MinnieM123
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Glad you arrived safely at home.
trr1
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glad you are safe
And now it's not snowing at all, so it probably would have been safer to just release at the normal time.
NYwdwfan
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That’s the worst. My record is 7 hours for a 45 minute drive without traffic, hour to and hour and fifteen during normal rush hour. It was a fast moving storm and the roads weren’t pretreated. We were literally parked on the LIE sitting on the hoods of our cars talking for about an hour because they closed the road to get the plows on and there was nowhere to go. Ahh, good times.
I'm lucky because in most bad weather, I don't have to leave the house because they cancel school. Small perk to teaching.
Songbird76
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Really? Never? It used to happen a couple of times a year when I was growing up. The weather could change so quickly, and suddenly they'd send all the bus kids home early, because as long as the school was open until 1:00, it counted as a full day of school, so we wouldn't have to make it up. So they'd send the bus kids home and the rest of us had to stay until 1:00. But occassionally, it got so bad that buses couldn't run at all. If it was early enough in the morning, bus kids just wouldn't come to school that day, but if they were already at school and they couldn't get them all home before the storm got bad, the school had volunteers in the town to host kids who couldn't get home. Some kids had an emergency contact in town, like my mom was an emergency contact for 2 little girls from a family she worked for. If the weather got too bad, the school could call her and she'd go pick up those girls and they'd stay with my mom until the storm broke and they could get back home. It was rare that they didn't have enough notice to get the kids home before the storm got too bad, but there were several times a year that the buses just didn't run that day and there were no bus kids at school.
Goofyernmost
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I don't recall very many snow days when I was a kid. We lived outside the city limits but not very far outside. I only remember a snow day or two because of freezing rain. That probably stands out because with freezing rain, a thick crust would form on the top of the snow and we could use our sleds and glide over the top. I don't remember ever having the buses leave the school before the regular end of the scheduled day.
Of course. we were a hardier group due to the fact we lived in caves and were barefoot. Also our school buses were dinosaurs with big baskets strapped to them. When they got to our stop we would slide right down its neck and into the cave. I hated when those buses needed refueling. We lost a lot of parents because of that. By the time I got to high school the district bought some new buses that were much less costly, parent wise!
JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
We didn’t have bus kids in my day, unless you lived out in the country, in which case you were bused to a rural school; or you were coming in from the Six Nations Reservation for high school, as they only had grade schools on the Reserve back then. The Catholic high school also bused, because there was only one in town at the time. Public high school kids walked, no matter the distance.
Also, back in the 70’s and 80’s, grade school kids went home for lunch. Period. An exception was made for my brothers and me for 5 weeks in 1976 (and again in 1979), as both times we were moving into the district in October, but lived in an entirely different city until then. They did not hire a lunch monitor for the three of us. They said - eat here, don’t be fools, and clean up your mess before going outside.
Even during the famous Blizzard of 77, we went to school that day, before being released mid-day. I was in a portable classroom at the time, and the snow was so blinding that the teacher tied every scarf together to make a long rope and we all walked single file into the school holding onto the scarf-rope. If anyone had let go, it truly would have been days before they were found. That is the only time I remember grade school letting out mid-day.
Also, back in the 70’s and 80’s, grade school kids went home for lunch. Period. An exception was made for my brothers and me for 5 weeks in 1976 (and again in 1979), as both times we were moving into the district in October, but lived in an entirely different city until then. They did not hire a lunch monitor for the three of us. They said - eat here, don’t be fools, and clean up your mess before going outside.
Even during the famous Blizzard of 77, we went to school that day, before being released mid-day. I was in a portable classroom at the time, and the snow was so blinding that the teacher tied every scarf together to make a long rope and we all walked single file into the school holding onto the scarf-rope. If anyone had let go, it truly would have been days before they were found. That is the only time I remember grade school letting out mid-day.
Nope, never. Wisconsin schools now count minutes, not days, to meet yearly requirements. So it technically doesn't matter how many days we have in school. We pretty much just need to get through lunches for all kids.
Hypothetically, I'm not sure how we would handle a situation like that. The only time we've kept kids after dismissal in my four years has been when we had a local disturbance involving police and a hostage. It wasn't close to the school, but we didn't want kids walking home. So we had to keep kids until they had a parent to pick them up, if they weren't already going on the bus. I think the last kid I had in my room left around 3:30, which is about 15 minutes after kids normally leave.
Songbird76
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Well sure, but with the 10 feet of snow, uphill both ways, you needed the really tall dinosaurs just so you could be above the snow drifts...what if you slid down their necks and the cave entrance was covered with snow? How did you crawl out?
I remember a LOT of snow days. I remember my mom picking us up from school one day when they closed early. I am pretty sure I was in first grade, and it was a BIG blizzard. Everyone was stuck at home for 3 days. At the end, many people couldn't get out of their houses because snow had drifted up against their doors. You couldn't even see individual cars in the parking lot of the apartments in town....it was just one big bumpy field of white. When mom picked us up, the wind was so strong that it rushed down my throat and I couldn't breathe. Mom had to tell me to put my scarf across my nose and mouth so I could catch my breath.
