Another closed school day

This is getting out of hand. Do these schools not know that parents have jobs. My daughter only has a few minute wait at the bus stop.

Just a tad bit selfish…. just sayin…..

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This is getting out of hand. Do these schools not know that parents have jobs. My daughter only has a few minute wait at the bus stop.

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What about he ones that have to wait 15 min or more and don’t have the money for good quality winter gear? Skin can freeze in 5 min.

Tell your kid to toughen up and you end up in the ER.

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What about he ones that have to wait 15 min or more and don’t have the money for good quality winter gear?

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If they run around and play tag or something, they’ll keep warm. What do these kids do on other days?

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Just a tad bit selfish…. just sayin…..

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Wow.

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This is getting out of hand. Do these schools not know that parents have jobs. My daughter only has a few minute wait at the bus stop.

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Comes down to priorities, I suppose.

School or no school you can still make them stand out side. And teach them something to. No need to waste a day in mn.

This is not only about kids that have to wait for the bus, I don’t know about other cities, but in Rochester the busing boundaries are as follows “Non-busing boundaries are 1.25 miles for elementary students, 1.5 miles for middle school students and 2 miles for high school students.” I don’t know about other parents but I sure wouldn’t want my elementary age girls walking 1.5 miles to school in -35 to -45 degree windchills…. Heck I wouldn’t even want them walking the 10 blocks from our house to school, we are lucky and our work schedules allow for us to drop them off and pick them up. I don’t believe that the districts deliberately close school to inconvenience parents.

I just shake my head. Stop and think now….in 1960 my body temperature was at 98.6 when I was considered healthy and I sure as heck didn’t have the kind of clothes that today’s kids have. We had to live OUTSIDE of the city limits to get a bus ride. I walked to school. Today’s kids have the clothing and they have the same body temperature as I did back then. Kids today are far better to tolerate the cold. The problem is that the PARENTS fail to make certain they dress appropriately for school. Go to any middle or high school on any given day in the winter and you’ll find some yak in shorts.

Yes its cold out there. Dress for it and get on with it. Half of these kids will be on sliding hills tomorrow…ain’t too cold for that. Let’s not forget the skis and snowmobiles either. Or ice fishing. If its too cold for school, maybe the kids should have to do volunteer work in nursing homes for the day.

Kids these days should have to do what we did back in the day! Are times really that bad and technology that much more behind than the 70’s? We made it back then and things were not as near as comfortable.

We walked down hill both ways, ate jam sandwiches and it had real jam and did not go bare foot except in the summer.

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What about he ones that have to wait 15 min or more and don’t have the money for good quality winter gear? Skin can freeze in 5 min.

Tell your kid to toughen up and you end up in the ER.

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Solution…. don’t go to the bus stop 15 minutes before the bus gets there… pretty easy solution

If everyone waits until the bus gets there, it delays the bus ever so slightly, and by the time its at the end of the route it may be delayed 15-20 minutes. Now think of the kids who have parents that HAVE to go to work at 7:30 and the kids have to go out the door at that time. They now have to wait an additional 20 minutes because everyone else had the bus wait on their kids.

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This is not only about kids that have to wait for the bus, I don’t know about other cities, but in Rochester the busing boundaries are as follows “Non-busing boundaries are 1.25 miles for elementary students, 1.5 miles for middle school students and 2 miles for high school students.” I don’t know about other parents but I sure wouldn’t want my elementary age girls walking 1.5 miles to school in -35 to -45 degree windchills…. Heck I wouldn’t even want them walking the 10 blocks from our house to school, we are lucky and our work schedules allow for us to drop them off and pick them up. I don’t believe that the districts deliberately close school to inconvenience parents.

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Taking an hour off to give the kids a ride to school is a whole he££ of a lot easier than taking another day off of work. Its cold… we live in Minnesota… life can’t stop for some cold weather…

And what happens when my kids stand at the end of my driveway for 30 minutes waiting for a bus that doesnt show up because it cant make it up our hill? Been there.
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I just shake my head. Stop and think now….in 1960 my body temperature was at 98.6 when I was considered healthy and I sure as heck didn’t have the kind of clothes that today’s kids have. We had to live OUTSIDE of the city limits to get a bus ride. I walked to school. Today’s kids have the clothing and they have the same body temperature as I did
back then. Kids today are far better to tolerate the cold. The problem is that the PARENTS fail to make certain they dress appropriately for school. Go to any middle or high school on any given day in the winter and you’ll find some yak in shorts.

