Philly Students Will Wait Longer for Summer Break Thanks to Snow Days

When I was a kid, I used to live for random days off school. I grew up in Florida, where we had “hurricane days” – days when a storm threatened and the district closed schools. Nine times out of ten the weather would be just fine, and my friends and I would hang out at the mall or go to the beach, luxuriating in our school-sanctioned hooky day. This school year in my home county of Pinellas, however, the seven days of school students missed for Hurricane Irma last September were not fun and games. Hot, without power, and cut off from communication, it’s doubtful that the kids had any fun on their week-and-a-half hiatus from the halls of academia. And then, they had to pay the piper and go in for make-up days. That’s always the rub.

Philadelphia students undoubtedly loved missing lots of class time for snow days, but making these days up will lead to a shorter, later summer break.

Such is the case for students in Philadelphia public schools, who recently have enjoyed several snow days thanks to a quartet of blustery nor’easters dumping unseasonable snow and ice on the City of Brotherly Love. Simply put, the kids missed too many days of school. Now they will have to make them up, and with it being this late into the school year, there aren’t many teacher planning days to knock off or substitute. This means that the makeup days will cut into summer break, and students will have to wait longer to go on vacation.

As per NBC10: “Meanwhile, Philadelphia schools are fresh out of snow days as of Wednesday, spokesman Lee Whack told NBC10. That school district automatically builds five snow days into their calendar year, but ran out of them as a fourth nor’easter pounded the region. Thanks to the late winter storm, Philadelphia public schools will get out on June 13. That could change, however, depending on what mother nature has in store for the rest of the academic year.”

Here’s to a few months free of blizzards so that students can get out on summer break as quickly as possible!