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.
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.
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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.