With the recent Snowstorm Jonas rolling through Northern Virginia, Fairfax County Public Schools has had many snow days. With many school day cancellations, students have had to adapt to many changing circumstances. Many students have to deal with the short time period before the end of the second quarter. FCPS did not extend the second quarter at all, unlike Loudoun County who extended its second quarter by two days.

“I definitely enjoyed the ten days off we had from school. I spent a lot of time relaxing and just watching Netflix. The only problem now is that I only have four days to catch up on missing assignments before the end of the quarter,” senior Sarah Deible said.

This is also the case with many other students and teachers. Teachers now have to grade more material over a shorter period of time. Some of them have even pushed assignments into the next quarter.

“The biggest thing I had to change was that I had an essay that was going to be due this week, but instead of making the essay do this week, I had to make the outline a summative assessment for the second quarter and move the essay back a week that will be on the third quarter,” teacher Christopher Bagot said.

The snow days have also caused problems for the annual Science Fair. Due to the multiple school day cancellations, the Science Fair has been cancelled all together. On Tuesday, February 2 of this week, there is a non-mandatory Science Fair make-up that involves students setting up their projects in their science classrooms. Teachers will then go around and grade the students. This is not the official science fair but a way for teachers to give students extra credit for doing their experiments and projects.

Junior Class President Matthew Vogus spent the time off relaxing, working on a little school work, and having fun in the snow.

“I spent a lot of the mini-break sledding with friends. We even made jumps to go over with our sleds. I’m definitely glad that we had this time off because I was able to take advantage of homework, as well as enjoy the rare, large amount of snow we got,” Vogus said.

Even though these snow days have caused many problems and delays for both teachers and students, they’ll work together to make-up the work, even if it is pushed back into the third quarter. The school’s consensus is that the snow days and mini break was definitely worth the commotion.