This morning, students didn’t wake up to find a beautiful Monday morning with the sun shining bright, but the sky gray and the grass and streets covered in snow. What makes it surprising is that this is occurring in the middle of March, with spring just around the corner. Rockwood students received a phone call from the superintendant not saying that school is cancelled, but instead said that buses may be late.

“I saw a car on the side of the road on Kehrs Mill and I tried to dodge it,” Matt Johnson, senior, said. “My wheels spun out and ended up crashing my 2004 Impala in a ditch.”

About halfway through first hour, Mark Linneman, Activities Director’s, voice went over the P.A. and announced that even teachers were having trouble making it to school and that students should remain in their first hour class beyond the usual time students would get out of first hour.

Later on during first hour, Linneman voice went over the P.A. again and said first hour will be extended to 9:29 A.M. and then second will go from 9:35 to 10:12 and third from 10:18 to 10:55.

Even the library was being lenient with donut Mondays. Lauren Helbig, Language Arts teacher, received donuts for only having 12 students (about 75 percent of the class) as well as other classes who didn’t have perfect attendance either.

So with students getting in crashes, teachers coming in late and having to change the schedule to work with the snow conditions, was it really necessary to have school today? MHS has already had seven snow days, so why not add another one to the list?

“When I drove to school this morning about 6 A.M., it had only started snowing,” Carl Hudson, Senior Principal, said. “The snow hit at the worst possible time that it would have been safer to keep the students at school than if we sent them home.”