A Crime Against Childhood
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Yes, just yes
We must save them
I hope the the "space" marks were intentional
LONG LIVE SNOW DAYS
We must
As a sophomore, i love how schools prioritize efficiency over students mental health and basic humanity
oh like the workplace
hello checkmark user
Ikr
Is this sarcasm... I can't tell
@@nyanecho64 no its not sadly the american school system (and many others) are actually like this and it sucks ass
A snow day allowed me to stay home and watch the new horizons spacecraft launch.
hey Cody
Awesome
Nice seeing you here Cody!
This was a video that we didn't expect but needed
great story
Fun Fact: The US Air Force, assuming nothing critically important is happening and you arent already in an area that gets snow all the time, allows base commanders to call snow days for an entire base.
If the military gives its men snow days, they can give kids a snow day.
"No snow days for you either, your freedom must be minimized, now you pilot drones"
YES
@@samuels1123 "you will impose freedom onto others while being robbed of yours!"
Navy does snow days also, sucks if you get stuck on duty though.
@@allyionsol3274 I can imagine having a "snow day" while on duty on a submarine somewhere in the middle of the ocean.
“Distance learning worked so well”
Half my grade failed the semester
Funny enough, one of the schools in my country has about 10% of its final year students that actually stayed through the pandemic.
... wait, that's not funny.
Same
Fr
Half of students had 40 missing assignments during distance learning, dont j blame everything on the schools.
@@goleftfanta4283 I don't think it's the school's though, it's more the concept of distance learning that's flawed; which isn't neccesarily a bad thing.
Laughs in temperate climate which never had snow days to begin with
4 minutes ago and I am the 40th like
No everything just shuts down here!
The only climate related omissions we had in Arizona were no recesses when it was too hot outside! It was horrible!
My sincerest sympathies...
Same lmao
I live in California and even with the lack of snow my school declares one day each semester a snow day anyway because the principal grew up in a snowy place and loved snow days as a kid. How great is that
Is it scheduled in advance or completely on a whim?
My school just got a new superintendent from the UP so there has to be like 10 feet of snow for them to call it
my respect for that principal
I grew up in SoCal. The only "snow day" I can remember is when my elementary school brought in snow-making machinery... to make snow...when it was like 72F outside. Got to play with snow during recess - which was the first time a lot of us ever saw snow.
That is amazing!!! I live in California also and never have experienced a snow day but man I always wished I did.
As a teacher, I'm going to tell you now that we also love snow days. Sleeping in? No correcting? Able to watch Netflix all day? That is the best
I feel so bad for you all! Virtual days have to be the worst!
Very true my mom is a teacher and I know she loves those days off.
Grey was a teacher, he probably knows and this is why he's defending it.
The main bad thing is that you don’t have all the time to teach. That was and is my teacher’s problem because every class I’m in are messes
W teacher
I think kids should get a set amount of personal days they can take. It might even make them feel like they have some kind of control over their own lives too.
As a teen, I know that the government nor school system will never do this
Fun fact, during the first winter of covid and everyone was learning from home, my hometown school board still cancelled school when there would have been a snow day, because they (rightfully) thought this was important
upvoting your comment, because I can't upvote your SCHOOL BOARD!!
They did for my town too! And the day after we had a delay!
my college did the same
We homeschool our daughter. Whenever her friends in public school are allowed a snow day (or some other holiday) I give her a break too.
Your schoolboard is the best I want to move to wherever you are
This is like taking a child to an amusement park and telling them they have to do cardio in the parking lot for the next 8 hours
KLDSJFL;LSA,VPASDPMB IM DYINGG
@@Sam-ui8cr why can I translate your comment lmao
I Do agree with you, but it's Worse, methinks. It's like doing that, but telling the kid to jog around the parking lot, NO MATTER IF IT'S IN FRONT OF MOVING CARS, which the adults specifically told children NOT to do. Besides, I remember the yelling about trying to tell kids to GET OFF THE COMPUTER OR IT WOULD BURN THEIR EYES OUT. Yes, I'll Be Harry Potter, Daring to Severus Snape's own Spells against him. That's the most valid argument i could think that'd work.
me who doesn’t like rollercoasters:
I still agree, child be sad with school
@@Sam-ui8cr Heardable text.
When I was in school, we had a superintendent who would rarely approve snow days. Until she crashed her car trying to get to the school on a snowy day.
Imagine creating an institution so horrific that children will literally pray for a single day of respite from it.
As someone who's never even experienced what it's like to feel snow their whole life, I fully support snow days and the purpose they serve.
As he said, think of the children.
danm 3 minutes ago
Where do you live
On one end; Climate Change/global warming at worst, would have "naturally" killed the dreaded Snow Day, more than "shifting an Axis" plot from a Recess film. Second; out of all the bureaucracy, the biggest "Snow Day" that is Corona, is likely the looming long term reaper of any 'breaks'. Think of it in a more horrible sense of "in case of strike; hire online teachers" from abroad or such.
Same and I’m graduated
As someone who grew up where it was common for 3 dm of snow to fall in a night, with risk of thrice that, I have never experienced a snow day. That was something on American movies sometimes, not reality.
