A Crime Against Childhood

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[@CGPGrey]

SAVE SNOW DAYS: twitter.com/share?text=Some%20schools%20are%20trying%20to%20get%20rid%20of%20snow%20days%20and%20replace%20them%20with%20distance%20learning.%20%20It%27s%20a%20crime%20against%20childhood!%20%20We%20cannot%20let%20this%20stand!&url=kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y3elqI2qqq-ng9k&hashtags=SaveSnowDays

[@haashirkabeer2671]

Yes, just yes

[@sludgebones]

We must save them

[@munjee2]

I hope the the "space" marks were intentional

[@adamk8385]

LONG LIVE SNOW DAYS

[@jasastopar]

We must

[@HarpscityIsHere]

One time it started snowing at school, and my teacher said: "I know it's hard to focus when there's snow outside..." I expected her to say "focus anyway", but instead she said "so why focus?" She turned off the lesson and let us out for recess early. I miss that teacher

[@janTesika]

yech, recess. horrible stuff.

[@dragonfighters5097]

wow that is an amazing teacher.

[@lioneltribby5072]

I live in California and even with the lack of snow my school declares one day each semester a snow day anyway because the principal grew up in a snowy place and loved snow days as a kid. How great is that

[@GallantChaos]

Is it scheduled in advance or completely on a whim?

[@trumpet_boooi]

My school just got a new superintendent from the UP so there has to be like 10 feet of snow for them to call it

[@gato_feliz605]

my respect for that principal

[@heybuey4344]

I grew up in SoCal. The only "snow day" I can remember is when my elementary school brought in snow-making machinery... to make snow...when it was like 72F outside. Got to play with snow during recess - which was the first time a lot of us ever saw snow.

[@619chrisoriginal]

That is amazing!!! I live in California also and never have experienced a snow day but man I always wished I did.

[@CatholicElectrician]

I never thought I’d see Grey more passionate about anything than he is about hexagons

[@zacherychapman8474]

Every snowflake has a hexagonal structure. Coincidence? I think not!

[@timothypryor7952]

Bestigons

[@ben-xl7ne]

Penny`s?

[@CaptainAricDeron]

His emotion chip has been running on high lately. . . has someone checked on him?

[@renatoe9648]

maybe an hexagonal snowman?

[@equinoxo8813]

Fun Fact: The US Air Force, assuming nothing critically important is happening and you arent already in an area that gets snow all the time, allows base commanders to call snow days for an entire base. If the military gives its men snow days, they can give kids a snow day.

[@samuels1123]

"No snow days for you either, your freedom must be minimized, now you pilot drones"

[@aSimpleFish]

YES

[@TheOystei]

@@samuels1123 "you will impose freedom onto others while being robbed of yours!"

[@allyionsol3274]

Navy does snow days also, sucks if you get stuck on duty though.

[@flitsertheo]

@@allyionsol3274 I can imagine having a "snow day" while on duty on a submarine somewhere in the middle of the ocean.

[@natereinert1572]

Fun fact, during the first winter of covid and everyone was learning from home, my hometown school board still cancelled school when there would have been a snow day, because they (rightfully) thought this was important

[@stevevernon1978]

upvoting your comment, because I can't upvote your SCHOOL BOARD!!

[@majesticseeotter_45]

They did for my town too! And the day after we had a delay!

[@Double-Negative]

my college did the same

[@nicholeritchey1383]

We homeschool our daughter. Whenever her friends in public school are allowed a snow day (or some other holiday) I give her a break too.

[@AnthroCatTidal]

Your schoolboard is the best I want to move to wherever you are

[@bethjacobx]

the best part about this is that Grey was a teacher and probably loved snow days when he was working too

[@boredincan]

In Ireland? No

[@GeneralMoron]

If I didn’t know any better, I’d say he’s not arguing for the sake of the children, but for the sake of the teachers

[@stars4allen133]

@@boredincan I think Grey taught in the UK although I'm not 100% sure

[@tacos928]

I’m a teacher. We all love snow days

[@carlos-alcantar]

This comment better be the top voted

[@hiimgamerspruzzino5804]

The fact that Grey has been a teacher himself makes this even more important you see

[@fluffymeow885]

@dragon Of course teachers want their students to do well in class, of course they want no students to be left behind, but Grey knows that childhood joy was more important than those checkboxes. It's not about days off for teachers, it's about what's the best for a child. Don't think that everyone is as ready to slack off as you do.

[@TheDisorganizedNerd]

@@fluffymeow885 yes BUT it is nice for them

[@fluffymeow885]

@@TheDisorganizedNerd I'm not saying it isn't nice for them, BUT that is not the motivation for teachers to want to protect snow days. Say you are the organizer of a school prom. There is a song you enjoy, but you choose to play it in the prom because the attendants enjoy it, not because you yourself enjoy it. The song is still played in the end, but your motivation is everyone's enjoyment, not yours. Getting to listen to a song you enjoy is just the cherry on top of the cake, not the cake itself. This implies that if teachers like Grey still had to work on snow days while their students got to enjoy themselves, they would still protect snow days for the students' sake.

[@pirilon78]

@@fluffymeow885 yes BUT its nice for them

[@ionut-cristianratoi7692]

@@pirilon78 This here, is pure gold :))

[@fallingsky219]

“Distance learning worked so well” Half my grade failed the semester

[@jegger2143]

Funny enough, one of the schools in my country has about 10% of its final year students that actually stayed through the pandemic. ... wait, that's not funny.

[@07khiteeshsharma84]

Same

[@deleted-something]

Fr

[@goleftfanta4283]

Half of students had 40 missing assignments during distance learning, dont j blame everything on the schools.

[@jegger2143]

@@goleftfanta4283 I don't think it's the school's though, it's more the concept of distance learning that's flawed; which isn't neccesarily a bad thing.

[@tessat338]

I'm not just thinking of the children, I'm thinking of the teachers who didn't bring their lesson plan home with them or set up the class instruction materials on the shared drive ahead of time.

[@Roxor128]

Many IT departments have a sign up answering this (though usually in the context of things like backups): "A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part."

[@sirjmo]

@@Roxor128 you usually get one free pass if you're staying nice, but two emergencies? IT don't give a ****.

[@margaritamikalauskaite9875]

yeah and what if as a student you didn't have a certain book because you left it in your locker since there was no homework for that subject. Some of my teachers would deffinetly be mad even though its not our fault

[@gifigi600]

Imagine teachers be like oh man Its snowing. I guess I can rest a bit more. Wakes up 3 hours later

[@DaDunge]

This is the 21st century you can access the school servers from your home computer.

[@vladimirglutentag1469]

In Australia, we have “heat stroke” days, where school gets called off because it’s the exact opposite of snowing, it’s boiling hot.

[@zombieslayer1468]

sounds like australia

[@Bitz00.]

really? at my school they just force us to stay indoors for the breaks and turn the aircon up to max, but yes moving through classes does make everyone really hot for classes, many sweating

[@vladimirglutentag1469]

@@Bitz00. yeah at my school we just cancelled outright because our buildings were open plan… trying to cool that down was next to impossible.

[@frank7328]

We actually had one or two of those here in the states I believe. The difference being that our heat stroke day temperature is probably your average.

[@Pheatan]

Yeah, I think it was something like if the day was predicted to be over 50 or if it was over 45 while there theyd stop teaching because even max aircon isnt enough for thirty kids in a class

[@BrodyAnimates]

As a sophomore, i love how schools prioritize efficiency over students mental health and basic humanity

[@blackstargate4188]

oh like the workplace

[@nathanieldylan5218]

hello checkmark user

[@Gonebeef]

Ikr

[@nyanecho64]

Is this sarcasm... I can't tell

[@theacc_]

@@nyanecho64 no its not sadly the american school system (and many others) are actually like this and it sucks ass

[@hp4vr]

As a teacher, I'm going to tell you now that we also love snow days. Sleeping in? No correcting? Able to watch Netflix all day? That is the best

[@sarahspindler2914]

I feel so bad for you all! Virtual days have to be the worst!

