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My younger sister relayed a funny story to me today. When she was in elementary school, the school bus got stuck in the snow during the morning drive to school. The elementary school was 2 miles from our home, and I'm not exactly sure how far they had gotten before getting stuck. The bus driver instructed all of the kids to get out and walk the rest of the way to school. And you know what? I'm betting that this was OK with every parent and none of them called the school to complain or threaten a lawsuit. Ah, those were the days.
As a child of the early '70's in Pittsburgh, this kind of stuff happened all the time.
I got stiches in my head six different times from playing, fighting, being bullied or whatnot as a kid. Nobody got sued. One time I got pushed down backwards onto brick steps (by a girl, but hey, she was a foot taller than me and mean as hell). Back then "Stuff happened", we rubbed a little dirt on it, went to the ER if necessary, and got back to roughhousing the next day.
Our school busses had chains and sand spreaders on them all winter so we could get to school. True story.
Another former Pittsburgher here who went to school in the 70s and 80s (Swissvale, Manchester, Brighton Heights). I remember getting a few extra days off around Christmas in 76/77 ish when we had several feet of snow and then weeks of temps that turned everything to ice.
Otherwise, unless we had more than a foot of snow, school was always open. On several occasions when we had a daytime storm, my friends and I would walk home (~5 miles) because the buses were so delayed we were told we had to stay at school until at least 5 pm.
We never closed school for rain, wind, thunder, cold, or social unrest.
The worst part was after getting home we had to shovel the parking space for our parents and the steps and sidewalks instead of going sledding.
A district the size of WCPSS is not afraid of being sued. It’s a constant occurrence and they have a large legal budget to take care of it.
We live in a world of extreme “better safe than sorry” especially with kids. Just look what we did to them during Covid.
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