Today in the Halifax Regional Municipality schools are closed. Why? I have no fucking idea. I woke up at 7:30Am to a clear blue sky and a lot of wind. Not hurricane winds, just strong winds. I also woke up to hear that on this bright sunny day schools are closed. Why? It WAS snowing in the wee hours of the morning in parts of Nova Scotia. We MIGHT get a snowstorm today. What the hell?!?!?
Not to play the role of SNL's Grumpy Old Man but this is insane. When I was in Elementary School we walked to school in blizzards, and school wasn't a 10 minute walk from home. It was more like a 20-30 minute walk on our stubby little legs. When I was in Middle School I had to take a bus and it showed up even in blizzards. In High School the walk was only 10 minutes or so but it had to be HORRIBLE out for school to be canceled. When I was in University they never closed you were supposed to use your own judgement. If you thought it was too bad you didn't go. Now if there is a HINT of a storm they close the schools.
Mind you a lot of the fault lies with parents who get their panties in a bunch if little Johnny has to walk in the snow. God forbid they dress their kids for the weather and even help them on the way. Maybe it is because they weren't molly coddled that much as a child so they do it to their child. Parents don't have to use their own judgement and can foist all the blame on the schools for days like today.
I understand closing the schools when it is storming. It isn't safe on the roads for the buses, or for those walking. Considering the crappy job HRM does on the paths kids use to get to school here I would be worried too. But to cancel school because there MIGHT be a storm is a tad silly. Your child might be hit by a meteor falling from the sky. You'd better get a cast iron roof and do home schooling.
Our parents were right. The next generation are pussies. But they had a hand in making them that way.
I agree completely. I can not remember one single snow day in all the time I was growing up. And we never lived close to the schools I went to. It was always about a mile to walk, and I always had to make it, rain, shine, or blizzard.
ReplyDeleteOne house we lived in was three houses away from the dividing line for a free bus pass. Did we get a break?
NO!
Another house we lived in was outside the city limits, and we were bussed to a small town. That bus made the trip in all kinds of conditions, and nobody seemed to worry about it skidding off the highway and over a cliff.
Nothing ever exciting like that happened.
Sigh.
Mind you, kids then were just as stupid as they are now. You'd always see the few who were too cool to dress properly in a parka or snow boots.
Mooks.
Now if there is a threat of snow the cancel school. In the last 2 weeks there were 4 snow days. 2 of them were bright sunny days.
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