If your front door was hard to open, bodyslam it repeatedly until you have a crack wide enough to exit, then you start shoveling so that the door can be fully opened. After having a functional door, you wade through/over the snow to the (hopefully) plowed road.
Some busses were late because they had to wait for the plow to clear the way, but that's all.
One time it started snowing at school, and my teacher said:
"I know it's hard to focus when there's snow outside..."
I expected her to say "focus anyway", but instead she said "so why focus?" She turned off the lesson and let us out for recess early. I miss that teacher
yech, recess. horrible stuff.
wow that is an amazing teacher.
Lemme tell you. Distance learning didn’t work so well. The amount of “Sorry teacher, my internet isn’t working.” excuses used is UNBELIEVABLE.
You'd think by now we'd learn forcing kids to sit still and listen only ever encourages them to completely zone out and learn less than they had if they took breaks and played
Our district has kept its snow days, the Teacher's Union stepped up with a loud "Those are our days off too"
These teachers are GIGA CHADS
Solidarity
Exactly....days they get paid for but do not show up to work.....schools should therefore refuse to pay snow days wages to teachers...
P.s. I am a teacher but also realistic...
Bless them
From union: We NeEd To sToP fIrE dRiLlS
I'm not just thinking of the children, I'm thinking of the teachers who didn't bring their lesson plan home with them or set up the class instruction materials on the shared drive ahead of time.
Many IT departments have a sign up answering this (though usually in the context of things like backups): "A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part."
@@Roxor128 you usually get one free pass if you're staying nice, but two emergencies? IT don't give a ****.
yeah and what if as a student you didn't have a certain book because you left it in your locker since there was no homework for that subject. Some of my teachers would deffinetly be mad even though its not our fault
Imagine teachers be like oh man Its snowing. I guess I can rest a bit more. Wakes up 3 hours later
This is the 21st century you can access the school servers from your home computer.
As a person who grew up in a snowless city, I envy you guys who had them.
Same
The real problem is that you are more likely to get a snow day than I was. If you live somewhere that gets regular snowfall, you also live somewhere that has equipment that can clear snow. I had exactly 1 snow day, and the roads were clear by lunch anyway.
I live in finland so snow days dont exist is because in northern finland there is either summer or snow
Had plenty of snowy days in my country.
Never, not once, was school ever cancelled because of it. One time I almost cracked my skull.
At least here in Florida, they'll never cancel hurricane days. Except you can't play outside, your power's gone out, you're praying a tree doesn't fly into your living room, and all you have to eat is canned soup. 😭
Hard to cancel a hurricane day when there's 70 MPH winds and no reliable wifi. I did experience the joy of missing school because a lot of the campus is outdoors and there was debris everywhere they needed to clean up.
the best part about this is that Grey was a teacher and probably loved snow days when he was working too
In Ireland? No
If I didn’t know any better, I’d say he’s not arguing for the sake of the children, but for the sake of the teachers
@@boredincan I think Grey taught in the UK although I'm not 100% sure
I’m a teacher. We all love snow days
This comment better be the top voted
I never thought I’d see Grey more passionate about anything than he is about hexagons
Every snowflake has a hexagonal structure. Coincidence? I think not!
Bestigons
Penny`s?
His emotion chip has been running on high lately. . . has someone checked on him?
maybe an hexagonal snowman?
"distance learning has worked so well" has it though? In the Netherlands we literally were given an extra year to get our undergrad because student performance with distance learning was abysmal.
School gave me many things
Depression
Anxiety
Bitterness
Countless stories of why I hated my life
It took joy away for 5 years of my life I'm only starting to enjoy life again
The fact that Grey has been a teacher himself makes this even more important you see
Teachers love snow days. They like days off too.
@@Jiji-the-cat5425 Of course teachers want their students to do well in class, of course they want no students to be left behind, but Grey knows that childhood joy was more important than those checkboxes. It's not about days off for teachers, it's about what's the best for a child. Don't think that everyone is as ready to slack off as you do.
@@fluffymeow885 yes BUT it is nice for them
@@TheDisorganizedNerd I'm not saying it isn't nice for them, BUT that is not the motivation for teachers to want to protect snow days. Say you are the organizer of a school prom. There is a song you enjoy, but you choose to play it in the prom because the attendants enjoy it, not because you yourself enjoy it. The song is still played in the end, but your motivation is everyone's enjoyment, not yours. Getting to listen to a song you enjoy is just the cherry on top of the cake, not the cake itself. This implies that if teachers like Grey still had to work on snow days while their students got to enjoy themselves, they would still protect snow days for the students' sake.
@@fluffymeow885 yes BUT its nice for them
I feel like the larger issue here is how utterly soul-crushing school is to the point that any reprieve from it feels like a minor miracle.
school nowdays steals the creativity from kids we NEED for new innovation and replaces it with a hatred of learning and work
tru
Given that the modern American school system is designed to engineer a specific kind of personality ideal for entering an equally soul crushing workforce? Yeah no, not a coincidence. Very much intentionally designed to repress creative thinking, insist on conformity, insist on obsessive perfection even when the work itself has no direct benefit for you, and to be unquestioning to authority figures.
