I heard on the news several weeks ago that some schools were eliminating snow days on their school calendars this year. Snow days are days that the schools provide for missed days due to snow, etc. However, many schools are now using the internet to see that any school days missed because of snow can actually be school days counted by the students using the internet to check on their school studies and do other assignments, etc.
This is great except, of course, if the students have no access to the internet, etc. However, these days it is rare for kids not to have some way to get online some way, although it is possible I'm sure. At one school I saw in the news report it was mentioned that every student there had their own laptop. That is great but not going to be possible for every student at every school due to incomes, homelessness, etc. And, many Library's have computers that people can use these days, but if the weather is too bad with snow, then the Library's may be closed and not available or the weather may be too bad in some areas to reach the Library even if they are open.
However, this no snow days does seem to possibly be the way of the future to some extent. Has anyone else heard anything about any of the schools near you doing this?