[@henryweinand8672]

Very true my mom is a teacher and I know she loves those days off.

[@electralumen165]

Grey was a teacher, he probably knows and this is why he's defending it.

[@dani_drawzz]

The main bad thing is that you don’t have all the time to teach. That was and is my teacher’s problem because every class I’m in are messes

[@joshuaandino]

W teacher

[@NameNick-ro6oz]

This is like taking a child to an amusement park and telling them they have to do cardio in the parking lot for the next 8 hours

[@Sam-ui8cr]

KLDSJFL;LSA,VPASDPMB IM DYINGG

[@Stuffed_Trigger]

@@Sam-ui8cr why can I translate your comment lmao

[@fionaredfern7519]

I Do agree with you, but it's Worse, methinks. It's like doing that, but telling the kid to jog around the parking lot, NO MATTER IF IT'S IN FRONT OF MOVING CARS, which the adults specifically told children NOT to do. Besides, I remember the yelling about trying to tell kids to GET OFF THE COMPUTER OR IT WOULD BURN THEIR EYES OUT. Yes, I'll Be Harry Potter, Daring to Severus Snape's own Spells against him. That's the most valid argument i could think that'd work.

[@moodl3d856]

me who doesn’t like rollercoasters: I still agree, child be sad with school

[@solarisveritatis1086]

@@Sam-ui8cr Heardable text.

[@HeroicRoll]

I don’t think I’ve ever heard CGP Grey speak more passionately than he did in this video.

[@benpadula1407]

i dont think you saw his video about hexagons

[@marcelwo4jedynki]

it's a conspiracy, killing snow days would minimize the interaction of children with multiple small hexagons of solid water

[@smore9831]

@@marcelwo4jedynki you are a genius

[@KC-pi6po]

And that in this topic ... from a teacher

[@vimicito]

Tumbleweeds!!!

[@U.Inferno]

Grey as an adult, a teacher, and grown up child, fighting for everyone. Such nobility

[@sciencenerd8879]

I think he as a teacher just wants to keep the snowdays for himself.

[@ehsan_kia]

If by "everyone", you mean the fraction of people who live in the Goldilock zone where it's not so warm that there's no significant snow, and not so cold that snow days don't impact infrastructure.

[@EnigmaticLucas]

Maybe he just wants extra time to grade things

[@8-bitstorm]

Such branding!

[@DontRobMe13]

We should nominate him for a Noble peace prize

[@mrosskne]

Imagine creating an institution so horrific that children will literally pray for a single day of respite from it.

[@windriver2363]

The public schools in my area actually decided to have 'virtual snow days' last winter. Even though they were doing online school, they cancelled the online classes if there normally would have been a snow day.

[@oyunoynayanbiri]

Wow so there are schools that actually care about the days off. My school is doing the opposite, we have school even on public holidays so our parents can get mad at us for playing games during school while they don't go to work.

[@thatonetomatoguy4210]

My school had what they called an asynchronous day where they canceled the online classes on the snow day and just expected you to get a bit more caught up if you need to. I seriously wonder how many kids got even 1 assignment done that day.

[@dragance9995]

@@thatonetomatoguy4210 My guess would be 0.

[@animationreview5696]

What school is that? where is it? what available houses are in the area?

[@Cc-nn4cm]

Me too

[@theCodyReeder]

A snow day allowed me to stay home and watch the new horizons spacecraft launch.

[@bloodspilla55]

hey Cody

[@eliaskjrbo8142]

Awesome

[@alexf4500]

Nice seeing you here Cody!

[@ahmadhalabiah3714]

This was a video that we didn't expect but needed

[@buzinaocara]

great story

[@eric619]

Our district has kept its snow days, the Teacher's Union stepped up with a loud "Those are our days off too"

[@letsmessup648]

These teachers are GIGA CHADS

[@ragg232]

Solidarity

[@xxxenricop]

Exactly....days they get paid for but do not show up to work.....schools should therefore refuse to pay snow days wages to teachers... P.s. I am a teacher but also realistic...

[@wayfarerzen]

Bless them

[@emilchen9866]

From union: We NeEd To sToP fIrE dRiLlS

[@nathanbrady8529]

When I was in school, we had a superintendent who would rarely approve snow days. Until she crashed her car trying to get to the school on a snowy day.

[@RoronoaZoroSensei]

I don't think I've ever seen Grey so passionate about anything. Not even Hexagons or getting on an airplane efficiently got him this excited about something.

[@wacpj1929]

Not even tumbleweeds! Well... maybe tumbleweeds

[@ad-skyobsidion4267]

ah but snowflakes are hexagonal. he wants kids to experience the beauty of hexagons

[@forbiddensandwich4369]

Or angry.

[@titaniumsalmon3238]

even more then the electoral college

[@hugofontes5708]

He really be thinking of the children

[@ScrabbleDiva]

As a teacher, I wholeheartedly agree. Snow Days are a breath of fresh air in a grueling school schedule.

[@bimancer]

I mean to play devil advocate, where I grew up snow days were planned in the schedule(having x number of extra days to make up for expected snow days). So if they switched to a distant learning on would be snow days they could then use those extra days to extend breaks or give a day off here or there. Which as they would be planned would mean you can do more on those days then snow days(that exist because it hard to travel on those days).

[@Reflexzzzz]

CGPGrey used to be a teacher before he become a youtuber so that makes sense.

[@libertyprime9559]

Yep the schools are only in it for the money which the schools have fallen to the influence of demons

[@wayfarerzen]

I find it endlessly amusing that both the teachers and students agree on so many things that the board and supervisors and committees disagree with.

[@skelet8337]

@@bimancer but it feels way better when you get a surprise 1 day off than 1 day planned

[@Darkside007]

"Those who want to cancel snow days should be forced to look into the wide eyes of a young girl while they crush her spirit" "Oh you don't need to force us. That's what gets us up in the morning. The pointless cruelty."

[@kittenzrulz2314]

@@EnochLindeman No the cuality dosnt wake her up but she enjoys using nerotoxin to make people sleep.

[@TheSaival]

They probably get raging h[Redacted for innapropriate content]

[@seanjohnisee]

Darn GLaDoS

[@bluescreen237]

Those people deserve to be endlessly be torn to pieces slowly whilst 1000 degree Celsius needles are stabbed on and out and listening to their least favorite songs And to top it all off they also must watch their loved ones suffer the same fate for all of eternity

[@bluescreen237]

@@EnochLindeman no not even glados is that evil

[@MyPhobo]

I think kids should get a set amount of personal days they can take. It might even make them feel like they have some kind of control over their own lives too.

[@forestria_gaming]

As a teen, I know that the government nor school system will never do this

[@ovecka17]

"Humanity is subservient to check boxes" is probably one of the best ways of explaining one of the main nightmares of modern 1st world life

[@donkarlon]

I agree wholeheartedly

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

As someone who's never even experienced what it's like to feel snow their whole life, I fully support snow days and the purpose they serve. As he said, think of the children.

[@starwarsman176]

danm 3 minutes ago

[@Doss3332]

Where do you live

[@masterbasher9542]

On one end; Climate Change/global warming at worst, would have "naturally" killed the dreaded Snow Day, more than "shifting an Axis" plot from a Recess film. Second; out of all the bureaucracy, the biggest "Snow Day" that is Corona, is likely the looming long term reaper of any 'breaks'. Think of it in a more horrible sense of "in case of strike; hire online teachers" from abroad or such.

[@HisMajesty.]

