Thanks to extreme weather conditions across Michigan’s Great Southwest this week, school administrators are getting lots of practice in on ways to break the news that schools will be closed, and they’re getting pretty creative in the process, as the trend takes flight across the nation.
On Sunday, it was the Lakeshore Middle School announcement that garnered a huge audience as Lakeshore Middle School Principal Jonathan Swegles created his school closing rap dubbed “No School Monday” to the Vanilla Ice tune of “Ice Ice Baby.” It was an instant hit, viewed thousands of times. You can click the link below to see it.
Today, Bridgman Public Schools took up the musical genre to tell kids and parents that both tomorrow and Thursday, January 30th and 31st will be snow days. According to Bridgman’s F.C. Reed Middle School Principal John Truesdell, that message was, “so popular in Bridgman (with 2,300+ views in a few hours from a city of give or take 3,000 people), that it actually broke our Google Drive link temporarily, forcing us to post it to YouTube for overflow traffic!”
Superintendent Shane Peters asked Truesdell to share the links and you can see the video at either of these two options:
Google Drive: http://bit.ly/BridgmanSnowDay
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TpSnFNs81w
Featured in the Bridgman video are several members of the Bridgman Public Schools administrative team and Central Office support staff who braved the weather to make it.
Here’s the Lakeshore Middle School video from Sunday night:
https://www.facebook.com/LakeshoreLancersMS/videos/379335389518709/
