Comments | ladyoneill: more on the snow

ladyoneill

more on the snow

Dec 08, 2009 09:31

Oh my god suck it the fuck up people! I just visited the local newspaper site and read the comments on the school closings (or, lack thereof) and my god the whiners! Our kids have to go to school wah wah it's going to snow two to five more inches wah wah if someone gets killed because the school district doesn't want to use a snow day wah wah ( Read more... )

stupid weather, stupid whiny people

Comments 9

snogged December 8 2009, 15:45:07 UTC

Preach it to the choir, sister.

I don't remember people freaking out this much about snow when I was in school and now, it's an epidemic.

nursedarry December 8 2009, 15:57:19 UTC

It's not like students have to WALK anywhere either. Gads, I remember going to LHS in huge drifts of snow. If the buses could get through, we all did. End of story.

ladyoneill December 8 2009, 16:20:23 UTC

No kidding. I'm sure they're afraid of lawsuits if some kid gets a cold or twists and ankle or something, though.

ladyoneill December 8 2009, 16:32:53 UTC

I'm sure threatened lawsuits play a factor. Back in the day no one would have thought to sue if their kid fell down on the way to school.

velvetwhip December 8 2009, 18:03:00 UTC

They close schools for any reason now... Teacher has a hangnail? The whole school closes.

Gabrielle

ladyoneill December 8 2009, 19:16:14 UTC

It's absolutely ridiculous. It's like all of a sudden, after being in existence for over 150 years, the state of Kansas thinks snow is something new and unusual.

velvetwhip December 8 2009, 19:18:17 UTC

It's just as bad in Southern California and they don't even have snow there. Trust me - most kids spend more time out of school than in it no matter where they live.

Gabrielle

multred_a December 8 2009, 20:01:19 UTC

We had to have over 2 feet of snow to cancel in Cleveland. In Buffalo-I think it's 10.

Here in Sharpsville-a dusting. Woosy white folks.

ladyoneill December 8 2009, 20:08:20 UTC

Back in the early 80s my uncle was the superintendent for a small town in southern Indiana (which might as well mean it's in the south) and people were up in arms when he wouldn't cancel school over a dusting of snow but, though he was from southern Indiana, he went to college in Montana and he wasn't going to call off school for stuff that melted as soon as it hit the ground!

So far all we've gotten is rain today. Maybe that'll ice over tonight, but that's long after school would be out. I would hope that all the people whining on the paper's comment page would feel stupid about it but I doubt it.