NORWALK, Conn. Some Norwalk political notes for you: Duff touts $1.8M State grant Former Republican Registrar, accused of murder, sells last Norwalk home .
NORWALK, Conn. Some Norwalk political notes for you: Duff touts $1.8M State grant Former Republican Registrar, accused of murder, sells last Norwalk home .
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Steven Washington, 9, dives faces first into a fresh pile of snow, taking a break from shoveling his grandmother s driveway after school was called off for a snow day Monday, Dec. 12, 2016, on Flint, Mich. s north side. I like to see when the snow falls, he said. I love to play in it and make snow angels. It was so cool to get out of school today so I could just be outside around so much snow. (Jake May/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)
You silly person, you thought that since the kids were sitting at home, glued to their COVID Chromebooks for something like three hours a day that snow days would be a thing of the past.
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In one of the most frightening winters in recent memory, when coronavirus is killing thousands, and millions of children are barred from their classrooms, struggling for enough internet to learn, Campbell’s Soup made a decision. It would fight, in its cozy way, for kids’ right to take a day off.
But the iconic food company’s “Save the Snow Day” campaign, launched this month, isn’t finding a universally warm-and-fuzzy reception with its intended audiences: parents, and the K-12 leaders who make snow-day decisions.
“Staying home behind a bowl of soup with your kids, the parents in my most struggling schools would think that sounds m’m m’m good. But the reality is, most of our parents are essential workers. They can’t just take the day off,” said Sonya Thomas, the executive director of Nashville PROPEL, a group that teaches parents in low-income neighborhoods how to advocate for better schools.