Posted on 02/12/2014 8:41:53 PM PST by barmag25
DeBlasio’s stupid school chancellor kept school open so the students ‘can get a hot meal’. Far be it for parents to feed their own kids.
In NYC’s defense, it is not difficult to navigate around during snow. Most students either walk to school or take mass transit (which almost always runs.) It’s the suburbs that are difficult to navigate.
Kaiser Wilhelm has never held a real job. He has a lot in common with Obama. Useless, incompetent, and marxist.
Who cares, the rest of the Country moves on. Not everything revolves around the frackin east coast!
Yeah well this person in NJ is up to 8 inches of snow with one inch of ice on top of it, and counting.
Ya think he is going to ignore the wealthy sections of the city again?
I happen to teach in South Jersey but I would be using one of my 270 accumulated sick days today.
Me too. And sleet, I can hear ice hit the windowpane. I’d rather have snow than ice. I csn drive on snow. Black ice scares me
I’m grateful for the prepping tips, the last ice storm I was stuck in my apt for four days before I could get out.
Just glad my school closed today and I can stay home. I have 4-wheel drive, but not everyone else does. I’m more afraid of someone hitting me then anything else.
Connect drivers might not be as bad as NJ or NY drivers, but they don’t call it the tristate area for nothing. :-)
Connect = Connecticut
Grrrrrr
Once again, as it has become the norm, the more-important NorthEast, (woe is I), is under threat of winter weather, no different than any other winter weather, that I experienced in the first 19 years of my life, or during the timeframe of 1985 to 1994, to include a crazyman shooting his victims on a Long Island commuter train, on the cusp of the 1993 blizzard.
Ho-hum, weather channel, ho-hum.
I think your car kit sounds perfectly reasonable. I don’t have snow to contend with but I have carried an emergency kit in my car my whole life. I haven’t needed it yet but who knows when I might?
Well, here in central Virginia we’ve piled up fifteen inches and it’s still snowing...and we’re not one of New York City’s “surrounding areas.”
Things are moving slowly, but we’re doing okay. When we woke up this morning, up at the road next to the mailbox there was a snow-covered van upended in the ditch. Hope no one was hurt.
Actually it's pretty near perfect. Quick carbs for energy, protein in the peanut butter, and quick & convenient.
When all I hear on all media east coast this & east coast that,nyc everywhere, I get burned out & pray for the ice caps to melt & give the coasts [both of them] the flushing we need as a nation!
I had to take THREE BUSES to get to school this morning. I stepped into a pothole that was disguised by snow and almost went down. By the grace of G-d, I did not sprain or break my ankle. I also had to climb over 2-3' hills of previously frozen snow and ice chunks covered by the new snow and very dangerous, because you could not see what lay beneath the snow. The bus driver on one bus told me that the city had not plowed any of his route. That was obvious. Hardly anyone was on the street. The normally crowded buses were near-empty. Only teachers who had to risk their safety so that some kid can have a hot meal and a few others were on the buses. In one class, TWO kids showed up out of 34. In another class, 5 kids showed up. Two of them slept the whole class and refused to do any work.
Oh yeah, and the brain dead Chancellor added, after the hot meal comment,that "if Macy's was open, the schools could be open." Did I also inform you that the Governor had declared a state of emergency in NY, and that the Commie mayor had told people (except obviously teachers) to stay off the streets and stay home.
I, and all the colleagues I've spoken to, are absolutely furious that we had to risk our safety under these conditions for no educational reason.
So sorry to hear that!
I hope all your students who didn’t come to school won’t starve to death today.
Did the school cafeteria cook ‘the sustainable hot meals’ for the same amount of kids that usually would show up on a regular weather day?
Wonder what they do with that food - since no one is there to eat it...Would be cool to get a total tally of meals served today compared to a ‘regular’ Thursday - to see the percentage difference.
Do you know if the kids that did not go to school today will get a mark on their attendance? There’s going to be a bunch of parents squawking about that if it does.
I don’t know anything about the cafeteria or attendance thereto, since I did not go down to the basement today. A lot of the food ends up in the garbage can or on the floor anyway. Your tax dollars at work.
Attendance was taken, as on any other day. If the student was absent, they were marked absent.
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