Frazz by Jef Mallett for February 19, 2013

And way back in the 50’s and 60’s we not only had both of those, but there was no bad mouthing and protests about what those breaks were called. The only hassles were that all the local districts didn’t use the same schedules for the breaks. Just like summer vacation was shifted by a week or two amoung the districts.

I don’t think we ever had our schools closed because of snow here in Edmonton.

Growing up in Connecticut we had a Winter break, usually around the first or second week of March, and a Spring break, usually around the first or second week of May.

Give me a break…

When I was in elementery school over a half century ago in NC, we didn’t have many snow days. However we did have recess and a class in cursive, which appears now to be things of the past. Excuse me now, while I take my pills and meditate on the relevancy of this comment.

That was one of the benefits of going to a Benedictine Catholic school: We could pray to St. Scholastica. Yes, there really is a patron saint of snow days, and no, I’m not making that up.

Well, almost by definition you can’t travel anywhere on a snow day.

One cartoon I remember from “those days” was of a school boy peering out of the window of a Latin Grammar School and seeing a bus stuck in the snow: “Sick Transit, Glorious Monday”

In Rochester NY if the plows could get through the roads, we had school.

Very true! When I was in high school, I totally lucked out with 2 snow days when we were supposed to have mid-terms. (Of course, I didn’t study much during those days, but it was still awesome!)

I think teachers enjoy snow days more than the students….They get paid for the fist 5 of ‘em….What’s not to like about that? Roll over and snooze with a smile on your face…Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow….Nothing sweeter than a snow day….

Madison (WI) Public Schools rarely call snow days. In my 13 years attending (K-12), I can count on 1 hand the number of snow days. I believe if there had been an all-out nuclear exchange with the USSR it would’ve been school as usual.

Of course, the downside of snow days is that the school day still has to be made up, which could mean fewer summer vacation days.

In (way) upper NYS, if the school bus didn’t come, it was a snow day for us, regardless. Our ol’ man said he wazn’t gonna waste no dam “A” sticker gas just to get us kids to 3 different schools, that was up to the school district, b’jeezus!All it meant to us older kids was more work to catch up to the ‘city kids’ that made it to school that day.Good times….good times……NOT!

That’s my take.

I went to school in the 50s and early 60s (76yo). Back then, there was no such thing as “Spring Break”. It was called “Teachers Meeting” here in Alabama, as I recall. All teachers had to attend meetings and we had the week off!