Yes its cold out there. Dress for it and get on with it. Half of these kids will be on sliding hills tomorrow…ain’t too cold for that. Let’s not forget the skis and snowmobiles either. Or ice fishing. If its too cold for school, maybe the kids should have to do volunteer work in nursing homes for the day.

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Pretty amazing how people are ripping on the parents because school is cancelled. It comes down to lawsuits, lawsuits, lawsuits. Years ago McDonalds didn’t have to put “Caution, contents are hot” on a coffee cup. Years ago people would smoke in the teachers lounge or right in the offices. Years ago the fishing technology wasn’t what it was. Maybe we should all put our nice Marcums, vexilars, and cameras away and fish old school. Things change, times have changed. School cancelled or being 2 hours late shouldn’t even be a thread on this website. Sorry, I had to rant.

Chad

Taking an hour off to give the kids a ride to school is a whole he££ of a lot easier than taking another day off of work. Its cold… we live in Minnesota… life can’t stop for some cold weather…

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Life doesn’t stop because of school being cancelled. Does life stop all summer? Life is just different for a day! Life stops when you die.

Chad

Kevin my kids ride the bus and NEVER have they stood at the end of our driveway for 15 minutes…. I understand your “theory” but if the parent is truely worried. Lime I said taking an hour off to drive them to school(if you’re that worried) is way more do-able than a whole day… unpaid…

I can guarantee that our kids will be outside tomorrow sledding and begging to ride the snowmobile

Too many city folk.

Personally yea it’s an inconvenience I work over nights and on those day I get little to no sleep..7 year old twin girls and a 8 year old boy… it takes them about 2 minutes to walk to school. With that being said when it’s that Fricking cold anything can happen and it would kill me to see them our someone else’s kid there in the ER.. I don’t know bout yall but my family safety is first and work and sleep our whatever is a distant second..that’s what pto..vacation time and personal time off is for.

Like the guy said in his post …wait till some poor kid gets frost bite and it’s lawsuit time…

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Just a tad bit selfish…. just sayin…..

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X2, Have a few kids and then feel free to tell us all how it should be

. It’s brutal out there. Your kids may be able to go on the sliding hill at 35 below but not all children have the clothing to do that.Guess the school districts love f ing with parents. It takes a death or accident in someone’s district before everyone starts to see both sides of the decision. Unless you walked to school uphill both ways. Then your just a physical specimen. There kids.

I remember what I had to walk to school in weather worse than this, and it was up hill both ways!

(edit: this is not a response to 85Lund)

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Just a tad bit selfish…. just sayin…..

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Wow.

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X2, Have a few kids and then feel free to tell us all how it should be

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Wouldn’t I be more qualified to speak on the issue than you? Since it was only 10 years ago when I had to walk to school vs 40 for you (just guessing there). I remember how cold it was, I remember getting to school and not being able to feel my toes or fingers under boots and gloves. I also remember kids that had it much, much, worse than I did. Some of them would walk to school in a sweatshirt and old tennis shoes because that’s all they had. Others would take the bus and be standing in the cold for an hour or more because their parents had no choice but to go to work, they were poverty families. The kids would be outside in raggy old cloths and shoes waiting on the bus because their parents had to go to work and didnt have the option to take a personal day. I knew these kids personally, they were some of my best friends. They would come to school pale white from the cold. On days when school was closed they would go to friends houses because the parents still had to work, or there wasn’t going to be food on the table. It is sad thinking about someone being so cold, by no choice of their parents.

These would be sick for a week after that, and the teachers would always call the parents to see if they could give the child a ride home so they didn’t have to suffer through the cold again. We would hear the teachers calling parents on lunch break.

I may not have children, but I remember being one. And I remember the kids who had to suffer in it.

