Aprille is the crueleste month - part deux

[annearchy]

1. The snow must go on: We had 5.3 inches of heavy, wet, nasty, slushy snow yesterday, plus another inch last night. Many schools (but not our district) were closed across Wisconsin yesterday; darling daughter asked yesterday a.m. if we could move VERY QUICKLY to another district so she wouldn't have to go to school. LOL I said no. When I picked

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[marie_j_granger]

They send the kids outdoors for recess with that much snow/slush on the ground? They would've made us have an indoor recess when I was in elementary school. But then, we're not as hearty here in the Midwest.

[annearchy]

Oh sure they do. We had 15 inches of snow in late February, and once the kids came back from the snow day, they were all playing in it.

[marie_j_granger]

Oh, well sure, at home. I can remember doing that too. It just surprised me that the school is able to send them out in it. It seemed like it could be a liability and hard to watch/control that many kids in those conditions. *shrugs*

[annearchy]

Oh, it probably is. The school seems more worried about them playing "team sports" like tag and touch football.

[marie_j_granger]

*rolls eyes* Yeah, because you wouldn't want the kids to learn teamwork or anything. (And since when is tag a team sport?) I guess some people might fear the kids'd get hurt but that seems odd.

We've got snow in the forecast for Saturday. Weird spring.

[annearchy]

Yeah, the schools are supposed to have paid playground supervisors from the community (not teachers, due to their contract). But it's hard for them to find enough adults willing to come and watch 500 kids for an hour or so at lunch time.

[marie_j_granger]

Interesting. Our teachers definitely don't have that in their contracts. Is that just your district or state wide? My mom substitutes a lot in elementary classrooms and she usually ends up with recess duty when she does.

[annearchy]

Probably just our school district. Who knows.

[marie_j_granger]

*shrugs* Just curious. So did your kids end up playing in the snow at school?

[annearchy]

I don't know. I've just got the one daughter, and I don't think she played in the snow. Forgot to ask :)) Anyway the snow is about 95% gone now, which is one of the nice things about April, the snow doesn't stick around long.