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By Ben Weinberg Headmaster
NO one had ever seen the campus like this before!
When the first snowflakes fell on the afternoon of January 8, I figured it was prudent to send staff home before the roads got messy. No one thought we would not be back for more than a week. None of us knew this was just the first flurry in what would be Madrid’s biggest storm in 40 years.
I began my teaching career in Vermont and Maine. In New England, snow days are common. We listened to the local news early on snowy mornings to find out if our District would be delayed or have the day canceled. On stormy afternoons the teachers in our little rural school left together to drive home in a convoy for safety. Snow days were built into
