By Hailey Paulson
As temperatures and leaves are dropping, Fall is starting to slip away. Several LSW students share their hopes for possible snow days.
Snow days are a topic of discussion for some LSW students. The last school year accounted for few to no snow days. Hopes are high for this school year to make up for last year’s dry spell.
Certain conditions for snow days must be present in order for LSR7 Superintendent Dr. David McGehee to call off school. “There is not one magic bullet to deciding on whether or not to have school. It is often a combination of things; road conditions, condition of sidewalks, timing of the weather with relation to bus routes and ability to make sites and roads safe for travel, temperatures in combination with poor road conditions, forecast, etc… Families depend on us to have school when we can so we try to keep the regular schedule whenever possible” said McGehee.
“Students, and probably some teachers like an unexpected day out of school, even though for most they have to be made up later” said McGehee. Snow days may be beneficial at the time for all students, but, when the end of the year rolls around only the LSW seniors escape the punishment of making up the snow days. 
Nevertheless students still have the desire for snow days. “It’s just a nice break whenever there’s a snow day, it’s a nice restful day you can take off of school” said senior Audrey White.
Many things come to mind when the word snow day pops up in a conversation. “Freaking awesome is what comes to mind…It’s a free day off, or if you forget to do stuff like homework you get to do it” said sophomore Frank Cutera
“I just remember playing outside and then coming inside and my mom made hot cocoa for us and watching movies and hanging out with friends and a lot of fun” said White.
“We built igloos at our school and spent the night in them” said Spanish Teacher Colleen Gibler. Gibler has a unique situation when it comes to snow days.
“For the last twenty years, students have sort of started , I don’t know if you call if a rumor, but a thing where they think that I am fairly accurate when I call out when I think there is going to be a snow day” said Gibler.
“ I get creaky, my bones get achy and I’ll say oh there is going to be a big snow coming. I know it’s not always accurate, but the students think it is” said Gibler.
While snow days are a fun, non-productive day, Gibler thinks they are positive to a student’s educational career. “I think all of the things growing up, like snow are important memories for kids and good perspectives so they learn to appreciate their free days when they can just spend time with families and friends” said Gibler.
“I am like a kid that way where it’s a day where you don’t have work already scheduled and things already scheduled so it’s a day that you have free and you get to do what you want to do” said Gibler.
Snow day predictions are all over the board. One thing almost all people have in common is the lasting hope for snow days. “I’m just the superintendent…No way of predicting the weather tomorrow in Missouri” said McGehee.
