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BPS closes schools for tomorrow
By adamg on Thu, 02/03/2022 - 3:41pm
Too much snain, sleet, snow to make the trip to and from school safe, BPS says.
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Gee
Too bad they can't learn remotely.
Thanks, Charlie!
Oh stop it.
You can’t have one off remote learning days. It’s not feasible to roll that out and BPS would be completely incapable of doing so. It’s not the republican boogeyman’s fault here.
Oh, Really?
It requires planning*, mostly to make sure that a) your teachers have their school-issued chromebook and a 'net connection and b) that your students have their tablet/chromebook and 'net connection as well. These are probably the sticking point for Boston.
Two years into the pandemic, this is no longer rocket surgery.
* My kid's class [not in Boston] has had to do this. It's a PITA, but absolutely doable.
Do you know the percentage of BPS
Students who never logged on during the pandemic? Do you know how many have internet access?
It’s not feasible to do one off remote learning days at BPS. And it sure as shit isn’t the governor’s fault.
Sheesh just let the kids have
Sheesh just let the kids have a snow day.
Our neighbors to the north...
There are several communities in northern New Hampshire that do this on the regular, and have since before Covid. They were losing so many days to snow due to their rural, mountainous region that they rolled out a snow day Chromebook program.
It works like you'd think. All the kids have 'em, and have Internet. The teachers are always ready to transition to an online day, two days, even five days.
Snow day? Power through!
Now look, it's fair to suggest that maybe the day off from school is a welcome break, for both students and staff. But it's not like it can't be done; it just simply isn't being done.
* And yes, a rural NH town scales differently than Boston. I promise you they have less $ per student though...
Half right
"It’s not feasible to roll that out and BPS would be completely incapable of doing so"
Guess which half
good move
nothing worse for driving than ice
Or snain for walking.
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Hmph.
When I was a kid....
Harumph, harumph . . .
Harumph, harumph . . .
Snain?
Is this something new from global warming?
Snain is probably Graupel
...or worse, Freezing Rain mixed with Graupel that freezes to the ground rather than bouncing.
But then...
...the ground would be nubbly and the traction should be excellent!
Actually...
Per the late Dick Albert it is "snish."
Unless...
Unless you're a Zamboni Driver
There won't be any freezing
There won't be any freezing rain tomorrow.
Really?
You know this ... how?
I didn't see any FB memes about it.
National Weather Service Says Freezing Rain Tomorrow:
I'm sorry. You are right. I
I'm sorry. You are right. I was looking at a weather widget for a wrong city. It will be freezing rain in Boston.
Honest mistake
How many different cities in the US do you troll?
You said at the beginning of
You said at the beginning of December that this winter surge is not as bad as last year's, so who is stupid here?