My school district is insane!

[mcctatas]

From their criteria for closing schools"

"Schools will be closed when the air temperature (not the wind chill) is -25° Fahrenheit or colder because of concerns that bus diesel fuel may gel."

No concern for the kids who have to walk to school, just for the frigging diesel fuel? :wtf:

[PaddyBlueEyes]

1. Whiner

Why when i was a kid....I walked *insert your story here*

[mcctatas]

3. Did you just call me a whiner?

a word please sweetie????

:spank:

[PaddyBlueEyes]

5. Yes Dear

You keep spanking me, I wont be able to walk...or get out of bed.. :evilgrin:

[mcctatas]

6. tis all part of some evil plan of yours I think!

[PaddyBlueEyes]

8. hmmmmmmmmmm

me thinks she knows me too well...

[AwakeAtLast]

2. We're on a 2 hr delay tomorrow (thursday)

We have about 5 inches of blowing snow plus temps of -10. We would close if it dipped below -20.

[kwassa]

4. When I was a kid we drank gelled diesel fuel for breakfast.

The kids these days ..... wimps!

[NYC_SKP]

14. Huh, we used to DREAM we could get gelled diesel fuel for breakfast...

...like you whippersnappers and your fancy gelled diesel.

We got our diesel room temperature, if we were lucky.

And we liked it.

[lightningandsnow]

7. The one time in the last 10 years I've had a snow day...

They made us trek all the way to school, which took me a good hour because I take the city bus.

Then, they dismissed us at noon.

I could have saved two bus tickets.

[baldguy]

9. Oh, when I was a lad - Well we had it tough!

We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.

But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.

[MorningGlow]

11. Right!

I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. Luxury!

:P

[ThomCat]

10. That is pretty mercenary.

:(

I hope you're within your right as a parent to keep your kids home if you think it's just too cold and windy to be walking to school.

[mcctatas]

15. My kids are fortunate that I am able to drive them to school

but many other kids aren't. And then my heart breaks for parents who have to be at work and cannot drive their kids and have to think of them walking in -35 wind chill, it is insane :rant:

[PaddyBlueEyes]

16. Keep em home

They will be fine babe...

[Connonym]

13. they canceled school here for tomorrow

Most kids walk to school (no buses) so this weather could be really dangerous for them. Even waiting for a bus could be dangerous. I'm glad they canceled, if I wasn't able to take my kids to and from school in the car I'd keep them home regardless of what the school policy is.

[cynatnite]

17. In Idaho they canceled school once when the wind chill temps got low like that...

your district is nuts.

[struggle4progress]

18. I bet you know lots of people who've made kids and hardly any who've made bus diesel

I know people develop irrational attachments to kids because there's that whole nine-plus months of pregnancy -- and then the babies are cute and have real personality -- and then people form relationships with them and have conversations and such

But the school district is just looking at it rationally: kids are an easily replaced resource -- bus diesel not so much

[Jamastiene]

19. That's capitalism for ya.

Our government cares more about money and business and getting those numbers, I mean kids, ready for the work force so they can get more money to spend. Just think back to Katrina...all we heard about was the billions of dollars lost to businesses...nevermind the lives lost. That's the way they see us... as ###-##-#### and $$$, not as people, as human beings, and that includes kids, sadly.

[quakerboy]

20. Whereas here they close school if we get snow

Any snow, really. Quarter inch'll do.