Everybody loves a surprising day off of school or work. Getting to sleep in, catch up on school work, and hang out with friends are definitely appealing to everyone. But with great things come some drawbacks. For instance, having snow days causes teachers to rearrange their lesson plans and AP students fall behind schedule.
Snow days can significantly affect concrete schedules such as AP course pacing, leaving students to scramble last minute to learn the material; Junior Mackenzie Simon has been affected by this.
“I really like having days off school but it causes some of my AP classes to rush to learn the material,” Mackenzie Simon ’26 said. “ With having a set date for the AP test it’s hard to fit in the missed lessons.”
Senior Naya Azoury ’25 thinks that snow days are a good mental break for everybody and teachers find ways to make up for lost time.
“I think snow days in the middle of the week are an exciting break and usually much needed,” Azoury said. “My teachers always adjust the schedule really well and plan around them which is super helpful.”
Spanish teacher Cindy Morefield-Pinder also enjoys a good break but acknowledges the difficulty in replicating a previous day’s agenda.
“I can’t just copy and paste the agenda from a Friday to a Monday, every day is different,” Morefield-Pinder said. “A lesson plan for Friday is completely different from a Monday’s considering class time and students’ moods.”
Azoury believes that having multiple snow days in a row throws off her motivation for the rest of the week, in terms of schoolwork.
“After having two snow days at the beginning of the week it throws off my schedule significantly,” Azoury said. “Even though I have a lot of free time, it makes me want even more days off and not want to do my homework.”
Many students throw off their sleep schedule during snow days, which significantly affects their learning and energy levels when they return to school.
“On the night before snow days, I usually stay up later than I usually would watching movies or with friends,” Simon said. “So after a few snow days in a row, it takes me the rest of the week to restore my sleep schedule.”
Even though snow days can affect students’ learning and teachers’ agendas, overall a day off is always beneficial for everyone
“I love having a good day off, I can always do my best to rearrange my schedule, but having multiple days in a row off gets tricky,” Morefield-Pinder said.
