Bring Back Snow Days

Aglimmer of hope as the evening flurry begins, the morning rush to check closure listings, the euphoria at the announcement, and the exhaustion after hours spent outside in snowball fights, fort construction, and races down a hill — these are the delights of a snow day, or at least they should be.

Unfortunately, after Covid-era closures normalized e-learning, many district officials have witnessed such delight, cancelled snow days, and in their Scroogiest voices bellowed, “What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry?”

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Daniel Buck

Daniel Buck is a research fellow and the director of the Conservative Education Reform Network at the American Enterprise Institute.

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Aglimmer of hope as the evening flurry begins, the morning rush to check closure listings, the euphoria at the announcement, and the exhaustion after hours spent outside in snowball fights, fort construction, and races down a hill — these are the delights of a snow day, or at least they should be.

Unfortunately, after Covid-era closures normalized e-learning, many district officials have witnessed such delight, cancelled snow days, and in their Scroogiest voices bellowed, “What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry?”