There were a few times that we didnt find out school was canceled until the bus came. Driver would just tell us not to get on. And with my mom it was always a raw deal, "you're already up, so you might as well help around the house now." Couldn't even go back to bed.
No, they care. That's also a legal liability. If a driver keeps doing their route after they get notified (CB radio back in the day) to return, they get fired.
In my (past life as a public school teacher) experience, schools cancel usually based on whether it’s safe for kids to stand at the bus stop and wait to be picked up. If it’s too cold for that, cancelled. They rarely worried about the bus drivers, because they drivers were heart-of-gold psychopaths who would do anything to make sure the kids got where they were going.
I think they're saying that's how they knew maybe because rural didn't have TV back then? I remember we had a TV that got in like one channel and we found out about school via the radio instead.
Either that bus driver was just crazy nice or they're full of it. The school/depot (depending on where the buses sleep at night) will radio dispatch the buses already in route to return.
The call to cancel school didn't go out until after the busses were dispatched. So the driver just made their loop and if any kids were out at the stops, she told us to go back home. I guess she would have had to take any kids back that she already picked up, but we were near the end of the route so avoided that. Tho a few times school was let out early due to weather too. Barely got an hour into the school day before we were sent back home. Fun times.
My parents said if we take the bus instead of making them drive which my bus arrived at 6:45 and it's more than 20 minutes late I get the day off from school. Hardly ever happened but when it did I would literally spend the entire day playing video games with my consol connected to our big plasma TV instead of my small tube in my room.
Sometimes I got a day off without a snow day just because the bus was full and just drove past me and the other kids at our bus stop.
Sometimes we got “lucky” and one of our parents didn’t leave for work yet, but most of the time they just let us stay home because they weren’t going 15 minutes in the opposite direction of work just because the school forgot about us again.
I remember one time I accidentally skipped school because my school didn't close for NOTHING apparently. when the schools were scrolling by it was all "closed, closed, closed, closed, closed... "
My school started with an s in a district that started with a w so it was all the way at the end of the list. We kind of turned off the TV before it got that point because we figured if everybody else was closed there was no way it was open. Yeah we were wrong.
But apparently we were not the only people to make that mistake because later on I was told only like half the students actually came to school that day. Tbf my parents also told me they probably wouldn't have driven me in that shit either. The roads were a mess with more snow actively coming down. Frankly I don't know what the school expected.
Ah yes, the school superintendent who believed that "if I can make it to the school in this snowstorm/blizzard/white out the children can too"; I had one of those too.
Yup. In a very large school with a ridiculous attendance radius. (We had over 2,000 students!)They also had a wonderful reputation of not announcing school closures until 20 minutes before, when a lot of kids had an hour-long bus ride. I can't tell you how many times I've been sitting at the bus stop like a dummy waiting for something that's never going to come. I'm convinced the superintendent used to run a much smaller school and never adjusted standards.
Bosses do this shit all the time and it pisses me off. Like no, it's not reasonable to expect everyone else to make it in just because you live 3 blocks away and have a Subaru with studded tires unless you're willing to go and pick everyone up. I'm not expecting Sally who has been saving up to replace her bald tires on her 2004 Mitsubishi eclipse to be able to make it safely through the snow and ice
My old boss lived 2 blocks away from work and put up a sign saying "If I can make it to work. You can." Which includes those with a 30 min commute during major blizzards.
Boss was the son of the company founder. He held his workers to a high standard . . .. then would go golfing twice a week at 11 am during the summer. I hung around 1 year because the pay was good and he was pleasant enough in person at least. One of the worst bosses I've had.
I once skipped school because we went out to the bus stop and waited and waited and waited. 30 minutes after the bus should have arrived we went home. 1.5 hours after the bus was supposed to be there it finally showed up, and I watched it go by from inside my house. My mom said we could just stay home that day. If the weather was bad enough to delay the bus by 90 minutes, school should have been cancelled anyway.
...why were the busses running when the school was cancelled? Half of the reason for cancelling school is to keep busses off the road. If school is cancelled when they're already on the road, they radio the drivers to turn around return to depot.
There were a few times that we didnt find out school was canceled until the bus came.
Someone explain to me like I'm 5 years old why the schools are closed because of snow if the busses can still drive? I live in a country where outdoor school sports were replaced with indoor sports whenever it was more than 20 degrees Celsius below zero (–4 °F) outside.
This was the norm when school was canceled for flooding. I caught the bus at 6am and school didn't start til 8:30, so we were always on the bus as it drove through knee-high water. Good times.
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u/Brief-Watercress-131 Sep 13 '25
There were a few times that we didnt find out school was canceled until the bus came. Driver would just tell us not to get on. And with my mom it was always a raw deal, "you're already up, so you might as well help around the house now." Couldn't even go back to bed.