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[ellyssian]

Attention: Superintendents of Eastern PA Schools

Congratulations!

You have kept the children safe by canceling, delaying, and/or letting school out early because of this fearsome winter storm!

Unfortunately, the children can't enjoy their time off and go out to play in the snow, because, well, there isn't any.

There isn't even any ice!

When it rains, children in PA go home!

However, us homeschoolers don't get to call it a day, and we still have to pay for you to have empty buildings.

Good deal!

Comments

[silme.livejournal.com]

I was laughing a few years back when Philadelphia was hit by 30 inches of snow. My niece and nephews had a whole week off.

At the time, I was teaching in Colorado, where 30 inches didn't guarantee even one snow day. :(

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I understand that...

For some reason, MA can get more snow and still get out of it quicker. Not to mention the "park on the street overnight between November and April and your car will be ticketed and/or towed and/or crushed by a snowplow and you will be billed for the damages to the snowplow" law that exists in many places.

Actually, the last bit about the snowplow isn't part of the law, but I've seen them invoke it once on some poor sap who left their car under four feet of snow. The car was a total loss, and they had to pay to have the plow surface repainted.

[kay-brooke.livejournal.com]

Sounds like some of the county schools where I grew up - we in the city school system used to joke about how the county schools got out for having too many leaves on the road. :D At my school, there would have to be a foot of snow on the ground before they would even consider letting us out.

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

Yeah, a foot of snow is about where our schools were... although they seem to have softened their standards by the time I was in high school.

I'm guessing some of the reason for lowering the threshold has to do with litigation, and the avoidance thereof. Apparently, parents are more likely to sue over a slip and fall than a lack of education.

[arkiewriter.livejournal.com]

*laughs* My area's like that, although I wished they'd predicted our pre-Christmas sleet/ice/snow properly. It took us two hours to get home and that was in the middle of the day. Places without regular snow just don't have the equipment to handle it when it does come.

My boys tried to convince their dad that the snow meant "no school". He just laughed and told them that unless there was a glacier in the hallway between the bathroom and their room, they were having school!

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

I actually snipped a mini-rant on meteorologists and their ability to get paid for being consistently wrong from the original post... =)