Snow Fury

We had a snow day today for the local schools ‘cause we had like an inch of snow. Whatever. Remember snow days when you were a kid? When you saw snow outside in the morning you had to run downstairs and turn on the TV and watch the crawl at the bottom of the screen to see if your school name was on there.  And, like, if you really had to go to the bathroom or if you left for a minute to let your dog in, you might miss your school on the crawl, and then you’d have to watch the whole alphabet again to see if your school’s name was there. And that scroll would go SO slow. I mean, if somebody really read that slow, they needed more than regular school. Well, I’m convinced that’s how the two hour delay came into existence. The two hour delay was originally nothing more than your superintendent giving you a couple more hours to get ready for school since he or she knew you had to watch that slow crawl at the bottom of your screen for so long to find out if you had school.

Nowadays, kids get calls, texts, emails, snap chats and who knows what from the superintendent when there is a snow day. I’m thinking that we may have this backwards though. Wouldn’t it make more sense for the superintendent to call the child on the days when there IS school, and let the kid sleep in on the snow days? What family couldn’t use an extra call to get a kid out of bed? Is that asking too much? Wake up, America!