Passionately Managing Life

With the rise in virtual instruction due to the Covid 19 pandemic, schools all across the country have pivoted to incorporate online instruction either fully or hybrid. Online learning has its positives and negatives, but for the most part students are learning and teachers are teaching. In the Northeast however there is a time honored tradition with the anticipation of the "snow day". A day off from school due to hazardous conditions caused by too much snowfall. Students and teachers alike buzz about days before an impending storm trying to guess whether or not school will be cancelled. It's a right of passage, a tradition. Teachers become faux meteorologist making ridiculous predictions. Students wear their pajamas backwards and cross their fingers hoping to wake up to good news. Snow days are taken very seriously. The days off for snow are refueling for teachers and fun for students. I remember waiting to hear my school ID number on KYW at 5am to see if my elementary s...