Snow Days, Winter Breaks, and Trapped Cars

I don't actually mind the teacher's schedule. I don't mind going to be early, getting up at 5:30, and going to school. It always seems worth it. What's unfortunate, however, is that the past three weeks, I have woken up to messages that have kept me from going to Holt High School for my observations/assistantship. This morning, I had received a text from WILX saying that Holt High School was closed due to the cold. Last week, they were on their Mid-Winter Break for the week. The week before, my car was trapped in it's lot because the lot was an active crime scene due to a shooting that had taken place late the night before. I just want to go to school at this point. I saw an interesting post on my Facebook the other day that was written by a editorialist that says that teachers should go to school on snow days like "the rest of us." The link can be found here:

http://www.phillymag.com/news/2015/02/18/philadelphia-teachers-snow-days/

I wish I could speak with the writer of this article and tell them what I've been experiencing. Yes, it does seem odd that teachers don't report to school on snow days, but I know that if I'm home for snow days, I'll be doing anything but sleeping in and veg-ing for the entire day. Yes, I may sleep in, but the year moves too quickly to take a work day off. Lesson planning needs to happen. Papers need to be graded. The author makes a whole list of things that we as teachers could be doing and you know what? I'd do those exact things, just at home. Why risk the snow and ice when I can do the same things at home. Who's to say if I go to school I'd be productive? I know I probably would but I can do the same at home.

Even now, while I'm writing this, I just want to get back into the school that I visited once. In the hour I was there, I saw so much in the class I was in and just want to work with them again.

I'll be back. Soon. Hopefully.