How dumb can the school system be? Cancel school before hand.......and about 1/8" of snow......lol

They close it here for almost no reason too

Think of all of the future meteorologists missing class.

The old talk about “back in the day” having to walk in a blizzard up hill, both ways, to school seems pretty accurate with what was expected for our trudge to school. Not to mention being blown backwards across ice by the Taku winds in my elementary school days. We lived close enough that there wasn’t a school bus avalible and far enough that it was an adventure to walk.
When my kids were enrolled in public schools the cancellations due to snowfall were getting annoyingly common. Teachers wanted a day on the slopes, I figured….

You guys cancel school for snow? lol

Kids here don't even walk to a bus stop, bus stops in front of the house, if it's cold, or hot, mom bundles them up in the car and drives them down the driveway! God forbid the little darlings have to endure normal conditions.

Yea what really takes the cake is they cancel school but still have the sports activities that night whether it be basketball volleyball. Most of the kids are at the game plus parents and grandparents.its pretty pathetic when sports is more important then learning.

Not here, unless it's a major snowstorm. They might delay school starting by 2 hours if the roads are bad for the school buses.

As do you. https://ca.news.yahoo.com/saskatoon-schools-closed-following-major-131851529.html

Wasn’t this storm supposed to be an ice event?

What does 25cm of snow look like? I bet it’s like 9.84’ish inches.

It takes 18-24” before the shut down our schools here.

Can't speak for everywhere concerning reasons for school closings and delayed starts. But around here anyways, the kids come first. It's a safety issue. Our district is very large with some buses driving more than 50 miles one way from the school to pick kids up. Hundreds of miles of gravel roads that don't get plowed before busses get on them. A significant snowfall and blowing winds make things dangerous for kids waiting at bus stops and busses driving to these stops. Years ago we had a superintendent that tried to "tough things out" and rarely delayed or cancelled school due to weather. One extreme weather day a kid was trying to cross the road to get to his bus and was hit and killed by a car due to white out conditions and icy roads. We are now more cautious. Schools are for the kids. Keep the kids safe.

This exactly. Daughter went to a funeral for a classmate 2 weeks ago. Cruddy roads that hadn't been plowed and the 17 yr old got into the slush and her car got pulled into the path of an oncoming pickup.

Sorry it inconveniences some working parents (me), but does it really matter if they give the kids a few snow days, whether its icy, a miscalculated forecast or an actual storm?

There's plenty to complain about in the world but snow days ain't one of em.

But an 1/8 of a inch snow storm?........

Right, I understand an 1/8'' isn't significant. But see this through a parent's perspective. Would you rather have 12 hours to make a plan for your kid for the following snow day or 1 hour of notice to scramble and make plans, find daycare, and likely have to stay home? I'm assuming that the person that made the call to cancel school the day before was anticipating more snow or worse weather and wanted to give parents more time to plan rather than throw it at them an hour before school was supposed to start. Turns out it was only 1/8' of snow and not what was forecasted. Oh well, at least they played it cautiously and kept kids safety at the forefront.

When school is cancelled, they have online learning here sometimes.

I have a grandchild living here now.He should be in school.We don't do daycare.Whats wrong with seeing what actually happens with the weather?Worked when we were kids.

lol....bad enough now that kids can't add or subtract without a calculater as it is

Many more families with only one parent in the household or both parents working. Years ago there were fewer single parent families or the mother was a home keeper. It makes it much more challenging to plan for families now so it's nicer to have more time to line up a place for the child to go when school's cancelled. As a parent and a home where both my wife and I work full time, we always appreciate a heads up the night before when school is closed rather than rushing to find a place for our three kids to go 30 minutes before we're supposed to be at work.

it is a LL problem

Logistics and litigation the district I live in will often do a 2 hour delay
as an example a snow expected to stop around midnight , the county and city expect to get the roads cleared by 0800 but the first bus pulls out about 05:45 on a normal day

we have one bus company that has 3 schools Grade, Middle and High they are all located with in a half mile of each other and they share the bus so if you are a 1st grader you will be on the same bus as your brother who is a Junior in HS the schools start just minutes apart

like wise they do early release if weather is rolling in and expected around the end of the school day

as a result they get more days and educational hours in a shorter time span , if you serve them lunch it basically counts an a whole day so 2 hours on either end is not a loss of a day.

Where my Daughter teaches 4K-5th grade in the big city , they never do late starts or early releases , MKE public schools is too large of a entity to make all the moving parts work and have parents available to accept the kids
multiple different bus companies and MKE-Metro busses , special education carriers , and busses committed to multiple schools and routes on different time schedules as an example her school starts at 9am , but others start at 7am with others starting at times in between.

Everything takes longer , is harder and requires more logistics in the city.

then there is the Litigious side of things , everyone is looking for a reason to sue

administrators my not even get to make much of a decision , the days of the school district owning the busses is over , everything is a contract with a bus company.
that is a private business moving public school kids

if the weather man says ice and bad roads , then they are going to choose NOT Lawyer bait.