Last night, the temperature overnight dropped below zero. Not uncommon for this time of year. What is not common, however, is that the temperature will not go back above zero degrees again for sixty hours or so. Right now, for example, it is thirteen degrees below zero, with a wind chill of minus thirty one. MINUS THIRTY ONE! That is cold. I can take cold. But apparently, the teachers and kids can't. Did you know there is a state law that if the wind chill is minus thirty, they have to close the schools? Stacy got the call this morning at 4:45 am that she didn't have to go in today, and another at 6:30 this evening that she didn't have to go in tomorrow either. What are all these kids going to do without these two days of education? Trust me, from personal experience, that nothing constructive can come from two days of no school due to extrem cold. In fact, they will be so bored that they might end up doing something that may come back to haunt them in their adult lives. Perhaps, a group of friends will gather in one of their parents' basement and grab their Dad's video camera and reenact Star Wars with a combination of action figures and bad costumes. You can imagine how embarassing that will be when it comes up later in life. Believe me, no one wants that. I say, get those kids back in school before they do themselves any more emotional damage. This all, of course, is purely hypohetical. Stay warm, everybody.
2 comments:
We had a cold day jr or at year. We actually had to reschedule finals. Do you not remember that??
Sara, if you had read the post carefully, you would have noticed the reference to a cold day or two we had in high school....
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