Hope you made it home safely! Did they cancel school for today then, or was it supposed to clear up?
We don't have Dairy Queen here, (deprived, I know!) but every once in a while, we do a "dessert day" where the kids get to pick out junk food to eat for dinner. Usually it's for something special, like....report card day, though that doesn't work anymore since they are at different schools and have different report card days. But sometimes we do it when we've had a particularly bad day and need a pick-me-up....just something fun...like...ok, today was a complete failure, let's have a party! So I think Blizzards for dinner is a perfectly acceptable concept once in a while.
I'm tempted to ask the name of your administrators.....are you sure you aren't in Campbell County Wyoming? Or maybe wherever my high school principal is now? My speech team in high school once had to cross a mountain pass in a blizzard with a girl with food poisoning because he wouldn't give us permission to stay overnight in a hotel...they closed the road right behind us, it took us several hours to drive what should have only taken 1, and when we got 40 miles from home, they had closed the roads and we had to stay in a hotel there anyway, but he only gave us $40 per room for the hotel and the only thing that had a vacancy was the motel 6....where the heat was out. Meanwhile, the basketball team was closer to home than we were when we started out, had more people, not as bad of weather, and THEY got to stay over....in a nice hotel, too.
When you have a delayed start, do you have to go later in the day, too? Or do the kids just miss their morning classes? I don't ever remember having a delayed start when I was in school....we had early release sometimes when it got bad and kids needed to get home before it hit. But usually it was just an out and out cancellation because we had a lot of bus kids from the ranches who couldn't make it in on the dirt roads. It takes a lot to cancel school in Wyoming, but if they do, they just cancel it, not delay it. Over here they've never canceled school for weather for my kids. DS got out early once in....December, I think? When he was first at the new school, because we got a big snow storm and most of the kids at this school don't live in our town, they are bussed in from other towns, and we don't have school buses. If you live too far away from the school to ride a bike, the city pays for a taxi van...that day, the vans refused to drive after like...1:00, and that meant most kids were picked up by the vans early, so they closed the school for the afternoon and I had to leave work and go pick him up in the snow. But that's the only time one of my kids had a changed schedule. Even a few years ago in July, when it was over 100 degrees for days on end,( no air conditioners in the schools) nearly every school in the whole country altered their schedules, starting up to 2 hours earlier so the kids could go home before the hottest part of the day, or they canceled school or shortened the day....our school told the kids they could have extra water breaks. My DD's teacher took a picture of the thermometer in her classroom....43.3C (109F)...she was on the side where the sun came directly into her classroom. And they didn't cancel school or let the kids out early. One of the dad's was so angry, he went and bought popsicles for his kids' classes. (Have I mentioned I will be SO glad to be done with that school at the end of this school year?)
Here if there’s a delay the kids go to all of their classes but only for about 25 minutes instead of 40. My sarcastic daughter likes to say it’s just enough time for the teachers to take attendance and complain they can’t teach the full lesson in 25 minutes.
For us, at the elementary level, students come 2 hours later, and staff go in an hour and a half later than normal. We just miss our first 2 hours of the day and have to find a way to fit those lessons in somewhere else, whether it's throughout the day or another day. It's a puzzle with the schedule already jam-packed.
Even 40 minutes is shorter than any classes I ever took, but I guess attention spans aren't what - hey, I wonder what's on my FB feed...
