CUMMING, Ga. – Students in Georgia’s Forsyth County schools will no longer spend their snow days simply watching cartoons and building snowmen.

Instead, they’ll spend their days home during inclement weather completing assignments online after school officials did away with snow days for next school year.

The move comes after students lost a week last year due to bad weather. District officials had only built two snow days into the school calendar, and were unable to make up the other lost days, Fox reports.

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“It was tough,” parent Ginger Wetz, who supports the online makeup work, told the news site. “My middle schooler who was in fifth grade at the time, it was a really hard year for him so losing a week of school, he felt like he was unprepared when he came back.”

Sally Johnson is a first-grade teacher at Whitlow Elementary School in Cumming. She said she also supports the move as a way of minimizing review work when students return from days off for bad weather.

“It’s hard when you lose those days with the kids and you know you have gaps,” Johnson told Fox. “They forget things, and you go over it all over again. You have to restart the process.”

School officials told the news site students will have five days to complete assignments online when classes are called off. Students who do not have a computer will be provided one, if necessary, they said.

The district budgeted two snow days for the current school year, but plans on eliminating them entirely next school year, CBS reports.

“They will have five days from when they return to complete the assignments, so if they choose to do that after they come in from playing in the snow, they can work on those assignments,” Whitlow Elementary School Principal Jennifer Vanderbunt said.

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The district’s online learning platform, Itslearning, was tested by students and teachers, and was well received, Cumming Patch reports.

The district held training classes for parents on the new software in December, and teachers created practice assignments for students this week, according to the site.

Still, not all parents are thrilled about the move to online learning snow days.

“What about the teacher that is supposed to be instructing the students and helping them with questions and assignments?” Bob questioned in the Cumming Patch comments.

“We are extremely involved parents when it comes to our child’s schoolwork, but it is getting to the point we might as well home school them.”

Students who spoke with the media, however, didn’t seem to mind a little school work when they’re snowed in.

“If you couldn’t learn when you were off then you have a lot of work to catch up on,” fifth grader Samuel Woolery told Fox.

First grader Chris Qin told the news site that completing his assignments online shouldn’t be a problem.

“It’s not that hard for me,” he said.

His classmate, Sean Track, said he’s actually looking forward to it.

“It’s fun because you can learn a lot of stuff,” Track told Fox.