Winter can bring snow days

Snow days bring a day filled with fun, either outside or inside. The superintendent is the one who decides if it is a snow day. The decision is based on whether the buses would be able to work in the conditions and whether students would be able to walk to school.

Darin McGee, a sophomore, said a favorite memory was “when me and my friend used the sled and went down a swirly slide.”

In the 19th century, families who lived in the countryside chose whether their kids walked to the one-room schoolhouse. During the 1970s, snow days became a staple of childhoods, being announced on local radios or through phone chains. The early 20th-century 180-day calendars needed organization for weather-related closures. 

McGee’s unique thing he’s built is a “Snow dog.”

Later, in the mid-20th century, the increase of school buses made road conditions a crucial safety issue. Snow days formalized snow days as a worldwide policy. There wasn’t a set person who formalized the snow days, but nowadays, the superintendent decides when school has snow days. 

McGee’s favorite snow activity from when he was little was “My dad and I used to shovel the whole driveway into one big pile and make an igloo out of it.”

McGee wants to make, but hasn’t yet a “snow igloo actually made out of the ground, not made by a mound of snow.”