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Celebrating Snow

The campus looks spectacular under the blanket of freshly fallen snow. I feel like the luckiest woman as I write this, looking out my office window; the children are sledding, building forts, making snowmen and the air is filled with joyful sounds.

Snow is a hot topic of debate in the education world. To allow or not to allow is the controversy. Most schools have decided not to let their students outside if there is snow on the ground, or if they are daring, they send them out to carefully plowed blacktops with admonishments not to touch the white stuff. This is policy, caution, and control gone awry. Being outside, mucking around in the mud, snow or whatever element Mother Nature sends our way is an important part of life at The School in Rose Valley. What could be better than building a snowman, playing kick the jug in a drizzle, or digging for treasure in the mud?