[SPA THINKS] Why do you like winter?

Jenny Ries, The Rubicon|December 16, 2019

The snow is here, and it doesn’t look like it will be going away any time soon. On this edition of ‘SPA THINKS,’ students were asked why they liked winter. Most students said that they liked winter, but with it comes a significant amount of cons. “I really like winter because there’s snow and I think it’s a statically pleasing and it’s like nice, but then the traffic’s a lot worse, which is annoying because it takes forever to get places. So then, like in the car this morning like I was thinking about how much I like summer. But I like winter,” 9th grader Alexandra Cardwell said.

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