Erik Reuter wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 08:08:06PM -0600, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
>
> > Did you not have to make up snow days later on in the school year, on
> > a Saturday or some day which would have otherwise been a holiday?
>
> I never had to. I think if there were more than X snowdays ( I can't
> remember what X is) then we would have to make it up. But we never
> exceeded X.
As soon as I was aware of it, I was aware of X being equal to 5. Sometimes
we'd use more than the 5, and have to have a few extra days tacked on to the
end. Sometimes we'd only use 3, and the school year would end a couple of
days earlier than it otherwise would have.
I think the winter of '77-'78 we ended up having to go farther into June.
The most interesting incident regarding school closures was the time in the
winter of '82-'83 when most of New England, for more than a 100-mile radius
of my town, shut down for the day, and right smack dab in the middle of it,
the superintendent decided *not* to close school. The absentee rate that
day was around 40%. My best friend's mother wouldn't let her come to
school. My mom made us go, but sometime later, she said that if she'd had
it to do over again, she would have kept us home.
The next winter, there was a storm predicted to hit in the late evening, and
the afternoon of that day, we got an announcement on the PA of what the
students that went to the next town over for vocational classes ought to do
if that school were closed down due to "a little weather". At the end of
the announcement, the guy right behind me said, "What everyone else calls a
blizzard, Hollis calls 'a little weather'". School *was* closed the next
day for us -- apparently, the weather was severe enough that the
superintendent was forced to come to his senses on that one. :)
Julia
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