In the beginning of the year, Wisconsin was hit with low temperatures. The roads were icy and the strong winds would often give students whiplash. Since the weather was such a hazard, students assumed that Racine Unified School District would have the heart to cancel school. Unfortunately, that was not the case.

But apparently, a little rain and gentle-ish wind is enough to convince the district to be driven towards cancelling school as was the case three times this school year.

Back in the day, students used to climb the highest of mountains just to get to school. Some would even jump in canoes and travel up the river with no paddles. Eagles were ready to snatch them up like they were the grand lottery prize. Nothing seemed impossible to these past trailblazers when taking risks to get to school.

Isabella ‘Chicharron’ Perez, an ex-student athlete at Evergreen Heights High commented on the cancellations of school to her mother, who just so happened to work at the district during their dinosaur years. This led to her getting a spoonful of one of her mother’s infamous speeches from when she was younger, on how she didn’t have proper transportation to get to school. “When I was your age…” she began, “your grandmother and your grandfather weren’t driving me around, so in order for me to get to school, I had to ride a llama named Larry, and let me tell you…he was quite the stubborn commuter.”

The district used to be a little more strict a couple years back about snow days. Now it seems like anything goes: snow day, rain day, wind day, bad hair day. Anything is possible when a day off is on the line.