MC students cause snow day by shredding old homework

In a totally predictable turn of events, Mount Carmel students managed to cancel school by shredding homework—because although you might think students relish school, they don't. Work seems like too much for MC students, even more as they enter into the winter holidays with freedom on the horizon.

Students have been anticipating a snow day all year but to no avail. They then figured, why not create your own?

If there’s anything a high school student would wish for it would be a day off from school. Chicago has been hit with heavy snow recently but not enough to save MC Students from another day of school. They had to be creative and pull off their own snow storm to finally sleep in.

But how were the students going to pull it off? Sick and tired of school, they came up with an idea to work like little elves, crafting a plan to give each teacher’s and administrator’s house “a white Christmas”. Scattering in teams across the corners of the MC community, they attacked President Mr. Brendan Conroy first with 100 years of Latin finals and then Principal Mr. Scott Tabernacky second with a few of theology teacher Mrs. Jennifer Davis’s assignments. The elves decided Mrs. Davis’s assignments were long enough to only include a few. Finally they hit Mr. Tim Baffoe’s mansion with the highest intensity blizzard of shredded schoolwork, which he objected to at first but eventually didn't mind because he was sick of his students, too.

“These snow storms had me wondering if time had rewound and we were back in the ’78,” said Mr. Conroy, referencing a mighty Chicago blizzard of yore. “It was the most questionable blizzard, but I couldn’t figure out why my furnace hadn't kicked in while it was happening.”

In 1978 the Midwest and especially Chicago experienced a devastating snowstorm that brought in around 20 inches of snow and left thousands stranded under almost two feet of frozen precipitation, meaning students couldn’t go to school. Snow days are a rare occurrence with an increasingly small chance of one happening as climate change is on a steady rise, so students have always cherished the chance for a snow day.

Students who were not involved in the process felt just as much joy to see that wondrous email reaching their inbox to share the news of a horrible “snow storm.” And those who were part of it hid in the shadows, ensuring they wouldn’t (in the worst case) need to pay Mr. Baffoe a dollar to his classroom Swear Jar or get a write up. As if these nefarious acts didn't amount to enough, the students also decided to play a prank on some teachers by screaming, “Watch Out there’s snow!” Teachers, set by trauma from these paper blizzards would duck and students would laugh their hearts out.

“I could’ve never imagined a better way to etch our class into the history books,” said freshman Yahir Garibo. “Students really stepped up their game here, some working harder than they would’ve done with any type of school work.”

The students behind this act were baffled when they found coal in their stockings after specifically telling Santa that it was all for a good cause. Santa responded saying that school is more important, but Santa’s never experienced high school so he wouldn’t know any better. 

“I think Santa is a hypocrite,” noted sophomore Noah Kendrick, who helped snow in Mr. Baffoe’s home. “He took a day off for our football state championship but is punishing us?”

Still, every student was relieved after their day off, spending the time very wisely sleeping in until noon, playing games, and not studying for tests.

That day there was no sledding, no snowball fights, just confused teachers and elated students.