Minford’s Technology Coordinator creates school-closing parodies
By Kimberly Jenkins - kjenkins@aimmediamidwest.com
Ryan Stockham ‘Riding the Carpet’ for a snow day.
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MINFORD When students in the Minford School District woke up Wednesday, they got a special announcement in a unique way that school was canceled.
The announcement, which was announced to the students in a music video created by Minford Local Schools District Technology Coordinator, Ryan Stockham, was accompanied by the tune of “A Whole New World” from the Disney movie Aladdin and the lyrics reworked to announce the closure.
“It was a winter similar to this one where we had a number of consecutive snow days,” Stockham said, referencing how he got started making videos. “We were hit with an ice storm in the midst of this, and the song Ice, Ice Baby, kept coming to mind. Although certainly not a rapper, I couldn’t resist recording my first song, ‘Ice, Ice Min