Modern American public schools are literally designed to create the perfect worker drones. Unquestioning of authority, too uncreative to think beyond instructions given, and keep just low information enough that they can't even tell when they are being taken advantage of in a legal sense(i.e uninformed as to their actual rights etc)
Which is why homeschooling + extra curricular activities (to socialize and have fun with peers) has been a top priority for many new and potential parents. If parents can, they should. Public schools are fundamentally broken and they will never change until insane changes happen (this of course depends on the country. I think in the US it will literally never change while the budget will keep increasing because the system is just too big).
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I was watching this video again and just noticed the hat appearing on the grown-up little girl's desk, implying that, now that her spirit is thoroughly crushed, she will now go on to perpetuate the cycle of soulless, calculated corporate misery. Excellent touch
My private school was doing this years before the pandemic was even a thought. It really sucked. I remember all my friends in public school being so happy that they had a snow day and I just had to sit at home and do math homework.
Just... Don't do it. I guarantee most of your classmates aren't
In Australia, we have “heat stroke” days, where school gets called off because it’s the exact opposite of snowing, it’s boiling hot.
sounds like australia
really? at my school they just force us to stay indoors for the breaks and turn the aircon up to max, but yes moving through classes does make everyone really hot for classes, many sweating
@@Bitz00. yeah at my school we just cancelled outright because our buildings were open plan… trying to cool that down was next to impossible.
We actually had one or two of those here in the states I believe. The difference being that our heat stroke day temperature is probably your average.
Yeah, I think it was something like if the day was predicted to be over 50 or if it was over 45 while there theyd stop teaching because even max aircon isnt enough for thirty kids in a class
the most pro-human video Grey has made
now I'm curious, what's the most anti-human video he's ever made?
and why did you copy one of the most liked comments?
@@xymaryai8283 maybe humans need not apply? Or maybe some less serious one like the airport boarding one.
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@@kittycat-sc7je at least the original comment has more likes still
I'm a teacher aspirant, and relatively recently rediscovered the importance of intrinsic motivation. I'm also an ex-factory worker, and there I learned the soul-crushing horrors of check marks and extrinsic motivation. These people who think persistence begets mastery are only half-correct. To paraphrase The Edge from _Furi,_ mastery is a habit, not a mindset. We are what we do.
The real way to get those test scores up isn't to mindlessly shove knowledge into kids' brains and hope they retain it, all for goodboy points on their report cards. They're missing the trees for the forest, which is a shitty practice for people trying to cultivate strong trees. People who succeed want to, and they don't need help or extra resources to get there. The real fight is getting kids to care about their education, for _themselves,_ not for the benefits that come from a series of letters on a piece of paper, or the stuff they'll get from mommy and daddy for doing well at school.
You know what's also amazing?
Growing up in a climate with no snow. Growing up where "snow days" was this thing people talked about in TV shows and by my friends up north. Having to live knowing each and every school day would happen with no mother nature option to stop it ;D
alternatively just grow up in a climate where snow is normal enough they wouldn't cancel school because of it
same :(
Same, but I got some days off due to massive flooding. I also got some unintentional days off due to massive insomnia. This was not so fun.
I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina. We just don't get snow here - the last time was in 2007. (And it was on the 9th of July, which was not only a Sunday, but also our independence day, meaning there was nothing worthwhile to cancel - not that the 10cm of snow we got would've made us cancel anything.)
While we have very different weather throughout the year, it's never inclement enough to warrant cancelling school due to it. Heat alerts always happen in January (or late December), and there's no school during those months anyway.
I had no idea school got cancelled due to bad weather in other places. It's something I learned about on the Internet long after having finished school. It's a completely alien concept to me.
Or live in a place with heatstroke and fire days
I don’t think I’ve ever heard CGP Grey speak more passionately than he did in this video.
i dont think you saw his video about hexagons
it's a conspiracy, killing snow days would minimize the interaction of children with multiple small hexagons of solid water
@@marcelwo4jedynki you are a genius
And that in this topic ... from a teacher
Tumbleweeds!!!
"why were you absent yesterday?"
"It snowed?"
"We had a zoom class"
"Power was out"
"Took some effort getting the hedge trimmer on a rubber pole, but so worth it."
@@danghostman2814 lmao
@@danghostman2814 lmfao
Welp I found my excuse to not doing class, thank you kind stanger
online school was pretty easy for me, we never needed to use cameras, so i would just turn on the class, mute it and then set an alarm for the next class, and play games. Then repeat.
School bureaucracies are full of sour middle aged people who forgot what being a child was like.
Virtual days are especially terrible when you have parents forcing you to follow it strictly, so you can’t sleep and you can’t make and eat lunch if it takes over 20 minutes (in my case)
"Those who want to cancel snow days should be forced to look into the wide eyes of a young girl while they crush her spirit"
"Oh you don't need to force us. That's what gets us up in the morning. The pointless cruelty."
@@EnochLindeman No the cuality dosnt wake her up but she enjoys using nerotoxin to make people sleep.
