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Old 01-08-2015, 11:18 AM
 
Location: Chicago - Logan Square
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I suspect if this trend carries on too long there's going to be pushback from parents who have to answer to their employers for missing several days of work because someone has to stay home and look after the whelps who would otherwise be at school.
That's happening already, I've seen plenty of posts on Facebook from parents complaining and have gotten mass emails from my daughter's teacher, principal, and assistant principal apologizing for the closing (they're obviously responding to a wave of complaints). I have a very flexible work schedule, but there are a lot of parents who are scrambling to find daycare. Many of them have low paying service sector jobs and can't afford time off even if they could get it.

Last year the pushback was even greater, since they committed to keeping schools open a few days before the cold weather hit, and then cancelled classes at the last minute (around 6 or 7 the night before).
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Old 01-08-2015, 11:22 AM
 
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That's happening already, I've seen plenty of posts on Facebook from parents complaining and have gotten mass emails from my daughter's teacher, principal, and assistant principal apologizing for the closing (they're obviously responding to a wave of complaints). I have a very flexible work schedule, but there are a lot of parents who are scrambling to find daycare. Many of them have low paying service sector jobs and can't afford time off even if they could get it.
Yeah it can be a real hardship for a lot of families. We are lucky that we can handle it, but lots of complaints at our school as well.
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Old 01-08-2015, 11:42 AM
 
Location: alt reality
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Except that not a single flake has fallen during the last two days the schools have been closed.
Now you know that doesn't even matter. We are talking school districts here. Kids can't even have birthday parties in classrooms anymore because somebody might sue. No way they are gonna risk a negative degree wind chill, notice not even an actual temp for the day. Just the wind chill is enough for them.
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Old 01-08-2015, 11:50 AM
 
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Now you know that doesn't even matter. We are talking school districts here. Kids can't even have birthday parties in classrooms anymore because somebody might sue. No way they are gonna risk a negative degree wind chill, notice not even an actual temp for the day. Just the wind chill is enough for them.
I honestly don't blame the school districts. It's our society in general at fault.
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Old 01-08-2015, 11:54 AM
 
Location: Northern Virginia
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Several years ago they changed how wind chill is calulated. IIRC correctly what used to be -50 is now -30.
That would make sense. After reading the post you're responding to I looked up record temperatures in Michigan, the lowest on record was -51 with wind chill, and that was set in 1934.
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Old 01-08-2015, 12:46 PM
 
Location: Oak Park, IL
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Srsly when I went to school there we got mad school days off in Minnesota. Sometimes so many we had to make up school in the summer. This was up north though and I think a lot of it was simply due to visibility on the road. There was a big gate on the highway and if it was snowy and windy the highway patrol would just shut it down.
You certainly don't write like someone who is over 100 years old.

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Old 01-08-2015, 01:21 PM
 
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The Blizzard was in 1978, not 1979. 1979 had a lot of snow, but not so much at one time. I can't find info online about school closings in 1978 though.

Oak Park schools were also closed in the blizzard of 2011

Um, it was 1979. It was January. A person doesn't forget their first behind the wheel experience...

Chicago Blizzard of 1979 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/01/...rst-blizzards/
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Old 01-08-2015, 01:21 PM
 
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You certainly don't write like someone who is over 100 years old.
I don't really know how old I am. I try to keep up with the lingo and styles of the times, though. I also have this painting of an old man who looks a bit like me and always seems older every time I look at it. Kinda weird...
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Old 01-08-2015, 03:41 PM
 
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I don't really know how old I am. I try to keep up with the lingo and styles of the times, though. I also have this painting of an old man who looks a bit like me and always seems older every time I look at it. Kinda weird...
Is it a mirror?
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Old 01-08-2015, 03:48 PM
 
Location: Upstate NY 🇺🇸
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Schools never closed for cold when I was growing up, so why close em today? I had to wait for the bus in -30F weather, seemingly forever, in that kind of cold. I just think its the pussification of America.

Yes, and same here. In many neighborhoods locally, kids don't even wait at bus stops--the drivers drop them off in front of their homes.

We're turning kids into pansies in this country.
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