It's morning-time on a school day. You wake up, and it's snowing outside. The wind is howling and thoughts of a snow day flash through your head. You turn on the TV to check the weather/school announcements and as the schools flash by on the bottom line, you nervously anticipate the O's for Omaha Catholic Schools. Finally, it appears at the bottom of the screen. You are overjoyed! Sleeping in, TV, video games, no homework... Then you turn on the computer only to find a voice message left by Mr. Ryberg. You hit play cautiously and about halfway through the announcement he mentions that the next day is going to be a C-Day! Mutiny! Your mind races, you can no longer sleep as you are sent into a fit of fury. You must start preparing for all of your classes the upcoming day. The snow day is ruined! You are too unhappy to play video games and too unfocused to watch TV... all you can think about is the upcoming C-Day.
And this is basically why I think that when we have a snow day on an A-Day, they should just give us the next day off too to balance out the schedule.
I agree with your viewpoint for different reasons. Normally, if we had two days off because of one snow day it would be ridiculous, but when the next day was an early out and it is before the weekend of freshman retreat it makes sense. Now, many teachers planning tests before freshman retreat will be forced to delay them until next week due to the quick C-day classes. It would only make sense if we didn't have school tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteGoing to agree with Nichting 110%. All the teachers made plans for an 85 minute class. And now classes are only 45 minutes. Teachers have less time to teach, students don't learn as much, it's a lose/lose; delay class plans to Monday/Tuesday.
DeleteAlex's post was like a replay of my day yesterday. Although I'm never too unhappy to play video games unless it's the game making me angry, but I digress. Going along with what John said today is going to be a total waste of time with pointless subjects/classes instead of using the time we are given in class for learning new material and taking tests. It will throw the whole system off.
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ReplyDeleteAlong with the terrible thought of a wasted day of classes, Freshman Retreat leaders will suffer from a whole day today as they will lack the time from the early dismissal to set up for Freshman Retreat. Plus this is an utter waste of time for the Freshman because their teachers are supposed to cut them some slack on their homework this weekend. Essentially I feel that today is a waste of a day because (and this has been stated multiple times above) the teachers have planned for an 85 minute class and their objectives can not be fulfilled in a shortened period.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Alex. Although it'd be a stretch to get both days off, it'd be pretty awesome. I hated the idea of the C day and was looking forward to the early out. Not only would it have been great to get out early, but we still got 2 days off, which is fine by me!
ReplyDeleteOn our snow day, my feelings matched yours from the points of joy to rage when I found out we had a C day. When I woke up that Thursday I wasn't sure what time it was or if we had a snow day or not but I wasn't going to school no matter what. I was so happy and then bam. C-Day. I was devastated. So devastated I got sick and didn't go to school. I avoided this C-day but I can't say the same for the rest.On your idea about giving us another day off after a snow day to balance it out... that is probably not going to happen.
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