Kids and Snow Days

[mattdavis11]

I thought about this the other day, the kids these days are getting the shaft. Growing up in DFW, you would pray the night before that the weather would get bad enough that they would cancel school. You prayed twice if there was a test the next day.

Now, with all the technology, and Covid protocol emergence, snow days are a thing of the past. Watching the news the other morning, I kept seeing district after district announce learning would be online/remote for the day, district offices closed. What a bummer! I remember waking up early to get the good/bad news.

I think snow days are an essential part of a child development. I learned quite a bit about physics on those days. Friction, gravity, expansion...

What do you think? Have any snow day stories?

We only had a few days where school was canceled. I only recall a couple of snowball fights, and usually by noon it was melted and the fun was over.

[unclebilly]

Our kids’ school busses didn’t run this week since Tuesday due to the cold. The school was still open. We let them have Tuesday ‘off’ and then drove them the rest of the week.

[shadowjack1]

We had very few snow days in NOLA. But when it did snow we were off for the day Good times

[jcommin]

In IL many public schools weren't open or in class/learn at home hybrid. Earlier this month we had a large snowfall. The schools closed but the snow day was changed to remote learning day. Many thought the kids got robbed -

[dmcummins]

My grandkids will never get a snow day down here. I took these pics a few minutes ago, the granddaughter is not in the pic, but she’s in there somewhere. They are 8 and 5.

[Zeke]

Growing up in SoCal we had no such luck. Maybe if it was raining very hard someone would drive you to school instead of walking. Not every family had 2 cars in those days so walking to school was ordinary. Later on when going to high school which was 6 miles away, we rode the public bus but still had to walk several blocks to a bus stop.

Turning 16 didn't always get you a car. I bet only 10% of high school seniors had their own car. You were very popular if you did.

[Seahawk]

Maryland is not snow central but we get enough to have had a few snow days a year when my kids were in grade school.

Complete blast. I had cheap snow boards, discs, even those plastic sheets you sit on and sled down hill with.

Great little hills in the area are perfect for snow days. Get in the truck.

I also towed them behind my Tacoma using a water ski tow rope. I'd plow high to get a good base of snow on the road and off we'd go, snow boards and discs, 1/2 a mile run.

If there were no crops in the fields and it was cold enough, that was in play as well.

We had a freaking blast...we still talk about it.

[Nostril Cheese]

We had one day in SoCal where it got cold enough to snow in like 30 years.

My dad had the foresight to hose down the long steep driveway the previous night. Right on, Dad.

[wdfifteen]

My son and I loved goodsnow days. I would find a way to take a few hours off and spend some time with him and his friends. It was a bit of a drive to a really good hill, and we would pack the VW bus with kids and sleds and tubes and have a ball. It only happened a few times when the weather was perfect, but it was glorious!