Same and I’m graduated

[@JaharNarishma]

As someone who grew up where it was common for 3 dm of snow to fall in a night, with risk of thrice that, I have never experienced a snow day. That was something on American movies sometimes, not reality. If your front door was hard to open, bodyslam it repeatedly until you have a crack wide enough to exit, then you start shoveling so that the door can be fully opened. After having a functional door, you wade through/over the snow to the (hopefully) plowed road. Some busses were late because they had to wait for the plow to clear the way, but that's all.

[@Maynick2001]

You're like a teacher that still has some remaining shred of empathy for how it feels to be a student. What a miracle.

[@MrTohawk]

He used to be a teacher.

[@hmseembowlbakporst8585]

I'm positive that teachers love snow days too

[@ashutoshsamantaray2572]

He was probably not very empathetic when he was a teacher.

[@Seegtease]

It's not the teachers that are the problem here.

[@Len124]

​@@ashutoshsamantaray2572 Why do you say that??

[@oliverspencer2411]

You'd think by now we'd learn forcing kids to sit still and listen only ever encourages them to completely zone out and learn less than they had if they took breaks and played

[@glorysky1998]

During an online class my teacher was so bummed out that on a day where the snow was piled high, we didn't get a day off to play, so for our class work we needed to take a picture of us playing in the snow. Edit: for the kids that didn't or couldn't go outside, they just did their regular work, which was to finish some work if they didn't already the day before. So technically free period for everyone.

[@TeeBar420]

Based

[@blunderingfool]

@@ccox7198 You see the point, right up there, flying over your head?

[@TeeBar420]

@@ccox7198 they see the kid every day, and they're asking for like a picture of them building a snowman. The point is to make sure the kid enjoys their snow days like they're supposed to.

[@georgesracingcar7701]

What if I don’t want to play in the snow Because I want to read a book or something He should’ve just said “Do something fun” instead

[@blitzn00dle50]

@@ccox7198 damn you should enter the Olympics with that long jump to conclusions

[@theprairiemailbox]

The real reason Grey made this is that he remembers his teacher days - and if there's one group of people that love snow days more than students, it's teachers!

[@Silverizael]

So teachers love days where they don't have to be around their students? That sounds unhealthy and like someone who shouldn't be a teacher.

[@ryanmacleod2749]

@@Silverizael it’s a nice break off for everyone especially teachers because they get a break, I’m not a teacher but if I was i think I would get burnt out very often

[@Silverizael]

@@ryanmacleod2749 So what does that mean for the majority of the world and even the majority of the United States that doesn't have snow days? Are they worse teachers? I say as a grad student who has taught lab classes before and never had or needed a snow day.

[@theprairiemailbox]

@@Silverizael I love a day without students where I can catch up on marking and planning so I can come to them happier and more energized the next day, yup! Even if you love your job, time to recharge and refocus is always great.

[@athrowaway3487]

@@theprairiemailbox *THIS*

[@TheMorganaic]

From a teachers point of view, it’s getting scary now. Every time we are sick they are forcing us in our school to teach online - it’s horrendous

[@nixie6077]

Yes, it's very sad. Am a teacher, know the pain. There's no joy like a snow day, especially for teachers.

[@gr4ffe]

How is this even legal?

[@Stargate2077]

You should be guaranteed your right to sick leave. Your school district should strike to guarantee that.

[@kabenzie]

Where is your union on this? omg, it's time for you all to strike.

[@TheMorganaic]

I don’t live in the US, or even if I was in my home country it wouldn’t happen, currently living in the UAE

[@eggmon420]

Lemme tell you. Distance learning didn’t work so well. The amount of “Sorry teacher, my internet isn’t working.” excuses used is UNBELIEVABLE.

[@jamierobinson7004]

The problem with cancelling snow days: sometimes we lose power when it snows too much. How do we expect kids to log on to school when there’s no wifi

[@kekula69]

Also what about kids who don't have internet

[@zvxcvxcz]

I think there is a bit of a misunderstanding. In more recent years snow days don't seem to be called with the same standards. It used to only be for a serious blizzards where I grew up, more recently it has been for days where the roads may still be ice covered at 6 AM ish. And so now they have something like 20 a year and it is just actually a significant amount of time for people to be missing when by 9 AM the roads are melted and they probably could have had class. I think some bad early morning car accidents prompted this change in our district, I think one of the administrators lost family to it or something like that. So I think, keeping 1-5 snow days a year, sure, no problem, but maybe we should get online and get something done on the more trivial "snow" days. Either the ice ones, or the ones they call further south when they get just a sprinkling that are hilarious to those of us that get real amounts of snow.

[@GigaDarkness]

teachers in my area would probably just say "use your phone"

[@wilyriley_]

@@zvxcvxcz what do you mean '20 per year'? I've almost never had more than 4-5 snow days per year, and the few times I have, it's because there were severe blizzards that closed school for multiple consecutive days.

[@andrasfarkas2198]

@@wilyriley_ You guys are having snow?

[@BagelMan.]

back in 2011 my grandma had a heart attack on a snow day and needed help because I was the only person at her house at that time. She doesn't know how to communicate well cause she mostly knows Japanese but I could see her on the floor pointing to the phone and I rushed to call 911. I saved my grandma that day and I will never forget the chance a snow day gave me.

[@jero37]

I'm glad to hear that you got to have her for longer and be her little hero. Do you recall how old you were at the time?

[@BagelMan.]

@@jero37 I was like 13 or something

[@loganlylehatch9426]

That's so wholesome. You're honestly a hero.

[@christian_hatch]

@@loganlylehatch9426 what a coincidence seeing you here

[@seanmurphy3430]

I feel like the larger issue here is how utterly soul-crushing school is to the point that any reprieve from it feels like a minor miracle.

[@logicbugs9452]

school nowdays steals the creativity from kids we NEED for new innovation and replaces it with a hatred of learning and work

[@aryantaywade298]

tru

[@Vaprous]

Given that the modern American school system is designed to engineer a specific kind of personality ideal for entering an equally soul crushing workforce? Yeah no, not a coincidence. Very much intentionally designed to repress creative thinking, insist on conformity, insist on obsessive perfection even when the work itself has no direct benefit for you, and to be unquestioning to authority figures. Modern American public schools are literally designed to create the perfect worker drones. Unquestioning of authority, too uncreative to think beyond instructions given, and keep just low information enough that they can't even tell when they are being taken advantage of in a legal sense(i.e uninformed as to their actual rights etc)

[@SiMeGamer]

Which is why homeschooling + extra curricular activities (to socialize and have fun with peers) has been a top priority for many new and potential parents. If parents can, they should. Public schools are fundamentally broken and they will never change until insane changes happen (this of course depends on the country. I think in the US it will literally never change while the budget will keep increasing because the system is just too big).

[@RilianSharp]

+

[@biomecraft356]

As a person who grew up in a snowless city, I envy you guys who had them.

[@lukaspalmos2307]

Same

[@kuhljager2429]

The real problem is that you are more likely to get a snow day than I was. If you live somewhere that gets regular snowfall, you also live somewhere that has equipment that can clear snow. I had exactly 1 snow day, and the roads were clear by lunch anyway.

[@dwarf2155]

I live in finland so snow days dont exist is because in northern finland there is either summer or snow

[@ThePreciseClimber]

Had plenty of snowy days in my country. Never, not once, was school ever cancelled because of it. One time I almost cracked my skull.

[@stephenkoebel3923]

"Distance Learning Has Worked So Well" depressed students worldwide would like a word

[@Blade.5786]

yes we would

[@ludovikc2032]

Yes we would

[@xroxannex3591]

yes we would

[@lironheller6518]

Yes we would

[@alpharomeo8954]

Yes, we would

[@FearsEdge]

Snow days teach kids a very important lesson: sometimes, human plans take a backseat to mother nature, in all of her fickle beauty and destructive power.

