[Triple Word Score]

'OK. What would you rather do? Go an extra day of school in June or go to a funeral in February?"'

That says it all.

[Keith in Iowa]

My solution: Take winter off instead of summer, or year 'round school and half days on the worst ones in winter.

[Grammy]

Do what they do here in Nashville. When it snows TOWN shuts down, not just school.

[coder2]

Up here in Minne-sooo-teee, the superintendent brags because he doesn't close school when there are 15" of new snow. They say they won't penalize kids who don't make it in to school, but they make it difficult to make up the lost time, they just say "find someone who was in that day".

Living out in the country has many many pluses, but tons of snow with school considerations is not fun.

I'm waiting (not hoping), but waiting for someone to get killed on the roads because they decided to keep school open (and brag about it).

[zoso82t]

In Maryland, where I went to school up until college, they cancelled school a lot, whenever it was over 2" of snow or there was a threat of snow. Sometimes, it just rained and we ended up with no school because they cancelled it the night before. I guess the schools are just deathly afraid some kid is going to slip and fall walking to school and they get hit with a million dollar lawsuit by the parents.

[NY.SS-Bar9]

Call as many snow days as you want. As long as they are UNPAID days for all school administrators.

[EastIdaho]

Kids these days are babied to much. When I was a kid we walked the 2 miles to school, it wasnt uphill both ways, just up hill round trip. We wouldnt wear our shoes because they would get wet in the snow and get ruined. We would wrap barbed wire around our bare feet to give us traction. We didn’t have hand-held calculators. We had to do addition on our fingers. To subtract, we had to have some fingers amputated. We didn’t have fancy high numbers. We had “nothing,” “one,” “twain” and “multitudes. We didn’t have water. We had to smash together our own hydrogen and oxygen atoms. Kids today think the world revolves around them. In my day, the sun revolved around the world, and the world was perched on the back of a giant tortoise. Back in my day, “60 Minutes” wasn’t just a bunch of gray-haired liberal 80-year-old guys. It was a bunch of gray-haired liberal 60-year-old guys. We didn’t have Strom Thurmond. Oh, wait. Yes we did ...

[Final Authority]

In our school district they don't have snow days they have delayed opening. Apparently a delay of two hours does not cause a day to be made up so we have day after day of delayed openings. Before the concept of delayed opening the district had to hold school to the last few days of June. There is great reluctance to hold school to make up days in a vacation period because the relatively affluent residents have plans to either ski or go to Florida over break periods. There would be no problem if school was held in regular hours. The bus arrives at 6:25 and school is out by 2:15. This is to accommodate the sports and music programs after school. If school started at 9:00 and was out at 4:00 there would be fewer snow days and more awake students. The kids need more sleep.