And Boston cancels ... street sweeping - and now school

By adamg on Mon, 03/18/2013 - 8:24pm

UPDATE, 8:42 p.m.: Our phone rang and the kidlet picked it up. As soon as she began jumping and yelling, I knew: School is canceled in Boston tomorrow. Barring any more snow days, this means Boston Public Schools will get out for the year on June 28. All Boston Centers for Youth and Families sites will be open tomorrow, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Somerville announced this afternoon it's cancelled school, but America's Toughest City says school is still on. Parents who do get their kids to school will no doubt get really, really annoyed if they get robo-calls at noon again that absent kids won't be marked absent.

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Comments

Doesn't street sweeping begin

By datadyne007 on Mon, 03/18/2013 - 8:32pm.

Doesn't street sweeping begin on April 1, anyways?

Pilot program

By adamg on Mon, 03/18/2013 - 8:33pm.

In, I think, the North End and South End.

Snow Day just got the call

By Mayhem on Mon, 03/18/2013 - 8:45pm.

Snow Day just got the call

Early downtown

By johnmcboston on Tue, 03/19/2013 - 7:39am.

In downtown neighborhoods, it now begins on March 1st, and continues to December 31st, weather permitting of course.

bostonpublicschools.org says

By ZedThou on Mon, 03/18/2013 - 8:45pm.

bostonpublicschools.org says there's no school tomorrow, and the final school day is June 28.

Robocall

By eeka on Mon, 03/18/2013 - 9:05pm.

was the first she heard of it?

Does she not get the text alerts? They show up faster.

Today

By Jess on Mon, 03/18/2013 - 9:11pm.

The robocall came before the text.

Wow, could you be more

By Cripes on Mon, 03/18/2013 - 9:30pm.

Wow, could you be more condescending about someone's kid?

Cripes

Not meant as a dig

By eeka on Mon, 03/18/2013 - 10:18pm.

Just surprised she wouldn't be all over the snow alerts and signed up for them in every way possible.

My text showed up before robocall. The messenger on a horse beat them all.

You know those stereotypes about teen girls and phones?

By adamg on Mon, 03/18/2013 - 10:36pm.

Let's just say she's not in that demographic. In fact, as I type, none of us can figure out where her phone is, except that it might be somewhere in the house (turned off, natch, although by this point the battery'd probably be dead, anyway).

So kids get a week off in February

By Will LaTulippe on Tue, 03/19/2013 - 1:32am.

But have to sit in a classroom all of June? Wow, I really feel badly for Boston school kids. No joke. No wonder this city's schools are so awful...you really think a kid is going to pay attention once it's 75 and sunny outside every day?

Hell, in Vermont, we used to ask the teacher if we could have class outside by the time Memorial Day rolled around...and even we were done by June 15.