Omaha Public Schools has made the shift back to standard snow days after five years of having remote learning days.
When online schoolwork became commonplace, OPS, along with many other school districts, made the switch from cancelling classes to going remote in cases of inclement weather. At first it was fully fledged online classes held on Microsoft Teams, then later on they moved to asynchronous lessons. In December of 2025, OPS announced it would no longer have remote learning days due to inclement weather.
Many students and teachers are glad to see the system go, believing it to be obsolete and a waste of time. Erica Meyer, a world language teacher, shared this sentiment, finding remote learning days and the guidelines attached to be incredibly frustrating…