Posted on 01/26/2007 4:58:09 AM PST by Puppage
(Sprague-WTNH) _ The bitter cold weather we're expecting tonight will give some students in Sprague an extended weekend, and students in Bridgeport and Ridgefield an extra hour to get ready for school.
School officials in Sprague have canceled class on Friday. There's only one school in this district. It's the Sayles School at 25 Scotland Road in Baltic, a pre-K through 8th grade school.
According to the Sprague superintendent's office, school was canceled because of the cold wind chill, and officials don't want children standing at the bus stop to be exposed to frost bite.
St. Joseph's school in Baltic is also closed because they use the same buses as the Sprague school system.
Other districts got a jump on delays by announcing their plans Thursday night. In Bridgeport, school officials delayed opening for one hour because of the cold. In Ridgefield, administrators delayed opening for 90 minutes.
Storm Team 8's Geoff Fox expects temperatures to dip into the single digits overnight, with high temperatures reaching only into the mid-teens on Friday.
How are the little darlings to learn of global warming?
Well, it is 2 degrees in Baltic with a windshield of -9. Public schooling is a colossal waste of time; they won't miss anything by playing it safe today.
If this was a rural district, I could *almost* see it. We had this happen once or twice as I grew up, but that was in Virginia where single-digit temps are very rare, plus I lived out in the sticks with a long ride to school.
If you hear of this in the South, it's usually because the pipes froze at the school, or the heat quit working.
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Maybe we can sell the superintendent some beach front property in Arizona??
How is it "playing it safe"? You ever see a frozen body at the bus stop growing up? They're not spending the night, they're waiting for the bus, for Gods sake.
Do we keep precious home when it's 90+ for fear of heat stroke?
It just feeeeeeels good.
Two weeks ago our newly elected Democrat county judge closed the courthouse and sent county employees home 90 minutes early when the temp hit 36 degrees with rain.
Hey, they're ahead of the game. WIth no snow they have "snow days" to burn. They're just using one here, gambling that the snow doesn't all come in February. That part of CT does a lot of gambling.
Sadly, after hearing about the California State Legislature having a moment of silence and then dismissing early for the day in honor of a ficticious character on The West Wing killed by a drunk driver in an episode, your news is all to believeable.
We are rapidly becoming a wimp culture. It's sickening to behold.
I really don't get your outrage. Do kids need to walk uphill both ways in blizzards to pass some sort of crazy initiation so you can give them your stamp of approval?
Frost bite isn't something mothers tell their children about to get them to put a sweater on when Mom is cold. It's a real thing and the body starts protecting the extremities at 5 degrees.
They are only being delayed by an hour; they are still going to the baby sitters so there's no need to worry about their daily dose of indoctrination.
It's called "teachers have weather days built into their contract and we want one about now".
Geez, here in Toronto people are riding bikes in those conditions.
My kids had school one day here in the Detroit area around 1994 when the tempature was -22. That's not factoring a wind chill, it was -22.
The kid's are looking forward to an extra day to go out and play in the snow.
-30 wind chill here. Schools are open.
We in Fargo, ND just laugh and laugh when we read things like this. The schools here send kids outside for recess even when it is below zero.
Outrage? Where do you see outrage? Try another word more befitting
They are only being delayed by an hour
No, the Sprague school system is closed for the day.
Frost bite isn't something mothers tell their children about to get them to put a sweater on when Mom is cold
Ever meet ANYONE who got frostbitten while waiting for the school bus?
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