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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No way there will be school on Friday.  The wind chill is forecast to be -11   (11 below zero) at 8:00 a.m.  No way they can expect kids or crossing guards to be out in that.

I'm usually one who says "buy a scarf and wear a hat" -- but 11 below zero is too cold to be out.  That is just not o.k. for kids.  That is blizzard weather even if snow isn't falling.  [/quote]

While I don't disagree, I'm curious what places like Wisconsin and Minnesota do?[/quote]

Growing up, our school system had a policy to close only when it was -33 or more (actual temp, not wind chill).  [/quote]

Yeah, sure. Thanks, and you probably had to walk 19 miles barefoot, right? [/quote]

No, we took the school bus.  It is true and we were in the Continental US.  Sorry you don't understand our country's geography well enough to accept that some areas of it get very cold.[/quote]

No I understand and accept that it gets very cold. What I don't accept is some nonsense that you're stating with certainty that, as a student 20-30-40 years ago, you were so well-acquainted with school closure policies and that yours was a temp of -33 degrees for a school to close. [/quote]

Because we lived on the military base next door.  The base would close before schools, and every single base kid knew what the temp was when the school would be closed.  It isn't rocket science and at those temps our lives depended on either being back on base before it closed or at school.  Sheesh.  Sorry you had such a sheltered life that you cannot believe that others of us had an awareness of our surroundings.[/quote]

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