Wait, No School?

[zorg]

I dont want anyone complaining about the cold, ever

Hey, you try living in Massachusetts! At least the bowling balls aren't as heavy...

Like I said, I don't know any famous movie lines...(if you don't know what I'm talking about, just ignore that.)

"ignores"

Actually, care to explain?

[theonlysaneone]

I think the law is something like you can't work in a classroom below 16°C

That is so not fair.

You want not fair? The rules here, are no classrooms ABOVE 45Celsius

Thats erm... *googles*

113 Degrees Farenheit.

And want even more not fair? My old english rooms hit that during the summer, and it takes aaages to pursuade the teacher that we get to leave :/

O_o 113?! Don't people die in that kind of heat?

Why didn't you just run for it? Nobody should have to be forced to stay in a room that hot. If I've got an issue with staying in a room, I walk out.

Yeh probably. And most of the time, we have cool teachers who just take us outside to sit in the shade. (even then, its still about 40degrees so in the hundreds of F).

I dont want anyone complaining about the cold, ever

Wait, don't you guys have air conditioning?

[Rachel]

I think the law is something like you can't work in a classroom below 16°C

That is so not fair.

You want not fair? The rules here, are no classrooms ABOVE 45Celsius

Thats erm... *googles*

113 Degrees Farenheit.

And want even more not fair? My old english rooms hit that during the summer, and it takes aaages to pursuade the teacher that we get to leave :/

O_o 113?! Don't people die in that kind of heat?

Why didn't you just run for it? Nobody should have to be forced to stay in a room that hot. If I've got an issue with staying in a room, I walk out.

Yeh probably. And most of the time, we have cool teachers who just take us outside to sit in the shade. (even then, its still about 40degrees so in the hundreds of F).

I dont want anyone complaining about the cold, ever

Wait, don't you guys have air conditioning?

Not at school he doesnt

[zorg]

I think the law is something like you can't work in a classroom below 16°C

That is so not fair.

You want not fair? The rules here, are no classrooms ABOVE 45Celsius

Thats erm... *googles*

113 Degrees Farenheit.

And want even more not fair? My old english rooms hit that during the summer, and it takes aaages to pursuade the teacher that we get to leave :/

O_o 113?! Don't people die in that kind of heat?

Why didn't you just run for it? Nobody should have to be forced to stay in a room that hot. If I've got an issue with staying in a room, I walk out.

Yeh probably. And most of the time, we have cool teachers who just take us outside to sit in the shade. (even then, its still about 40degrees so in the hundreds of F).

I dont want anyone complaining about the cold, ever

Wait, don't you guys have air conditioning?

Not at school he doesnt

Depends actually, when I first went to school we didn't have aircon in any room that wasn't a computer room.

All the prisons in Western Australia have airconditioning, but not all the schools

Now, most of them do. They had to remove all that lovely asbestos stuff from the roof before the air con guys would go near it, but thats okay most of the time. But we have detachables that aren't even insulated that heat up like a primitive oven which have no aircon, leaving us bioled and finely cooked inside.

Huzzah for our multibilliondollar economy that keeps the rest of this crappy country afloat!

[Anoohilator]

Apparently our school doesn't have A/C cos you can catch something evil from A/C!! But I dunno what that was..

[Christopher]

Apparently our school doesn't have A/C cos you can catch something evil from A/C!! But I dunno what that was..

A...cold! *badumtish*

[ahoteinrun]

It's been -31 C with 60 kmph wind, which equals out to nearly -50, driving snow, and school here, has not been closed.

I don't get snow days. It's snow. You know it happens where you live. Deal with it.

[shapu]

Apparently our school doesn't have A/C cos you can catch something evil from A/C!! But I dunno what that was..

A...cold! *badumtish*

Legionnaire's disease. It's a bacteria that has a nasty habit of killing people.

However, it's so uncommon and has to have so many things go so wrong in an air conditioning system that I don't think it's ever actually hit a school in the history of mankind.

[Christopher]

Apparently our school doesn't have A/C cos you can catch something evil from A/C!! But I dunno what that was..

A...cold! *badumtish*

Legionnaire's disease. It's a bacteria that has a nasty habit of killing people.

However, it's so uncommon and has to have so many things go so wrong in an air conditioning system that I don't think it's ever actually hit a school in the history of mankind.

But it has hit multiple old folks homes in the south of New Zealand via bad air conditioning.

[Drake Redcrest]

I'm quite baffled that people actually get school closed because of snow or because it's "too cold." o_o One morning, my city was the coldest place in the world (there was a news report about it) and we still went to school. You just dress appropriately. We don't even get sent home if there are tornado warnings. And there's no basement at my school.

[Mongrel]

I'm quite baffled that people actually get school closed because of snow or because it's "too cold." o_o One morning, my city was the coldest place in the world (there was a news report about it) and we still went to school.

A few years back, my teacher explained to my class exactly why we get snow days: the school gets money for each student in attendance each day. Any time they expect attendance to be low the cost of running the schools will probably outweigh the money received for student attendance, they close school. People here keep their kids home when we get six flakes of snow, so we get more snow days than we really should.

We don't even get sent home if there are tornado warnings. And there's no basement at my school.

Well, it doesn't really make sense to get sent home for tornado warnings. You don't want kids out there in cars or buses or even walking when the weather's like that.

[pipsqueeek]

I'm quite baffled that people actually get school closed because of snow or because it's "too cold."

I think usually it's because the roads are too dangerous to be driving lots of kids on. Think of the legal disaster that would happen if a bus crashed and a bunch of kids got killed/hurt.

And then there was one time we got the day off because the bus company didn't think it would be cold yet, so they hadn't changed the oil or whatever it was to the stuff they use when it's cold. So the buses wouldn't start. No buses = no school.

2 hour delays are so much better than snow days though. Because you have to make up snow days at the end of the year, and delays you don't.