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Snow Day or No Way?

By Ariana Croese, Class of '17

 

Are you sleeping with your pajamas inside out, and a spoon under your pillow, hoping for a snow day?  Have you ever attempted to send a telepathic message to the administration to close school?

 

Now, TUSWebs has the recipe for a snow day straight from the source as Ms. Lynch and Ms. Killebrew share what really goes down when snow is on the radar.

 

 “I love the snow! I wish there was more,” says Mrs. Lynch.  

 

Coming from Tennessee, where “snow” is really just ice, Mrs. Killebrew is a less used to the fluffy white stuff.  With younger drivers and less equipment down south, snow days are an easy call.

 

Both agree their top priority is student safety.  They strongly urge students not to come to school if it would jeopardize their safety.  Their protocol for calling a snow day is to check local and national weather as well as nearby school districts.  Ms. Lynch says she also keeps in mind students who are coming from further north.

 

Lynch’s plan for a snow day is to let families know as soon as possible which means no later than 5:30 a.m. So if it doesn’t snow enough for you, then it probably didn’t snow enough for Ms. Lynch either.

 

Mrs. Killebrew has an interesting angle for calling a snow day – consider students with siblings who attend other schools such as Iona.  That is why contact with Ed O’Neill, principal at Iona is so crucial.

 

Mrs. Killebrew would rather you don’t have to sleep with pajamas inside out and a spoon under your pillow.

 

“If I had my preference,” she says,  “we would always know the night before.”