Rolling across the TV screen. Reminded us of something funny. When my son was a freshman in HS, we had bad weather. I dropped him off on my way to work. We didn't realize it but school had been canceled. He had to get a ride back home with the snow plow driver. LMAO!
My school district of North Kansas City Schools, in KC, MO, hasn't cancelled yet tonight. When I was in school administrtion one of my responsibilities was on stormy nights to look outside of my house at 4 A.M. and check my road condition. If it was bad I contacted the School Superintendent, and 5-6 of us administrators each drove to certain pre-planned schools in my district to observe their road conditions, etc. That meant roads around every school were to be observed, and we had 29 individual schools to inspect. We had to decide if large school busses could safely negotiate those streets safely.
Then we headed back to the District's bus facilities where the Superintendent waited for us to return with our road reports before deciding whether to close the schools. Oftentimes he called superintendents from neighboring school districts to see what they were planning to do.
After all this happening before 5:30 a.m. during snow and ice storms, the Superintendent phoned in his decision to a common media phone site using his "code" numbers for our district. Then...all news media would have access to quick reports of school closings throughout the Metropolitian Kansas City School Area.
Needless to say, whenever there was a possibility of storms, I wasn't too happy about it...because it was gonna be a short night and long next day. All administrators worked that day, regardless of school closings.
So now you know how our school district made the decision on school closings.
The biggest factor for us in school closing decisions was regarding safety of the kids. Was the situation gonna be safe for them? The wind chill factor was definitely considered, too. Some kids normally were on their curbs by 6 a.m. waiting for busses. This could be disasterous for very young kids when temps got too low. Secondly, could our large busses make runs in narrow, hilly side streets in a safe manner. Snow routes usually got cleared...but our busses ran everywhere.
Snow we could plow usually, depending upon how much fell and how fast. We had our own maintenance department snow removal teams...and contracted out some, too. But...when ice storms fell...that was something we couldn't deal with quickly. Mother nature needed to give us some help in that case...and as a result we sometimes had to cancel classes.
Rolling across the TV screen. Reminded us of something funny. When my son was a freshman in HS, we had bad weather. I dropped him off on my way to work. We didn't realize it but school had been canceled. He had to get a ride back home with the snow plow driver. LMAO!
Go ask airport security where the nearest shooting range is...
Oops...my bad...thought you were at the airport!
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Last edited by NRAJOE; 12-11-2007 at 05:26 PM.
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Good stuff Oxford ... for those of us who have never even seen snow <<< or the tools by which it is moved . And for your many years of dedicated service to the community and our youth . THANK YOU!
