Schools out...Or is it?

It's Great Americans Day, or Presidents Day for us old guys, yeah no school! But wait a minute. Not anymore. Now the school board says that the students have to go to school because of a snow day that the students received the day after Christmas Vacation. I don't get it. What was the purpose of setting up a day off school if they are going to make the students go anyway. What a disappointment! Is it really going to set back a students education by letting them get a day off between Christmas and Spring Break? I teach these students. They come in day after day, because the government tells their parents they have to, and have information shoved down their throats. I'm not saying that education is bad, only that an individual can only take so much boredom. I say give the students more time off school to allow them to be a kid. We expect them to act like adults eight hours a day five days a week. I know college students that don't have that kind of schedule. When is a child suppose to play? After school? No, most students stay after school for activities and then there is homework to do. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think the schools would be ahead by giving the students a day off. Then maybe the students and teachers wouldn't be so stinkin grouchy.