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In my youth, I always felt bad for my friends in Manchester who never had a snow day--Both parents worked and school was child care for the day. I kind of like the idea of kids getting special advance or intrernet assignments to cover snow days, but I appreciate the value of just getting a surprise day off too. The foolishness is doing make up days in June. Half the kids aren't there, and the teachers have finished their lesson plans for the year. Nothing accomplished. My son's school had finished and I thought it was a great time (uncrowded) to go to Canobie Lake Park. When we arrived, it was overflowing with school bus loads of kids on field trips because they had to do snow make up days.