Snow Days!

It is truly not possible to determine who loves Snow Days more—teachers or students?  So for the benefit of not causing any issues, let’s just say it is 50/50.  But, it isn’t.  It is really, truly, factually, scientifically, and abundantly proven that teachers love Snow Days even more than students. 

When I was first teaching and we had a Snow Day, I went to school the next day and told the veteran teachers how much grading I got done and how I had planned ahead and felt so productive and pretty awesome.  They all stared at me with a “What’chu talkin’ bout Willis?” look.  One teacher put her arm around me and said very sweetly, but also quite seriously, “Um, you are not supposed to do any school work on a Snow Day, dear.”  Then it was my turn for the “What’chu talkin’ bout Willis?” look.  She continued, “Snow Days are a gift from God to teachers and he doesn’t want you to work.  He wants you to take the day off and sleep, read, make a snowman, do ANY thing you want to do, EXCEPT any school work.”  All the other teachers nodded and it seemed like the phrases “gift from God” and “NO school work” and “read, sleep, make a snowman” were leaving their lips and forming these crazy dream-like bubbles that started swirling around my head so that they would never EVER be forgotten. 

And those were the days when one had to listen to the radio for school closing or watch the scroll at the bottom of the screen before declaring a Snow Day victory.   Nowadays, a nice phone call or text and BAM, turn the alarm off!  Back to sleep, and no school work today!

Oh, and every once and awhile those weather people do such a nice job preparing us for snow storms that some schools declare a snow day the night before and we don’t even have to wait for the call or text in the morning.  Those snow days are Gifts from God with a cherry on top.