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Im sure that there are many college students who wish that they could have just one more snow day. I believe that colleges should cancel classes when the districts close because of the weather. This is mainly for those who have to travel to get to their class. I am one of those who has to travel to the campus when the weather is bad and i only drive about 5 miles to the campus. Imagine those who have to drive farther to make it to class either to teach or learn.


I think that if NJC was to change this policy it would keep the students and instructors more safe on days when the weather is bad, because they wouldnt have to rush into town to make it to class on time. This could be a good thing for the high school students too, because they travel from the high school to the college for classes. If the high school was cancelled and they still had their college class, they would have to travel from home to the college just for that one class. To me, that isnt worth it. Most likely the teacher may have cancelled class for that day but it depends on the instructor. I just believe that it would cause less problems for everyone if this was to happen.


In a interview that i just recently had was with a person that has been at NJC for over 10 years. This person thought this would be a good change for many reasons. This person works with many faculty that live out of town and have a ways to travel to get to the college and it would be better for them if they wouldnt have to put their lives in danger to make it into town.

A change that this person wanted to make to this problem was to have the same protocol as the school districts do because many of those faculty workers would have to find some sort of childcare for their children which could be hard to do especially if they live in a different town. A negative reason for this change could be for the students that live on campus. Some years ago, classes were cancelled and the students in the dorms had some free time on their hands and many of them decided to have some fun and trash the dorms. They caused quite a lot of damage which is a good reason has to why classes havent been cancelled since then.

Now there are many other colleges out there who are either going through the same problem or have already been through it. Yale University had this problem back in 2007 when someone posted on the website that all classes had been cancelled because of the weather when it was a fake. After this had happened, many started to wonder how come this type of thing couldnt happen.

Many of the instructors werent to fond of this because they thought that if students could go and play out in the snow on their day off, they could make it too class, so most of them still held classes. The college found that its better to have the students in class because there was an incident where a sophmore jumped out a second story dorm window to jump into a drift and ended up in the hospital with a messed up back. Thats a chance that many colleges dont want to take and with any type of vandalism that goes on in the dorms.