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<blockquote data-quote="muttmeister" data-source="post: 125291" data-attributes="member: 135"><p>I taught school for over 30 years and I never did understand the thinking on snow days. I suppose if you are a city school that is one thing but I live in a rural area and many kids are bussed nearly 20 miles to school. I taught at one school that was very good about cancelling school but at the last school we were often the only school in a several county area having school. I always thought that was stupid. Yes, you are required to be in school a given number of hours or days by state law so usually schools in this area build in a few extra days. If you pass your built in days you have to make them up but it seems to me it would be better to go to school even a couple of extra weeks than to have EVEN ONE student killed because the school didn't call off classes. And if you leave it up to the parents, either the kids insist on going because of all the reasons you mentioned above, or they are penalized for not attending. And even if they are not penalized it is a problem because if the teacher goes ahead with her plans the kids who are not there have missed important things that she will have to go back and recover or else she will have to baby sit for a day and not do the lesson until the rest of the kids are there, thereby wasting the time of the kids who did show up. The parents of the kids who ride the busses pay just as much in taxes as those who don't. How can they justify educating the kids who are able to get to school and say it is just too bad for the ones who can't. I guess you can see, I'm for erring on the side of caution. I don't understand what administrators are thinking who put kids on busses on bad roads and take a chance with their lives!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="muttmeister, post: 125291, member: 135"] I taught school for over 30 years and I never did understand the thinking on snow days. I suppose if you are a city school that is one thing but I live in a rural area and many kids are bussed nearly 20 miles to school. I taught at one school that was very good about cancelling school but at the last school we were often the only school in a several county area having school. I always thought that was stupid. Yes, you are required to be in school a given number of hours or days by state law so usually schools in this area build in a few extra days. If you pass your built in days you have to make them up but it seems to me it would be better to go to school even a couple of extra weeks than to have EVEN ONE student killed because the school didn't call off classes. And if you leave it up to the parents, either the kids insist on going because of all the reasons you mentioned above, or they are penalized for not attending. And even if they are not penalized it is a problem because if the teacher goes ahead with her plans the kids who are not there have missed important things that she will have to go back and recover or else she will have to baby sit for a day and not do the lesson until the rest of the kids are there, thereby wasting the time of the kids who did show up. The parents of the kids who ride the busses pay just as much in taxes as those who don't. How can they justify educating the kids who are able to get to school and say it is just too bad for the ones who can't. I guess you can see, I'm for erring on the side of caution. I don't understand what administrators are thinking who put kids on busses on bad roads and take a chance with their lives! [/QUOTE]
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