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Walking in a Homework Wonderland

Waking up at 7:30 in the morning on a school day will definitely throw any person into panic mode, especially me. Then a thought pops into my head, and looking out the window confirms my theory. That beautiful, too bright for the morning, white stuff on the ground makes me dive back in my covers. It is officially a snow day!

I won’t have to worry about school for the rest of the day. After all, I decided to be an overachiever, so my homework is finished.

Then all too quickly my perfect day turns into another one of panic.

While watching a “Glee” epidsode, one of my friends calls to tell me that my New Testament/Morality class had held class this morning over Moodle chat. I vaguely remember Mrs. Hansbrough making reference to this in class the day before since we would be having a test on Wednesday. Oops. Then, of course, I start to freak out.

I race to the computer to check Moodle, and sure enough, my friend was right. Luckily, I was able to see that only a few people had participated in the chat, and we were holding another session the next day if we had another snow day. Thank goodness for Moodle chat history. It ended up saving my sorry little behind since Moodle decided to not work. It was karma getting back at me for the day before.

Maybe I am being a little dramatic, but this threw me for a loop. Many teachers that day still had assignments due through Moodle or Turnitin.com, even though we didn’t have school.

For example, AP Biology still had assignments due, and in my Accelerated Biology class, Ms. Blake announced homework that is submitted online still needs to be submitted, even on a snow day.

They have a valid point, though. As much as we grumble about having to do schoolwork on a snow day when we would rather be sledding or eating homemade cookies, it might actually help us down the road.

As we all know, when students come back from snow days it feels as though we have lost precious time for our lessons. Teachers have to push back everything. I feel frenzied trying to play catch-up with the missed school time. Plus, who thinks about lessons we just learned on a snow day?

I can’t believe I am saying this, but by making homework due on a snow day, just as it would be for class, it allows students to retain more information. Maybe teachers should post reviews on Moodle, so we can remember our previous lessons. This way they can jump right back into learning when we come back, and students will not be confused about what we previously learned. As much as I want to be sitting at home catching up on Glee episodes, or building my own Frosty the Snowman, we should probably take 30 minutes to learn something new. This way, we can keep the information fresh in our brains since, on a snow day, they resemble that ugly snow slush on the side of the road.

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