Seniors Sydney Accomando, and Alex Fecteau have experienced many snow days throughout high school, but being a senior gives them a different perspective.

“I’m a senior, I love my snow days. I get to stay home and chill,” said Fecteau.

“It’s worth it, especially for us seniors,” said Accomando. “We get a day off and our summer doesn’t change. It’s a win, win.”

At Triton, seniors are scheduled to get out June 2nd. Due to graduation, their final school day will not change based on any snow days, so all seniors tend to be happy when they get a day off. On the other hand, snow days do affect the many underclassman.

Triton High School students and teachers weigh in their thoughts of the pros and cons of snow days and whether they are worth it or not.

“It’s nice to have a day off, but then we get behind in school and it pushes everything back,” said freshman Aidan Lowry.

With the four snow days so far, our original last day of school was scheduled for June 13th, but has been postponed to June 19th as of now. The continuous days off have pushed back a lot of teachers planning and the students time to learn.

This past winter, with finals and snow days, classes have been having trouble getting back on track. Having to catch up to consistency is not only stressful for the teachers but many students as well.

“It’s nice to have a day off but it does mess up your schedule. You just have to shift things forward and pick up the pace somewhere,” said teacher Richard Fisher. “It’s an interruption but its a trade off. You can’t help but think about how it extends the year into the summertime so again, it cuts both ways.”

In some past years, the snow days have affected the school year in whole causing the quarter to be pushed back. This school year there will be no dramatic effects.

A lot of Triton students have to  agree that the day off is something well needed because it breaks up the week to where you can relax. But when it comes to scheduling, classes can get pretty mixed up.

“It impacts sequencing and the relationship of class to class. And by that I mean one period can end up two classes ahead of another,” said biology teacher Brad Smith.

On the teachers perspective, missing a day of school has many cons. When classes are all out of order it does nothing good. For example, if there a period were to do a lab today and b period had did the lab yesterday, the snow day breaking it up, c period would be two classes ahead of a.

When it comes to higher classes, as in AP level, the consequences of a snow day are even worse. AP level classes run in a scheduled way where tests are planned months in advance. If a snow day were to fall on one of those planned tests, it only causes trouble.

“The biggest impact is on the AP classes because the AP test is on a set date, so even if the day is made up at the end of the year, that’s after the test so it’s effectively a day lost for those classes,” said chemistry teacher Ian McBee.

As snow days can have a lot of pros and cons on high school students, college is a whole other story. Snow days typically don’t affect any college students negatively as they have a more free schedule.

Missing a class is no problem as they can finish the work at home, which most of the time is the case. With no plan to make up the class, the snow day is just like a day off of school. But then shoveling comes into the equation.

“A lot of the times I’ll be behind and a snow day works well because I’ll get an extra day to deal with it,” said NECC student Nathan Miller. “We don’t have to make up the class it’s just dismissed.”

Snow days have a lot of pros and cons as Triton High School students and teachers have shown; but it’s always nice to get a break.