By Rory Hutchins’25
The joy of snow falling and getting the sudden email from the dean that there is no school always leaves students with a euphoric feeling. However, with the rise of Covid, snow days started to dwindle. What was snow to stop school when Zoom was at our fingertips? When asking sophomore Kat Dai ‘25, she stated that “snow days are important because they are so unexpected. These days offer time for relaxation and are beneficial for student’s mental health, especially during long winter weeks.”
Those who are pro Zoom snow days have stated that snow days would add more time to summer break, but the truth is students would benefit more from a sporadic break. Zoom snow days also offer another plethora of problems. Digital classes and staring at a screen for five hours straight can be damaging to one’s health. Snow days offer the perfect amount of time to relax and recover from school as that gives students and teachers a chance to rejuvenate before continuing on with the remainder of their week.
Zoom classes also cause more harm than good to all parties involved. Teachers have to spend their snow days setting up Zoom links, many of which tend to have problems. Snow days often cause power lines to fall down, or the internet to slow which in turn is a huge burden for the student or teacher trying to join the Zoom call.
Additionally, after a long day of Zoom classes, there is then more homework added which is usually digital as well. Zoom-day snow days have no beneficial impact on students and diminish the excitement of snowfall in general.
