Banshee media day at Kings Island

I'm not sure our district actually hit the calamity day number needed to make up days.

We had off on President's day. Our week off for spring break is still happening. Looking ahead on the calendar still shows April 18th as a day off online.

If we have days to make up, I suspect our disctrict will tack them on to the end of the year.

The kids in my county have lost so many days that they have exhausted all the make up days. It's reached a point that if there is any more days off, they can't be made up. They still haven't had a full week of school since Christmas vacation.

I think schools need to look up the definition of calamity

I totally agree. Reality is many of the days that schools close, its simply because they can with no consequences. Governors/state legislatures typically waive any excess days so nothing is made up. Sometimes there are make up days if the number of closed days is excessive (no full weeks since Christmas is crazy). My kids have yet to make up any days and they get a lot of snow days pretty much every year.

If you look at who closed because of weather, it was pretty much government agencies. There is no consequence for them closing (other than for people who need their services). Businesses close and they lose business so its pretty rare they close for weather.

Closing school for cold seems crazy to me. And a bad precedent to set as it tends to get cold in the winter in much of the northern US. And as a kid, first thing we did when we got a snow day was go outside in the snow. My kids did the same thing when they were younger.

I feel like the old curmudgeon every time I say "Back in my day, we didn't get this many days off," but it's true: this generation is wussified.

It snowed about three inches last Sunday. Schools were predictably closed on Monday, and I expected maybe a two-hour delayed opening on Tuesday after the roads were essentially cleared by Monday evening. I was wrong. Schools didn't open until Thursday.

That's ridiculous. My son's school has been off around 5 days so far, and most of those were still unnecessary, IMO, as I made it to work just fine.

They've also made them all up already except for one.

What really gets me is that early in the year they had a couple cancellations because of cold... it was only 1 or 2 in the morning, high of under 10. Apparently that's too cold for the kids to be out in the morning. That's all well and good, but later in the year when it was that cold for two weeks straight, & they already had a couple snow cancellations they didn't even get a delay. So what is it, is that dangerous or not?

I am an old curmudgeon and I say "back in my day..."
What we forget when we have a harsh winter like this one is we used to have winters like this all the time. The last 15-20 years we've been spoiled by the warmer part of the cycle, but I'm sure there are some here that remember the winters of the 60's and 70's with tons of snow and cold temps every year. Energy shortages, forced black outs, all that.

My childhood was spent in Cleveland and it seemed like winter lasted from Halloween to Easter. I can count on one hand the number of snow days I remember. Now it seems like schools close at the drop of a hat. I get that kids shouldn't be at the bus stop when it's sub zero, and busses have a hard time navigating untreated roads, but like Mr Vater points out the roads are usually passable by evening if not before. The kids don't have trouble getting to the movies or the mall on those days, right? Plus, snow days are a hardship on working parents who wake up to find out their own work day is jeopardized by having to deal with child care before they can go anywhere themselves.

Then you have cities like Atlanta where they let everyone in the county go home at noon, kids are kept at school overnight, and drivers abandon their cars on the road on account of 1.5 inches. I guess it's all relative.

One thing we can all agree on. C'mon Spring! We're ready.

A little late to the party here, but we're new at this anyway with our oldest in Kindergarten. Louisville, Oh...so technically NE Ohio, but far enough south that we avoid any crazy lake-effect snow stuff.

I think Louisville has closed about 6 times; at least 4 of those times due to the "extreme cold", which really surprised me the first time around. Like others have mentioned, there have now been later times when it was just as cold, but no cancellations...no delays...so is it "safe" or not?

And now we have the "blizzard bag" days, where you simply log on and find a days worth of stuff anyway, so a "day off" is not what it used to be; even in Kindergarten our daughter had a nice batch of stuff to work on at home for the days missed. The best part; any days missed from now on, the kids miss but the teachers must report anyway for an "in-service day". So apparently the apocalypse is not really upon us.

I definitely agree that schools today are quicker to pull the trigger, per se, to close school. My thought has always been that districts today are more scared of lawsuits than ever before, much like amusement parks.

Which explains why you now have to be 6 feet tall and have a valid drivers license to ride Iron Dragon.

Back in my day, people who said "back in my day" sucked.

Yeah I know. Mine too...

I should have mentioned that the WV chemical spill had something to do with the kids missing so many days of school. The really sad thing is that a lot of businesses in the town just north of my home still do not use their water because the smell is still there. Last I heard, the kids in school are still drinking bottled water and washing with hand sanitizer after using the restroom. I just ate a Subway yesterday there and they are still not serving fountain drinks. It's insane.

I am lucky in that the chemical spill just missed my local area. If I would have lived just a few miles north, I would have been on the same water system that was poisoned.

So, I forgot to mention all of that. :p

Oh no. What about your McDonald's? :-)

But seriously, there's a forgotten disaster of monumental proportions there in WV. Between the constant threat of industrial incompetence and botched "all clear" calls from local authorities, the Mountaineers will live in fear of being slowly poisoned for a long time. I can't imagine a situation like that, and I feel bad for you all. It's scary to think the things we all take for granted, like our water and food supply, is so vulnerable.

I live on the other side of the state from the spill, but the whole debacle made me glad I have well water.

But now you have Gordon Gee. He'll know what to do.

I'm gonna try to make it, the name scares me though, maybe they will change it before it opens...lol

Mantis Flight?

My grandfather walked to school, uphill, both ways.

My grandfather was M.C. Escher.

Someone just told me that the registration is now closed. I panicked because I don't remember filling out the registration, but on here I said that I did on January 19, the day this topic was started. So I probably did. Is there going to be some kind of confirmation? I have the hotel reserved and the days requested off of work. Wouldn't it be hilarious if I went through all this trouble and drove the three hours to the park only to find that I am not on the list?

Oh yeah. I have to renew my CosterBuzz membership too. I'll do that in a week when I get paid because the snow and my terrible cold kept me from having a full paycheck this time around.

So, will KI be sending confirmation emails?

LostKause said:

So, will KI be sending confirmation emails?

http://coasterbuzz.com/Forums/Topic/banshee-media-day-at-kings-island/2#901654

The media day link now goes to a 404. I guess that is one way to close registration.