree of relaxation we don’t experience during the school year. Snow days take away those
weeks of total relaxation and replace it with winter days that make our shoulders tense up
thinking about what we will have to do for the next day of school.
It is universal knowledge that school is hard, tiring work. This fact should make you take
stop crossing your fingers and toes in hope of a snow day and instead hope for school so we
can have the full summer we were promised before Missouri decided to snow like we depend
on it for our water supply. Say “no” to snow days and stay in school, kids.