The magic of teaching

Today is one of the days that I live for as an educator. In the education field we have acronyms for everything and of course this one is no exception. It is commonly know as S.D.. To those of you who are not in the education field this is known as a snow day!!

Nothing on earth beats a snow day and unfortunately teachers and kids are the only ones to get to enjoy this magical experience.

It starts as soon as these two groups of people hear the weather forecast. Whispers (we don't want to jinx it) of "will be at school tomorrow?" travel through the halls. Teachers secretly pray and kids do snow dances. All is crazy and of course we are a little superstitious. For example, we have to get our classrooms ready for the next day because if not we will have jinxed ourselves. And today's events were no different.

It started snowing yesterday around 6:00 p.m. which worried me because it was a little early. Educators want it to begin late because there is less of a chance of it getting cleared off in time. The processing began with a little call to Eden who looked up the radar and read the forecast and we speculated on whether of not we thought there would be school. All night, as I was out I was weighing the situation. "It is still snowing, but I am not sure there is enough snow". Of course I had to mention it to the person I was with at least five times, who of course could care less since they had to work regardless.

As I was driving home around 11:00 pm the roads were pretty crappy, but drivable. I had finally convinced myself that there would be school because there wasn't enough snow and it would be cleared by morning.

Fast forward to 5:00 am where my phone rang this morning. The sweet voice of my principal rang out, "Cara, no school today. Pass it on and you can go back to sleep." Which is exactly what I did. Called the next person on the phone tree and happily drifted back to sleep. Aaah the magic of teaching!