They probably get raging h[Redacted for innapropriate content]
Darn GLaDoS
Those people deserve to be endlessly be torn to pieces slowly whilst 1000 degree Celsius needles are stabbed on and out and listening to their least favorite songs
And to top it all off they also must watch their loved ones suffer the same fate for all of eternity
@@EnochLindeman no not even glados is that evil
"Distance Learning Has Worked So Well" depressed students worldwide would like a word
yes we would
Yes we would
yes we would
Yes we would
Yes, we would
For someone who the school system gave up on, who never got a snow days, I still passed by skipping a few days, but doing a free form online highschool.
Stuff like snow days save kids from burn out, from boredom, the biggest thing hindering student learning.
There are few things with which I agree wholeheartedly.
Thank you CGP Grey, for adding this to the list.
Grey as an adult, a teacher, and grown up child, fighting for everyone.
Such nobility
I think he as a teacher just wants to keep the snowdays for himself.
If by "everyone", you mean the fraction of people who live in the Goldilock zone where it's not so warm that there's no significant snow, and not so cold that snow days don't impact infrastructure.
Maybe he just wants extra time to grade things
Such branding!
We should nominate him for a Noble peace prize
This has to be the most pro-human video Grey has made in a long time
The meat world is worth protecting sometimes
I mean I am with school on this one
More like, ever
@@jai-kk5uu ok mr grinch
I really like pro human grey
I live in Colorado and we still have snow days because if the snow is heavy enough to actually cancel school, then you probably don’t have reliable internet anyway. It very rarely happens though. They usually have 2 hour delayed starts if the roads are bad instead of canceling.
my school changed its snow day policy last month. before, we had virtual days if our district called either a delayed start or snow day. but with thursday coming up, they decided to do snow days again
For snow day work half of my teachers gave us really easy 'What is your favorite color?' work, and the other half gave us assimemts that meant going outside and playing in the snow
As a teacher, I wholeheartedly agree. Snow Days are a breath of fresh air in a grueling school schedule.
I mean to play devil advocate, where I grew up snow days were planned in the schedule(having x number of extra days to make up for expected snow days). So if they switched to a distant learning on would be snow days they could then use those extra days to extend breaks or give a day off here or there. Which as they would be planned would mean you can do more on those days then snow days(that exist because it hard to travel on those days).
CGPGrey used to be a teacher before he become a youtuber so that makes sense.
Yep the schools are only in it for the money which the schools have fallen to the influence of demons
I find it endlessly amusing that both the teachers and students agree on so many things that the board and supervisors and committees disagree with.
@@bimancer but it feels way better when you get a surprise 1 day off than 1 day planned
See what you have done school boards? You have made Grey use the Emotional Argument.
Yeah, he's pissed off!
Damn you, school boards!
(Undertale AU were he is sans intensifies)
@@spacecadet3045 2D universe?
Men really used ethos, feels weird
As a Canadian, I never had a snow day. Not even 1 meter (3 feet) of snow overnight would have cancelled school. It's not as if snow could have stopped us from doing anything, we were used to it and had the means to work around it. I once walked to school in a -50°C snow storm.
okay, that's just child endangerment. I grew up in minnesota and we had a day cancelled due to cold at about that temperature - they should have cancelled school (also, i didn't know it could snow at that temperature!! usually the sky cleared up when it got that cold for our region)
we did have some days of 3 foot storms that didn't cancel school, and some that did, it depended on when the snow fell. The few days when the 3 feet were all dumped between 4am and 9am were when they really couldn't get anything done about it
Let's be real here, it is extremely depressing that schools are so damaging to happiness and mental health that kids beg to have snow days or be sick just to get out of it.
The public schools in my area actually decided to have 'virtual snow days' last winter.
Even though they were doing online school, they cancelled the online classes if there normally would have been a snow day.
Wow so there are schools that actually care about the days off. My school is doing the opposite, we have school even on public holidays so our parents can get mad at us for playing games during school while they don't go to work.
That is so incredibly nice!
My school had what they called an asynchronous day where they canceled the online classes on the snow day and just expected you to get a bit more caught up if you need to. I seriously wonder how many kids got even 1 assignment done that day.
@@thatonetomatoguy4210 My guess would be 0.
What school is that? where is it? what available houses are in the area?
Me watching this from Brazil.... what is a snow day?
I am from Iceland. We never have "snowdays"
The best part of my childhood - a Canadian
Americans make such a fuss about everything
@@MrRenanHappy you know not of the joy you have missed
Watching from alaska... same.
grey is that teacher that is still a kid and wants to make learning for the teenagers fun and succeeding at that by being the “how do you do fellow kids” done right
Snow days were genuinely fun. Taking that away is taking their childhood.
Snow days teach kids a very important lesson: sometimes, human plans take a backseat to mother nature, in all of her fickle beauty and destructive power.
"But don't you know? We have technology to bypass nature, so use it and abuse it! What are you? An anti-vacser? We stayed home for a year and still had school after all...." School Autocrat 227B-Q19 Alpha
go away
poetry
Indeed SnowDays will only exist as long as we will not overheat the planet with our CO2, pollution and endless consumption of useless products. It's great if children learn that we can only keep our Snow Days if we work together to stop global warming.
@@richardbloemenkamp8532 Global warming will not cause snow to disappear. That is not how it works. Also, did you really have to bring this up? It's very obvious you're trying to push an agenda that's not even related to the topic at hand.
