I's so cold there is no school!

[Sonya]

We got our 2nd snow day for the school year today- it was minus 5 this morning with a wind chill of minus 20. Yea! No school!

I don't know how you people in the northern part of the US and Canada do it, I bet your schools didn't get called and it's colder there!

 

[oldkicker]

Our kids are off today (Central New York State). Not a lot of snow, but very, very cold.....

 

[kinlaw6450]

Wish my kids were off. We walk to school! Ok, I live next door to the school so I really can't justify driving there...

but it would have been so nice to light a fire and stay in this morning!

 

[doxdogy]

I just read on one our news station websites, that four of the surrounding counties have closed the schools for tomorrow.

 

[December99]

DD was very disappointed that our schools weren't closed. The kids at school even were planning their day for today hoping school was going to be closed. It was VERY cold here this morning, around -8 when we woke up with wind chills making it -23.

 

[Beast]

.......school gets cancelled now because it COLD???!!!

Good grief.

It's bad enough when school is cancelled because there's a forecast for potentially bad weather.

I know, I know. It's really, really cold out there. My boss isn't going to give me the day off because it's cold. Or snowy. Or rainy. Or what ever.

So, this teaches our kids what?





Okay, pile on.

 

[Sonya]

The school board is just thinking of all those little kids, and big ones too, that have to walk to school. In our district we have kids who's parents can't take them to school on cold or snowy days and they say at the wind chill we have now you can start getting frostbite in 20 min. We also have families who are not able to afford good winter coats and maybe are too proud to take charity. But that's another thread.

 

[Jenn Lynn]

Lots of schools canceled around here also. With the wind chill advisory you can get frost bite really quickly to any exposed skin. Kids have to stand at the bus stops and some even walk to school.

Temperatures that cold are dangerous.

 

[Beast]

And this is different than say 20, 30 years ago, how?

Did we not know years ago that cold temperatures could be dangerous?

I'm not trying to get everyone ticked off, I just think that so many people are becoming such wusses (ignore the spelling, that's another entire thread too) when life inconveniences them.

And this before the wonderful advantages of (MYTH ALERT!!!) Global Warming.

Yes, I'm ducking the heavy objects being thrown at me!!!

 

[korzmom]

I agree with beast, i think the kids today have it way too easy...besides it was 6 degrees at 6am and at 9am....we had a 2 hr delay...for what? its still 6dgrees and now theyre coming home...so tell me what are we teaching our kids.? my husband went to work at the usual time. thats life, get used to it....i know alot of people would dissagree and say about kids at bus stops and walking to school, but use some common sence and dress accordingly.as for those who dont have alot of $$$, theyre better off at school, atleast its warm there, they could be stuck at home in the freezing house. i just cant wait untill it warms up and we dont have to discuss cold again.

 

[Mskanga]

My kids school closes only if they have water problems due to the cold or the heat does not work, as for weather our school is one of the last ones to close. Our kids went to school today on a -8 making it almost -25 with the windchill factor. We are used to it.

 

[Kermit]

When I was in school (I graduated in 94), my school district made a deal with the gas company. Any time it was extremely cold, we'd close because the demand for gas is so high on those days. In exchange, we got cheaper gas. We still went to school just as many days. They built more bad weather days into the calendar when we started doing that so that we could miss the days and then make them up later. It may not be a perfect system, but anything the schools can do to save money is a good thing.

 

[Beast]

I was working today at a University. It was, at best, -1 this morning. I have NO idea what the chill factor was. Certainly it was even worse. Some doofie guy, dressed in SHORTS AND A T-SHIRT passed by jogging!

There is an indoor track at Bucknell to run on. BUT! There he would have been seen by a much more limited number of people. (okay, I'm being cynical and sarcastic.)

I saw DOZENS of kids walking to classes, dressed slightly warmer, but no coats!

This is not the kind of University that the majority of students are dirt poor.

But it would seem not to bright.
(Not all of them. Relax BethR)

 

[nativetxn]

Our schools are open. Very cold but little snow and ice.

 

[whirlsy]

geez if they closed our schools because it was below zero our poor kids would be doing summer school for sure, we havent even had a snow day yet and we have been belted with snow, freezing weather and high winds, it just happens in the middle of the night and our road commision is so on top of things up here that they have everything plowed out in time for school, they havent even been delayed yet. we get out earlier in the spring if we have extra snow days, but then again we are built tough up here in the north and a little freezing cold never stops us.

 

[Sonya]

I understand what you are saying beast, and I kind of agree, but as we no longer have the same contact with the outdoors as we once had I do think we are loosing our ability to cope with the cold and heat. Kids used to work outside a lot, doing lawn work or shoveling snow. Now you tend to see them inside more. I asked 2 friends, one of which is about 10 years older than me and one who is 25 years older than me. The younger of the 2 was riased in Minnesota and she said she remembered walking to school in -30 degree windchill. But she said it's wasn't that far. My older friend said when it got cold the kids who had to walk in from very far just didn't go to school, while the kids whos walk wasn't far would go ahead and come. So classes were not cancelled, the kids just didn't go.

 

[Rock'n Robin]

It was zero here this morning and a wind chill of about minus 20. The school where I teach had a 2 hour delay but not where I live, which meant I got to sleep an extra hour but my kids got up regular time. Dad drove them to school. I asked one of my students what the delay was about (his mom is the district transportation director) and he said when Toledo had a delay she thought everyone would, but actually only about 5 other schools did.
We have only closed for cold twice that I know of in the last 15 years--once was minus 15, one was minus 20--air temp., not wind chill! You can't keep the buildings warm when it's like that. It was very chilly in the building today (except my room, which is always warm, where I had a window open!), esp. in common areas like lobby, cafeteria, and library.
I know my own kids have indoor recess if the wind chill goes below 20 degrees.
We have used 2 snow days and have 3 left. If we do not use them we do NOT get out early, so I'd rather use them!
Robin M.

 

[Beast]

....I'm inclined to agree. I think that's also why so many people think that summer's are so much hotter. Now days, air conditioning is not considered a luxury any more like it was when I was a kid but more of a necessity. In our cars, our homes, our work places, EVERYWHERE!!! I think that's one of the reasons so many have gotten sucked into believing all this "Global Warming" crap!
The summers really aren't any hotter now than they were 20+ years ago. We just mind it more! But let some goofy scientist claim he's discovered a "crisis" with the environment and people will throw money at it like a fireman will pour water onto a burning house!

***Stepping down off soapbox now***

 

[Sandy51]

We were off today also because of the cold, and so far a 2-hour delay for the morning. Another thing to consider, school systems will not take the liability for bus students. In WV, school transportation calls ALL the shots and many buses cannot make their runs and turn around if there is the slightest bit of snow. They can't take the chance of having kids stand at bus stops waiting for a long time.

We have no snow days built in and today makes the second day we have to make up in June.




Sandy

 

[mickey65]

I can't ever remember them having no school because of the cold weather. It was pretty nipppy here today too, although warmer than yesterday. Today the windchill was only -29C, yesterday was -39C. The kids even went out for a shortened recess.