Much to the delight of many students, and the chagrin of a few nerds, Fayette County Public Schools remained closed today due to weather. While many students watched with anticipation, hoping to see their county scroll across the bottom of the screen, some teachers are becoming concerned that the lack of in school days will make it difficult to finish the curriculum. Physical Education teacher Braxton Thurman said, “We’ve gotten to kickball, but I’m afraid we aren’t even going to get to cover the made up variation of dodgeball I created.”
Many teachers took to Facebook to complain about how their unexpected paid absence from work is somehow an inconvenience to them. Janet Watson, a sophomore English Teacher, explained, “I was planning on spending the last two weeks of class time watching the Princess Bride and the Hobbit and pretending both were somehow educational. Now we’ll have time to watch most of it.”
“As an educator,” Watson went on, “it’s important for us to meet with the students every day, the alternative is being paid to do nothing at home, and I’m not trying to be around my family that often until the summer.”
“You don’t understand,” Watson continued in a comment on her own post, “if these students aren’t in class, they’ll be at home playing video games on Xbox, instead of in class playing games on their phone.”
“I mean, it’s nice to be off school for a day or two, but some of us work for a living,” said high school junior and part-time Graters ice cream scoopgineer Nevaeh Johnson. “Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to get a paid day off because it’s too hard for everyone to get to work. However, if I don’t show up, I don’t get paid.”
Johnson continued, “I can’t just show up for my shift this afternoon at some point in late May when it’s more convenient and be like MAKE UP DAY. Commerce doesn’t stop for 2 inches of snow.”
As Johnson struggled to lift a plastic container, he added, “They’re gonna toss some rock salt out on the roads and hopefully everyone can get back to work tomorrow, but, guess what, I start every day with some rock salt. This is an ice cream store.”