You're like a teacher that still has some remaining shred of empathy for how it feels to be a student. What a miracle.
He used to be a teacher.
I'm positive that teachers love snow days too
He was probably not very empathetic when he was a teacher.
It's not the teachers that are the problem here.
@@ashutoshsamantaray2572 Why do you say that??
The worst part is that my generation of children & teens (including me) is the one most glued to a screen and going outside would be unthinkable if not for snow
I gre up in south Georgia (state), and the every 4-5 years or so when it snowed (always an inch or two at most), they always gave us a "snow day", I think just so that we could could have the spiritually enriching experience of aomething as mystical as plating in snow. When you rarely have it, yes even an inch of snow that you scrape in huge swaths off the barely covered grass for miniature snowmen or something, is unironically mystical to most kids.
Point is, snow days are not always about transportation issues or whatever, nor should they be!
The problem with cancelling snow days: sometimes we lose power when it snows too much. How do we expect kids to log on to school when there’s no wifi
Also what about kids who don't have internet
I think there is a bit of a misunderstanding. In more recent years snow days don't seem to be called with the same standards. It used to only be for a serious blizzards where I grew up, more recently it has been for days where the roads may still be ice covered at 6 AM ish. And so now they have something like 20 a year and it is just actually a significant amount of time for people to be missing when by 9 AM the roads are melted and they probably could have had class. I think some bad early morning car accidents prompted this change in our district, I think one of the administrators lost family to it or something like that.
So I think, keeping 1-5 snow days a year, sure, no problem, but maybe we should get online and get something done on the more trivial "snow" days. Either the ice ones, or the ones they call further south when they get just a sprinkling that are hilarious to those of us that get real amounts of snow.
teachers in my area would probably just say "use your phone"
@@zvxcvxcz what do you mean '20 per year'? I've almost never had more than 4-5 snow days per year, and the few times I have, it's because there were severe blizzards that closed school for multiple consecutive days.
@@wilyriley_ You guys are having snow?
"Yeah I missed one day of school in the fifth grade and now I flip burgers for a living"
"yeah i got a deadly disease and had to skip school for 2 weeks now I'm homeless"
I took a half day in 9th grade
And died from starvation last month
“My kids were forced to go to online school on a snow day 4 years ago, now they kill small animals”.
"Yeah I took a trip to Yellowstone for a week and missed deciphering Greek, so now I sell scrap metal for a living and live on the streets."
Doesn’t sound too bad
Snow days are a weird consept to me as a Finn. We never have school off because of cold weather. Our worst can reach to -30 even way down south and school will still be in session. Our rule in primary school was if it's more than -25 outside you don't have to go to recess, but you still have to drag your freezing ass out of bed before eight so you can learn about how to write an article for a newspaper.
As someone who lives in Canada, I 100% agree with you. I assume that, at least here, we don’t have snow days because if we did we’d miss like 70% of school.
where i am in canada you get a snow day when it was an unexpectedly large snowfall last night and the snowplows aren't able to make the roads usable until after school already started. the temperature has nothing to do with it, it's when buses can't run.
It's not just a crime against childhood, IT'S A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY ITSELF. IT'S A WAR CRIME, A CRIME SO HORRID IT'S UNIMAGINABLE.
Don’t tell them to look into the eyes of a child and destroy their happiness, they would easily do it without hesitation for a checked box.
@Neil Peters 1000000 assignments: C H E C K
That's how they get their power. The feed of of sadness!
"Humanity is subservient to check boxes" is probably one of the best ways of explaining one of the main nightmares of modern 1st world life
I agree wholeheartedly
OUR ANCESTORS SACRAFICES WONT BE FORGOTTEN! WE SHALL SAVE SNOW DAYS AND SAVE LIBERTY!
"What kind of villans ARE you?!"
"The worst kind."
That was the most perfect anwser that could of been given
It's important to note that just because we were able to make zoom classes work during a pandemic doesn't mean that teachers can just instantly change their lesson plan to accommodate online learning at a moment's notice.
Yeah, my school spent a week and a half trying to just figure out Google Meet when it started. Not all the grades in my school had Gmail, so they had to make all those accounts and then figure out Google Meet on a two-week's notice, which they failed to meet, so they resorted to Zoom. And they think the school can transition into an e-learning day just like that? That's ambitious, to say the least.
Well, it's not like the school board has to adapt a lesson plan with sometimes mere hours notice. Why would that be a problem to them?
I don’t know about you, but my college did not make online school work.
That is where you are wrong.
Everything is working as intended, especially if it is intended for evil
If we do online school on for one day nothing happens on that day due to the fact that it is extremely hard to learn anything on a video call!
School boards and education administrators should also consider that snow, rain, storms, and other weather disturbances can affect the reliability of Internet connection making it difficult for online classes to be productive.
What if some professors decided to still cancel classes because of this? I may consider doing it if I were in charge, even perhaps bringing with me the relevant equations/diagrams.
YEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS
Absolute and utter genius! If dumbass schools try to enforce online learning on snow days you can just say that you’re internet isn’t working. Every. Time.
@@rainchopper898 and if the kids are using my current internet provider, it probably actually isn't working.
