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Posted on 3/18/21 at 5:22 am to Rize
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I feel like y’all have been bitching about this for years now.
To cold schools close
To much rain schools close
To much wind schools close
hurricane hitting within 6 hours landfall schools close
Covid lol fricks your world
You could substitute crawfish prices everywhere you wrote schools close, and be 100% accurate!
Posted on 3/18/21 at 5:27 am to rumproast
It'll be sad when a trailer park full of kids gets wiped out instead of being in a cinderblock and steel building with layers of interior walls.
Posted on 3/18/21 at 5:58 am to slackster
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At least 25 years ago.
I graduated in 00. My little brother in 05. This started being a thing after that.
Honestly I think it has to do with turnover in teaching and a change in philosophy. When I was in high school the principal had been there for 40 years and most of the teachers were 20+ years. Then my senior year the principal retired and they brought in a new administrator that was kinder/gentler. It drove most of the long term teachers to call it quits.
Most teachers my age would rather post about how unfair their job is on Facebook than worry about things like impacting education, so it’s only natural that suddenly they need to cancel school for a thunderstorm because lighting might strike a bus which literally has never happened in 325 years of America.
Posted on 3/18/21 at 6:03 am to Strannix
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It'll be sad when a trailer park full of kids gets wiped out instead of being in a cinderblock and steel building with layers of interior walls.
The teachers are also eager to get out of school early.
Posted on 3/18/21 at 7:51 am to rumproast
About 10 years ago. It’s certainly nothing new.
Posted on 3/18/21 at 8:04 am to rumproast
When kids got stranded at school a few years ago lawsuits drove over precautions.
Posted on 3/18/21 at 8:05 am to go ta hell ole miss
The Enterprise, Alabama tornado changed it. It leveled that school and killed kids.
Posted on 3/18/21 at 8:06 am to rumproast
Yep my boss is off work today because her daughter's school was closed yesterday for impending bad weather today - that looks like it won't even start until around 1 PM.
Posted on 3/18/21 at 8:06 am to go ta hell ole miss
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About 10 years ago. It’s certainly nothing new.
I mean, that’s pretty new.
Posted on 3/18/21 at 9:30 am to rumproast
Because the WW2 generation is almost gone and we have a generation controlling things that doesn’t know how to handle adversity or the thought of something bad maybe happening.
Also injury attorneys caused a lot of this. No common sense is used in tragedy anymore, it’s always someone’s fault and people always want to profit off tragedy. So authorities at schools do all they can to pass on any responsibility to someone else
Also injury attorneys caused a lot of this. No common sense is used in tragedy anymore, it’s always someone’s fault and people always want to profit off tragedy. So authorities at schools do all they can to pass on any responsibility to someone else
Posted on 3/18/21 at 9:45 am to rumproast
UGA was canceled for snow circa 2007 for a storm that never hit.
I remember in middle school they canceled the night before because it was supposed to be cold in the morning. Not snow, just super cold.
So its been thing on for a while.
I remember in middle school they canceled the night before because it was supposed to be cold in the morning. Not snow, just super cold.
So its been thing on for a while.
This post was edited on 3/18/21 at 9:46 am
Posted on 3/18/21 at 9:51 am to slackster
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I would imagine it has something to do with modern modeling. We know about weather events in the future now more than ever. They don’t all pan out, but there is a reasonable risk 3-5 days out now that didn’t exist a generation or two ago. A few days of everyone knowing the weather might be bad will influence schools more than they would have in the 70s, for instance.
I think this, along with the tragedies at schools in Enterprise, AL and Moore, OK are more to blame than anything. When I was a kid, tornado warnings were issued for entire counties, despite most of the county not being in the path of the storm. Modern radar systems can more accurately pinpoint the storms and their path and direct warnings to specific areas in a polygon.
I can say as a parent, I'd much rather my kids be home with me during a tornado outbreak than at school. So I don't mind it one bit, even when the event isn't that bad like yesterday's.
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