The End of School Snow Days? [Video]

There’s nothing like a snow day for kids. The idea of no school just because Mother Nature decided to dump a few feet of powdery goodness and make it hard for buses to get through.

But if some school districts have their way, snow days are about to get a little less fun for the kiddies, because seven though they'll be stuck at home, class will still be in session.

At the Cathedral School in St. Cloud, Minnesota, which teaches students grades seven through 12, a virtual program allows teachers to conduct lessons over the Internet. “It’s one of those ideas that I think was simply inevitable,” president of the Cathedral School, Michael A. Mullin told TODAY.com. “Our students are used to conducting many of their learning experiences on their laptop machines, whether school happens to be in session or not.”

Cathedral has been working towards the virtual lessons for the past four years, planning and refining their procedure, which just got a test run last week when the Midwest was dumped with a foot of snow. Of course, the plan was able to work because the school 665 students and 45 teachers all have MacBook Air laptops, which were paid for through fundraising and annual tuition.

And they’re not the only school. This past February a public school in Pascack New Jersey had students log in for lessons during a huge snowstorm. "It's not right for every day," Pascack Valley Regional High School Superintendent Erik Gundersen explained. "From time to time, when school needs to be closed, it's a great way to continue the learning."

Cathedral principal Lynn Grewing says there “has been some grumbling” from students about the new policy, but in the end they’ll be better off. In previous years, due to educational mandates, the school was forced to stay open over Easter to make up for missed school days, which won’t have to happen any longer.

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