Saturday School

By Pritha Yalakkishettar

Saturday school?! Yeah, that’s a shock. But with 10 snow days it’s not that big of a surprise. What are we even going to do? Are we even going to learn anything? Maybe watch a movie? I have no idea. A lot of kids don’t like the idea, but I guess it’s a good solution to an otherwise pretty bad situation.

Do you like this plan? Some towns, like North Andover, are making up their snow days by taking away some days from their April vacation. Other towns have blizzard bags. Blizzard bags are cancelled school day learning projects. Now, these blizzard “bags” are not literally bags. When there is poor weather and school is cancelled you can take out your "blizzard bag" and do some work that has to do with the school day and the current curriculum. They’re usually long-term assignments that can take up to two weeks to do. Teachers will do periodic check-ins before the final project is due.

I like the idea of blizzard bags. Do you? Here’s a question. Would you rather: go to school on a Saturday OR do a bunch of work at home in your PJ’s?

Hopefully the school committee will pick up the alternative idea of a blizzard bag to alleviate going to Saturday school in the coming years, because we all know that Mother Nature isn’t going to stop the snow for us…;)