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KitFox

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4. Snow Days are gifts to forgo normalcy if at all possible. When I was teaching, I rooted for snow days as much as the

Reply to Jacson6 (Original post)

Sun Jan 25, 2026, 01:10 PM

Jan 25

kids. If snow was in the next day forecast, we did a snow dance while lining up for dismissal. If it started snowing and we were at school, I took my class outside to enjoy the snow. There is a whale of a lot of education that has nothing to do with book learning. Lucky for anyone who has the luxury to enjoy a snow day and enormous thanks to those essential workers who keep things running.