0020.

Reasons why we should not have had to go to school in the last week:

1. Alleged Gunmen on campus.

2. 14 Degree Weather.

3. Because I awoke one dark morning and glanced at my clock, only to see that it was not on. I looked at my cd player and various other things in my room which were not gleaming back at me either. So I flipped the switch on the surge protector, but it did nothing. I looked at my phone: 5:13 AM. The power is out! Maybe we won't have school! I went back to sleep, dreamed sweet dreams that included having a "Fun Day" instead of school (I don't know.). I awoke 2 hours later to the not-so-dulcet tones of my phone alarm only to find that my room was the only room without power. And then I had to go to school.
Seriously? That kind of disappointment should act as a get-out-of-school-free pass.

4. 11 Degree Weather.

5. Everyone ELSE got snow...that's just not fair. I'm all for the promotion of fairness. And also, the kind of disappointment we suffer day after day by the recurrent LACK of snow in teen-degree weather is JUST wrong.

6. Martin Luther King, Jr. deserves more than one day. He revolutionized society.

7. Heath Ledger died. He deserves respect. Really, he does. I mean, I still can't believe he just..doesn't exist anymore. Our student body is experiencing shock over this.

8.Because, really? Who wants to listen to Copyright Law at 8 o'clock in the morning anyways?