Good morning, it’s Monday, Feb. 1, 2021. The snow covering the ground in much of the country (here in the East, more is on its way) raises a variation of the famous philosophical question about a tree falling in the forest when no one is there to hear it. This one has a more practical implication: Do kids consigned to remote schooling during a pandemic still get snow days off?
I’m not on any school board, but I covered several school districts as a young reporter, and if it were up to me I’d vote a resounding yes. It also brings to mind New York newspaperman H. Allen Smith’s timeless opening to a local weather story, altered only slightly here: