A Crime Against Childhood

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  • SAVE SNOW DAYS: share?text=Some%20...
    Thank you, Bonnie Bees, for making this video possible: / cgpgrey
    Bonnie Bees
    Steven Snow, Ben Delo, Bob Kunz, Nevin Spoljaric, Bobby, Donal Botkin, BN-12, Ben Schwab, Richard Jenkins, Phil Gardner, Steven Grimm, Chris Chapin, Martin, Andrew Bereza, Rebecca Wortham, Marco Arment, Colin Millions, , emptymachine, Jason Lewandowski, Saki Comandao, George Lin, Henry Ng, rictic, David Tyler, Jordan Earls, Nick Fish, Nick Gibson, Tyler Bryant, Xueqi, Oliver Steele, iulus, Kermit Norlund, Alex Simonides, Julien Dubois, Christopher Mutchler, Derek Bonner, Mikko, Orbit_Junkie, Ron Bowes, Derek Jackson, Tmas rni Jnasson, Nicholas Welna, Bear, chrysilis, David Palomares, Drago175, Emil, Esteban Santana Santana, Freddi Hrlyck, John Rogers, Peter Lomax, Rhys Parry, ShiroiYami, Tristan Watts-Willis, Veronica Peshterianu, Dag Viggo Loken, John Lee, Maxime Zielony, Elizabeth Keathley, Birdstryke, Rene Duedam
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  • @CGPGrey
    @CGPGrey  3 ปีที่แล้ว +10766

    SAVE SNOW DAYS: twitter.com/share?text=Some%20schools%20are%20trying%20to%20get%20rid%20of%20snow%20days%20and%20replace%20them%20with%20distance%20learning.%20%20It%27s%20a%20crime%20against%20childhood!%20%20We%20cannot%20let%20this%20stand!&url=th-cam.com/video/-FBwZtuJtMw/w-d-xo.html&hashtags=SaveSnowDays

    • @haashirkabeer2671
      @haashirkabeer2671 3 ปีที่แล้ว +171

      Yes, just yes

    • @sludgemute
      @sludgemute 3 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      We must save them

    • @munjee2
      @munjee2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      I hope the the "space" marks were intentional

    • @adamk8385
      @adamk8385 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      LONG LIVE SNOW DAYS

    • @jasastopar
      @jasastopar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      We must

  • @HarpscityIsHere
    @HarpscityIsHere 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3963

    One time it started snowing at school, and my teacher said:
    "I know it's hard to focus when there's snow outside..."
    I expected her to say "focus anyway", but instead she said "so why focus?" She turned off the lesson and let us out for recess early. I miss that teacher

  • @bethjacobx
    @bethjacobx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5991

    the best part about this is that Grey was a teacher and probably loved snow days when he was working too

    • @boredincan
      @boredincan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      In Ireland? No

    • @GeneralMoron
      @GeneralMoron 3 ปีที่แล้ว +365

      If I didn’t know any better, I’d say he’s not arguing for the sake of the children, but for the sake of the teachers

    • @stars4allen133
      @stars4allen133 3 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      @@boredincan I think Grey taught in the UK although I'm not 100% sure

    • @tacos928
      @tacos928 3 ปีที่แล้ว +183

      I’m a teacher. We all love snow days

    • @carlos-alcantar
      @carlos-alcantar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      This comment better be the top voted

  • @equinoxo8813
    @equinoxo8813 ปีที่แล้ว +12820

    Fun Fact: The US Air Force, assuming nothing critically important is happening and you arent already in an area that gets snow all the time, allows base commanders to call snow days for an entire base.
    If the military gives its men snow days, they can give kids a snow day.

    • @samuels1123
      @samuels1123 ปีที่แล้ว +778

      "No snow days for you either, your freedom must be minimized, now you pilot drones"

    • @kevinxu9261
      @kevinxu9261 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      YES

    • @TheOystei
      @TheOystei ปีที่แล้ว +247

      @@samuels1123 "you will impose freedom onto others while being robbed of yours!"

    • @allyionsol3274
      @allyionsol3274 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      Navy does snow days also, sucks if you get stuck on duty though.

    • @flitsertheo
      @flitsertheo ปีที่แล้ว +109

      @@allyionsol3274 I can imagine having a "snow day" while on duty on a submarine somewhere in the middle of the ocean.

  • @fallingsky219
    @fallingsky219 ปีที่แล้ว +12275

    “Distance learning worked so well”
    Half my grade failed the semester

    • @jegger2143
      @jegger2143 ปีที่แล้ว +750

      Funny enough, one of the schools in my country has about 10% of its final year students that actually stayed through the pandemic.
      ... wait, that's not funny.

    • @07khiteeshsharma84
      @07khiteeshsharma84 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Same

    • @deleted-something
      @deleted-something ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Fr

    • @goleftfanta4283
      @goleftfanta4283 ปีที่แล้ว +104

      Half of students had 40 missing assignments during distance learning, dont j blame everything on the schools.

    • @jegger2143
      @jegger2143 ปีที่แล้ว +279

      @@goleftfanta4283 I don't think it's the school's though, it's more the concept of distance learning that's flawed; which isn't neccesarily a bad thing.

  • @hiimgamerspruzzino5804
    @hiimgamerspruzzino5804 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9084

    The fact that Grey has been a teacher himself makes this even more important you see

    • @Jiji-the-cat5425
      @Jiji-the-cat5425 3 ปีที่แล้ว +598

      Teachers love snow days. They like days off too.

    • @fluffymeow885
      @fluffymeow885 3 ปีที่แล้ว +435

      @@Jiji-the-cat5425 Of course teachers want their students to do well in class, of course they want no students to be left behind, but Grey knows that childhood joy was more important than those checkboxes. It's not about days off for teachers, it's about what's the best for a child. Don't think that everyone is as ready to slack off as you do.

    • @TheDisorganizedNerd
      @TheDisorganizedNerd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +131

      @@fluffymeow885 yes BUT it is nice for them

    • @fluffymeow885
      @fluffymeow885 3 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      @@TheDisorganizedNerd I'm not saying it isn't nice for them, BUT that is not the motivation for teachers to want to protect snow days. Say you are the organizer of a school prom. There is a song you enjoy, but you choose to play it in the prom because the attendants enjoy it, not because you yourself enjoy it. The song is still played in the end, but your motivation is everyone's enjoyment, not yours. Getting to listen to a song you enjoy is just the cherry on top of the cake, not the cake itself. This implies that if teachers like Grey still had to work on snow days while their students got to enjoy themselves, they would still protect snow days for the students' sake.

    • @pirilon78
      @pirilon78 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      @@fluffymeow885 yes BUT its nice for them

  • @lioneltribby5072
    @lioneltribby5072 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6067

    I live in California and even with the lack of snow my school declares one day each semester a snow day anyway because the principal grew up in a snowy place and loved snow days as a kid. How great is that

    • @GallantChaos
      @GallantChaos 3 ปีที่แล้ว +197

      Is it scheduled in advance or completely on a whim?

    • @trumpet_boooi
      @trumpet_boooi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +98

      My school just got a new superintendent from the UP so there has to be like 10 feet of snow for them to call it

    • @gato_feliz605
      @gato_feliz605 3 ปีที่แล้ว +114

      my respect for that principal

    • @heybuey4344
      @heybuey4344 3 ปีที่แล้ว +144

      I grew up in SoCal. The only "snow day" I can remember is when my elementary school brought in snow-making machinery... to make snow...when it was like 72F outside. Got to play with snow during recess - which was the first time a lot of us ever saw snow.

    • @619chrisoriginal
      @619chrisoriginal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      That is amazing!!! I live in California also and never have experienced a snow day but man I always wished I did.

  • @mrosskne
    @mrosskne ปีที่แล้ว +1673

    Imagine creating an institution so horrific that children will literally pray for a single day of respite from it.

  • @hp4vr
    @hp4vr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6705

    As a teacher, I'm going to tell you now that we also love snow days. Sleeping in? No correcting? Able to watch Netflix all day? That is the best

    • @sarahspindler2914
      @sarahspindler2914 ปีที่แล้ว +178

      I feel so bad for you all! Virtual days have to be the worst!

    • @henryweinand8672
      @henryweinand8672 ปีที่แล้ว +97

      Very true my mom is a teacher and I know she loves those days off.

    • @electralumen165
      @electralumen165 ปีที่แล้ว +125

      Grey was a teacher, he probably knows and this is why he's defending it.

    • @dani_drawzz
      @dani_drawzz ปีที่แล้ว +28

      The main bad thing is that you don’t have all the time to teach. That was and is my teacher’s problem because every class I’m in are messes

    • @joshuaandino
      @joshuaandino ปีที่แล้ว +19

      W teacher

  • @kaizer4506
    @kaizer4506 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11931

    I never thought I’d see Grey more passionate about anything than he is about hexagons

    • @zacherychapman8474
      @zacherychapman8474 3 ปีที่แล้ว +844

      Every snowflake has a hexagonal structure. Coincidence? I think not!

    • @timothypryor7952
      @timothypryor7952 3 ปีที่แล้ว +105

      Bestigons

    • @ben-xl7ne
      @ben-xl7ne 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Penny`s?

    • @CaptainAricDeron
      @CaptainAricDeron 3 ปีที่แล้ว +132

      His emotion chip has been running on high lately. . . has someone checked on him?

    • @renatoe9648
      @renatoe9648 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      maybe an hexagonal snowman?

  • @NameNick-ro6oz
    @NameNick-ro6oz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6943

    This is like taking a child to an amusement park and telling them they have to do cardio in the parking lot for the next 8 hours

    • @Sam-ui8cr
      @Sam-ui8cr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      KLDSJFL;LSA,VPASDPMB IM DYINGG

    • @Stuffed_Trigger
      @Stuffed_Trigger 2 ปีที่แล้ว +141

      @@Sam-ui8cr why can I translate your comment lmao

    • @fionaredfern7519
      @fionaredfern7519 2 ปีที่แล้ว +111

      I Do agree with you, but it's Worse, methinks. It's like doing that, but telling the kid to jog around the parking lot, NO MATTER IF IT'S IN FRONT OF MOVING CARS, which the adults specifically told children NOT to do. Besides, I remember the yelling about trying to tell kids to GET OFF THE COMPUTER OR IT WOULD BURN THEIR EYES OUT. Yes, I'll Be Harry Potter, Daring to Severus Snape's own Spells against him. That's the most valid argument i could think that'd work.

    • @moodl3d856
      @moodl3d856 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      me who doesn’t like rollercoasters:
      I still agree, child be sad with school

    • @solarisveritatis1086
      @solarisveritatis1086 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Sam-ui8cr Heardable text.

  • @nathanbrady8529
    @nathanbrady8529 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1179

    When I was in school, we had a superintendent who would rarely approve snow days. Until she crashed her car trying to get to the school on a snowy day.

  • @MyPhobo
    @MyPhobo ปีที่แล้ว +3152

    I think kids should get a set amount of personal days they can take. It might even make them feel like they have some kind of control over their own lives too.

    • @forestria_gaming
      @forestria_gaming ปีที่แล้ว +547

      As a teen, I know that the government nor school system will never do this

  • @eric619
    @eric619 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2244

    Our district has kept its snow days, the Teacher's Union stepped up with a loud "Those are our days off too"

    • @letsmessup648
      @letsmessup648 3 ปีที่แล้ว +167

      These teachers are GIGA CHADS

    • @ragg232
      @ragg232 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Solidarity

    • @xxxenricop
      @xxxenricop 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Exactly....days they get paid for but do not show up to work.....schools should therefore refuse to pay snow days wages to teachers...
      P.s. I am a teacher but also realistic...

    • @wayfarerzen3393
      @wayfarerzen3393 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Bless them

    • @emilchen9866
      @emilchen9866 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      From union: We NeEd To sToP fIrE dRiLlS

  • @natereinert1572
    @natereinert1572 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2478

    Fun fact, during the first winter of covid and everyone was learning from home, my hometown school board still cancelled school when there would have been a snow day, because they (rightfully) thought this was important

    • @stevevernon1978
      @stevevernon1978 3 ปีที่แล้ว +129

      upvoting your comment, because I can't upvote your SCHOOL BOARD!!

    • @majesticseeotter_45
      @majesticseeotter_45 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      They did for my town too! And the day after we had a delay!

    • @Double-Negative
      @Double-Negative 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      my college did the same

    • @nicholeritchey1383
      @nicholeritchey1383 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      We homeschool our daughter. Whenever her friends in public school are allowed a snow day (or some other holiday) I give her a break too.

    • @AnthroCatTidal
      @AnthroCatTidal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Your schoolboard is the best I want to move to wherever you are

  • @eggmon420
    @eggmon420 ปีที่แล้ว +1048

    Lemme tell you. Distance learning didn’t work so well. The amount of “Sorry teacher, my internet isn’t working.” excuses used is UNBELIEVABLE.

  • @oliverspencer2411
    @oliverspencer2411 ปีที่แล้ว +705

    You'd think by now we'd learn forcing kids to sit still and listen only ever encourages them to completely zone out and learn less than they had if they took breaks and played

  • @vladimirglutentag1469
    @vladimirglutentag1469 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7341

    In Australia, we have “heat stroke” days, where school gets called off because it’s the exact opposite of snowing, it’s boiling hot.

    • @zombieslayer1468
      @zombieslayer1468 2 ปีที่แล้ว +478

      sounds like australia

    • @Bitz00.
      @Bitz00. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +380

      really? at my school they just force us to stay indoors for the breaks and turn the aircon up to max, but yes moving through classes does make everyone really hot for classes, many sweating

    • @vladimirglutentag1469
      @vladimirglutentag1469 2 ปีที่แล้ว +165

      @@Bitz00. yeah at my school we just cancelled outright because our buildings were open plan… trying to cool that down was next to impossible.

    • @frank7328
      @frank7328 2 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      We actually had one or two of those here in the states I believe. The difference being that our heat stroke day temperature is probably your average.

    • @Pheatan
      @Pheatan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Yeah, I think it was something like if the day was predicted to be over 50 or if it was over 45 while there theyd stop teaching because even max aircon isnt enough for thirty kids in a class

  • @BrodyAnimates
    @BrodyAnimates 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39848

    As a sophomore, i love how schools prioritize efficiency over students mental health and basic humanity

    • @blackstargate4188
      @blackstargate4188 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2717

      oh like the workplace

    • @nathanieldylan5218
      @nathanieldylan5218 3 ปีที่แล้ว +531

      hello checkmark user

    • @Gonebeef
      @Gonebeef 3 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      Ikr

    • @nyanecho64
      @nyanecho64 3 ปีที่แล้ว +203

      Is this sarcasm... I can't tell

    • @theacc_
      @theacc_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +904

      @@nyanecho64 no its not sadly the american school system (and many others) are actually like this and it sucks ass

  • @flownaway2856
    @flownaway2856 2 ปีที่แล้ว +521

    At least here in Florida, they'll never cancel hurricane days. Except you can't play outside, your power's gone out, you're praying a tree doesn't fly into your living room, and all you have to eat is canned soup. 😭

    • @TuesdaysArt
      @TuesdaysArt ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Hard to cancel a hurricane day when there's 70 MPH winds and no reliable wifi. I did experience the joy of missing school because a lot of the campus is outdoors and there was debris everywhere they needed to clean up.

  • @biomecraft356
    @biomecraft356 ปีที่แล้ว +1109

    As a person who grew up in a snowless city, I envy you guys who had them.

    • @lukaspalmos2307
      @lukaspalmos2307 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Same

    • @kuhljager2429
      @kuhljager2429 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      The real problem is that you are more likely to get a snow day than I was. If you live somewhere that gets regular snowfall, you also live somewhere that has equipment that can clear snow. I had exactly 1 snow day, and the roads were clear by lunch anyway.

    • @dwarf2155
      @dwarf2155 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      I live in finland so snow days dont exist is because in northern finland there is either summer or snow

    • @ThePreciseClimber
      @ThePreciseClimber ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Had plenty of snowy days in my country.
      Never, not once, was school ever cancelled because of it. One time I almost cracked my skull.

  • @U.Inferno
    @U.Inferno 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2106

    Grey as an adult, a teacher, and grown up child, fighting for everyone.
    Such nobility

    • @sciencenerd8879
      @sciencenerd8879 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      I think he as a teacher just wants to keep the snowdays for himself.

    • @ehsan_kia
      @ehsan_kia 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      If by "everyone", you mean the fraction of people who live in the Goldilock zone where it's not so warm that there's no significant snow, and not so cold that snow days don't impact infrastructure.

    • @EnigmaticLucas
      @EnigmaticLucas 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Maybe he just wants extra time to grade things

    • @8-bitstorm
      @8-bitstorm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Such branding!

    • @DontRobMe13
      @DontRobMe13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      We should nominate him for a Noble peace prize

  • @tessat338
    @tessat338 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2312

    I'm not just thinking of the children, I'm thinking of the teachers who didn't bring their lesson plan home with them or set up the class instruction materials on the shared drive ahead of time.

    • @Roxor128
      @Roxor128 3 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      Many IT departments have a sign up answering this (though usually in the context of things like backups): "A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part."

    • @sirjmo
      @sirjmo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@Roxor128 you usually get one free pass if you're staying nice, but two emergencies? IT don't give a ****.

    • @margaritamikalauskaite9875
      @margaritamikalauskaite9875 3 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      yeah and what if as a student you didn't have a certain book because you left it in your locker since there was no homework for that subject. Some of my teachers would deffinetly be mad even though its not our fault

    • @gifigi600
      @gifigi600 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Imagine teachers be like oh man Its snowing. I guess I can rest a bit more. Wakes up 3 hours later

    • @DaDunge
      @DaDunge 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This is the 21st century you can access the school servers from your home computer.

  • @theirishpsychowolf7617
    @theirishpsychowolf7617 2 ปีที่แล้ว +271

    School gave me many things
    Depression
    Anxiety
    Bitterness
    Countless stories of why I hated my life
    It took joy away for 5 years of my life I'm only starting to enjoy life again

  • @levi4979
    @levi4979 ปีที่แล้ว +146

    "distance learning has worked so well" has it though? In the Netherlands we literally were given an extra year to get our undergrad because student performance with distance learning was abysmal.

  • @seanmurphy3430
    @seanmurphy3430 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4790

    I feel like the larger issue here is how utterly soul-crushing school is to the point that any reprieve from it feels like a minor miracle.

    • @logicbugs9452
      @logicbugs9452 3 ปีที่แล้ว +522

      school nowdays steals the creativity from kids we NEED for new innovation and replaces it with a hatred of learning and work

    • @aryantaywade298
      @aryantaywade298 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      tru

    • @Vaprous
      @Vaprous 3 ปีที่แล้ว +427

      Given that the modern American school system is designed to engineer a specific kind of personality ideal for entering an equally soul crushing workforce? Yeah no, not a coincidence. Very much intentionally designed to repress creative thinking, insist on conformity, insist on obsessive perfection even when the work itself has no direct benefit for you, and to be unquestioning to authority figures.
      Modern American public schools are literally designed to create the perfect worker drones. Unquestioning of authority, too uncreative to think beyond instructions given, and keep just low information enough that they can't even tell when they are being taken advantage of in a legal sense(i.e uninformed as to their actual rights etc)

    • @SiMeGamer
      @SiMeGamer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +167

      Which is why homeschooling + extra curricular activities (to socialize and have fun with peers) has been a top priority for many new and potential parents. If parents can, they should. Public schools are fundamentally broken and they will never change until insane changes happen (this of course depends on the country. I think in the US it will literally never change while the budget will keep increasing because the system is just too big).

    • @RilianSharp
      @RilianSharp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      +

  • @HeroicRoll
    @HeroicRoll 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2128

    I don’t think I’ve ever heard CGP Grey speak more passionately than he did in this video.

    • @benpadula1407
      @benpadula1407 3 ปีที่แล้ว +119

      i dont think you saw his video about hexagons

    • @marcelwo4jedynki
      @marcelwo4jedynki 3 ปีที่แล้ว +97

      it's a conspiracy, killing snow days would minimize the interaction of children with multiple small hexagons of solid water

    • @smore9831
      @smore9831 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@marcelwo4jedynki you are a genius

    • @KC-pi6po
      @KC-pi6po 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      And that in this topic ... from a teacher

    • @vimicito
      @vimicito 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Tumbleweeds!!!

  • @xpendabull
    @xpendabull ปีที่แล้ว +341

    School bureaucracies are full of sour middle aged people who forgot what being a child was like.

  • @dramaticpotato6837
    @dramaticpotato6837 2 ปีที่แล้ว +260

    My private school was doing this years before the pandemic was even a thought. It really sucked. I remember all my friends in public school being so happy that they had a snow day and I just had to sit at home and do math homework.

    • @AManOnline.
      @AManOnline. ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Just... Don't do it. I guarantee most of your classmates aren't

  • @theCodyReeder
    @theCodyReeder 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19975

    A snow day allowed me to stay home and watch the new horizons spacecraft launch.

  • @zau64
    @zau64 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2222

    "why were you absent yesterday?"
    "It snowed?"
    "We had a zoom class"
    "Power was out"

    • @danghostman2814
      @danghostman2814 2 ปีที่แล้ว +177

      "Took some effort getting the hedge trimmer on a rubber pole, but so worth it."

    • @dragonex4723
      @dragonex4723 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@danghostman2814 lmao

    • @alexia3552
      @alexia3552 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@danghostman2814 lmfao

    • @Ablors
      @Ablors 2 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Welp I found my excuse to not doing class, thank you kind stanger

    • @league1809
      @league1809 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      online school was pretty easy for me, we never needed to use cameras, so i would just turn on the class, mute it and then set an alarm for the next class, and play games. Then repeat.

  • @worthlesshuman5041
    @worthlesshuman5041 ปีที่แล้ว +152

    I was watching this video again and just noticed the hat appearing on the grown-up little girl's desk, implying that, now that her spirit is thoroughly crushed, she will now go on to perpetuate the cycle of soulless, calculated corporate misery. Excellent touch

  • @jimshepherd6500
    @jimshepherd6500 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1292

    There are few things with which I agree wholeheartedly.
    Thank you CGP Grey, for adding this to the list.

  • @stephenkoebel3923
    @stephenkoebel3923 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6979

    "Distance Learning Has Worked So Well" depressed students worldwide would like a word

  • @Maynick2001
    @Maynick2001 3 ปีที่แล้ว +980

    You're like a teacher that still has some remaining shred of empathy for how it feels to be a student. What a miracle.

    • @MrTohawk
      @MrTohawk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      He used to be a teacher.

    • @hmseembowlbakporst8585
      @hmseembowlbakporst8585 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      I'm positive that teachers love snow days too

    • @ashutoshsamantaray2572
      @ashutoshsamantaray2572 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He was probably not very empathetic when he was a teacher.

    • @Seegtease
      @Seegtease 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      It's not the teachers that are the problem here.

    • @Len124
      @Len124 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      ​@@ashutoshsamantaray2572 Why do you say that??

  • @filthycasual6118
    @filthycasual6118 2 ปีที่แล้ว +168

    I'm a teacher aspirant, and relatively recently rediscovered the importance of intrinsic motivation. I'm also an ex-factory worker, and there I learned the soul-crushing horrors of check marks and extrinsic motivation. These people who think persistence begets mastery are only half-correct. To paraphrase The Edge from _Furi,_ mastery is a habit, not a mindset. We are what we do.
    The real way to get those test scores up isn't to mindlessly shove knowledge into kids' brains and hope they retain it, all for goodboy points on their report cards. They're missing the trees for the forest, which is a shitty practice for people trying to cultivate strong trees. People who succeed want to, and they don't need help or extra resources to get there. The real fight is getting kids to care about their education, for _themselves,_ not for the benefits that come from a series of letters on a piece of paper, or the stuff they'll get from mommy and daddy for doing well at school.

  • @Matt_JJz
    @Matt_JJz 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

    Let's be real here, it is extremely depressing that schools are so damaging to happiness and mental health that kids beg to have snow days or be sick just to get out of it.

  • @Darkside007
    @Darkside007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1262

    "Those who want to cancel snow days should be forced to look into the wide eyes of a young girl while they crush her spirit"
    "Oh you don't need to force us. That's what gets us up in the morning. The pointless cruelty."

    • @kittenzrulz2314
      @kittenzrulz2314 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@EnochLindeman No the cuality dosnt wake her up but she enjoys using nerotoxin to make people sleep.

    • @TheSaival
      @TheSaival 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      They probably get raging h[Redacted for innapropriate content]

    • @seanjohnisee
      @seanjohnisee 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Darn GLaDoS

    • @bluescreen237
      @bluescreen237 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Those people deserve to be endlessly be torn to pieces slowly whilst 1000 degree Celsius needles are stabbed on and out and listening to their least favorite songs
      And to top it all off they also must watch their loved ones suffer the same fate for all of eternity

    • @bluescreen237
      @bluescreen237 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@EnochLindeman no not even glados is that evil

  • @ScrabbleDiva
    @ScrabbleDiva 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1949

    As a teacher, I wholeheartedly agree. Snow Days are a breath of fresh air in a grueling school schedule.

    • @bimancer
      @bimancer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I mean to play devil advocate, where I grew up snow days were planned in the schedule(having x number of extra days to make up for expected snow days). So if they switched to a distant learning on would be snow days they could then use those extra days to extend breaks or give a day off here or there. Which as they would be planned would mean you can do more on those days then snow days(that exist because it hard to travel on those days).

    • @Reflexzzzz
      @Reflexzzzz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      CGPGrey used to be a teacher before he become a youtuber so that makes sense.

    • @libertyprime9559
      @libertyprime9559 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yep the schools are only in it for the money which the schools have fallen to the influence of demons

    • @wayfarerzen3393
      @wayfarerzen3393 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I find it endlessly amusing that both the teachers and students agree on so many things that the board and supervisors and committees disagree with.

    • @skelet8337
      @skelet8337 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@bimancer but it feels way better when you get a surprise 1 day off than 1 day planned

  • @gracodile7393
    @gracodile7393 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    I live in Colorado and we still have snow days because if the snow is heavy enough to actually cancel school, then you probably don’t have reliable internet anyway. It very rarely happens though. They usually have 2 hour delayed starts if the roads are bad instead of canceling.

    • @Azul_247
      @Azul_247 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      my school changed its snow day policy last month. before, we had virtual days if our district called either a delayed start or snow day. but with thursday coming up, they decided to do snow days again

  • @lordroy88
    @lordroy88 2 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Virtual days are especially terrible when you have parents forcing you to follow it strictly, so you can’t sleep and you can’t make and eat lunch if it takes over 20 minutes (in my case)

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3750

    As someone who's never even experienced what it's like to feel snow their whole life, I fully support snow days and the purpose they serve.
    As he said, think of the children.

    • @starwarsman176
      @starwarsman176 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      danm 3 minutes ago

    • @Doss3332
      @Doss3332 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Where do you live

    • @masterbasher9542
      @masterbasher9542 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      On one end; Climate Change/global warming at worst, would have "naturally" killed the dreaded Snow Day, more than "shifting an Axis" plot from a Recess film. Second; out of all the bureaucracy, the biggest "Snow Day" that is Corona, is likely the looming long term reaper of any 'breaks'. Think of it in a more horrible sense of "in case of strike; hire online teachers" from abroad or such.

    • @HisMajesty.
      @HisMajesty. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same and I’m graduated

    • @JaharNarishma
      @JaharNarishma 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      As someone who grew up where it was common for 3 dm of snow to fall in a night, with risk of thrice that, I have never experienced a snow day. That was something on American movies sometimes, not reality.
      If your front door was hard to open, bodyslam it repeatedly until you have a crack wide enough to exit, then you start shoveling so that the door can be fully opened. After having a functional door, you wade through/over the snow to the (hopefully) plowed road.
      Some busses were late because they had to wait for the plow to clear the way, but that's all.

  • @FearsEdge
    @FearsEdge 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2328

    Snow days teach kids a very important lesson: sometimes, human plans take a backseat to mother nature, in all of her fickle beauty and destructive power.

    • @RipOffProductionsLLC
      @RipOffProductionsLLC 3 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      "But don't you know? We have technology to bypass nature, so use it and abuse it! What are you? An anti-vacser? We stayed home for a year and still had school after all...." School Autocrat 227B-Q19 Alpha

    • @victorcaldera249
      @victorcaldera249 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      go away

    • @whistletoe
      @whistletoe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      poetry

    • @richardbloemenkamp8532
      @richardbloemenkamp8532 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Indeed SnowDays will only exist as long as we will not overheat the planet with our CO2, pollution and endless consumption of useless products. It's great if children learn that we can only keep our Snow Days if we work together to stop global warming.

    • @yashjoseph3544
      @yashjoseph3544 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@richardbloemenkamp8532 Global warming will not cause snow to disappear. That is not how it works. Also, did you really have to bring this up? It's very obvious you're trying to push an agenda that's not even related to the topic at hand.

  • @DANewLegend1
    @DANewLegend1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +317

    You know what's also amazing?
    Growing up in a climate with no snow. Growing up where "snow days" was this thing people talked about in TV shows and by my friends up north. Having to live knowing each and every school day would happen with no mother nature option to stop it ;D

    • @SurnameName
      @SurnameName ปีที่แล้ว +64

      alternatively just grow up in a climate where snow is normal enough they wouldn't cancel school because of it

    • @felixdaniel9472
      @felixdaniel9472 ปีที่แล้ว

      same :(

    • @discordlexia2429
      @discordlexia2429 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Same, but I got some days off due to massive flooding. I also got some unintentional days off due to massive insomnia. This was not so fun.

    • @therealax6
      @therealax6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina. We just don't get snow here - the last time was in 2007. (And it was on the 9th of July, which was not only a Sunday, but also our independence day, meaning there was nothing worthwhile to cancel - not that the 10cm of snow we got would've made us cancel anything.)
      While we have very different weather throughout the year, it's never inclement enough to warrant cancelling school due to it. Heat alerts always happen in January (or late December), and there's no school during those months anyway.
      I had no idea school got cancelled due to bad weather in other places. It's something I learned about on the Internet long after having finished school. It's a completely alien concept to me.

    • @decathreat6194
      @decathreat6194 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Or live in a place with heatstroke and fire days

  • @sarahchrisco1394
    @sarahchrisco1394 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    For snow day work half of my teachers gave us really easy 'What is your favorite color?' work, and the other half gave us assimemts that meant going outside and playing in the snow

  • @jamierobinson7004
    @jamierobinson7004 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2857

    The problem with cancelling snow days: sometimes we lose power when it snows too much. How do we expect kids to log on to school when there’s no wifi

    • @kekula69
      @kekula69 2 ปีที่แล้ว +216

      Also what about kids who don't have internet

    • @zvxcvxcz
      @zvxcvxcz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      I think there is a bit of a misunderstanding. In more recent years snow days don't seem to be called with the same standards. It used to only be for a serious blizzards where I grew up, more recently it has been for days where the roads may still be ice covered at 6 AM ish. And so now they have something like 20 a year and it is just actually a significant amount of time for people to be missing when by 9 AM the roads are melted and they probably could have had class. I think some bad early morning car accidents prompted this change in our district, I think one of the administrators lost family to it or something like that.
      So I think, keeping 1-5 snow days a year, sure, no problem, but maybe we should get online and get something done on the more trivial "snow" days. Either the ice ones, or the ones they call further south when they get just a sprinkling that are hilarious to those of us that get real amounts of snow.

    • @GigaDarkness
      @GigaDarkness 2 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      teachers in my area would probably just say "use your phone"

    • @wilyriley_
      @wilyriley_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      @@zvxcvxcz what do you mean '20 per year'? I've almost never had more than 4-5 snow days per year, and the few times I have, it's because there were severe blizzards that closed school for multiple consecutive days.

    • @andrasfarkas2198
      @andrasfarkas2198 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@wilyriley_ You guys are having snow?

  • @windriver2363
    @windriver2363 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1192

    The public schools in my area actually decided to have 'virtual snow days' last winter.
    Even though they were doing online school, they cancelled the online classes if there normally would have been a snow day.

    • @oyunoynayanbiri
      @oyunoynayanbiri 3 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      Wow so there are schools that actually care about the days off. My school is doing the opposite, we have school even on public holidays so our parents can get mad at us for playing games during school while they don't go to work.

    • @leninsmustache5937
      @leninsmustache5937 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      That is so incredibly nice!

    • @thatonetomatoguy4210
      @thatonetomatoguy4210 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      My school had what they called an asynchronous day where they canceled the online classes on the snow day and just expected you to get a bit more caught up if you need to. I seriously wonder how many kids got even 1 assignment done that day.

    • @dragance9995
      @dragance9995 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@thatonetomatoguy4210 My guess would be 0.

    • @animationreview5696
      @animationreview5696 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      What school is that? where is it? what available houses are in the area?

  • @LinkiePup
    @LinkiePup ปีที่แล้ว +42

    For someone who the school system gave up on, who never got a snow days, I still passed by skipping a few days, but doing a free form online highschool.
    Stuff like snow days save kids from burn out, from boredom, the biggest thing hindering student learning.

  • @Zombie-lx3sh
    @Zombie-lx3sh ปีที่แล้ว +80

    As a Canadian, I never had a snow day. Not even 1 meter (3 feet) of snow overnight would have cancelled school. It's not as if snow could have stopped us from doing anything, we were used to it and had the means to work around it. I once walked to school in a -50°C snow storm.

    • @Heather-vi7gy
      @Heather-vi7gy ปีที่แล้ว +23

      okay, that's just child endangerment. I grew up in minnesota and we had a day cancelled due to cold at about that temperature - they should have cancelled school (also, i didn't know it could snow at that temperature!! usually the sky cleared up when it got that cold for our region)
      we did have some days of 3 foot storms that didn't cancel school, and some that did, it depended on when the snow fell. The few days when the 3 feet were all dumped between 4am and 9am were when they really couldn't get anything done about it

  • @ovecka17
    @ovecka17 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3268

    "Humanity is subservient to check boxes" is probably one of the best ways of explaining one of the main nightmares of modern 1st world life

    • @donkarlon
      @donkarlon ปีที่แล้ว +53

      I agree wholeheartedly

  • @RoronoaZoroSensei
    @RoronoaZoroSensei 3 ปีที่แล้ว +623

    I don't think I've ever seen Grey so passionate about anything.
    Not even Hexagons or getting on an airplane efficiently got him this excited about something.

    • @wacpj1929
      @wacpj1929 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Not even tumbleweeds!
      Well... maybe tumbleweeds

    • @ad-skyobsidion4267
      @ad-skyobsidion4267 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      ah but snowflakes are hexagonal. he wants kids to experience the beauty of hexagons

    • @forbiddensandwich4369
      @forbiddensandwich4369 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Or angry.

    • @titaniumsalmon3238
      @titaniumsalmon3238 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      even more then the electoral college

    • @hugofontes5708
      @hugofontes5708 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He really be thinking of the children

  • @NekoBoyOfficial
    @NekoBoyOfficial ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Snow days were genuinely fun. Taking that away is taking their childhood.

  • @IIwII_usxx
    @IIwII_usxx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    grey is that teacher that is still a kid and wants to make learning for the teenagers fun and succeeding at that by being the “how do you do fellow kids” done right

  • @gdtrilogy9060
    @gdtrilogy9060 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2070

    "Yeah I missed one day of school in the fifth grade and now I flip burgers for a living"

    • @xx_insert_cool_username_he6876
      @xx_insert_cool_username_he6876 3 ปีที่แล้ว +145

      "yeah i got a deadly disease and had to skip school for 2 weeks now I'm homeless"

    • @skarrin6207
      @skarrin6207 3 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      I took a half day in 9th grade
      And died from starvation last month

    • @chasecollins6679
      @chasecollins6679 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      “My kids were forced to go to online school on a snow day 4 years ago, now they kill small animals”.

    • @henryl2614
      @henryl2614 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      "Yeah I took a trip to Yellowstone for a week and missed deciphering Greek, so now I sell scrap metal for a living and live on the streets."

    • @blueishsquid4290
      @blueishsquid4290 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Doesn’t sound too bad

  • @theprairiemailbox
    @theprairiemailbox 3 ปีที่แล้ว +648

    The real reason Grey made this is that he remembers his teacher days - and if there's one group of people that love snow days more than students, it's teachers!

    • @Silverizael
      @Silverizael 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      So teachers love days where they don't have to be around their students? That sounds unhealthy and like someone who shouldn't be a teacher.

    • @ryanmacleod2749
      @ryanmacleod2749 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@Silverizael it’s a nice break off for everyone especially teachers because they get a break, I’m not a teacher but if I was i think I would get burnt out very often

    • @Silverizael
      @Silverizael 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ryanmacleod2749 So what does that mean for the majority of the world and even the majority of the United States that doesn't have snow days? Are they worse teachers?
      I say as a grad student who has taught lab classes before and never had or needed a snow day.

    • @theprairiemailbox
      @theprairiemailbox 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@Silverizael I love a day without students where I can catch up on marking and planning so I can come to them happier and more energized the next day, yup! Even if you love your job, time to recharge and refocus is always great.

    • @athrowaway3487
      @athrowaway3487 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@theprairiemailbox *THIS*

  • @asher879
    @asher879 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    "What kind of villans ARE you?!"
    "The worst kind."
    That was the most perfect anwser that could of been given

  • @kallekulmala1876
    @kallekulmala1876 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    Snow days are a weird consept to me as a Finn. We never have school off because of cold weather. Our worst can reach to -30 even way down south and school will still be in session. Our rule in primary school was if it's more than -25 outside you don't have to go to recess, but you still have to drag your freezing ass out of bed before eight so you can learn about how to write an article for a newspaper.

    • @Zimbobroke
      @Zimbobroke ปีที่แล้ว +18

      As someone who lives in Canada, I 100% agree with you. I assume that, at least here, we don’t have snow days because if we did we’d miss like 70% of school.

    • @absolutetrash5244
      @absolutetrash5244 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      where i am in canada you get a snow day when it was an unexpectedly large snowfall last night and the snowplows aren't able to make the roads usable until after school already started. the temperature has nothing to do with it, it's when buses can't run.

  • @Jay-qe8kx
    @Jay-qe8kx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +781

    Imagine being called a heartless monster from someone often described as literally a robot.

    • @nutgang3118
      @nutgang3118 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      this is deep this describes society (kids put on ur sarcasm masks)

    • @MetuendusDominus
      @MetuendusDominus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@nutgang3118 Ok guys but what if Snowdays were a representation of Society (or susciety if you will) success isn’t determined by skill, but by luck.
      (Joker picture here)

    • @bluesky_cupy5158
      @bluesky_cupy5158 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@MetuendusDominus *We live in a society, where gamers don't rule world...*

    • @MetuendusDominus
      @MetuendusDominus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@bluesky_cupy5158 We need gamer society, the Western Sahara is a great place to set up Gamer Society

    • @bramvanduijn8086
      @bramvanduijn8086 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@MetuendusDominus Computers need cooling, antarctica is better.

  • @boogleooger9666
    @boogleooger9666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +516

    “Oh no, the snow knocked out my internet connection. Guess I’ll have to wait till the snow clears to learn anything.”

    • @falconJB
      @falconJB 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Schools can check with their local ISP to see if there is actually an outage.

    • @32fps
      @32fps 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      "Oh no, so your power's out?"
      "No no, nothing like that."
      "....So just your internet then?"
      "Um... Yeah...suuuuper crazy. I mean what are the odds, right? These cable companies really gotta get their infrastructure together, amiright? 😅"

    • @shmoobalizer
      @shmoobalizer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@falconJB don't give them ideas

    • @thebrand647
      @thebrand647 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "Oh it was our deadline for our internet, gotta pay up soon"

    • @olican101
      @olican101 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@falconJB Unplug the router and it will appear like your internet is out if your ISP does a line check.

  • @real.E
    @real.E ปีที่แล้ว +30

    The worst part is that my generation of children & teens (including me) is the one most glued to a screen and going outside would be unthinkable if not for snow

  • @bigfootjinxthecat8696
    @bigfootjinxthecat8696 ปีที่แล้ว +177

    OUR ANCESTORS SACRAFICES WONT BE FORGOTTEN! WE SHALL SAVE SNOW DAYS AND SAVE LIBERTY!

  • @besmart
    @besmart 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6648

    Laughs in temperate climate which never had snow days to begin with

    • @ilikepizza8436
      @ilikepizza8436 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      4 minutes ago and I am the 40th like

    • @bits355
      @bits355 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      No everything just shuts down here!

    • @ThePineapple3112
      @ThePineapple3112 3 ปีที่แล้ว +177

      The only climate related omissions we had in Arizona were no recesses when it was too hot outside! It was horrible!

    • @seamon9732
      @seamon9732 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      My sincerest sympathies...

    • @Cappuccino127
      @Cappuccino127 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Same lmao

  • @mcbrideaddison
    @mcbrideaddison 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1885

    I saw "snow days are cancelled," and "a crime against childhood" and i was like THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING

    • @Russia_Moscow_countryhuman
      @Russia_Moscow_countryhuman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      My school gave us “Blizzard bags” which are really just folders full of work that we do over snow days.

    • @juliuscaesar5397
      @juliuscaesar5397 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      The entirety of the public school system is one

    • @ark6768
      @ark6768 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@Russia_Moscow_countryhuman At that point just transfer 😂

    • @mcbrideaddison
      @mcbrideaddison 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@Russia_Moscow_countryhuman wtf where is your school so i can go and wack their kneecaps

    • @The_Guy_You_Love_To_Hate
      @The_Guy_You_Love_To_Hate 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That is indeed the real fallout of this pandemic.

  • @beeman9229
    @beeman9229 ปีที่แล้ว +131

    It's not just a crime against childhood, IT'S A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY ITSELF. IT'S A WAR CRIME, A CRIME SO HORRID IT'S UNIMAGINABLE.

  • @dragonfighters5097
    @dragonfighters5097 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    “Distance learning worked so well”
    My vision becoming bad because I stared at a screen all day

  • @aviationchallenge
    @aviationchallenge 3 ปีที่แล้ว +366

    If schools do this, I have a feeling there will be a lot of suspicious internet outages on snow days

    • @night-x6793
      @night-x6793 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      We'll do the old horror movie phone line box knockout but with the internet.😏

    • @TravisFabel
      @TravisFabel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      sorry, my kid cant go online today... snow knocked out the internet. "Sir, this is a video call." yeah, and I am the parent here. You heard me. Write it in your log.

    • @noemiej.marquis732
      @noemiej.marquis732 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Tbf, snow days already create power outages, especially in rural areas. Might as well collectively decide we can't connect to the Internet on snow days. Heck, I'm a college teacher, and if I feel like it's too snowy despite there being no closed school, I still stay at home pretending a car problem or something and inform my students that class is cancelled.

  • @splat-a-tat6780
    @splat-a-tat6780 3 ปีที่แล้ว +642

    Imagine how children in the future will react when they find out their parents got a day off on the weird days they had to use the computer at home for school

    • @Jothsal
      @Jothsal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Everyting will be going digital, even without pandemics

    • @Kenfren
      @Kenfren 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Distance learning is bad for students imao. Schools are generally awful

    • @justyourfriendlyneighborho903
      @justyourfriendlyneighborho903 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Imagine kids in the future future finding put that their grandparents only used computers when there was snow

    • @ThatGuy-zw4le
      @ThatGuy-zw4le 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Jothsal pandemic just speed things up

    • @Jothsal
      @Jothsal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ThatGuy-zw4le yeah

  • @moonman239
    @moonman239 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I have another idea: Shorten the school year by 10 days, and sprinkle the extra days throughout the academic year.

  • @drmeatball711
    @drmeatball711 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +105

    Suggestion: parents can subvert this. If you're such a bad parent that you won't let your kids have fun ever, you need to not reproduce

  • @macomputersuck
    @macomputersuck 3 ปีที่แล้ว +298

    It's important to note that just because we were able to make zoom classes work during a pandemic doesn't mean that teachers can just instantly change their lesson plan to accommodate online learning at a moment's notice.

    • @HaziAgat
      @HaziAgat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Yeah, my school spent a week and a half trying to just figure out Google Meet when it started. Not all the grades in my school had Gmail, so they had to make all those accounts and then figure out Google Meet on a two-week's notice, which they failed to meet, so they resorted to Zoom. And they think the school can transition into an e-learning day just like that? That's ambitious, to say the least.

    • @Del_S
      @Del_S 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Well, it's not like the school board has to adapt a lesson plan with sometimes mere hours notice. Why would that be a problem to them?

    • @dariusonly1384
      @dariusonly1384 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I don’t know about you, but my college did not make online school work.

    • @Marinealver
      @Marinealver 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That is where you are wrong.
      Everything is working as intended, especially if it is intended for evil

    • @freshbread5373
      @freshbread5373 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If we do online school on for one day nothing happens on that day due to the fact that it is extremely hard to learn anything on a video call!

  • @Altrue
    @Altrue 3 ปีที่แล้ว +829

    See what you have done school boards? You have made Grey use the Emotional Argument.

    • @sion8
      @sion8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Yeah, he's pissed off!

    • @lwh2113
      @lwh2113 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Damn you, school boards!

    • @spacecadet3045
      @spacecadet3045 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      (Undertale AU were he is sans intensifies)

    • @dickuslongus5289
      @dickuslongus5289 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@spacecadet3045 2D universe?

    • @mokenchi5883
      @mokenchi5883 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Men really used ethos, feels weird

  • @real_surreal_sir
    @real_surreal_sir 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    I gre up in south Georgia (state), and the every 4-5 years or so when it snowed (always an inch or two at most), they always gave us a "snow day", I think just so that we could could have the spiritually enriching experience of aomething as mystical as plating in snow. When you rarely have it, yes even an inch of snow that you scrape in huge swaths off the barely covered grass for miniature snowmen or something, is unironically mystical to most kids.
    Point is, snow days are not always about transportation issues or whatever, nor should they be!

  • @crotchwolf1929
    @crotchwolf1929 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The superintendent who was in charge of the district my high school was a part of would refuse to close schools unless the winter weather was more or less apocalyptic. It took a driver skidding and crashing into a school bus to finally loosen the restrictions my district had, and this school was in Michigan by the way.

  • @glorysky1998
    @glorysky1998 3 ปีที่แล้ว +621

    During an online class my teacher was so bummed out that on a day where the snow was piled high, we didn't get a day off to play, so for our class work we needed to take a picture of us playing in the snow.
    Edit: for the kids that didn't or couldn't go outside, they just did their regular work, which was to finish some work if they didn't already the day before. So technically free period for everyone.

    • @TeeBar420
      @TeeBar420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Based

    • @blunderingfool
      @blunderingfool 3 ปีที่แล้ว +106

      @@ccox7198 You see the point, right up there, flying over your head?

    • @TeeBar420
      @TeeBar420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      @@ccox7198 they see the kid every day, and they're asking for like a picture of them building a snowman. The point is to make sure the kid enjoys their snow days like they're supposed to.

    • @georgesracingcar7701
      @georgesracingcar7701 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What if I don’t want to play in the snow
      Because I want to read a book or something
      He should’ve just said “Do something fun” instead

    • @blitzn00dle50
      @blitzn00dle50 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      @@ccox7198 damn you should enter the Olympics with that long jump to conclusions

  • @TalynCo
    @TalynCo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +589

    You know it's for real when Grey brings out "Won't someone think of the children."

    • @CGPGrey
      @CGPGrey  3 ปีที่แล้ว +98

      The biological weapon of conversation.

    • @krakios3950
      @krakios3950 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@CGPGrey The only way for schools to take you seriously. Break the Geneva Convention

    • @alexandrehenrique7203
      @alexandrehenrique7203 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The funny thing is that grey thinks schools care about kids

    • @antonf.9278
      @antonf.9278 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Arguments are almost never about changing your oppositions mind. It's about getting observers and other third partys on your side.
      Hope I changed your mind on that one ;)

    • @Silverizael
      @Silverizael 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The fallacious form of argumentation, yes.

  • @esbeng.s.a9761
    @esbeng.s.a9761 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    In all my 13 years of being in school has I only gotten one snowday. And my parents didn't know that school had been canceled, so I still got to school and played with other children whose parents had done the same thing. It was great.

  • @redshirtwookiee
    @redshirtwookiee 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    My school district just eliminated snow days BUT only with asynchronous learning so students can still enjoy them

  • @xeeko6389
    @xeeko6389 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4466

    "Distance learning worked so well"
    My school literally forgot to assign me a math class, so now I'm a year off
    My school also put me class I'm not even in yet and kept counting me as a absent, and putting in 'missing' work that I wasn't even getting
    Yep, distanced learning worked soooo well

    • @mulethedonkey2579
      @mulethedonkey2579 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      summer school? sorry to hear it. It'd be not a full year of school, but three months of one class online for some time online certain days; for college at least. Surely there not refusing to undo that false class though, there's higher powers than the principal, even board, who don't like them giving false gpa's for no reason

    • @Azide_zx
      @Azide_zx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      not really a product of distance learning and more just the school system and the people in charge of it being terrible at their jobs

    • @kimgkomg
      @kimgkomg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Do better

    • @peckc16
      @peckc16 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      You didn't think it was odd you didn't have a math all year...? Like your school messed up, but that's such a big problem you or your parents probs should have noticed it...

    • @xeeko6389
      @xeeko6389 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@peckc16 well yea I did actually, but because each quarter was one semester on my online school, i just assumed it would be next quarter after the next, but eventually time ran out. And my parents don’t care about the classes themselves, only the grades

  • @BagelMan.
    @BagelMan. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +251

    back in 2011 my grandma had a heart attack on a snow day and needed help because I was the only person at her house at that time. She doesn't know how to communicate well cause she mostly knows Japanese but I could see her on the floor pointing to the phone and I rushed to call 911. I saved my grandma that day and I will never forget the chance a snow day gave me.

    • @jero37
      @jero37 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I'm glad to hear that you got to have her for longer and be her little hero. Do you recall how old you were at the time?

    • @BagelMan.
      @BagelMan. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@jero37 I was like 13 or something

    • @loganlylehatch9426
      @loganlylehatch9426 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That's so wholesome. You're honestly a hero.

    • @christian_hatch
      @christian_hatch 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@loganlylehatch9426 what a coincidence seeing you here

  • @katrinastump9297
    @katrinastump9297 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I graduated high school in 2019, before the pandemic, even then there was talk of cancelling snow days because every (high school, and middle school) student had a laptop.

    • @Oturan20
      @Oturan20 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      But how do they know if you have Internet?

    • @katrinastump9297
      @katrinastump9297 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Oturan20 They sent out a form at the beginning of the school year asking if you had internet, but I suspect that they wouldn't do anything if you said you didn't have internet

  • @naboriruta5291
    @naboriruta5291 2 ปีที่แล้ว +294

    I feel like teaching students french conjugations for "to have fun" while they aren't having fun is extremely hypocritical

    • @aeea8318
      @aeea8318 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      I think this example was took on purpose for this very reason

    • @-ism8153
      @-ism8153 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      That's not what hypocritical means, but it's ironic.

    • @deathtogabi3867
      @deathtogabi3867 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      teaching french in generall is just cruel punishment

    • @wasifabul2545
      @wasifabul2545 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I don’t suffer that fate because my French teacher is very funny

    • @georgeiii2998
      @georgeiii2998 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That was the point

  • @TheMorganaic
    @TheMorganaic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +627

    From a teachers point of view, it’s getting scary now. Every time we are sick they are forcing us in our school to teach online - it’s horrendous

    • @nixie6077
      @nixie6077 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Yes, it's very sad. Am a teacher, know the pain. There's no joy like a snow day, especially for teachers.

    • @gr4ffe
      @gr4ffe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      How is this even legal?

    • @Stargate2077
      @Stargate2077 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      You should be guaranteed your right to sick leave. Your school district should strike to guarantee that.

    • @kabenzie
      @kabenzie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Where is your union on this? omg, it's time for you all to strike.

    • @TheMorganaic
      @TheMorganaic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I don’t live in the US, or even if I was in my home country it wouldn’t happen, currently living in the UAE

  • @wizardinchiktrodon
    @wizardinchiktrodon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +638

    Grey: *save snow days!*
    People who never experienced snow days: *confused but supportive*

    • @tomnyskull
      @tomnyskull 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      It hasnt snowed where I live in 50 years but yeah! You tell'em sitckman!

    • @pqbdwmnu
      @pqbdwmnu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@tomnyskull You don't get many snowdays if you live too far north too, it's a fine balance

    • @NewhamMatt
      @NewhamMatt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I'm not sure if I'm supportive of stopping learning because of inclement weather. This feels more like an argument for making learning engaging in school.

    • @matthewhamilton2913
      @matthewhamilton2913 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@NewhamMatt its robbing children from the wonder of a snow day

    • @evanjohnson1299
      @evanjohnson1299 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @HoapiliakeAkuamanaloa Saigusa worse where you live so far north that a weather event that would require school closure can only be described as apocalyptic.

  • @lovecrds
    @lovecrds 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My school board is run by angels, I swear, they gave us snow days in online school even when it didn't snow, they're amazing people.

  • @michaelsoyt
    @michaelsoyt 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    Sad my place will never have snows..

  • @Galbrei
    @Galbrei 3 ปีที่แล้ว +821

    As someone who grew up in Brazil where it NEVER snows, the idea of an errant weather pattern showing up unannounced and freeing you from next day's school duties sounded borderline magical! I never got to enjoy this but I wouldn't want it taken from others.

    • @marcuswong730
      @marcuswong730 3 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      In Southeast Asia, our equivalent is “stormy days” if there is a hurricane and the wind speed/rainfall exceed a certain amount school will be cancelled
      Unlike snow days I can’t really play out side because... you know why, but it is still pretty cool and as you said, borderline magical :)

    • @MagnsATK98
      @MagnsATK98 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Here in Norway it snows a lot but we never get free from school because of that, so it's strange to hear for us too

    • @benjaminjolly2371
      @benjaminjolly2371 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      In Arizona we get heat advisory days where you still go to school but they don't let you outside

    • @prashantpandey9082
      @prashantpandey9082 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      In some parts of India we have it on days when it rains heavily (especially the monsoons)

    • @KateeAngel
      @KateeAngel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      As Russian, who had to go to school often through snowy uncleaned streets, it sounds crazy af. Just give kids more days off, but don't use snow as an excuse

  • @adrianbenedictmanalaysay1159
    @adrianbenedictmanalaysay1159 3 ปีที่แล้ว +436

    School boards and education administrators should also consider that snow, rain, storms, and other weather disturbances can affect the reliability of Internet connection making it difficult for online classes to be productive.

    • @aycc-nbh7289
      @aycc-nbh7289 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      What if some professors decided to still cancel classes because of this? I may consider doing it if I were in charge, even perhaps bringing with me the relevant equations/diagrams.

    • @samman18
      @samman18 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      YEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS

    • @rainchopper898
      @rainchopper898 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Absolute and utter genius! If dumbass schools try to enforce online learning on snow days you can just say that you’re internet isn’t working. Every. Time.

    • @garethbaus5471
      @garethbaus5471 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@rainchopper898 and if the kids are using my current internet provider, it probably actually isn't working.