@@garethbaus5471 Where I live it hasn't snowed in like 15 years, but if we get a little more rain than normal we lose power for 6 hours.
Suggestion: parents can subvert this. If you're such a bad parent that you won't let your kids have fun ever, you need to not reproduce
In all my 13 years of being in school has I only gotten one snowday. And my parents didn't know that school had been canceled, so I still got to school and played with other children whose parents had done the same thing. It was great.
As someone who grew up in Brazil where it NEVER snows, the idea of an errant weather pattern showing up unannounced and freeing you from next day's school duties sounded borderline magical! I never got to enjoy this but I wouldn't want it taken from others.
In Southeast Asia, our equivalent is “stormy days” if there is a hurricane and the wind speed/rainfall exceed a certain amount school will be cancelled
Unlike snow days I can’t really play out side because... you know why, but it is still pretty cool and as you said, borderline magical :)
Here in Norway it snows a lot but we never get free from school because of that, so it's strange to hear for us too
In Arizona we get heat advisory days where you still go to school but they don't let you outside
In some parts of India we have it on days when it rains heavily (especially the monsoons)
As Russian, who had to go to school often through snowy uncleaned streets, it sounds crazy af. Just give kids more days off, but don't use snow as an excuse
During an online class my teacher was so bummed out that on a day where the snow was piled high, we didn't get a day off to play, so for our class work we needed to take a picture of us playing in the snow.
Edit: for the kids that didn't or couldn't go outside, they just did their regular work, which was to finish some work if they didn't already the day before. So technically free period for everyone.
Based
@@ccox7198 You see the point, right up there, flying over your head?
@@ccox7198 they see the kid every day, and they're asking for like a picture of them building a snowman. The point is to make sure the kid enjoys their snow days like they're supposed to.
What if I don’t want to play in the snow
Because I want to read a book or something
He should’ve just said “Do something fun” instead
@@ccox7198 damn you should enter the Olympics with that long jump to conclusions
I have another idea: Shorten the school year by 10 days, and sprinkle the extra days throughout the academic year.
I grew up near Toronto and we don’t get too many snow days anymore, but they are still a surprising holiday from school
Y’all get snow days in Toronto?? Live in Edmonton and I literally didn’t know that they cancelled school in other places for weather until recently. Here any weather school will still be on unless there was like a tornado or smthing
From a teachers point of view, it’s getting scary now. Every time we are sick they are forcing us in our school to teach online - it’s horrendous
Yes, it's very sad. Am a teacher, know the pain. There's no joy like a snow day, especially for teachers.
How is this even legal?
You should be guaranteed your right to sick leave. Your school district should strike to guarantee that.
Where is your union on this? omg, it's time for you all to strike.
I don’t live in the US, or even if I was in my home country it wouldn’t happen, currently living in the UAE
“Oh no, the snow knocked out my internet connection. Guess I’ll have to wait till the snow clears to learn anything.”
Schools can check with their local ISP to see if there is actually an outage.
"Oh no, so your power's out?"
"No no, nothing like that."
"....So just your internet then?"
"Um... Yeah...suuuuper crazy. I mean what are the odds, right? These cable companies really gotta get their infrastructure together, amiright? 😅"
@@falconJB don't give them ideas
"Oh it was our deadline for our internet, gotta pay up soon"
@@falconJB Unplug the router and it will appear like your internet is out if your ISP does a line check.
The superintendent who was in charge of the district my high school was a part of would refuse to close schools unless the winter weather was more or less apocalyptic. It took a driver skidding and crashing into a school bus to finally loosen the restrictions my district had, and this school was in Michigan by the way.
“Distance learning worked so well”
My vision becoming bad because I stared at a screen all day
You're forgetting the most important part of cancellation of snow days: funding is based on the number of student attendance days. A snow day costs the school money and therefore the schoolboard power. It's not about learning, it is never about learning, it's all about money and power.
We have to teach the kids about corporate greed and stuff right?
@@somerandomoldman4557 Yes! Just don't put them through it...
You've got that backwards. They were motivated to have snowdays because the weather would be so bad that attendance would be too low to count the day as a day of school. I.e. they would have held class but would need to tack on another school day anyway. So which would you have wanted? To call the day off properly, or have maybe attended and had to redo per se because your peers didn't show up? Now, there are a certain number of days that can be missed without penalty, but beyond that... And the whole point is indeed learning, otherwise they would just not care about whoever missed and would proceed, letting the gap grow between those that attended vs. those that did not, letting those that missed fail.
Schoolboards don't derive their power from the school budget, that's not how that works. Clearly you failed to learn if you think it's just about money and power, especially considering that school in the US have very little of either of those.
it was always about having some letter or number on a paper.
@@zvxcvxcz Now they can do away with the snow days and have "virtual" days with near 100% attendance...and they can even extend the school year just a little bit more.
I saw "snow days are cancelled," and "a crime against childhood" and i was like THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING
My school gave us “Blizzard bags” which are really just folders full of work that we do over snow days.
The entirety of the public school system is one
@@Russia_Moscow_countryhuman At that point just transfer 😂
@@Russia_Moscow_countryhuman wtf where is your school so i can go and wack their kneecaps
That is indeed the real fallout of this pandemic.
