For kids, a Snow Day is usually an undebatable Good Thing.

For parents, it is usually a disruption, with kids being home, making getting to work or medical appointments or other destinations for other kids difficult.

However, for some families, Snow Days in the time of Remote Learning during the pandemic, is a welcomed Day Off. It’s a day off from making sure kids are logging into their different classes during the day, and is possibly a day to actually get more work done. This flip was never imagined during previous years - possibly any previous year - of a parent’s Snow Day.

The Thinking Behind The Day Off Snow Day vs The Remote Snow Day

Beacon’s School DIstrict’s Superintendent Matt Landahl has been communicating his strategy behind when to go Remote during bad weather, and when to just stay home without anyone driving anywhere, and not doing any school supplied learning.

“We moved to a full closure with no remote instruction today for a couple of reasons,” he told parents via email.

“We have 6 snow days built into our calendar and we have only used 3 full closures so far this year. We can still use a couple of more Snow Days without impacting things like Spring Break. Second, for a longer-term move to Remote Learning, many of our teachers need access to their classrooms to provide remote instruction for longer periods than a day or two. I was thinking yesterday, perhaps optimistically, that the 1 Hour Delay would get us in person today and I had not thought through the Remote part of this.”

While the past two weeks have been stop and go with Remote Learning due to weather, the Snow Day Friday for this blogger was a welcome one.