The only thing that's keeping me from going INSANE over the amount of snow we've had this year is the fact that it's March, and my theory is it can only get better. Oh yes, I know, it has snowed in March in the past (in fact we had a nasty snow storm in March during my student teaching a few years ago), and the Farmer's Almanac does show two snow "incidents" in March. But March means spring! March means green buds poking their heads through the ground and off of tree branches. And March means that spring break is just around the corner (this year not until the second week of April, curse the movable feast), and spring break means ... well, spring!
We have had 10 snow days. Well, 11 days off, but one of those days was a make up day for an earlier snow day. They are now discussing making the school day half an hour longer for two months so we don't have to go to school until July. Some school districts are asking their state to declare some kind of emergency that would allow the schools to forgive those days completely and not have to make them up.
This would never happen if this were the Midwest where they're used to snow. We get one snow flake in the sky here and people act as if it's one of the signs of the apocalypse (is that something that should be capitalized?).
Bottom line, what this means is that because we've missed so many days of school, I will not be showing my students Ghandi. Which is a shame, because a)it's about a wonderful man and they need to see someone trying to effect change non-violently b) it's a good movie and 3) it really shows the Indian nationalist/independence movement and even the problems between the Hindus and Muslims really well. Sigh.
