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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Thisshouldbeeasy][quote=Anonymous]Are you all helicopter parents who are freaking about their children’s education right now? You have no regard for your own children’s or others safety. Let the kids enjoy some snow days. Its part of childhood.. [/quote]

+1 this will be a time our kids reflect on in adult hood and reminisce about. Some of my favorite memories were the extended snow days and I don't even remember the make up days.  [/quote]

That’s great. Snow days are fun. I had plenty as a kid.

School is important. I remembered what I learned in school AND what I did outside of school.

I feel sorry for the people who claim they forgot everything they learned. [/quote]

Really?

You remember you learned Algebra in January 1996 or you remember you had fun in the snow  in Jan 1996?

Smh[/quote]

Yep.

I remember in 3rd grade, we did a really fun project about Colonial America where we made a colonial village and then did presentations about the different people in the town (blacksmith, cobbler, etc).

In 2nd grade, we did an assembly line project where we made little cars.

In 5th grade, I did my first research paper. My topic was Incan architecture. We were learning about the Mayans, Aztecs, and Incan civilizations.

I also remember sledding down the big hill near my house with my sister and my friends during snow days. I remember roasting marshmallows in the fire.

This was all around the mid-90s in the NYC suburbs.[/quote]

You guys sound overly anxious about kids missing a week of school. Trust me, they are not going to become dumber or anything. In fact, they are probably learning life skills. Free play, interacting with friends, shoveling snow, figuring out how to use this time without screens, cooking meals..maybe learning new skills. way more useful than writing research papers. I feel sorry for your kids.. [/quote]

I feel sorry that you don’t see the value in writing research papers.

There is value in school AND playing with friends.

How do you not see that?[/quote]

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