[@RipOffProductionsLLC]

"But don't you know? We have technology to bypass nature, so use it and abuse it! What are you? An anti-vacser? We stayed home for a year and still had school after all...." School Autocrat 227B-Q19 Alpha

[@victorcaldera249]

go away

[@whistletoe]

poetry

[@richardbloemenkamp8532]

Indeed SnowDays will only exist as long as we will not overheat the planet with our CO2, pollution and endless consumption of useless products. It's great if children learn that we can only keep our Snow Days if we work together to stop global warming.

[@yashjoseph3544]

@@richardbloemenkamp8532 Global warming will not cause snow to disappear. That is not how it works. Also, did you really have to bring this up? It's very obvious you're trying to push an agenda that's not even related to the topic at hand.

[@Galbrei]

As someone who grew up in Brazil where it NEVER snows, the idea of an errant weather pattern showing up unannounced and freeing you from next day's school duties sounded borderline magical! I never got to enjoy this but I wouldn't want it taken from others.

[@marcuswong730]

In Southeast Asia, our equivalent is “stormy days” if there is a hurricane and the wind speed/rainfall exceed a certain amount school will be cancelled Unlike snow days I can’t really play out side because... you know why, but it is still pretty cool and as you said, borderline magical :)

[@MagnsATK98]

Here in Norway it snows a lot but we never get free from school because of that, so it's strange to hear for us too

[@benjaminjolly2371]

In Arizona we get heat advisory days where you still go to school but they don't let you outside

[@prashantpandey9082]

In some parts of India we have it on days when it rains heavily (especially the monsoons)

[@KateeAngel]

As Russian, who had to go to school often through snowy uncleaned streets, it sounds crazy af. Just give kids more days off, but don't use snow as an excuse

[@theirishpsychowolf7617]

School gave me many things Depression Anxiety Bitterness Countless stories of why I hated my life It took joy away for 5 years of my life I'm only starting to enjoy life again

[@pockystick8557]

This reminds me of that one Calvin and Hobbes comic where Calvin was deciding whether to play outside in the snow or do his homework. He recognized that doing his homework will help him in a long term but in a long long term he knew which will matter more and opted to play on the snow..

[@reubenbrombley8173]

Let it never be said that Calvin is not forward-thinking

[@ChaiKaPyala]

Calvin is wise beyond his years. How old is he? Six.

[@galenpemberton4382]

Remember the one where Calvin ask his dad to play with him in the snow? The dad is very busy and tells him no but after a minute he thinks about it before going outside and playing with Calvin all day. Then at night when he’s having to get the work done Calvin comes and hugs him goodnight. It really put what was important in prospective

[@matthewwilson4972]

@@ChaiKaPyala Calvin has an existential crisis every second storyline

[@jkuhl2492]

There's also the one where he exclaims to his mother that it snowed therefore school is canceled, but she says it was only two inches, therefore school is not canceled. He's angry and going to the bus and he opines "getting two inches of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery" Always made me laugh.

[@adrianbenedictmanalaysay1159]

School boards and education administrators should also consider that snow, rain, storms, and other weather disturbances can affect the reliability of Internet connection making it difficult for online classes to be productive.

[@aycc-nbh7289]

What if some professors decided to still cancel classes because of this? I may consider doing it if I were in charge, even perhaps bringing with me the relevant equations/diagrams.

[@samman18]

YEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS

[@rainchopper898]

Absolute and utter genius! If dumbass schools try to enforce online learning on snow days you can just say that you’re internet isn’t working. Every. Time.

[@garethbaus5471]

@@rainchopper898 and if the kids are using my current internet provider, it probably actually isn't working.

[@ShawnMihalek]

@@garethbaus5471 Where I live it hasn't snowed in like 15 years, but if we get a little more rain than normal we lose power for 6 hours.

[@flownaway2856]

At least here in Florida, they'll never cancel hurricane days. Except you can't play outside, your power's gone out, you're praying a tree doesn't fly into your living room, and all you have to eat is canned soup. 😭

[@TuesdaysArt]

Hard to cancel a hurricane day when there's 70 MPH winds and no reliable wifi. I did experience the joy of missing school because a lot of the campus is outdoors and there was debris everywhere they needed to clean up.

[@TalynCo]

You know it's for real when Grey brings out "Won't someone think of the children."

[@CGPGrey]

The biological weapon of conversation.

[@krakios3950]

@@CGPGrey The only way for schools to take you seriously. Break the Geneva Convention

[@alexandrehenrique7203]

The funny thing is that grey thinks schools care about kids

[@antonf.9278]

Arguments are almost never about changing your oppositions mind. It's about getting observers and other third partys on your side. Hope I changed your mind on that one ;)

[@Silverizael]

The fallacious form of argumentation, yes.

[@xeeko6389]

"Distance learning worked so well" My school literally forgot to assign me a math class, so now I'm a year off My school also put me class I'm not even in yet and kept counting me as a absent, and putting in 'missing' work that I wasn't even getting Yep, distanced learning worked soooo well

[@mulethedonkey2579]

summer school? sorry to hear it. It'd be not a full year of school, but three months of one class online for some time online certain days; for college at least. Surely there not refusing to undo that false class though, there's higher powers than the principal, even board, who don't like them giving false gpa's for no reason

[@Abstract_zx]

not really a product of distance learning and more just the school system and the people in charge of it being terrible at their jobs

[@kimgkomg]

Do better

[@peckc16]

You didn't think it was odd you didn't have a math all year...? Like your school messed up, but that's such a big problem you or your parents probs should have noticed it...

[@xeeko6389]

@@peckc16 well yea I did actually, but because each quarter was one semester on my online school, i just assumed it would be next quarter after the next, but eventually time ran out. And my parents don’t care about the classes themselves, only the grades

[@cryamistellimek9184]

Don’t tell them to look into the eyes of a child and destroy their happiness, they would easily do it without hesitation for a checked box.

[@miguelbaltazar7606]

@Neil Peters 1000000 assignments: C H E C K

[@348joey]

That's how they get their power. The feed of of sadness!

[@levi4979]

"distance learning has worked so well" has it though? In the Netherlands we literally were given an extra year to get our undergrad because student performance with distance learning was abysmal.

[@richardwainwright507]

Growing up in Florida, it was praying for hurricanes and tropical storms that kept us safe from school.

[@32fps]

Isn't that funny? I partially grew up in MS and AL and I remember getting days off if a storm was threatening enough, and then it was the greatest when they made the declaration but the storm veered off last minute; free day to run around!

[@tzevi3014]

Yeah ... That's where I was born

[@ABUBBA22]

Growing up in SoCal our only hope for school being canceled was a wild fire getting too close

[@fernandod4046]

I hated those classmates as I actually feared hurricanes. Though waking up early kills you just as much, but slowly

[@walkingvirus487]

Here in the S.F. bay area the weather could barely touch the schools. Hell even when a lighting storm could knock out a few blocks my schools where always untouched.

[@drausino]

There are few purer joys than that of a child told: "Yes, you can play in the snow all day."

[@proactiveomnipresentvessel6569]

unless you live near the equator

[@pushingboundariesyt]

@@proactiveomnipresentvessel6569 cursedcomments

[@AdamCharron]

“Yes you can shovel snow all day”.

[@drausino]

@@proactiveomnipresentvessel6569 You living near the equator doesn't make a child told they can play in the snow less happy.

[@zau64]

"why were you absent yesterday?" "It snowed?" "We had a zoom class" "Power was out"

[@danghostman2814]

"Took some effort getting the hedge trimmer on a rubber pole, but so worth it."

[@dragonex4723]

@@danghostman2814 lmao

[@alexia3552]

@@danghostman2814 lmfao

[@Ablors]

Welp I found my excuse to not doing class, thank you kind stanger

[@league1809]

online school was pretty easy for me, we never needed to use cameras, so i would just turn on the class, mute it and then set an alarm for the next class, and play games. Then repeat.

