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Internet Could Mean End of "Snow Days"
fangmcgee writes "Could the Internet mean the end of snow days? Some schools think so, and they are experimenting with ways for students to do lessons online during bad weather, potentially allowing classes to go on during even the worst blizzard." Alright folks, it's finally happened: The Internet has gone too far. It's time to blow it up and go back to papyrus scrolls and horseback couriers.
Maybe it can teach the difference between "to" and "too"? Then move on to advanced concepts like "their", "they're" and "there"; the proper use of commas and even that spawn of satan itself, the apostrophe.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
Snow days are healthy. By Saturday it'll be muck, or ice, and the kids will be stuck inside, yet again. And since it's May, let's not forget it's dark by dinner time in the winter. Let the kids play outside, for their own good. It's only a few times per year.
Operator, give me the number for 911!
If it's a small town, the kids can walk to school. In the snow. Uphill. Both ways.
There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure
You have clearly never known true poverty.
I have seen "true poverty" where I went to high school. Their are lots of children that only eat when they go to school and get a free lunch. I remember one kid in school who the teacher bought a pair of shoes and a coat for him. He came to school the next day wearing his old shoes and no coat. The teacher asked him about it and he said his father had taken them for himself. Maybe you grew up in a nice suburb but there are children in the US of motherfucking A that do live in poverty.