Are we becoming soft when it comes to preparing for winter weather? Montgomery County has already had five snow days and there is still more than a month of winter left. The chance for more snowfall is probable, but with the county already using all five of its allotted snow days, the next time we have a sizable amount of snow, we will be forced to add extra days on to the end of our school year. Is this really something that we want to do?

    Some say that on days where the snowfall is minimal, we should still be going to school. After all, in places like Chicago and Minnesota students go to school in the snow all the time. Here in MCPS, if the superintendent even smells snow, school is cancelled. This creates students who never learn how to deal with winter weather effectively because every time there’s snow, they are buried inside of their houses.

   “I like snow days, but I think the school system is a little soft because we get a snow day even if its only a little bit of snow,” freshman Kobe Colston said.

    Another negative effect of the snow days is the potential of attending school late in June when students will be sitting in a hot classroom on a day when they could be lying on the beach getting a tan. This is something that many students are not looking forward to.

   “I don’t want any extra days at the end of the school year, so I’d rather just go to school now in the snow, rather than go to school in the summer,” senior Aaron Burton said.

    At the end of the day, we all like to have days off of school, however we have to take into consideration the fact that we need to prepare ourselves for times when the weather gets bad. Also no one wants to be sitting in school on a hot day in June. Therefore, MCPS needs to tighten up and be a little less quick to hand out snow days.