CAT Tracks for January 28, 2011
THE GRINCH

...who stole snow days!

This is such a stupid concept...a symptom of what's wrong with the United States fixation on, obsession with the alleged ills of public education.

While decrying the nation's obesity problems, many schools are eliminating recess and physical education in favor spending extra time on math and reading (or whatever else the federal government may dictate be taught in "locally controlled" school districts.)

Now, school districts so "anxious to please" are going to take away snow days!

Sweet Jesus!

HEY!

You know...THAT may well be what's behind this!!!


Conspiracy theory...

First, the atheists (ably assisted by their godless, liberal Democrat allies) got the United States Supreme Court to ban prayer from the public schools.

NOW...these same heathens want to take away God's only remaining gift to school kids everywhere...the blessed snow day.

Bears repeating...

You say you want a revolution!


From the Washington Post...


Link to Original Story

The Answer Sheet
By Valerie Strauss

School district turns snow days into ‘e-days’

A small rural Ohio school district is experimenting with a new version of the traditional snow day -- one that some kids are not likely to enjoy much.

When snow makes it took difficult to keep schools in operation, classes are canceled and kids sleep in and goof off the rest of the day.

But this year the Mississinawa Valley School District, on the Ohio-Indiana border, has lessons ready for students on their computers at home that they are expected to do.

There are rules, too, for kids who don’t have home computers: They are expected to complete the work too, though they have longer to do it because they don’t get the assignments until they get back to school.

Ohio used to allow five snow days a year, but changed that last year to three days. That rule, though, didn’t keep the snow from falling, and students at Mississinawa Valley missed nine days, some of which they had to make up in June, according to National Public Radio.

(Legislation has already been introduced to restore the number of snow days to five; some Ohio schools have already used up their permitted three with no make-up.)

Now in Mississinawa Valley, snow days are called “e-days.”

Some kids told NPR they don’t actually mind the new policy. They include high school students who worry that falling behind in class could affect their chances of getting into college.

District officials will study how well the program worked with the help of a university and decide whether to continue the policy or drop it.