That was what I meant with my comment. Yeah you had to stay home with your child and lose a day’s pay, but that probably saved a kid from suffering in the cold by no choice of him or his family. Duke mentioned his child will be sledding and wanting to ride the snowmobile, great. The kids I know would be at a neighbors house watching TV because their parents still had to work to put food on the table, and couldn’t afford to keep their children warm enough to go snowmobiling or sledding when it was this cold.

“There will always be someone less fortunate than yourself, think of their problem’s and not yours”

Now do you see the selfish part?

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Just a tad bit selfish…. just sayin…..

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Wow.

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X2, Have a few kids and then feel free to tell us all how it should be

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Wouldn’t I be more qualified to speak on the issue than you? Since it was only 10 years ago when I had to walk to school vs 40 for you (just guessing there). I remember how cold it was, I remember getting to school and not being able to feel my toes or fingers under boots and gloves. I also remember kids that had it much, much, worse than I did. Some of them would walk to school in a sweatshirt and old tennis shoes because that’s all they had. Others would take the bus and be standing in the cold for an hour or more because their parents had no choice but to go to work, they were poverty families. The kids would be outside in raggy old cloths and shoes waiting on the bus because their parents had to go to work and didnt have the option to take a personal day. I knew these kids personally, they were some of my best friends. They would come to school pale white from the cold. On days when school was closed they would go to friends houses because the parents still had to work, or there wasn’t going to be food on the table. It is sad thinking about someone being so cold, by no choice of their parents.

These would be sick for a week after that, and the teachers would always call the parents to see if they could give the child a ride home so they didn’t have to suffer through the cold again. We would hear the teachers calling parents on lunch break.

I may not have children, but I remember being one. And I remember the kids who had to suffer in it.

That was what I meant with my comment. Yeah you had to stay home with your child and lose a day’s pay, but that probably saved a kid from suffering in the cold by no choice of him or his family. Duke mentioned his child will be sledding and wanting to ride the snowmobile, great. The kids I know would be at a neighbors house watching TV because their parents still had to work to put food on the table, and couldn’t afford to keep their children warm enough to go snowmobiling or sledding when it was this cold.

“There will always be someone less fortunate than yourself, think of their problem’s and not yours”

Now do you see the selfish part?

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Kevin, you still alive? All your close friends still alive and intact? Let’s face it our kids nowadays, and the younger generations are starting to become a bunch of pussycats. Life is easy, and I guess overall it’s a good thing. Doesn’t mean the older guys can’t bash on all the wussy ness we see nowadays and throw up a bit in our mouths when we see it.

Well, no.. but wasn’t from the cold.

I just hate to see a kid suffer, and that is what they did.. they didnt “just get cold”, they suffered on those cold days. Even if they survive in the end, its still painful for to see. What’s almost worse is the people who don’t realize there are people like that out there, and just say “dress warmer” or “toughen up” or “this is an inconvenience to me”. Just a shame.

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Well, no.. but wasn’t from the cold.

I just hate to see a kid suffer, and that is what they did.. they didnt “just get cold”, they suffered on those cold days. Even if they survive in the end, its still painful for to see. What’s almost worse is the people who don’t realize there are people like that out there, and just say “dress warmer” or “toughen up” or “this is an inconvenience to me”. Just a shame.

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It is a shame, a shame it takes the government to protect our kids. Maybe some kids do need to lose a finger for their parents to realize they need to straighten there crap out. Sounds cold, no pun intended, but c’mon man if you can’t somehow figure out to get your kid to and back from school safe for a few cold days every 10 years then what? But I’m sure it’s the same people who need help paying for housing, food, medical, so yeah let’s call off school bc we all would end up paying for the lost fingers anyways.

Kinda funny how all the old people say the 60s and 70s where way colder when the coldest temps ever recorded in Wisconsin and Minnesota were both in 1996

X2, don’t forget ice skating on the pond or rink with no warming shack, myself and many others hear where your coming from, but times have changed, except the part that the kids are happy and the ones that play outdoors will be doing just that, and the others are happy that there batteries in there electronics will stay charged

Soft…….today’s kids are soft! Get your butt to school. We live in Minnesota for crying out loud.

The districts do this to protect the kids that don’t have the greatest parents. Think about it you had food growing up, warm clothes, and new people that would help out that is not case for some kids.