Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Our road is icy AF, and the plows haven’t done much at all due to the underlying ice. No sidewalks currently available for any of the kids, which means they’d be walking on the road to get anywhere.
See you tomorrow for Thursday predictions.
tell the neighbors to clean, call VDOT AND ASK THEM WHERE THEY ARE AT.... KIDS NEEDS TO BE BACK
Why do kids need to be back? The annual schedule includes extra days for weather cancelations. Let the kids use them.
It doesn't really. The time comes from counting extra minutes for arrival, departure, and in between bells, not days.
I am not in a rush but my kid is as easy going kid who has friends in walking distance or a short drive. He is doing well in school and can stand to miss a few days without it hurting him. It also helps that I have some telework flexibility and my DH now works from home so we don't have to stress about child care plans or be annoyed at losing PTO. And yes, we know snow days are a part of parenting and we made it work when we did not have telework flexibility and losing PTO days was annoying but we did some grumbling.
There are other kids who are more high maintenance at home who are probably driving their parents crazy. There are a lot of kids who need all the time in school in order to retain and learn new material. Missing days of school is legitimately detrimental to those kids. There are kids who thrive on structure and all the time off is problematic for them, they need the structure that comes from school. There are parents who work who took time off during the break and need to get back to work to pay the bills that might be struggling.
I don't understand why people cannot see that their situation is not everyone else's situation and let people be grumpy over something that maybe is not a problem for you. I do get mocking the people from other parts of the country that live with snow and super cold temperatures for 4-6 months. We don't live in those areas and you need to adjust to a different normal. Kids don't get as many chances to play in the snow so snow days are really special for them. Accept the situation with some bewilderment and let it go, we don't live in a Mid West or Northern state.