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IN SOME SCHOOL DISTRICTS, IT’S THE END OF THE SNOW DAY

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by: Natalie P. McNeal, Stacker
Posted: Jan 25, 2024 / 01:41 PM EST / Updated: Jan 25, 2024 / 01:45 PM EST

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IN SOME SCHOOL DISTRICTS, IT’S THE END OF THE SNOW DAY

STACKER — It’s been a rite of passage for decades, but the snow day may melt
away for students in America’s public schools. Due to technology, the COVID-19
pandemic, and the need for students to be consistently educated, the snow day
may quietly become a thing of the past.

Using research from The Conversation and the latest news coverage, Numerade
explored how some schools are replacing snow days with remote learning days. A
“snow day” is when a school district cancels school because of heavy snow, low
temperatures, or excessive ice. The extreme weather makes it too dangerous for
children to travel to school without the likelihood of an accident, whether via
a school bus, a car, or on foot. For many in the continental U.S., it represents
a day of freedom—an unexpected vacation day.

During a snow day, schoolchildren in America do everything from sledding with
friends or watching cartoons in their pajamas to relaxing from the rigors of
high-stakes testing.

While districts haven’t announced the official abandonment of the snow day, some
major districts serving wide student populations have begun swapping snow days
for remote learning, including districts in New York City; Anchorage, Alaska;
and St. Paul, Minnesota.

About 2 in 5 (39%) district leaders and principals reported their district had
already transformed snow days into opportunities for remote learning, and 32%
indicated their districts were contemplating making this change, according to a
November 2020 survey conducted by the EdWeek Research Center.

Since the pandemic required families to quarantine, many homes are still
digitally rigged for remote learning. Additionally, some school systems prefer
to keep learning consistent; there is no formal education during traditional
snow days, which breaks up the educational routine. Also, when school districts
use too many snow days, they typically add make-up days to the end of the school
year, delaying summer vacation

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Critics of throwing in the shovel on snow days say they are an important part of
American culture. Moreover, not all children have the same level of technology
at home, which hurts the quality of at-home learning. Not to mention learning
during winter months can be especially challenging for students due to the lack
of Vitamin D from sunshine. An unplanned day off is welcomed for children to
refresh their minds, proponents of snow days say.



(GRAPHIC VIA NUMERADE)


THE OPPORTUNITIES AND BARRIERS OF SWAPPING OUT SNOW DAYS

Remote learning contingency plans for snow days predate the pandemic. As
researched by The Conversation, at least 14 states allowed other learning
options for inclement weather days prior to 2020, including take-home packets
and e-learning modules. In some school districts, students can shovel snow as
part of their physical education class during e-learning days due to snowy
weather.

Through remote learning, students can keep their minds agile and not worry about
having to “make up” days at the end of the school year or being harmed while
traveling during adverse winter conditions.

However, snow days are such a big part of American culture—students even try to
conjure snow to have one—that it seems like a big shift to ditch them all
together.

Research has found that school closure during snow days doesn’t impact learning
as much as when individual students decide to miss school because of bad
weather. According to Joshua Goodman’s 2015 article “In Defense of Snow Days,”
published by Education Next, heavy snow may create school closings, but it’s the
moderate snowfall that increases individual absentee rates, which create poorer
test scores, particularly in math.

In the article, Goodman, then an assistant professor at Harvard Kennedy School,
recommended superintendents err on the side of canceling school when the weather
is poor because it leads to less impact on test scores. Otherwise, some
students—disproportionately students of color from lower-income households—will
stay home, which hurts test scores more. Limits in transportation often account
for these absences. Goodman is a proponent of “sleducation” during school
closures, encouraging teachers to declare snow hours or afternoons during
inclement weather, coupled with remote learning.



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THE FUTURE OF THE SNOW DAY

While remote learning may be touted as a viable alternative to learning in
school, research from the Northwest Evaluation Association shows that schools
that had remote learning longer fared among the worst when it came to student
test scores. Furthermore, not all students have the same digital infrastructure
at home. Local property taxes fund local schools, so less money is available in
poorer districts to supplant homes with high-speed internet and late-model
computers.

In some cases, take-home paper packets are still available as an option, and in
districts like Seattle, every student has access to a laptop or iPad.

Realistically, snow days don’t turn into snow months. Unlike global pandemics,
the sheer nature of the snow day is fleeting and finite.

Story editing by Shannon Luders-Manuel. Copy editing by Paris Close. Photo
selection by Lacy Kerrick.

This story originally appeared on Numerade and was produced and
distributed in partnership with Stacker Studio.












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