Snow Days February 9, 2010

Most teachers will tell you that one of the most exciting parts about being a teacher in the winter is the possibility of a snow day.

SNOW DAY (noun) (1)A time period where the weather makes it dangerous for travel, so school is canceled. (2) A day when teachers can get done all of the things that they had been meaning to do but didn’t have the time. (3) A day when every teacher has their TV on at 5:30 in the morning waiting for their school’s name to be displayed at the bottom of the screen.

Well, folks, we do the snow dance every year, but this year I think we might have danced too long!  Today is my sixth snow day in a row!  We have had one snow storm after another, so the snow is just piling on top of itself and the roads are way too icy for school buses to drive safely.

It has been a really nice break, but with another snow storm coming tonight, I am beginning to actually picture the math that I taught my students flying out of their heads.  Two full weeks of no learning will not be good when the state test time rolls around.

I can imagine that about 2% of my students’ parents have made their child open their school bag and review a few things.  Those are the good parents who actually care about their child’s education.  The other 98% have probably not even talked to their child about school since the last time the principal called to tell them that little Johnny beat little Jimmy up in the lunch line.