Thursday, February 21, 2008

Too Cool for Snow Days

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i walk down this street outside my house daily

We recently had a snow night, but not a snow day. According to our chaplain, Calvin’s last snow day was in the 70s. Why don’t we have snow days as often as other schools? Someone who worked for Calvin told me this…

Amongst calvin’s broad selection of core classes, some subjects have multiple sections. For instance, there’s Religion 121a, 121b, 121c, etc. Some sections meet on the even days of the week, while others meet on the odd days. If a prof teaches both even and odd sections of Religion 121, the prof will probably want to teach both sections at the same pace. That way, if there’s a test, and he uses the same test for both sections, teaching sections at the same pace ensures that one section won’t take the test 3 days early and have enough time to inform the other section about what questions are on the test. The system mitigates cheating, and that’s one reason why snow days are avoided. Makes sense right? Snow days would give one section a head start over the other.

So there you go. Just because cornerstone, hope, and grand valley have snow days doesn’t give calvin students an excuse to skip out. We’re more diligent than that ;)

Posted by Nehe555 on 02/21 at 10:13 AM
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