I feel like teaching students french conjugations for "to have fun" while they aren't having fun is extremely hypocritical
I think this example was took on purpose for this very reason
That's not what hypocritical means, but it's ironic.
teaching french in generall is just cruel punishment
I don’t suffer that fate because my French teacher is very funny
That was the point
I graduated high school in 2019, before the pandemic, even then there was talk of cancelling snow days because every (high school, and middle school) student had a laptop.
But how do they know if you have Internet?
@@Oturan20 They sent out a form at the beginning of the school year asking if you had internet, but I suspect that they wouldn't do anything if you said you didn't have internet
Here in Finland the schools are never closed by snow. Even if there was a meter of snow and -30°C the schools are always open
That sounds dangerous....
@@KnightRaymund How so? We get that sort of weather every year, we are used to that and our infrastructure is made with the winter in mind.
@@iirovaltonen4258 It's probably the infrastructure that's the key.
Cos in some cities in the deep South of the US any snow will cause a snow day - BECAUSE the south doesn't maintain snow and ice sweeping trucks like the Midwest and the Northeast do.
@@iirovaltonen4258 I'm Canadian, w have snow every winter. Plows, snow tires, snowy streets are still slippery and dangerous. Worse on small roads or rural areas that are slow to be ploughed.
Ok, everybody in the comments is a Finn. This is the third comment that I saw about Finland dealing with cold well.
Growing up in Florida, it was praying for hurricanes and tropical storms that kept us safe from school.
Isn't that funny? I partially grew up in MS and AL and I remember getting days off if a storm was threatening enough, and then it was the greatest when they made the declaration but the storm veered off last minute; free day to run around!
Growing up in SoCal our only hope for school being canceled was a wild fire getting too close
I hated those classmates as I actually feared hurricanes. Though waking up early kills you just as much, but slowly
Here in the S.F. bay area the weather could barely touch the schools. Hell even when a lighting storm could knock out a few blocks my schools where always untouched.
Same in the Philippines
In my school we had snow days, but they were different. We had shorter lessons and one hour of organized snowball fighting tournaments
Man, in a couple years i'll be a teacher and sometimes it feels like the only pastime of schoolboards and the ministry of education is to dominate pupils minds as much as possible until no class is ever missed, no test ever so slightly cheated, no homework copied from a friend no childrens mind absent.
School is hard nad without allowing students little breaks in between, i honestly don't know how they're supposed to make it through the year.
"Distance learning worked so well"
My school literally forgot to assign me a math class, so now I'm a year off
My school also put me class I'm not even in yet and kept counting me as a absent, and putting in 'missing' work that I wasn't even getting
Yep, distanced learning worked soooo well
summer school? sorry to hear it. It'd be not a full year of school, but three months of one class online for some time online certain days; for college at least. Surely there not refusing to undo that false class though, there's higher powers than the principal, even board, who don't like them giving false gpa's for no reason
not really a product of distance learning and more just the school system and the people in charge of it being terrible at their jobs
Do better
You didn't think it was odd you didn't have a math all year...? Like your school messed up, but that's such a big problem you or your parents probs should have noticed it...
@@peckc16 well yea I did actually, but because each quarter was one semester on my online school, i just assumed it would be next quarter after the next, but eventually time ran out. And my parents don’t care about the classes themselves, only the grades
Imagine being called a heartless monster from someone often described as literally a robot.
this is deep this describes society (kids put on ur sarcasm masks)
@@nutgang3118 Ok guys but what if Snowdays were a representation of Society (or susciety if you will) success isn’t determined by skill, but by luck.
(Joker picture here)
@@MetuendusDominus *We live in a society, where gamers don't rule world...*
@@bluesky_cupy5158 We need gamer society, the Western Sahara is a great place to set up Gamer Society
@@MetuendusDominus Computers need cooling, antarctica is better.
My school district just eliminated snow days BUT only with asynchronous learning so students can still enjoy them
As a guy from Norway, snow days is weird for me.
From rain to snow, from a breeze to a blizzard the only day we got to go home was when there was a bomb threat at my school.
And this from the west coast of Norway, where the snow turns to ice in a day and never melts.
A random Finnish kid walking to school through blizzard in -20 degrees: "You guys cancel school when it snows???"
snow days technically mean freezing rain or hail days (or if its below -28C). 25cm of snow will not cancel by it's self
@@airernie2 Yea, I cut some corners in my comment :) Back when I was in school (in Finland) the only concession we could get in the winter was that if the temperature was below -25C we didn't have to go out during recess. Yay!
@@elkinkku damn man in canada we had to go to school until the busses litterally wouldn't start which was around -35C
@@jadefirekraken1363 - 35 is quite cold already :D here in the southern Finland we don't have it every winter, but in the North it tends to happen.
Most kids here would walk/cycle(/ski) to school as you need to live several miles away from nearest school to get the town to bus you. It's only in the last couple decades that the countryside towns have been shutting down their small "village schools" that were scattered basically everywhere. This has led to the increase of the amount of pupils bussed to schools.
In more urban areas the public transportation does not always have the best coverage or schedule so kids can't often use that. Of course in the last generation or so parents have been increasingly eager to drive their kids to school, but a substantial amount of the kids still has to push through to school on their own devices.
