OT - Send the Kids to School
If you are in the same boat as me, your kids are home for an eight time since January 1. 8 "snow days" in a little over a month. This is now completely ridiculous. I don't care if there is ice on "back roads." I don't care if frostbite can occur on "exposed skin." I don't care if there are "boil problems." I really don't even care if there is electricity.
Is the standard for closing school "the existence of winter condition somewhere at some point, kind of" now? Is that what we are rolling with?
I here you XM, I need to sit with my family in front of the fire place and read, and read, and read, until everybody falls into a peaceful slumber after a round of "I love yous." I get it. And I do love them. But I have two kids who complained this morning about another snow day. The kids complained about not having school.
Send these kids back to school. Enough already.
/End rant
/Until the next "snow day"
February 7th, 2019 at 12:47 PM ^
Well, it is good advice. There is a bigger disparity between kids who were read to at an early age and kids who weren't than between kids who went to elite private schools and kids who went to failing public schools.
February 7th, 2019 at 12:52 PM ^
I don't live there so I have no clue what the weather is like, but I've enjoyed this thread. We got 11 inches of snow a couple weeks ago and the whole DMV region shut down. Schools are usually closed or delayed at even the hint of a dusting here. Since I don't have kids, it only means there are fewer cars on the road when I drive in.
Earlier this year, 4 kids got hit by a car that jumped onto the sidewalk at their bus stop, but fortunately they all survived. It was sunny and 60 degrees that day.
February 7th, 2019 at 1:12 PM ^
Probably worried about lawsuits now. We hardly ever had snow days. Went in a lot of bad weather. Kids today are pansies.
February 7th, 2019 at 7:41 PM ^
Bingo. Grew up in Muskegon. I lived with lake effect. We would get 12in and still have school. Liability changed the game.
February 7th, 2019 at 7:39 PM ^
Teacher with AAPS here. Our superintendent Dr. Swift is very cautious after a kid was killed walking across the stree at Fuller Rd a couple years ago. This resulted in a new pedestrian rules in Ann Arbor. It also resulted in Dr. Swift being extremely cautious with teen drivers and students walking to school. Secondly, with Huron going IB many students are no longer attending what would be there home school. We have many students who attend school from the opposite side of Washtenaw County. Hence, Dr. swift calling school whenever the roads become slick.
I am am not going to touch the climate change and global warming ignorance on this thread. As someone with a doctorate in physics, y’all need an education in mathematics and science.
February 7th, 2019 at 7:59 PM ^
Wow, there sure are a lot of hot hot takes in this thread. My favorite was definitely back on the first page when someone made the argument that if you’re saying that climate change is bad then you are implying there is a “correct” temp for the earth. Are there real people that obtuse out there? The earth is just a sphere of rocks and atoms held together by gravity. It doesn’t GAF what temp it is, it’ll go on existing independent of the surface temp and weather patterns. It’s just that life as we know it has developed over millenia and is sorta dependent on relatively stable atmospheric conditions. Did you pass any triceratops on the way to work today? Do you know why? It wasn’t equipped to survive a drastic change in the climate. Future generations better be real, real resourceful or they gonna be living like Kevin Costner in Waterworld.