Two hour Delay or Cancellation...

School Delays

            Would you rather have a two hour delay, or a snow day? I would rather have a two hour delay because that way we don’t have to make up a school day later on in the year when it is nice out. There are some benefits of having both a two hour delay and a snow day though; it just depends on who you are.

            The benefits of a snow day if you are a senior in high school is a very good thing because if we have to make the day up  at the end of the school year the seniors are exempt from it. The seniors get out almost two weeks before the freshman, sophomores and the juniors. But if the snow make up day is scheduled in during the month of February then the seniors will have to make it up just like everyone else that attends the school.

            Most kids always hope for two hour delays because that way you don’t have to worry about making the school day up when you are supposed to be on summer break. The good things about two hour delays are that you get to sleep in, which is a wonderful feeling, or instead of sleeping in you can wake up and do the homework that you forgot to do the previous night. Two hour delays make school a lot of fun because classes are only 30 to 35 minutes long so classes are easy and kind of pointless. The only thing that stinks if you have a two hour delay is if you forgot to do your homework or if you didn’t study for a quiz and you didn’t realize it until you arrived at school. This is not good because you don’t have much time to cram it in during your earlier classes because of how short they are and then you begin to panic because you think you’re going to fail and then things just become very over whelming all around you.

            From the teachers I have had classes with; they either like two hour delays or hate them. The reasons teachers like two hour delays is because the class is too short to get through their lesson plan so instead they just say okay class treat as a study hall or get a head on some classes. The students go bananas when teachers say this because then they can just put their headphones in and finish homework from other classes so then they don’t have any for that night. Then you have those teachers that hate two hour delays and think they are so pointless and try to fit in the hour long lesson they had planned into 30 minutes. These are the kinds of teachers that students dislike because they end up walking out of class with three worksheets for homework and a very confused look on their face because they do not understand what they have been taught. (496)