[@jimshepherd6500]

There are few things with which I agree wholeheartedly. Thank you CGP Grey, for adding this to the list.

[@TeTaongaKorora]

Teacher here: Distance learning works *acceptably* in *some* age groups and *some* classes for *PERMANENTLY* virtual kids. My school is primarily in-person now except for kids that are temporarily virtual because of exposure to covid, travel, etc. Invariably they are wasting everybody's time by being online, not having materials, tech issues, not knowing how to behave online, worse attention span, can't participate in things that have to be in person like labs (unless we actually get advance notice and can plan for it, which never happens). I do not see future years having *at all* effective snow day instruction virtually, with kids unprepared and unused-to virtual, much less further down the road when there are kids who don't remember or didn't experience this year. Horrible waste of everybody's time and effort with the added benefit of crushing hopes and dreams. Teachers are going to mass protest this as well- no chance I'm adapting multiple lesson plans on no notice to be fully virtual.

[@Coryn02]

I'm not a teacher, but I'm a university student learning how to be one. Schoolboards have been trying to use technology to replace certain parts of education for years. Considering how many students are less than enthusiastic about learning while having to _physically_ be in class, I have no doubt that distance learning will be even less effective. The entire point of having human teachers in schools is to offer a human element which, by definition, doesn't really exist through a computer screen. If this is the future of teaching, I am not looking forward to doing it, despite myself.

[@MrXziper]

I work in a classroom too that has had virtual learning even since last March. A Kindergarten classroom. This has been the worst year I've seen in grades, attention, participation, finished work, and attendance. Virtual learning has been terrible for our grade level so much that there is a huge spike in retention. I'm sure other schools have had the same experience, so I don't know why any school would want to continue virtual learning at all!

[@codysurfer8232]

Agreed. the current systems in place for virtual learning are fast stick measures that shouldn't be applied as a new normal. Virtual learning can be a great tool, but currently the way we're using it is akin to using a adjustable wrench as a detail hammer, as in it technically can work but requires extra care and damages the tool.

[@CelestialUser]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but teachers' also have to prep differently to virtual vs in person teaching don't they? If you suddenly turn one day into a virtual school day, teachers are either going to have to teach without preparing their topics for the different environment, or consistent maintain two prep schedules = double the work.

[@Zcon18]

yeah but it's not whether distance learning is an effective method of teaching kids long-term for everybody, it's: Does distance learning fill an attendance box for a single day in the middle of the year?

[@Lathland]

I don't think I have ever agreed with a video more than this video right here. I think I can still remember most of the glorious details of every snow day, as uncommon as they were, from when I was in school - Don't think the same can be said for most of my classes though..

[@wildaviation5528]

Hey what are you doing here

[@zekedia2223]

This was the most unexpected Lathrix cameo I think I’ve ever seen

[@samueltate3549]

@@zekedia2223 ikr!!!

[@bpplays6680]

Hmmm. Minecraft collab anyone?

[@Tewemeh2ter]

Never thought I'd see lathland here

[@Jay-qe8kx]

Imagine being called a heartless monster from someone often described as literally a robot.

[@nutgang3118]

this is deep this describes society (kids put on ur sarcasm masks)

[@MetuendusDominus]

@@nutgang3118 Ok guys but what if Snowdays were a representation of Society (or susciety if you will) success isn’t determined by skill, but by luck. (Joker picture here)

[@bluesky_cupy5158]

@@MetuendusDominus *We live in a society, where gamers don't rule world...*

[@MetuendusDominus]

@@bluesky_cupy5158 We need gamer society, the Western Sahara is a great place to set up Gamer Society

[@bramvanduijn8086]

@@MetuendusDominus Computers need cooling, antarctica is better.

[@dramaticpotato6837]

My private school was doing this years before the pandemic was even a thought. It really sucked. I remember all my friends in public school being so happy that they had a snow day and I just had to sit at home and do math homework.

[@AManOnline.]

Just... Don't do it. I guarantee most of your classmates aren't

[@besmart]

Laughs in temperate climate which never had snow days to begin with

[@ilikepizza8436]

4 minutes ago and I am the 40th like

[@bits355]

No everything just shuts down here!

[@ThePineapple3112]

The only climate related omissions we had in Arizona were no recesses when it was too hot outside! It was horrible!

[@seamon9732]

My sincerest sympathies...

[@Cappuccino127]

Same lmao

[@aviationchallenge]

If schools do this, I have a feeling there will be a lot of suspicious internet outages on snow days

[@night-x6793]

We'll do the old horror movie phone line box knockout but with the internet.😏

[@TravisFabel]

sorry, my kid cant go online today... snow knocked out the internet. "Sir, this is a video call." yeah, and I am the parent here. You heard me. Write it in your log.

[@noemiej.marquis732]

Tbf, snow days already create power outages, especially in rural areas. Might as well collectively decide we can't connect to the Internet on snow days. Heck, I'm a college teacher, and if I feel like it's too snowy despite there being no closed school, I still stay at home pretending a car problem or something and inform my students that class is cancelled.

[@Xenunnaki]

This has to be the most pro-human video Grey has made in a long time

[@m0nkeyman911]

The meat world is worth protecting sometimes

[@jai-kk5uu]

I mean I am with school on this one

[@Charles-In-Charge]

More like, ever

[@justinbeath5169]

@@jai-kk5uu ok mr grinch

[@chadfalkin6850]

I really like pro human grey

[@mcbrideaddison]

I saw "snow days are cancelled," and "a crime against childhood" and i was like THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING

[@Russia_Moscow_countryhuman]

My school gave us “Blizzard bags” which are really just folders full of work that we do over snow days.

[@juliuscaesar5397]

The entirety of the public school system is one

[@ark6768]

@@Russia_Moscow_countryhuman At that point just transfer 😂

[@mcbrideaddison]

@@Russia_Moscow_countryhuman wtf where is your school so i can go and wack their kneecaps

[@The_Guy_You_Love_To_Hate]

That is indeed the real fallout of this pandemic.

[@splat-a-tat6780]

Imagine how children in the future will react when they find out their parents got a day off on the weird days they had to use the computer at home for school

[@Jothsal]

Everyting will be going digital, even without pandemics

[@Kenfren]

Distance learning is bad for students imao. Schools are generally awful

[@justyourfriendlyneighborho903]

Imagine kids in the future future finding put that their grandparents only used computers when there was snow

[@ThatGuy-zw4le]

@@Jothsal pandemic just speed things up

[@Jothsal]

@@ThatGuy-zw4le yeah

[@mike0rr]

I like it. In a nutshell: Were not robots and we deserve a few brief moments of joy even if it isn't planned and optimized.

[@ilerien]

Snow days are school days... Get winter tires and proper heating

[@TheKazragore]

*Especially* if it wasn't planned or optimised.

[@mike0rr]

@@ilerien I think you missed the point. The idea here is, snow days are more about an unexpected dose of joy. I mean, the reason this got brought up anyways wasn't even about snow tires and heating but distance learning. Regardless...

[@mike0rr]

@Caelen Barrett Well this took a crazy sharp right turn into crazy land. Maybe we do though. The lessons on capitalization and periods clearly didn't work for you.

[@grangermontag1824]

*WE ARE NOT ROBOTS*

[@worthlesshuman5041]

I was watching this video again and just noticed the hat appearing on the grown-up little girl's desk, implying that, now that her spirit is thoroughly crushed, she will now go on to perpetuate the cycle of soulless, calculated corporate misery. Excellent touch

[@smhermione]

As a teacher, while school boards say they want this, the reality is that it can't realistically happen. There was a lot of communication and set up that happened to teach via Zoom this fall. To expect everyone to change on a dime the morning that snow appears on the ground is not realistic. There's communicating times and links to kids who don't check their emails or may have left their computers at school. There's teachers redesigning lessons meant for in person teaching to try to work online. As a music teacher, many of my students may not have their instruments as they can be stored at school. Plus, with the push to get everyone back in the classroom, there is the acknowledgement that online learning is not ideal. At least in my area, I think snow days are here to stay! (And remember, your teachers sometimes pray for snow days too! )

[@wizardtim8573]

The logistics would be a nightmare. I don't think the school boards would view it that way though.

