So long Snow Days? Remote Learning may allow schooling to trudge through the snow!

Snow days are typically tacked on at the end of the year, pushing classes into summer, when students’ minds tend to be drifting toward vacation,  “Those are really lost days. They’re never going to be the same value.”  A John Walker/Wicked Local and Daily News file photo

Snowbound Quincy High School
A Quincy Quarry Winter of 2015 file photo

So long snow days?  Remote learning may allow school years to trudge through the snow!.

As ugly as things became when multitudes of parents were involuntarily tasked with at least facilitating homeschooling given COVID-19 pandemic school closings last spring, there is a potential silver lining to the wintertime shitschturm that is a school snow day: the remote learning infrastructure and pedagogical practices that arose in the response to pandemic-caused school closures readily provides a comprehensive basis for a way to continue lesson plans on but a mere school snow day closing after things might eventually return to something resembling pre-Coronavirus normality..

While a number of schools have previously provided online lesson plan information and such to study at home efforts during a weather-caused school closure, not all schools have done so as until the pandemic hit the fan as many school districts were not equipped to provide a sufficiently comparable alternative learning experience that could be counted as a full school day.

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Granted, changes to both state school laws as well as thinking by statewide level school authorities will need to happen, but given that the current obligation to add all but unproductive extra days to a school year hard hit by school days should make for strong motivation for approving learning remotely protocols to continue teaching during a snow day.

Bananas for Snow Daze!
A Quincy Quarry News Winter of 2015 file photo

At least one would hope so.

Granted, parents are still stuck with arranging for childcare on a Snow Day, but at least approving Remote Learning Snow Days will both keep the little darlings busy for more of a Snow Day as well as head off disrupting summer vacation plans whenever a large number of Snow Days behoove extending a school year.

Source: So long, snow days? The routine of remote learning may allow classes to stay on course

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