Re: OT-School Closings???

Posted by Pops1532 on February 15, 2014 at 15:23:48 from (98.227.133.60):

In Reply to: OT-School Closings??? posted by Jiles on February 15, 2014 at 08:08:35:

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I didn't read many replies so some of this has probably been mentioned.

Back in the day we didn't miss school because of a bad weather forecast. The weather actually had to be bad. We would often listen to the radio for school closings. Most of the time the decision to cancel wasn't made until the last possible minute. Many jobs have disappeared from my area so lots of folks commute. They need to know as early as possible if they need to make arrangements for their kid's care for the day.

The district where I live was always one of the last two to cancel school for bad weather. A few years back one of their bus drivers, who was a friend of ours, was killed in an accident on her way to work because of weather related conditions. Since then the district is much quicker to cancel school for bad weather. Over the years several kids were involved in fatal accidents because of bad weather. It took the death of a bus driver to wake up the school administration.

Used to be if school was cancelled because of bad weather, those "snow days" would be made up during Easter Vacation, I mean Spring Break since they haven't been allowed to say Easter Vacation for many years. The problem is the teachers don't want to make up snow days during their scheduled break, so they now make them up at the end of the scheduled school year.

About 20-25 years ago there was a big shake up on some of the school boards around here. Previously those positions were generally held by parents, business and community leaders. Now they are often held by retired teachers and they definitely have an agenda. They are the ones that voted in the extra "holidays" and extended the school year. The teachers unions were heavily involved.

Public schools are run by elected school boards. Don't like how they do things? Get involved. Get a group of qualified people to run for seats on the school board.

I keep reading posts on here about how bad schools are today. I certainly don't agree with some of what they teach, or don't teach, but in some ways they are doing a better job than the schools did when I was young.

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