[@thomasticehurst7707]

my school did it, there was really no issues .

[@cecedabro9699]

ok nerd nice big fat message that nobody will read

[@wizardtim8573]

@@cecedabro9699 -.^ people like you still exist? Is it the 90's again?

[@supersunman6056]

@@wizardtim8573 don’t worry about them they posted a livestream of league of legends six months ago

[@christopherwhitmore-beirne2568]

Fun fact. When I was growing up in Australia, school would be cancelled when the temperature reached over 40 degreed celsius (104oF). I can't tell you how many times we secretly tried to rub or breathe on the class thermometer to edge it up the final couple of degrees... ahh, memories.

[@tedioussugar384]

Australian here, still in high school, nowadays if we hit 40, they just cancel school sport and make everyone stay in the shade instead... damn the education systems and their lack of childlike freedoms.

[@HenryLoenwind]

Oh don't remind my of those times. Our school had that thermometer in the school secretary's office---which was on the pole-facing side of the building. And all regular classrooms were on the equator-facing side...

[@riddlerandsa8161]

Germany had the same. Only we got out when it hit something like 25C in the shade at 10 or 11am (I cannot remember exactly). And no, that really didn´t happen that often!

[@Daniel_Paterson]

Another Australian here and for me the school only ever cancelled due to hot weather when it got over 50°C because it is extremely dangerous to expose yourself to that heat for prolonged periods of time; other than that, they told us to drink water and stay in the shade. I also remember school was cancelled when it was life threatening to go outside in what was basically a hurricane. Trees four metres thick were being pulled out of the ground and crushing cars and houses, lightning was striking trees all over the place, many houses went up to 2 or 3 weeks without power, and the school lost power and has lots of water damage.

[@rooney6478]

@@tedioussugar384 yep same here, they still refuse to let you inside though

[@poolsoup6650]

I’m a Floridian and a senior in high school and I remember missing an entire week of school bc of a hurricane freshman year.... WE STAND TOGETHER

[@patrickarriagada7839]

Florida gang

[@lunarvixen7159]

Hurricanes are our snow days :)

[@quietflight00]

Yea hurricane days!

[@Heroism4499]

In California during my Senior Year there were a bunch of wild fires during the lead up to the first days of school so the entire district agreed to give is all 2 more weeks of summer because the air was spicy.

[@gracodile7393]

I live in Colorado and we still have snow days because if the snow is heavy enough to actually cancel school, then you probably don’t have reliable internet anyway. It very rarely happens though. They usually have 2 hour delayed starts if the roads are bad instead of canceling.

[@Azul_247]

my school changed its snow day policy last month. before, we had virtual days if our district called either a delayed start or snow day. but with thursday coming up, they decided to do snow days again

[@dawnworthy6358]

What the plague has made painfully clear is not all kids have internet access. To then, expect them to find a business with a hotspot, in snow which was so prohibitive school didn't open, is insane.

[@sweetenlemons8659]

Dangerous too. All for what.. a day you can easily make up?

[@FloorFerret]

Which is fixable. The problem with most attempts at change is that problems here tend to be whack-a-mole. Fix one problem, another pops up. This is, largely, because our systems are ducted taped patch fixes. So the problem you fix was the bandaid covering the new problem. Its always been a problem, but less obvious. School at home exposes the obvious problem summer already poses on the poor already. How do you keep kids at home when you have to work? These are institutional failures. Something cheap fixes cannot truly address.

[@RainaRamsay]

+

[@bryan314]

You're forgetting the most important part of cancellation of snow days: funding is based on the number of student attendance days. A snow day costs the school money and therefore the schoolboard power. It's not about learning, it is never about learning, it's all about money and power.

[@somerandomoldman4557]

We have to teach the kids about corporate greed and stuff right?

[@ARandomSpace]

@@somerandomoldman4557 Yes! Just don't put them through it...

[@zvxcvxcz]

You've got that backwards. They were motivated to have snowdays because the weather would be so bad that attendance would be too low to count the day as a day of school. I.e. they would have held class but would need to tack on another school day anyway. So which would you have wanted? To call the day off properly, or have maybe attended and had to redo per se because your peers didn't show up? Now, there are a certain number of days that can be missed without penalty, but beyond that... And the whole point is indeed learning, otherwise they would just not care about whoever missed and would proceed, letting the gap grow between those that attended vs. those that did not, letting those that missed fail. Schoolboards don't derive their power from the school budget, that's not how that works. Clearly you failed to learn if you think it's just about money and power, especially considering that school in the US have very little of either of those.

[@enzoh7151]

it was always about having some letter or number on a paper.

[@bryan314]

@@zvxcvxcz Now they can do away with the snow days and have "virtual" days with near 100% attendance...and they can even extend the school year just a little bit more.

[@Jimmy_Koskinen]

Here in Finland the schools are never closed by snow. Even if there was a meter of snow and -30°C the schools are always open

[@KnightRaymund]

That sounds dangerous....

[@iirovaltonen4258]

@@KnightRaymund How so? We get that sort of weather every year, we are used to that and our infrastructure is made with the winter in mind.

[@HolyKhaaaaan]

@@iirovaltonen4258 It's probably the infrastructure that's the key. Cos in some cities in the deep South of the US any snow will cause a snow day - BECAUSE the south doesn't maintain snow and ice sweeping trucks like the Midwest and the Northeast do.

[@KnightRaymund]

@@iirovaltonen4258 I'm Canadian, w have snow every winter. Plows, snow tires, snowy streets are still slippery and dangerous. Worse on small roads or rural areas that are slow to be ploughed.

[@Smoldepressedboi]

Ok, everybody in the comments is a Finn. This is the third comment that I saw about Finland dealing with cold well.

[@DANewLegend1]

You know what's also amazing? Growing up in a climate with no snow. Growing up where "snow days" was this thing people talked about in TV shows and by my friends up north. Having to live knowing each and every school day would happen with no mother nature option to stop it ;D

[@SurnameName]

alternatively just grow up in a climate where snow is normal enough they wouldn't cancel school because of it

[@felixdaniel9472]

same :(

[@discordlexia2429]

Same, but I got some days off due to massive flooding. I also got some unintentional days off due to massive insomnia. This was not so fun.

[@therealax6]

I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina. We just don't get snow here - the last time was in 2007. (And it was on the 9th of July, which was not only a Sunday, but also our independence day, meaning there was nothing worthwhile to cancel - not that the 10cm of snow we got would've made us cancel anything.) While we have very different weather throughout the year, it's never inclement enough to warrant cancelling school due to it. Heat alerts always happen in January (or late December), and there's no school during those months anyway. I had no idea school got cancelled due to bad weather in other places. It's something I learned about on the Internet long after having finished school. It's a completely alien concept to me.

[@decathreat6194]

Or live in a place with heatstroke and fire days

[@Voidlikestars]

If the senior skip day at my school taught me anything it's that if the kids just don't show up there's nothing the school can do about it

[@darkflame085]

Oh, they can, your school board just wasn't creative enough. My senior year students were banned from prom and not allowed to walk for their diplomas (they were mailed) if they had an unapproved absence on senior skip day. Gotta check that box.

[@OniNeko.]

@@darkflame085 I'm actually surprised seniors in this day and age actually cared enough about prom and their diplomas to let that affect them. When I went to school everybody just did what they wanted outside of school and didn't really care for school events. School was for grades and clubs and that was it.

