With winter upon us, winter snow days are inevitable in most northern
areas. It seems so many schools are putting out funny videos or songs to announce to their students when this happens.
Well, Swartz Creek Community Schools, a school district in Michigan,
decided to add their own flair to this trend. Their video has over a million views on YouTube already.
Dressed in their school team apparel, Superintendent Ben Mainka and Principal
Jim Kitchen stand in front of a camera to make an announcement to their
students and families. Superintendent Mainka starts with a serious note:
“I wanted to just do a quick video announcement. I know that one of the things
that’s been happening – which is an epidemic across our country – is that superintendents
and other administrators are coming up with ridiculous songs, and they’re playing music
and putting sunglasses on and making absolute fools of themselves
trying to cancel school for a snow day, and it seems like we have….”
