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@ChemGal -- schools have to be closed when there is no power. I am not sure what part of that activity is "ridiculous".
I have a friend who lost a few trees at her property due to the crazy wind that accompanied this big storm. I am guessing there are outages all over. In addition, ice is treacherous for buses.
 
Pinga said:
@ChemGal -- schools have to be closed when there is no power. I am not sure what part of that activity is "ridiculous".
I have a friend who lost a few trees at her property due to the crazy wind that accompanied this big storm. I am guessing there are outages all over. In addition, ice is treacherous for buses.
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I was agreeing that closing down when there is no power makes sense. Cancelling buses at times makes sense. Shutting the school down because of snow is what I disagree with.
 
ChemGal said:
Shutting the school down because of snow is what I disagree with.
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If you're pulling the buses because the roads are considered unsafe, why would you expect teachers to brave those exact same roads to get to work?

Around here, you rarely get schools within the city of London being closed for weather but out in Middlesex and Oxford counties, which are in the same board, snow days are fairly common. Ditto buses. The area is divided into zones, and the "Red Zone" (the rural areas) is where the buses usually get pulled. The City Zone in London rarely gets buses cancelled.
 
Mendalla said:
If you're pulling the buses because the roads are considered unsafe, why would you expect teachers to brave those exact same roads to get to work?

Around here, you rarely get schools within the city of London being closed for weather but out in Middlesex and Oxford counties, which are in the same board, snow days are fairly common. Ditto buses. The area is divided into zones, and the "Red Zone" (the rural areas) is where the buses usually get pulled. The City Zone in London rarely gets buses cancelled.
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If it's to the point where people are being told to stay home that's one thing. That doesn't happen every first snow fall of the year though.
Buses are pulled because they can break down/have major delays and kids are out in the cold without anyone realizing it until a great deal of time has passed - teachers should be able to go home and supervise themselves if public transportation is down, they aren't locked out of a house the way many children would be.
 
Hmm, Chemgal, in our area, school buses are pulled from the road when there are white out conditions or snow covered roads which are dangerous to drive on. In many of our rural areas, most of the kids are bused. In addition, most of the teachers drive to school. Given the probability of few students, and few teachers, the schools are generally closed and is is a snowday. Maybe the conditions are different where you are from?
 
Good morning - it promises to be a beautiful day here. The waining moon is overhead. The sky in the east south-east is a bright pink as the sun prepares to rise over the trees behind my friends' house. Coffee is started, and I've got whole wheat bread beside the toaster. Plain yogurt and gooseberry jam.
Thinking of Crazyheart.
 
Sloe'd own and live quietly ... tell nothing of virtue or the despots will get cha ...

The there were the stories of the grandparents going to school in six feet of snow uphill all the way there and back ... must be gospel because of the old folk traditions ... Sisyphus (Real dissonance from the crown)!

Toast that Jam ... quirky logic between friends as a tight spot ... in a world seemingly dedicated to hating information on anything or everything ... amounts to a field of beings ...
 
"buses are cancelled but schools are open" - common announcement in my area. When a school board 'closes' school - then there is impact on its funding as a day of instruction is lost. At least that was the way when my partner was teaching. So yes, staff were expected to make their way through the weather, to usually catch up on coffee drinking & desk work - very few students would show up, even in schools where bused students were not in the majority. We were walking distance to school - so usually I would still send my kids - much to their dismay!
 
we lived a half a block from the school when the boys were in junior public and two and a half short blocks from highschool.
Boys rarely had a snow day though I do remember the boiler being broken and them getting time off.
 
In all my years of living here I think there has been one day when the schools were closed. The decision was announced long after staff had set out to try to get there (if that was their choice). Some tried, one would probably have died if a snowmobiler hadn't seen his tracks on the road and wondered what fool was trying to drive in this weather! My partner declared a home day as no one was going anywhere until the plough had come round. The few staff members who made it to the schools had no students and were plenty annoyed about having to stay there.
 
Snow days- you won’t see a teacher in school. janitors- I am not sure. Teacher is the perfect job for single parents who won’t need babysitters for those days off.
 
Birthday wishes to Seeler (even though Pinga seems to have seen the sign without the final letter of her name). There are now big questions for us to ponder.
Who decorated the room?
Who stole the final letter from the sign?
Is it really Seeler's birthday if her name is missing a letter?
Will someone offer free delivery of slices of cake (hopefully covered in lots of chocolate icing)?
 
KayTheCurler said:
Birthday wishes to Seeler (even though Pinga seems to have seen the sign without the final letter of her name). There are now big questions for us to ponder.
Who decorated the room?
Who stole the final letter from the sign?
Is it really Seeler's birthday if her name is missing a letter?
Will someone offer free delivery of slices of cake (hopefully covered in lots of chocolate icing)?
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oops, re the r. I spotted the cake. I am easily distracted by cake.
 
R lad .. heis gone ... hung in the lurch of the forbidden tree ... Tom Douely sacrificed for things done at a high point ...

All downhill from there? Not necessarily ...
 
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