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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son is a college professor. He cancelled classes the day before the break.  Nothing at the school shut down. Dorms are open. Cafeteria is open.  It just gives the kids that are traveling more time to prepare.  How exactly is this a big deal? [/quote]

Hi. I'm the OP.  I didn't make it into the enormous deal that some of the other folks did.  The one point is that if you cancel last minute, you don't give the out-of-town kids the opportunity to take advantage.  FYI, at my son's school, meal service closed the day before my son left town.  He left as soon as he would have been able to leave had his classes hadn't been cancelled.

No, when we bought the ticket and he still had class, my son didn't think twice about where his first obligation lay - even though all the rest of the family, including his beloved cousins, were here in the DMV.  Cancelling later wasn't helpful to us because even though it would have been fun to expand the time with his cousins, we couldn't afford a new ticket.  Having his cousins visit - that's a big deal for us.

So he stayed in an empty dorm and did not have access to board. No, not a tragedy, but a disappointment.

Maybe your son's school still feeds the kids who remain (although I question why this would ever come up in a conversation with mom), but not all kids go to that school.  For those of limited means, this is a big deal. If you can't see that, I can't help you.

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