Recently, the Midwest was hit by the snowstorm nicknamed “Blair”, causing a week delay after winter break. There was also a separate snow shortly after that, giving twelve days off in total. Six AMI days will not be added to the end of the school year. However, after meeting the AMI limit, the six snow days have to be made up. 

Joshua Thuenemann is a teacher on the Explorers team. Thuenemann has been teaching for 21 years. The icy roads did not affect him very much.

“Icy roads aren’t the end of the world. You just slow down a bit and break a little bit earlier,” Thuenemann said. “The worst part is all the salt that gets on your car.”

Audrey Abraham is an 8th grader on the Voyager team. Abraham enjoyed the snow days but she did not enjoy getting on Google Meets. 

“AMI days didn’t really affect me that much,” Abraham said. “But it did set my choir class back really far behind so we have to catch up.”

Kaitlin Long teaches the choir class. She has been teaching for 7 years. Choir classes were set back because of how hands-on the class is. Long didn’t like that her choir class missed rehearsal time; however, she enjoyed her snow days she spent with her dog. Choir is a harder class to teach over AMI days.

“I was definitely stressed with missing rehearsals and missing learning time. But we are doing a great job,” Long said. “We did have to cut one song from this concert simply because we didn’t have time to learn it all and be successful.”

Wyatt Fohn is a 7th grader on the Explorers team. Fohn played football and was a defensive end and offensive guard. Fohn enjoyed the AMI days but did not like how the icy roads were restricting.

“I would rather have our missed days made up on the days that we already have off,  so that way we could get out earlier rather than if we added them on to the end of the year,” Fohn said.

Snow days may have been fun, free, and enjoyable; however most are now not enjoying that the days create a longer school year.