A Crime Against Childhood

#SaveSnowDays YEAH

Patrick and Rachel

#SaveSnowDays They can't take it from us!

Shereen Wingo

For the many, many years I was a public school educator (counselor) I was a lone voice in the wilderness, hoping for and extolling the virtues of snow days (not that we got very many of those in Texas). The rest of the teachers and staff bemoaned the possibility, knowing that each day would require a corresponding extension of the year come summer. I was never that mature -- I gladly traded the future payback for that joyful feeling -- expressed better than I ever could in your video -- of hearing the angelic voice of the newsperson listing my school and granting me a day of play (snow isn't just for students!). #SaveSnowDays indeed!

BlindSow

There are few obstacles more infuriating, few pains more acute, and few problems so inane to the educational process as the meddling of schoolboards and detached regulators. I have both friends and relatives formerly in that sphere… based on their testimony, not one thing out of any schoolboard or state education department wasn’t an argument for anarchy. Here, the banality of bureaucracy intensifies to the brink of parody. Divorce the bureaucrats from that which they are overseeing. Dehumanize a human process into faceless numbers and statistics. Mass apply ill-conceived psychological “studies” largely in the name of grant money. Do this on a compulsory basis and apply it to those without power or say. Is it any surprise so much YA fiction hosts dystopian settings? … The push to eliminate snowdays should surprise no one. Of course they’re doing that. The broader question is, in what other horrifying ways will schoolboards and regulators leverage this brave new remote world…?

Michael Negranol

I am living in California, where snow days are pretty much not a thing, and my own child is far past the age of snow days, anyway, but #SaveSnowDays, dammit! In my advanced years, I can still remember the unalloyed joy of learning that school had been cancelled and that a full day of sledding and snowball fights were in my future.

Dave Land

True, most of the winter tires here are the studded kind and we use sand/gravel on top of the icy roads. I once had non-studded winter tires and boy did I have trouble on ice.

Antti Somervuo

Also, there's a difference between snow and ice. I'm in TX. When we have ice, I legit can't leave my neighborhood. It's uphill to a T intersection and cross traffic doesn't stop. Trying to exit without hitting the brakes means I'd die. We had SNOW for the first time in forever earlier this year, and I continued heading into work bc it gave me something to do while the state was shut down. Different types of cold weather have very different effects.

Viktor

There was a lot of shoveling on some mornings to let the cars out to the publick roads. The roads would be cleared really early, or several times through the night and day if needed, and the walk ways sometimes later. I used to clear the wall of snow left by the plows before school sometimes if I was up early enough. But you have to understand that Finland is used to a lot of snow and so there is enough infrastructure to handle it.

Antti Somervuo

“The Worst Thief Is He Who Steals The Playtime of Children” - W. D. Haywood

Quixylvre

When my parents were growing up in LA they had "smog days" when pollution was so bad kids weren't allowed outside. Nobody misses that.

Adam Rich

So you don't have days where it snows, the roads are turned to ice because the temperature shifted from not-freezing-to-freezing and all the preparations were washed away and they have to remove it before anyone can do anything?

Crissa Kentavr

I was thinking the same thing, came here to nitpick as well. But is it a typo, or a subtle jab at language classes?

Jessy Pelletier-Lemire

As a Finn, the whole idea of snow days feels so weird. So what if it's -20°c or colder and there is snow up to your knees. You just wear another layer and have an epic snow ball fight on recess (as long as the teachers don't catch you).

Antti Somervuo

I always hated snow days as a child. Yeah, it's nice to have an unexpected day off, but I already had to wake up at 5:30am for school, there's no way I can go back to sleep now, and now I also have to do chores because, "Well, you're up and home anyway". And then, I'm being prepared for a day off, trying to find a perfect way to get out of family obligations and then discover that nope, it's another school day because make-up days.

Egor A. Palchyk

Like a pandemic leading ppl to reevaluate their job prospects and maybe not go back to that server job.

Eric Hula

You should have earned "past 100° we don't do school" days!

Beka

I was homeschooled in snowy New England and every time my peers got snow days I had to stay indoors and learn. I do not wish this on any child. Snow days (and it's-too-hot-to-live days in warmer climates) should ABSOLUTELY be honored!

Beka

I'm from LA. We never got snow days and part of me thinks "Snow days are not a universal childhood experience; you North-easterners shall suffer as we do". But, after watching this I can no longer be so cruel.

Adam Rich

Funny story, when I was in 6th grade we got a whole week holiday because of the snow, in that week I discovered my interest in computers and programming and because of that I am now 2 months away from graduating from college and have been working in the industry for 2 years. tl;dr: sometimes a random break from life's monotony can and will change lives

I went to a fee-paying school in the UK and my school was always the one that NEVER closed during snow days. In the mornings we would listen to the local radio station, and the announcer would read out a list of EVERY single local school that was closed.... except ours. 🙄 But inevitably there would be hardly anyone in school as people were snowed in or didn't want to risk the icy roads (cars aren't specced to drive in snow in England) and so we would spend the whole day just watching films, and have snowball fights at break time.

enchantedsleeper

Norway here. When it snowed too much overnight when I was a kid, I skied to school. ...yeah, I suppose that's pretty much peak norwegain :) Anyways. No such thing as snow days here.

KvaGram

French heeeere. It's "tu t'amuses" with an S at the end!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here here and a bottle of cheer!

Kit Ainslie

Snow days? We never had snow days! Well once when I was in England because England cannot weather weather.

Lamp town guy

As a former child, and a spouse of a teacher, this is indeed a horrible development.

Dexter Scott

As a teacher I agree, KEEP SNOWDAYS!

The most passionate CGP Grey video ever.

Hundreds of hours of Minecraft and new video? this man is a beast

SatDarshan Khalsa