No More Snow Days

I live in Northern Virginia, and it seems like every winter the schools shut down for two weeks. Sometimes they shut down after a dusting of snow, presumably because the bus stops *might* be slippery. Other times they shut down at the mere threat of snow.

Kids love the snow days, but they wreak havoc on busy parents’ work schedules.

I’m proposing two ways to end snow days once and for all:

1. We’re living in a post-COVID world where everyone has learned how to get on with life, remotely, if need be. I work full-time from home, and weather is never an excuse for me to miss work (unless the power goes out). Why can’t the kids and teachers attend school remotely when the weather is bad?
2. Why is summer vacation long and winter break short? That made sense a hundred years ago when children were needed around the farm, but it makes little sense now. Maybe it would be more practical to have a 3-month winter vacation and a 3-week summer break (instead of vice versa, as it is now). In this scenario, winter break would begin just before Thanksgiving at the end of November, and the children would go back to school at the end of February or beginning of March.