I see...

Scrabble

Trouble

Candy land?

I feel like there are other references I'm missing

My experience having a mother who was a teacher. I didn't get to stay home sick unless I was at risk of infecting others, and she always got the homework I missed.

I hated it at the time, but she was right.

Hahaha, imagine how terrible this zag game would have to be to make you dread the school closing as much. Most educational games I played were at least kind of fun. I imagine this dad to be a total psychopath, in a good way? Hahaha

I don't think our school was ever canceled, but I got to stay home when I was sick. I never liked telling my parents I was sick because it was met with skepticism, but in the end there was a whole lot of Aladin VHS involved, which in my view was a step up from school.