[@t900HAWK]

@@darkflame085 too bad I never cared about any of that stuff honestly unless you go to a prestigious school I don’t see the point in walking unless your like the only person in your family to graduate

[@tikityler1386]

@@darkflame085 Thats when on the day before you unofficially change the date of senior skip day.

[@xanpenguin754]

We just called the schools bluff and skipped. And then we all walked (prom had already happened)

[@PlanoPiloto]

Me watching this from Brazil.... what is a snow day?

[@elmsigreen]

I am from Iceland. We never have "snowdays"

[@Daniramicus]

The best part of my childhood - a Canadian

[@MrRenanHappy]

Americans make such a fuss about everything

[@aketchupman5103]

@@MrRenanHappy you know not of the joy you have missed

[@DevinAK49]

Watching from alaska... same.

[@feeish]

My cousin’s school put out an email to all parents and on social media saying “there is immensely learning and education value in a snow day. Stay safe and learn outside”

[@slavdog3180]

Wth do you learn from snow outside that doesn’t take

[@heikobrunken3550]

@@slavdog3180 fun.

[@fduisterwinkel]

@@slavdog3180 fun.

[@inspirednamehere6166]

@@heikobrunken3550 depends how observent and curious they are. Snow day could teach you a lot about snow / water / ice itself, behaviour of fauna and flora in abnormal environmental conditions, and how human systems are designed with flaws that are acceptable because it works the vast majority of the time. It will vary from case to case. School generally teaches you to be a member of the workforce, whereas the more practical and natural methods of learning that will be found in a snow day will benefit innovative and creative students, while a lot of students will not find much educational value in it because they lack those skills. It doesnt help in schooling, but it will help students with a very scientific / creative personality. Arguably these have the greatest potential and school should take much more care to foster such a mindset

[@youravaragemexican1293]

@@slavdog3180 happinese fun life life lessons memories that’s what you’re,earn instead of learning how a frog king ben diagram works for the 9th time

[@xpendabull]

School bureaucracies are full of sour middle aged people who forgot what being a child was like.

[@Altrue]

See what you have done school boards? You have made Grey use the Emotional Argument.

[@sion8]

Yeah, he's pissed off!

[@lwh2113]

Damn you, school boards!

[@spacecadet3045]

(Undertale AU were he is sans intensifies)

[@dickuslongus5289]

@@spacecadet3045 2D universe?

[@mokenchi5883]

Men really used ethos, feels weird

[@boogleooger9666]

“Oh no, the snow knocked out my internet connection. Guess I’ll have to wait till the snow clears to learn anything.”

[@falconJB]

Schools can check with their local ISP to see if there is actually an outage.

[@32fps]

"Oh no, so your power's out?" "No no, nothing like that." "....So just your internet then?" "Um... Yeah...suuuuper crazy. I mean what are the odds, right? These cable companies really gotta get their infrastructure together, amiright? 😅"

[@trinity_null]

@@falconJB don't give them ideas

[@thebrand647]

"Oh it was our deadline for our internet, gotta pay up soon"

[@olican101]

@@falconJB Unplug the router and it will appear like your internet is out if your ISP does a line check.

[@HiHi-oc3gh]

I think this is the most expressive I’ve ever seen grey and his stick figure.

[@LinkiePup]

For someone who the school system gave up on, who never got a snow days, I still passed by skipping a few days, but doing a free form online highschool. Stuff like snow days save kids from burn out, from boredom, the biggest thing hindering student learning.

[@johncoe929]

In Alaska, school is cancelled when it gets above freezing. Above freezing during the day, followed by below freezing at night, makes for dangerously slick roads. Thus Alaskan schools have ice days.

[@taekwondomartin1]

Huh, we dont have that in norway. Children slipping on ice is fine. Their heads are close to the ground already, pluss they have better reaction time. I get it if parents or busses drive their children to school though.

[@wizardinchiktrodon]

Grey: *save snow days!* People who never experienced snow days: *confused but supportive*

[@tomnyskull]

It hasnt snowed where I live in 50 years but yeah! You tell'em sitckman!

[@pqbdwmnu]

@@tomnyskull You don't get many snowdays if you live too far north too, it's a fine balance

[@NewhamMatt]

I'm not sure if I'm supportive of stopping learning because of inclement weather. This feels more like an argument for making learning engaging in school.

[@matthewhamilton2913]

@@NewhamMatt its robbing children from the wonder of a snow day

[@evanjohnson1299]

@HoapiliakeAkuamanaloa Saigusa worse where you live so far north that a weather event that would require school closure can only be described as apocalyptic.

[@H3Vtux]

We need irradiated snow days. If the snowflakes emit enough ionizing radiation they will damage the power grid and internet. Problem solved, go outside and make a snowman!

[@flamingpi2245]

Yeah! A glowing snowman that gives you cancer!

[@firstoffproductions1462]

And as a bonus, you get a 3rd arm and sickness so that way you get medical leave, which is even more days of school skipped!

[@williamhe1967]

Posadist new order

[@Fruitsmymainispomgranates]

Yes

[@thewishingpig]

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter...

[@lordroy88]

Virtual days are especially terrible when you have parents forcing you to follow it strictly, so you can’t sleep and you can’t make and eat lunch if it takes over 20 minutes (in my case)

[@markoliver2877]

As a Florida native, I always was so jealous of these mythical things that were supposedly everywhere else, like “snow days” and “snow”

[@Junobright]

and you can’t cancel hurricane days because you can’t go online school when there is no power or internet

[@anl10799]

Can’t cancel hurricane days. The “my internet went out” excuse will always work on hurricane days.

[@isengrom6883]

Didn’t northern Florida get snow this past December? Even if it’s for a day, it’s not far

[@fen4554]

It's pretty great for about 48 hours and then gets old soon.

[@ScutoidStudios]

Well, I live in Ireland and we just get some tiny bits of snow, some hail (except there's been a lot of hail this year) and a bunch of sleet and rain and clouds.

[@qs-ii1872]

They shouldn’t do this, let the already anxious and depressed children have a few days of magic before it’s too late. Even though I’m done with school and snow days obviously stopped existing, I still get a joyful feeling when I see snowfall. All those memories of playing with my friends flood back to me and it make me feel soothed. Snow days mean a lot to us, we shouldn’t just take such a wonderful thing away.

[@TheKripox]

Where did all you people live where snow somehow cancelled school? Never seen. Closest I got was that if the temperature dropped below -15 degrees Celsius we could stay inside during recess.

[@godparticle3833]

@@TheKripox a place were they care about children i haven't seen one in a while

[@ethanmacleod1721]

@@TheKripox you clearly don’t live in Canada, at least one week of the year is set aside for the when snow blocks in houses and freezes streets to the point you can’t drive on them

[@TheKripox]

@@ethanmacleod1721 No, not in Canada, Norway. Its true that enough snow in one night to lock you into your house is incredibly uncommon in more urban areas, but no amount of snow on the actual road was ever an issue. Same with freezing, the moment the roads start freezing the roads are salted/gravelled immediately and are ready to go before most people need to use the roads to get to work or school. Only time I've ever been held back by ice on the road would be late nights in the countryside or over mountain passes far from any urban center. A city with roads too icy to drive on is more or less unheard of, its handled very quickly.

[@narwhallord4267]

@@ethanmacleod1721 I live in Ohio, not to far from Canada, and once during a polar vortex we had an entire week off because of the snow and temperature. Did that stop me from going outside? Absolutely not. Do I regret risking frostbite for some fun? Nope.

[@_Mute_]

As someone who took 2 semesters of French 15 years ago and then never used any of it ever again, it should be "tu t'amuses".

[@wolfgangrange4927]

perfect

[@cat1554]

Sounds like what my mom's did too. But she forgot it all since it was longer ago.

