Despite an anti-climactic result to Tuesday’s “Snowpocalypse” in some parts of the community, educators and parents seemed grateful for the day off from school.
Though snow days can result in a loss of instructional time and inconvenience for parents who must hustle to find care for their children, many people the Times Free Press spoke with said they were happy with the district’s decision Monday afternoon to close schools Tuesday.
“School administration has to go with the best information they have, and they’ll take flak no matter what they do. No win,” said Chris Varner, whose son, Henry, spent the snow day running in the cold. The seventh-grader at Normal Park Museum Magnet met up with his coach in Renaissance Park to practice.
Katie Mara, a social studies teacher at Orchard Knob Middle School, said weather delays are expected this time of year and teachers “just have to roll with it.”
“As a teacher during some of the most exhausting months of the school year, snow days are welcome whether they are ‘real’ or not,” she said.