When winter weather meets the 100th Day of School, time does funny things.
When Wylie ISD students walked back into classrooms after three unexpected snow and ice days, something felt… different. The halls were quieter. Slower. A little creakier. It wasn’t just the cold lingering in the air — it was the students themselves.
It was the 100th Day of School, and across Early Childhood, East Elementary, and West Elementary, our youngest Bulldogs arrived looking like they had aged a full century over the long weekend.
There were canes. Walkers. A surprising number of “my back hurts” comments before 8 a.m. Life Alert necklaces dangled proudly over cardigans. Wrinkles were carefully penciled in. Hair was piled high in curlers or tucked under scarves. Some students complained about the cold “in their bones,” while others shuffled down the hallway muttering about how school buildings were “too drafty these days.”
A few were openly grumpy — not because of the costumes, but because the snow days ended at three. “If we’d gotten one more,” one very convincing first-grader sighed, “I might’ve needed a nap before lunch.”
Classrooms filled with collections of 100 crafts, 100 snacks, and 100-year-old attitudes. Teachers smiled, laughed, and gently reminded their students that recess still required running — even if their “hips” said otherwise.
For one day, Wylie’s youngest learners reminded us that school isn’t just about counting days — it’s about finding joy in them. Even the snowy ones.
After all, it’s great to be a Wylie Bulldog… at any age.