Right? "A meter of snow dropped in the last half hour? Too bad, get to school on time!"
I have heard stories from friends who live in places like Texas, where even the slightest hint of frosted breath on the air would get school canceled. Lucky buggers.
I don't think I've ever seen Grey so passionate about anything.
Not even Hexagons or getting on an airplane efficiently got him this excited about something.
Not even tumbleweeds!
Well... maybe tumbleweeds
ah but snowflakes are hexagonal. he wants kids to experience the beauty of hexagons
Or angry.
even more then the electoral college
He really be thinking of the children
#savesnowdays
I am so glad I got out of school long before distance learning. I was great at learning, especially book learning, but I was a terrible student. All I had going for me was being physically present. I would've missed entire years of school if they counted the days I was napping in class because I'd already finished the reading assignment a week ago as absent.
Teacher here: Distance learning works *acceptably* in *some* age groups and *some* classes for *PERMANENTLY* virtual kids. My school is primarily in-person now except for kids that are temporarily virtual because of exposure to covid, travel, etc. Invariably they are wasting everybody's time by being online, not having materials, tech issues, not knowing how to behave online, worse attention span, can't participate in things that have to be in person like labs (unless we actually get advance notice and can plan for it, which never happens).
I do not see future years having *at all* effective snow day instruction virtually, with kids unprepared and unused-to virtual, much less further down the road when there are kids who don't remember or didn't experience this year. Horrible waste of everybody's time and effort with the added benefit of crushing hopes and dreams. Teachers are going to mass protest this as well- no chance I'm adapting multiple lesson plans on no notice to be fully virtual.
I'm not a teacher, but I'm a university student learning how to be one. Schoolboards have been trying to use technology to replace certain parts of education for years.
Considering how many students are less than enthusiastic about learning while having to _physically_ be in class, I have no doubt that distance learning will be even less effective. The entire point of having human teachers in schools is to offer a human element which, by definition, doesn't really exist through a computer screen.
If this is the future of teaching, I am not looking forward to doing it, despite myself.
I work in a classroom too that has had virtual learning even since last March. A Kindergarten classroom. This has been the worst year I've seen in grades, attention, participation, finished work, and attendance. Virtual learning has been terrible for our grade level so much that there is a huge spike in retention. I'm sure other schools have had the same experience, so I don't know why any school would want to continue virtual learning at all!
Agreed. the current systems in place for virtual learning are fast stick measures that shouldn't be applied as a new normal. Virtual learning can be a great tool, but currently the way we're using it is akin to using a adjustable wrench as a detail hammer, as in it technically can work but requires extra care and damages the tool.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but teachers' also have to prep differently to virtual vs in person teaching don't they? If you suddenly turn one day into a virtual school day, teachers are either going to have to teach without preparing their topics for the different environment, or consistent maintain two prep schedules = double the work.
yeah but it's not whether distance learning is an effective method of teaching kids long-term for everybody, it's: Does distance learning fill an attendance box for a single day in the middle of the year?
Grey: *save snow days!*
People who never experienced snow days: *confused but supportive*
It hasnt snowed where I live in 50 years but yeah! You tell'em sitckman!
@@tomnyskull You don't get many snowdays if you live too far north too, it's a fine balance
I'm not sure if I'm supportive of stopping learning because of inclement weather. This feels more like an argument for making learning engaging in school.
@@NewhamMatt its robbing children from the wonder of a snow day
@HoapiliakeAkuamanaloa Saigusa worse where you live so far north that a weather event that would require school closure can only be described as apocalyptic.
It’s so funny growing up in Central Arizona and seeing all this happen. I had one day even close to a snow day in 13 years of school here and it was a monsoon day
My school system had “work days” that operated as scheduled wiggle room. Basically if there was a reason why the schools couldn’t open (say snow days or blackouts) a future work day would be used in its place. Unused work days would be given to the students as time off and the teachers as meetings, workshops, or time off as well.
You know it's for real when Grey brings out "Won't someone think of the children."
The biological weapon of conversation.
@@CGPGrey The only way for schools to take you seriously. Break the Geneva Convention
The funny thing is that grey thinks schools care about kids
Arguments are almost never about changing your oppositions mind. It's about getting observers and other third partys on your side.
Hope I changed your mind on that one ;)
The fallacious form of argumentation, yes.
The real reason Grey made this is that he remembers his teacher days - and if there's one group of people that love snow days more than students, it's teachers!
So teachers love days where they don't have to be around their students? That sounds unhealthy and like someone who shouldn't be a teacher.
@@Silverizael it’s a nice break off for everyone especially teachers because they get a break, I’m not a teacher but if I was i think I would get burnt out very often
@@ryanmacleod2749 So what does that mean for the majority of the world and even the majority of the United States that doesn't have snow days? Are they worse teachers?
I say as a grad student who has taught lab classes before and never had or needed a snow day.
@@Silverizael I love a day without students where I can catch up on marking and planning so I can come to them happier and more energized the next day, yup! Even if you love your job, time to recharge and refocus is always great.
@@theprairiemailbox *THIS*
My school board is run by angels, I swear, they gave us snow days in online school even when it didn't snow, they're amazing people.