Daizey 0 #1 January 16, 2004 Today at work I heard a variety of opinions on this topic so i figured I'd see what you guys think. It is currently 13 degrees below 0 Fareignheit here in NY. Its windy and noone wants to be outside...the current wind chill is -46 degrees....if you go outside, you better be dressed warm-but even then your gonna freeze...temperatures aren't any better for tomorrow.... Almost every area school was closed today and will be tomorrow too. They say the wind chills are just too dangerous to be sending kids to school. I agree but others don't. I heard so many people today say "its just a little cold air...bundle them up and they'll be fine" or "they've had enough time off, keep them in school for the day" Another said that it was "ridiculous to deprive children of education just because of a little cold" he said he blelieves the only reason for the closures is because the teachers and superintendents don't want to brave the cold. But like others said-"what about the kids who have to wait for buses outisde their house or at bus stops?" "What about the kids who walk to school?" Some people are saying "well can't the parents just drive them?"...but its not that easy....plus with such cold temperatures its hard to keep anywhere really warm...a bus driver told me today that it takes forever to warm up a school bus-and once it is warmed up theres no way to keep it that warm with the doors opening and closing constantly. So this kids are cold all the way to school and all the way home...plus when they get to school tis not much better. He saidlately all he hears on the way home is kids talking about how cold school was during the day... So what do you think? Is it too cold to send kids to school? Are schools and parents really depriving their kids of education just because if a little cold? Or in these temps should kids be home? *daizey* Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Viking 0 #2 January 16, 2004 i'm not worried about the kids them selves, its the school bus' and the icey roadsI swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver My God has a bigger dick than your god -George Carlin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FliegendeWolf 0 #3 January 16, 2004 Quotei'm not worried about the kids them selves, its the school bus' and the icey roads Yeah...God knows replacing a crashed school bus is expensive. Not to mention repaving pothole-filled roads from the extreme cold. A One that Isn't Cold is Scarcely a One at All Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bobsled92 0 #4 January 16, 2004 yes= home at -30 my contact lens froze in my and my anti-freezing windshield fluid pump craked and I still had to be to class by 10am (you know 3ft snow in 8hrs on top of the 3 ft already there) As a Member of the Bobsled team(and College student up thee, I would never want the locals kids being forced into what I did. 1 run@ 56 sec+exposed skin=frost bite) My 1st driver in Jan. '87 almost lost 1/2 his nose over a practice run. just paper white and no feeling._______________________________ If I could be a Super Hero, I chose to be: "GRANT-A-CLAUS". and work 365 days a Year. http://www.hangout.no/speednews/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gawain 0 #5 January 16, 2004 The "too cold for kids" was simply an excuse for everyone else to have a day off. When I was going to elementary school in Massachusetts or Middle/High school in Connecticut, cold temperatures alone were not enough to close school... When I went to school... So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright 'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life Make light! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndyMan 7 #6 January 16, 2004 Nope. I'm a firm believer that there is no such thing as too cold. There is only such thing as insuficiently dressed. And yes, I've been in far colder weather then youi've got right now. _Am__ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
payback462 0 #7 January 16, 2004 ahhh BS!!! i was outside all day today getting my ass handed to me by my traction kite, and besides a little windburn and hella sore muscles im ready for some more tommorow. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Viking 0 #8 January 16, 2004 QuoteQuotei'm not worried about the kids them selves, its the school bus' and the icey roads Yeah...God knows replacing a crashed school bus is expensive. Not to mention repaving pothole-filled roads from the extreme cold. ya so are hospital bills and lawsuits from the parents after the bus slides off the road and injures a bunch of the kids.....I swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver My God has a bigger dick than your god -George Carlin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChileRelleno 0 #9 January 16, 2004 If the roads aren't too dangerous for the teachers and buses then schools should be open. Now as for all the little darlings that have to walk or wait for the bus, dress them appropriately and shoo their butts out the door. I'm talking about temperature here not foul weather e.g. snow and ice, a blizzard blowing and ect. Extreme adverse weather is a reason, low temperatures are not. ChileRelleno-Rodriguez Bro#414 Hellfish#511,MuffBro#3532,AnvilBro#9, D24868 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hmatousek 0 #10 January 16, 2004 Depends on the kids but bad things happen to the really young and the really old. When the weather is that cold things don't usually operate the way thier sopposed to. If the school bus breaks down (which has happened) you have a dangerous situation happening really fast with all those young kids. Not all kids live a few miles from school, some have a good 45 minute ride home. Many do go to school in that weather but if we don't have to put kids in that danger why should we. I as a teacher much rather get time off during the summer months but when it's that cold, knowing that most of my kids walk to school with no way of getting a ride, I rather have them stay home and be safe. HeatherLife doesn't have to be perfect in order to be beautiful! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sheenster303 0 #11 January 16, 2004 Shooooo........here in Georgia we close down the schools if one flurry hits the ground. We have also closed down schools because of the "possibility" of snow when there wasn't any. Oh how I love Georgia.......I'm so funny I crack my head open! P.M.S. #102 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumpinfarmer 0 #12 January 16, 2004 I don't think they should have to go. I however am a little jellous, when I was in school I never remember having a day off for cold weather. Snow and ice and lack of electric were differant. I remember going one morning in a bad snowstorm, the bus got stuck in a drift and we were there for over an hour before the towns road grader pulled us out. After that they just took us back home for the day. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
newshooter12 0 #13 January 16, 2004 I had to work in it today. So why does everyone else get a day off? It is dangerous though. Even got called out on a story where this woman was frozen stiff. matt Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wingnut 0 #14 January 16, 2004 i remeber when i was in school andwhen it got that cold it would not be because it was to cold for the kids to go to school but because the diesl fule was turning to gell in the bus gas tanks and they wouldn't start that thy cancelled school..... ______________________________________ "i have no reader's digest version" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kingbunky 3 #15 January 16, 2004 my kids (and every other kid in southeast new brunswick) are home for the third straight day due to windchills in the -40C region. blowing and drifting snow on top of that does make it a little dangerous just getting the kids to school. given these conditions, i'm okay with the kids staying home. of course, my kids are old enough to stay home alone, so there's no hassle with finding a sitter like some people do."Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