[@R1ver7th]

thx

[@huyxiun2085]

Merci. You learned and applied the most important french lesson. You. Must. Correct. People. That's basic savoir-vivre you know?

[@EthanParmetItsDaBunny]

L'academie voudrait te donner un cadeau, parce que tu corrigias un autre personne avec leur français! Bon travail!

[@sarahchrisco1394]

For snow day work half of my teachers gave us really easy 'What is your favorite color?' work, and the other half gave us assimemts that meant going outside and playing in the snow

[@StiggyAzalea]

Distance learning in situations like blizzards or hurricanes that are going to knock out school for several days is one thing. But a singular snow day is a treasure that should be preserved

[@enby-ralsei]

but large multiday storms often knock out power. in low income areas, it can take weeks to get it back, even after the storm is gone. Students with more money, in better neighborhoods, will get to learn more than students with less, in worse neighborhoods. Distance learning cannot be used if some people arent able to learn distantly.

[@secretscheme8567]

@@enby-ralsei So you believe that we shouldn't help those that we can help, because there are those that we cannot? That seems like a quick way to get everybody equally on a low level to me. Just because it is impossible to stop some people from falling behind does not make it such that we should hold everybody back.

[@MrJero85]

Or governments turning off the internet! AKA Myanmar this year.

[@TimeBucks]

the most pro-human video Grey has made

[@xymaryai8283]

now I'm curious, what's the most anti-human video he's ever made?

[@xymaryai8283]

and why did you copy one of the most liked comments?

[@bonogiamboni4830]

@@xymaryai8283 maybe humans need not apply? Or maybe some less serious one like the airport boarding one.

[@truckjumperdude]

a

[@ianwagner3603]

@@kittycat-sc7je at least the original comment has more likes still

[@gdtrilogy9060]

"Yeah I missed one day of school in the fifth grade and now I flip burgers for a living"

[@xx_insert_cool_username_he6876]

"yeah i got a deadly disease and had to skip school for 2 weeks now I'm homeless"

[@skarrin6207]

I took a half day in 9th grade And died from starvation last month

[@chasecollins6679]

“My kids were forced to go to online school on a snow day 4 years ago, now they kill small animals”.

[@henryl2614]

"Yeah I took a trip to Yellowstone for a week and missed deciphering Greek, so now I sell scrap metal for a living and live on the streets."

[@blueishsquid4290]

Doesn’t sound too bad

[@Matt_JJz]

Let's be real here, it is extremely depressing that schools are so damaging to happiness and mental health that kids beg to have snow days or be sick just to get out of it.

[@TimmyTenders99]

Even worse, with distance learning being a thing schools could even go as far as saying "oh your sick? Well you can just join class online then"

[@megamaster1610]

They already have

[@discountchocolate4577]

The approach to distance-learning happening now is an attempt to prepare the next generation of desk workers to expect to work from home as much as possible instead of calling in sick to take the day off and rest. Bosses will squeeze through any loophole to get out of begrudgingly allowing otherwise legally-required paid sick days or paid parental leave.

[@the866-sushi]

Just leave your mic unmuted and cough the entire class! (works even better if you have arguing parents in the background)

[@alessandragangemi9611]

I can't wait to be projectile vomiting on zoom call

[@physics_hacker]

Don't give them any ideas, damnit!

[@BW-fe8dq]

"Distance learning has gone so well" A quick reminder that a recently study done by Horace Mann of U.S. educators has found that 85% of students k-12 are behind academically from where they should be, but sure, it's going well.

[@uncoolguy5722]

He was being sarcastic

[@StrazdasLT]

To be fair, 85% of studens k-12 are behind academically from where they should be in US even if they went to school every single day.

[@clancywiggum3198]

Quick reminder - CGP Grey lives in Britain. Also as stated already I hardly think that distance learning is the sole reason US students underperform, it probably has more to do with the severely underfunded public school system (well, severe underfunding of public anything, including lack of social support and lack of healthcare leading to poor child health, intergenerational disadvantage being more pronounced in the US compared to many other developed nations etc etc)

[@sceerane8662]

Maybe a certain pandemic stopping people from going to school initially had something to do with that..

[@40watt53]

That 15% percent is from teachers not grading and giving everyone 100s. I know this because my school did this. Remote learning helps nobody.

[@louloudaki_]

as a floridian i can’t relate but i’m imagining them trying to have school during hurricane days because “distance learning” despite every wifi tower and everyone’s power getting busted in the span of like 2 days lmfao

[@TorreTerra]

Schools would try that

[@varian8776]

they did do that

[@johnstrickland3933]

Thst how it is hear in sc to. Yeah we get snow. Or I should say ice more than anything. An it to dangerous to be on road. Or Hugo where we where worried about hurricane Hugo. An well not to mention slot of storm shelters are high schools. So kinds hard to have school when there s storm shelter full of people going on

[@blackmber]

It’s super weird hearing “hurricane days” in this context because snow days are fun and fluffy but whenever I hear about hurricanes it’s when they are destroying homes and killing people. So it’s ridiculous to imagine someone saying, “it’s okay Raphael, you don’t have to go to school today! Go out and play in the hurricane!”

[@konokiomomuro7632]

@@blackmber still as weird as being told that the school is not off while your window says to survive the wind first

[@Zombie-lx3sh]

As a Canadian, I never had a snow day. Not even 1 meter (3 feet) of snow overnight would have cancelled school. It's not as if snow could have stopped us from doing anything, we were used to it and had the means to work around it. I once walked to school in a -50°C snow storm.

[@Heather-vi7gy]

okay, that's just child endangerment. I grew up in minnesota and we had a day cancelled due to cold at about that temperature - they should have cancelled school (also, i didn't know it could snow at that temperature!! usually the sky cleared up when it got that cold for our region) we did have some days of 3 foot storms that didn't cancel school, and some that did, it depended on when the snow fell. The few days when the 3 feet were all dumped between 4am and 9am were when they really couldn't get anything done about it

[@hayleyjarrett808]

Grey's all 'think of the children' but we know he is really just remembering his time as a teacher!!

[@InnoVintage]

Most teachers work on snow days...

[@hayleyjarrett808]

@@InnoVintage Really?! (Not from a snowy part of the world) I assumed most people in areas not accustomed to very heavy snow just didn't go to work.

[@jamesburgess3512]

"Humanity is subservient to checkboxes." Thank you for verbalizing my greatest source of frustration with the modern world.

[@yqiu2848]

yes

[@GangstaMuffin24]

What do you think drives the need to fill those check boxes?

[@ultimocontrole9980]

@@GangstaMuffin24 money, or a number getting bigger

[@blackjoker2345]

@@ultimocontrole9980 Not really. A lot of middle managers and bureaucrats do this for a sense of control or to pat themselves on the back as a moral authority. For proof, look at the rise of "Diversity"(something we've already had since the 90's) over storytelling in entertainment and how that's causing sales to drop across the board.

[@shavono8402]

As a graduating senior in American high school, snow days were the best possible thing to happen and I'm crushed to know that the classes coming after me won't ever experience that same joy. Thank you, Grey, for making their plight heard.

[@none-qs3sl]

Yea I cant tell you how many time snow days saved my ass.

[@bigfootjinxthecat8696]

OUR ANCESTORS SACRAFICES WONT BE FORGOTTEN! WE SHALL SAVE SNOW DAYS AND SAVE LIBERTY!

[@xenasBS]

I don't know the exact quote, but I once heard somewhere that school essentially went from using grades as a tool for learning, to using whatever tools available to achieve higher grades. We've lost sight of the goal and are now fully invested in the method.

[@eragonawesome]

When metrics become goals they cease to be useful metrics

[@xenasBS]

@@eragonawesome eyy you got it! Thanks!

[@eragonawesome]

@@xenasBS only because I read it this morning at a meeting about how shitty our metrics had gotten at my office as a tool lmao