I also remember once in high school....there was a German exchange student we were friends with, and they had never had a snow day in Germany, so she had never experienced that. When they announced that there was no school, we went and kidnapped her and had a movie day at our house.
And one other time I remember it hit pretty quickly. My brother had been out sledding at the school behind our house. It started snowing harder and my brother headed home and suddenly there was this tiny little dog following him home. It was too nasty to go out and try to find out where the dog belonged, so we got to keep the dog for a few days until things opened up again and we could put up a sign. The dog belonged to a family a couple of doors down, so she probably was headed in the right direction, but followed my brother because she couldn't see much beyond him.
We loved snow days!!!
Songbird76
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Our kids were only bused in if they lived in the country, too, but sometimes the rural schools were further away than the one in town. I went to a rural school for half a year of kindergarten. My brother went in kindergarten and half of first grade. That school closed down just after I was in 4th grade and it had only been grade school anyway, so all the high school kids had been bused into town for years, then the elementary school kids came to town, too. But we only had the one school in our town...our town population was about 1000 at that time. We had one elementary school and one high school, both brand new. The first graduating class was in the 80s. Before that, all the kids in the area had gone to the rural schools or had to be bused to Gillette. My dad was homeschooled for elementary school and then he lived with a family in Gillette during the week when he was in high school in the late 1940s. His ranch was about 30-40 miles away from Gillette and there was no rural school at that time, and the town I grew up in (20 miles away) didn't exist yet.We didn’t have bus kids in my day, unless you lived out in the country, in which case you were bused to a rural school; or you were coming in from the Six Nations Reservation for high school, as they only had grade schools on the Reserve back then. The Catholic high school also bused, because there was only one in town at the time. Public high school kids walked, no matter the distance.
Also, back in the 70’s and 80’s, grade school kids went home for lunch. Period. An exception was made for my brothers and me for 5 weeks in 1976 (and again in 1979), as both times we were moving into the district in October, but lived in an entirely different city until then. They did not hire a lunch monitor for the three of us. They said - eat here, don’t be fools, and clean up your mess before going outside.
Even during the famous Blizzard of 77, we went to school that day, before being released mid-day. I was in a portable classroom at the time, and the snow was so blinding that the teacher tied every scarf together to make a long rope and we all walked single file into the school holding onto the scarf-rope. If anyone had let go, it truly would have been days before they were found. That is the only time I remember grade school letting out mid-day.
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This was our big one:
30th anniversary of the '84 blizzard
Bob Melvin poses for a picture in a snow tunnel he dug to get to his car during the 1984 blizzard in Gillette.
MinnieM123
Premium Member
Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone!
Songbird76
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I can understand that. I was a senior in high school and there was someone with a gun in our neighborhood who was threatening to shoot himself. They were worried about stray bullets and the town sherrif had the school call all the families in the neighborhood to tell them not to come to school until they got the situation handled. We had to stay inside and away from any windows, on the floor, until we got the all clear. I think we were only like 30 minutes late, if that, but it was kind of scary....and that was high school. I can't imagine if I were a little kid!
But just out of curiosity, do the schools have rules about who is allowed to walk home without a parent/guardian? I know we didn't when I was a kid. My parents had separated when I was 5 and we moved into Gillette with a friend and I started kindergarten at the school near her house. The first day, my mom shoved my brother and I out the door to walk to school. We had never lived in town before and didn't know anyone except our next door neighbors, and the 3 girls from the one family were all younger and not in school yet, and on the other side of us lived a family of drug dealers (I didn't know that then.) and my mom didn't want us at their house. So we walked out the door and there was a boy walking, probably high school aged, all dressed in black, and my brother told me that he could see a big knife and that kid was probably looking for little kids to cut up. I ran all the way back to the house where we were staying, and my mom was furious with me because then she had to get dressed and walk with me to school and I was going to be late. When I moved here and had kids of my own, I would NEVER have let them walk to school by themselves at that age, and it was even closer to our house than my school back then. The school was just a block away here, but I just couldn't imagine it. But it was moot because kids up to 2nd grade were required to be brought and picked up by a parent. They weren't released until the parents got there. The teacher would stand at the door and call the kids forward when their parent got there. There were some kids who were released to an older sibling, but they wouldn't let kids just leave on their own. So I'm wondering if that's a European thing to not let kids go alone, or if it's more a 21st century thing because we're more aware of the dangers now.
JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
It’s a 21st century thing.
There are no rules here. Whatever the parent wants their child to do is what happens. My kids all are bus riders or get picked up. One walks, but meets an older sibling at the corner of the school. I think her sibling is in middle school.
trr1
Well-Known Member
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MinnieM123
Premium Member
O.k. I realize you guys all want spring. Yet, I lament the loss of winter today. 
However, I could like spring a little bit more, if we could still have snow, but also have flowers.
Seems like a reasonably compromise, right?
However, I could like spring a little bit more, if we could still have snow, but also have flowers.
Seems like a reasonably compromise, right?
Pass.O.k. I realize you guys all want spring. Yet, I lament the loss of winter today.
However, I could like spring a little bit more, if we could still have snow, but also have flowers.
Seems like a reasonably compromise, right?
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