|
13487. wonkers2 - 1/22/2005 11:08:40 PM In Michigan they seem to close the schools, calling snow days at the drop of a hat. As far as I'm concerned the schools should be kept open for any teachers and students who can get there. 13488. angel-five - 1/22/2005 11:32:42 PM What, real men catch it, then dehydrate it, then soak it in lye, then smear it with mustard and then eat it? Please.
BTW, still chuckling about your Danes riposte. Too bad Sto isn't about. 13489. arkymalarky - 1/23/2005 12:10:26 AM Wonk,
To attempt to go to school during snow here (which is mostly ice) is deadly. Our roads are unsafe when icy (ask Judith and Keoni how they are under normal conditions) and we're unequipped to make them safe. Safety concerns trump everything, and the assertion that they teach kids anything about absenteeism doesn't fly. Students must attend a set number of days per year, even if they end up going year round. If they get a snow day in February, they make it up in March. Just like when employees take vacation days. Teachers have to work a set number of days, as well, so they make up every day missed from snow or any other reason besides provided sick leave. 13490. arkymalarky - 1/23/2005 12:12:01 AM Back in times before buses there were one-room schoolhouses available for most kids within walking distance. Kids took out to farm or take care of family business regularly and school was not as long then, either. Once they shut down those schools and began busing there was no way they could continue school when roads became treacherous due to weather. 13491. Magoseph - 1/23/2005 12:40:38 AM Now the snowmobilers are crisscrossing the streets from the river to the lake and up the hilltop. Apparently, they are having quite a time of it. I think they have gone to the bars before coming here. I expect the police to be here soon because they come from a neighboring subdivision and some of our residents will not put up with this nonsense too much longer. 13492. wonkers2 - 1/23/2005 12:48:04 AM Well, the schools close regularly here when everything else stays open. In the case of elementary schools all the kids are withing walking distance. The high schools draw from a bigger area and some of the kids are bussed and others walk or drive. I still say that closing the schools due to a little snow conveys the wrong message. 13493. Ronski - 1/23/2005 1:02:59 AM Psych,
Could be of course, but that is the first storm; the second storm, the actual noreaster that will produce the blizzard (wind) conditions, is only starting to form off the Delmarva coast. That one will kick back a lot of new moisture.
Me, I frankly want as much snow as possible. Our local ski areas have been hurting due to little natural snow and sharp fluctuations in temperatures. 13494. Ronski - 1/23/2005 1:03:21 AM (If Marj were around, he'd say something right now.) 13495. arkymalarky - 1/23/2005 1:37:42 AM In AR supts determine whether the schools should stay open or close by driving part of the main bus routes at about 5:00 AM and checking the roads out themselves. It's totally up to them whether or not their particular district has school. 13496. angel-five - 1/23/2005 3:05:33 AM In my district growing up in Ohio there were like three or four people who could call it off. It might have changed, now, but it hadn't as of a few years ago. 13497. wonkers2 - 1/23/2005 3:07:36 AM Between skipping classes and snow days, many of the kids have a rude awakening when they get a job after graduation. 13498. PelleNilsson - 1/23/2005 7:06:21 PM Now, Angel, first we had the ice machine, now we learn about the sushi. Your path will inevitably lead to the eyebrow plucking, the nail manicure, the colour analysis, the exquisite skin treatment and the night crème. You will then have become the flagship and prime symbol of your tribe's ascension from rugged sheep herders to the modern pinnacle of maleness: the metrosexual. 13499. Macnas - 1/24/2005 10:31:55 AM Ah now Pelle, I'm sure it's just a few rough edges being smoothed by Woden, that's all.
I myself, for example, in the years before I was married, never used cutlery, had a deep distrust of shampoo, and was not aware that meat did not have to be still kicking and trying to get away while I was eating it. 13500. Macnas - 1/24/2005 10:33:24 AM And now after many years of re-education, why, I think shampoo is just fine. 13501. alistairconnor - 1/24/2005 11:04:42 AM But that's modern Ireland... from late Neolithic to the seven-euro latté in less than a generation. 13502. Macnas - 1/24/2005 11:48:13 AM Fair point. We should have kept some vestiges of our stoneage past, kind of like the way the NZ'landers held on to some of the more amorous aspects of sheep herding... 13503. Magoseph - 1/24/2005 5:02:49 PM We had a pleasant surprise yesterday, which was totally unexpected. We were faced with over one foot of snow in our front yard that blocked out access to the street. Our regular snowplow man had disappeared and we were concerned because it was just too much snow to tackle with a shovel.
We were watching TV when my husband exclaimed to me, “What’s that tremendous noise outside? It sounds like it’s in our driveway.” At this moment, the phone rang and I found my oldest son on the line. We thought he was in Chicago. He asked me to look outside and, lo and behold, there he was, his snowplow running at full power in the driveway. He had come prematurely to get rid of the two feet that accumulated at his house on Lake Michigan and after taken care of that, he drove the thirty miles to our place to rescue the old folks.
13504. PsychProf - 1/24/2005 5:05:27 PM Mags...a fine act of kindness. 13505. Magoseph - 1/24/2005 5:17:55 PM It was, Prof, because he assumed that our regular snowplow man wouldn’t show up and he knew that we would tell him, as usual, that we are just fine and not to worry about us.
13506. Dubai Vol - 1/24/2005 8:13:32 PM My wife just told me this story, related to her by a co-worker:
In the Sudan, she sent the housemaid to the market to buy a chicken for dinner, told her to pluck it and put it in the refrigerator. Comes home to find a live, naked chicken shivering in the fridge. She forgot to tell the housemaid to kill it!
Ahh, cultural differences....
|