    • @ShawnMihalek
      @ShawnMihalek 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@garethbaus5471 Where I live it hasn't snowed in like 15 years, but if we get a little more rain than normal we lose power for 6 hours.

  • @behcherry9815
    @behcherry9815 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I grew up near Toronto and we don’t get too many snow days anymore, but they are still a surprising holiday from school

    • @aaronl19
      @aaronl19 ปีที่แล้ว

      Y’all get snow days in Toronto?? Live in Edmonton and I literally didn’t know that they cancelled school in other places for weather until recently. Here any weather school will still be on unless there was like a tornado or smthing

  • @LeSpeederus
    @LeSpeederus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Man, in a couple years i'll be a teacher and sometimes it feels like the only pastime of schoolboards and the ministry of education is to dominate pupils minds as much as possible until no class is ever missed, no test ever so slightly cheated, no homework copied from a friend no childrens mind absent.
    School is hard nad without allowing students little breaks in between, i honestly don't know how they're supposed to make it through the year.

  • @richardwainwright507
    @richardwainwright507 3 ปีที่แล้ว +543

    Growing up in Florida, it was praying for hurricanes and tropical storms that kept us safe from school.

    • @32fps
      @32fps 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Isn't that funny? I partially grew up in MS and AL and I remember getting days off if a storm was threatening enough, and then it was the greatest when they made the declaration but the storm veered off last minute; free day to run around!

    • @ABUBBA22
      @ABUBBA22 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Growing up in SoCal our only hope for school being canceled was a wild fire getting too close

    • @fernandod4046
      @fernandod4046 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I hated those classmates as I actually feared hurricanes. Though waking up early kills you just as much, but slowly

    • @walkingvirus487
      @walkingvirus487 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Here in the S.F. bay area the weather could barely touch the schools. Hell even when a lighting storm could knock out a few blocks my schools where always untouched.

    • @1206549
      @1206549 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Same in the Philippines

  • @elkinkku
    @elkinkku 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1901

    A random Finnish kid walking to school through blizzard in -20 degrees: "You guys cancel school when it snows???"

    • @airernie2
      @airernie2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      snow days technically mean freezing rain or hail days (or if its below -28C). 25cm of snow will not cancel by it's self

    • @elkinkku
      @elkinkku 3 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      @@airernie2 Yea, I cut some corners in my comment :) Back when I was in school (in Finland) the only concession we could get in the winter was that if the temperature was below -25C we didn't have to go out during recess. Yay!

    • @jadefirekraken1363
      @jadefirekraken1363 3 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      @@elkinkku damn man in canada we had to go to school until the busses litterally wouldn't start which was around -35C

    • @elkinkku
      @elkinkku 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@jadefirekraken1363 - 35 is quite cold already :D here in the southern Finland we don't have it every winter, but in the North it tends to happen.
      Most kids here would walk/cycle(/ski) to school as you need to live several miles away from nearest school to get the town to bus you. It's only in the last couple decades that the countryside towns have been shutting down their small "village schools" that were scattered basically everywhere. This has led to the increase of the amount of pupils bussed to schools.
      In more urban areas the public transportation does not always have the best coverage or schedule so kids can't often use that. Of course in the last generation or so parents have been increasingly eager to drive their kids to school, but a substantial amount of the kids still has to push through to school on their own devices.

    • @NovaNocturneArt
      @NovaNocturneArt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Right? "A meter of snow dropped in the last half hour? Too bad, get to school on time!"
      I have heard stories from friends who live in places like Texas, where even the slightest hint of frosted breath on the air would get school canceled. Lucky buggers.

  • @Hades3k
    @Hades3k ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I'm on the fence about this simply because CPGGrey seems to be remembering the snow days of yore, when there wasn't TH-cam and ps5s and a digital world waiting for kids. Kids play outside less and less and keeping the snow day may just mean kids get more screen time just in a different and more enjoyable way.

  • @kliperek5054
    @kliperek5054 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    In my school we had snow days, but they were different. We had shorter lessons and one hour of organized snowball fighting tournaments

  • @pockystick8557
    @pockystick8557 3 ปีที่แล้ว +743

    This reminds me of that one Calvin and Hobbes comic where Calvin was deciding whether to play outside in the snow or do his homework. He recognized that doing his homework will help him in a long term but in a long long term he knew which will matter more and opted to play on the snow..

    • @reubenbrombley8173
      @reubenbrombley8173 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Let it never be said that Calvin is not forward-thinking

    • @ChaiKaPyala
      @ChaiKaPyala 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Calvin is wise beyond his years. How old is he? Six.

    • @galenpemberton4382
      @galenpemberton4382 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Remember the one where Calvin ask his dad to play with him in the snow? The dad is very busy and tells him no but after a minute he thinks about it before going outside and playing with Calvin all day. Then at night when he’s having to get the work done Calvin comes and hugs him goodnight. It really put what was important in prospective

    • @matthewwilson4972
      @matthewwilson4972 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@ChaiKaPyala Calvin has an existential crisis every second storyline

    • @jkuhl2492
      @jkuhl2492 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      There's also the one where he exclaims to his mother that it snowed therefore school is canceled, but she says it was only two inches, therefore school is not canceled. He's angry and going to the bus and he opines "getting two inches of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery"
      Always made me laugh.

  • @Sarge1886
    @Sarge1886 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My school system had “work days” that operated as scheduled wiggle room. Basically if there was a reason why the schools couldn’t open (say snow days or blackouts) a future work day would be used in its place. Unused work days would be given to the students as time off and the teachers as meetings, workshops, or time off as well.

  • @IncredibleMD
    @IncredibleMD 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I am so glad I got out of school long before distance learning. I was great at learning, especially book learning, but I was a terrible student. All I had going for me was being physically present. I would've missed entire years of school if they counted the days I was napping in class because I'd already finished the reading assignment a week ago as absent.

  • @bryan314
    @bryan314 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3565

    You're forgetting the most important part of cancellation of snow days: funding is based on the number of student attendance days. A snow day costs the school money and therefore the schoolboard power. It's not about learning, it is never about learning, it's all about money and power.

    • @somerandomoldman4557
      @somerandomoldman4557 2 ปีที่แล้ว +279

      We have to teach the kids about corporate greed and stuff right?

    • @ARandomSpace
      @ARandomSpace 2 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      @@somerandomoldman4557 Yes! Just don't put them through it...

    • @zvxcvxcz
      @zvxcvxcz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      You've got that backwards. They were motivated to have snowdays because the weather would be so bad that attendance would be too low to count the day as a day of school. I.e. they would have held class but would need to tack on another school day anyway. So which would you have wanted? To call the day off properly, or have maybe attended and had to redo per se because your peers didn't show up? Now, there are a certain number of days that can be missed without penalty, but beyond that... And the whole point is indeed learning, otherwise they would just not care about whoever missed and would proceed, letting the gap grow between those that attended vs. those that did not, letting those that missed fail.
      Schoolboards don't derive their power from the school budget, that's not how that works. Clearly you failed to learn if you think it's just about money and power, especially considering that school in the US have very little of either of those.

    • @enzoh7151
      @enzoh7151 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      it was always about having some letter or number on a paper.

    • @bryan314
      @bryan314 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@zvxcvxcz Now they can do away with the snow days and have "virtual" days with near 100% attendance...and they can even extend the school year just a little bit more.

  • @cryamistellimek9184
    @cryamistellimek9184 3 ปีที่แล้ว +520

    Don’t tell them to look into the eyes of a child and destroy their happiness, they would easily do it without hesitation for a checked box.

    • @miguelbaltazar7606
      @miguelbaltazar7606 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Neil Peters 1000000 assignments: C H E C K

    • @348joey
      @348joey 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's how they get their power. The feed of of sadness!

  • @alexpetersen4403
    @alexpetersen4403 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    It’s so funny growing up in Central Arizona and seeing all this happen. I had one day even close to a snow day in 13 years of school here and it was a monsoon day

  • @footerreal
    @footerreal ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I find this really funny, as I live in a country where we didn't have snow days from the start and I immediately imagined a plethora of memes. From 'You guys have snow days?' to 'Wait, it's all school days? Always have been.'