Winter weather produced some of my fondest memories as a child. Now, we’ve made it a nightmare for parents.
Indiana school districts have called off in-person learning for days on end as snow piled up and temperatures plunged. Fair enough. No one should have to go out in dangerous weather conditions.
We used to have a name for that: snow days. But a combination of misguided state law and misplaced school priorities has banished snow days. As a result, the recent winter storm put us on a time machine, sending us back to the COVID-19 pandemic, when every parent of school-age children was a deputized teacher’s assistant charged with supervising e-learning on top of a thousand other responsibilities…