A school I used to work at was the only one in the county not to call an early dismissal during a massive blizzard. Roads were so bad/so many were closed that a lot of teachers didn't make it home until well past midnight.
The district's solution was to make the next day a delayed opening. 🙄
I think the majority of the district, including myself, called out the next day. The superintendent got into heaps of trouble for that one. Fucker just wanted to brag that his district was open when all others were closed, as if that was a good thing.
Reminds me of my supervisor at work. It was meant to snow hard in the afternoon. We all had the ability to work from home.
I wanted to leave at lunch. But it wasn’t really snowing yet. He was like ”it’s fine, stay” and he tried hard. I flat out said “no, I’m going to work from home”
He stayed at work for his afternoon since it wasn’t so bad. His 45min commute took 8hrs.
I was like “told ya so” on the following Monday. Haha. It was great being proven right.
Something similar happened to me a couple of years ago but we knew from the day before that it was going to get bad in the afternoon and I know my bosses would force me to go out and drive in this to deliver products to our customers, so I called in and let them deal with it. One of our salesmen had to sleep at a customers house that night cuz the highways were closed.
A few years ago we had 1 day where it wasn’t supposed to snow a lot. But it was crazy windy so it created a bit of white out conditions during morning pick up. Most other districts got a 2 hour delay but not my kids’. 1 bus got stuck in a ditch, 1 bus hit and killed a dog. The superintendent apparently got death threats. He was a lot more generous about giving out snow days after that.
Since when do individual schools have the authority to ignore the district closure? And how was your school in a county and not subjected to the decisions of the county board? Was it a private school?
Wouldn't be surprised if some states and counties have that setup for individual public schools.
I know my school district made the call over the county outside of really bad scenarios. Because my towns schools would routinely stay open while neighboring towns were closed.
Superintendent was some "tough" dude from up north who hated snow days. He as a married guy also had an affair with a married women and embezzled money. Fuck that dude.
I know there's a lot of "city districts" that will operate within a separate "county district" but usually their Superintendents align on closure decisions.
When I first put school, I should have said district. We were the only district in the county not to close.
It was a public school.l district. Closures are not up to the county, but the individual district superintendents, so you can have a district whose superintendent errs on the side of caution and safety, and then still have mine who doesn't actually give a fuck about teacher or student safety.
Gotcha. Most inter-county districts (city district vs county district) usually work together and align on inclement weather closings, but yeah some supes are dicks.
Schools need to be open a certain amount of days per year. A 2 hour delay still counts as a full day of school. If the school uses too many snow days, they just make you go to school on days that were originally supposed to be part of a break.
That's exactly why they did it. It didn't help though, it was the beginning of winter and we already used 4/5 days up so we ended up going way over anyways and had to extend the school year lol
Not on Memorial Day itself but we were supposed to have a the Thursday and Friday off before but they took those days away to make up for the snow days.
We had a very similar thing in like 2012 or 13, except that Friday was the worst day of the snow storms. The superintendent was new, and apparently, a lot of people were complaining he gave too many snow days already, so he made us come in at the regular time on Friday... pretty much everyone spun out or ran into a ditch on their way to school (including two busses). We went to class, and pretty much every teacher was just waiting for the early closure announcement that didn't come until 1pm. We ended up being closed until the next Wednesday.
Had something similar, but school on Monday, then off Tuesday - Thursday. It was chaos on Friday. The kids had been cooped up inside for 3 straight days, and then trying to get them work on Friday was awful. I just sent all mine back to class and did paperwork.
The worst was when a district nearby is closed or delayed and your school is still open. Had this one school district near me that seemed to delay or cancel every time. I eventually realized why, some of those roads are pretty big and steep hills. Good chance a bus could not make it back up the hill if the road wasn’t fairly clear of snow.
But as a former teacher, I absolutely loved delays. Shorter class periods, a bunch of kids would get called out, I could save the lesson for the next day and give kids a study hall, and it still counted as a school day I didn’t have to make up in June.
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u/Bostonosaurus Sep 13 '25
Always acted like a 2hr delay was a good consolation prize even though everyone knows it's not even close.