Weather Watch 2014 episode 7,302

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And the weather watching begins anew. When the superintendent of schools called with her recorded message on Friday morning, she sounded...terse. We've had four snow days (maybe five?) so far, which is four (maybe five?) days more than she would prefer. It's a thankless job, to be sure. No matter what they do, someone is going to be unhappy and

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In this county, they have a lot of random days off during the school year. It's kind of cool, because it gives the students a break. It's irritating for working parents, of course, but it has already been firmly established that schools do not care about working parents, right? Anyway, I think they use up a lot of their margin that way. As soon as you miss one day, they start taking those random days back.

Today was actually already a regularly scheduled day off. It's cool because someone with brains actually distributes those random days and they try to put them at least on a weekend, and preferably on a three-day weekend so you get longer stretches of mini vacations through the year, which I think is good I think it's the first one that they took back, but now we have to make it up anyway. We've lost three random days, I think, and a friend who is a sub at school says that they've already tacked two days onto the end of the year--this is not official though. Since the last day was originally scheduled at May 23, I'm not too stressed about it yet. (Remember that we start near the beginning of August though!)

I can't imagine having to go to school on the weekends!!

Part of the challenge of our winter is, of course, that no one here is prepared for driving in the snow, and the geography is poor for buses to run on the many, many rural roads. Frankfort is cut in half by a river, and there are cliffs and hills by that river that would be unsafe to traverse with a school bus (in particular) Actually, we looked at a couple of houses that we decided not to pursue for that very reason--you wouldn't be able to leave if it snowed. There was no river in my hometown but it's all hills, so it's the same thing. When we lived in Georgia, we got half an inch of slush once and the whole area panicked, called off school early (so that we got to drive IN it rather than let it melt) and then all the neighborhood kids were out in the streets, trying to make snowballs and snowmen and snow angels. I was the northerner then, looking on in complete and utter disbelief at the wise age of... oh, nine, ten, something like that. ;)