Omaha Public Schools has made the shift back to standard snow days after five years of having remote learning days.  

When online schoolwork became commonplace, OPS, along with many other school districts, made the switch from cancelling classes to going remote in cases of inclement weather. At first it was fully fledged online classes held on Microsoft Teams, then later on they moved to asynchronous lessons. In December of 2025, OPS announced it would no longer have remote learning days due to inclement weather. 

Many students and teachers are glad to see the system go, believing it to be obsolete and a waste of time. Erica Meyer, a world language teacher, shared this sentiment, finding remote learning days and the guidelines attached to be incredibly frustrating.  

Meyer described the rules as absurd. While she wasn’t fully against the idea of students being held accountable for their work on the days when they couldn’t come in, it was the way it was executed that caused her to dislike the system.  

“The rules were, you couldn’t teach anything new, you couldn’t assign anything that was actually graded— it was ridiculous,” Meyer said. 

Fellow teacher, and student support specialist at Central, Jamie Miller, said remote learning days were implemented mostly due to the district wanting to utilize the resources that were now in the hands of students and educators, after the pandemic rise of online schooling.  

“As we returned to in-person learning, we still had access to that,” Miller said. She also expressed a similar opinion to Meyer, believing that the idea was good in theory, but that there were some major holes in practice that couldn’t be overlooked.  

Disappointment with remote learning was felt beyond teachers as well.  Many students, especially those who struggled when school was fully online, were glad to see remote learning days gone.  

Junior Grace Messina said that they were pointless and weren’t as beneficial as the district thought they’d be. 

“Nothing was getting done in the first place, so I’m just glad to see that they’re officially gone,” Messina said.