School Cancelled Tomorrow?
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Just ridiculously stupid to cancel the entire day. If they can go to school today when it was 0 out, they can go tomorrow when it is -5.
I'm not happy about it.
I'm not happy about it.
Wind chill was only -15 or so today. There's a difference between today and tomorrow's forecast.
If you put it that way, I totally agree. One more bad day and then it will start to warm up.
I've got a 6 yr old and she should be in school tomorrow. Winds are supposed to be 5-10mph during the day tomorrow, much less than today and it will be a nice sunny day. If anything, delay the start 2 hrs, but to cancel the whole day is just stupid...I'm sorry.
Depends on where you're living I guess. I take it you're living in an urban area?
weather.com has clive at -16 at 7am tomorrow, wind chill of -35. Send your 6year old to stand outside for about 15 minutes to simulate waiting for the bus or walking to school, see how she feels after that.
Still calling for -30 windchill at 10am, so much for 2 hour delay.
Of course everyone complains about how silly it is to cancel school on a frigid cold today and then would turn around and sue the school district if their kid caught the sniffles waiting for the bus.
We may be raising a bunch of pansies, but we are also living with a generation of parents who complain no matter what the school does.
We may be raising a bunch of pansies, but we are also living with a generation of parents who complain no matter what the school does.
Based on the forecasts for tomorrow morning it would only take somewhere around 15ish minutes for frostbite to occur. Kids have to walk to school and wait for the bus, not exactly weather you want kids to be standing outside in. Perhaps it won't affect your little one, but believe it or not, they don't make decisions based on one kid.
Elementary school is not that important. It may be more about the parents having to skip work to watch their kids be safe.
Think about it from this perspective. Would you want your child to receive 8 hours of instruction or 6 hours of instruction? Every time schools delay or get out early the individuals that get hurt the most are the kids. They receive less instruction time!! Even though teachers don't like going to school until June, the kids get much more out of a full day of school.
Schools need to be very cautious tomorrow. Especially in rural Iowa. Some students wait by the road for 10-20 minutes waiting for the bus. With tomorrow's weather, that could be potentially deadly for any student regardless of age.
So I guess parents can be pissed for people making decisions based on the best interest of their kids health and education. Guess you can't do anything to make some parents happy.
Schools need to be very cautious tomorrow. Especially in rural Iowa. Some students wait by the road for 10-20 minutes waiting for the bus. With tomorrow's weather, that could be potentially deadly for any student regardless of age.
So I guess parents can be pissed for people making decisions based on the best interest of their kids health and education. Guess you can't do anything to make some parents happy.
She'd do just fine for 15 min. I'm just not buying the reasoning. I wonder if they cancelled school in International Falls for tomorrow. It is supposed to be -40 there tonight (and that's without windchill factored in).
Me thinks they will have school tomorrow. I wonder about Canada as well. Me thinks they will have school tomorrow.
This is the equivalent of when businesses close and they cancel school in the South for an inch of snow.
looks like they canceled classes in cedar rapids again for tomorrow. They just announced make up days earlier too This one will put them going till 6/10/09 and each one more keeps adding to it.
I bet those kids are loving it now, but man will they be pissed when they are still in school half way through june.
I bet those kids are loving it now, but man will they be pissed when they are still in school half way through june.
Methinks school districts in Iowa don't have the preparations schools in those areas do for this kind of cold. I could be wrong though.
Here in St. Louis, some schools are also canceling classes tomorrow. The high is supposed to be 12 with a windchill of -10. I wonder how many days off that would be in central Iowa if they followed that criteria.
