[imitchellg5]

My gosh. So last night we had a lot of thunderstorms. There was a tornado warning, but there wasn't any. Then it starts raining. Not really hard (like I'm used to in Seattle), but enough to freak people out. Immediately this morning, two districts cancelled school for the day. The rest (except mine) announced a 2 hour delay. Then they all cancel. Over rain. Apparently it is snowing somewhere, but as I sit here it is raining softly. So now public schools have to go even further into the summer. What the junk? My school let people go if they had parental permission, so I got to go early and went to lunch with a friend. It suprises me that after all the whining all of the teachers and staff at schools are doing about working into their vacation they would still cancel school over rain.

[brassplayersrock²]

like you said, it's snowing in some spot(s). my school canceled once due to snow, no snow that entire morning, but near the time most of the teachers would have been leaving. it started to blizzard. we got so much snow that afternoon and night that trying to get out would have been a joke. total white out conditions. perhaps they read the way it's supposed to be later and decided to play it safe?

Alex

[Dakarʒ]

I find schools are much more likely to do this when they have left over snow days.

[Jumbonium2007]

Back when I was in school lets think back now.. going on 7 years... Our superintendent would not cancel school no matter what.. even if it was an icestorm or there was 4 feet of snow on the ground.. He said as long as his truck could get out his driveway the buses would run.. In my entire school career they cancelled school twice from grades kdg-12..

[olePigeon]

Originally Posted by Jumbonium2007 

Back when I was in school, we walked uphill... both ways... in 12 feet of snow. We couldn't afford pencils so we had to write our homework out on the back of a shovel with coal left over from the fire.

Fixed.

[RAILhead]

It's all about the Pansification of America™

[andi*pandi]

it could also be the threat of flooding on the roads the buses would go on.

[Mastrap]

Originally Posted by olePigeon 

Fixed.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife.

FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.