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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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By Sock_Puppet on Thu, 02/03/2022 - 3:43pm.

Too bad they can't learn remotely.

Thanks, Charlie!

By anon on Thu, 02/03/2022 - 4:16pm.

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.

By FlyingToaster on Thu, 02/03/2022 - 11:50pm.

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.

By anon on Fri, 02/04/2022 - 12:16am.

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.

By anon on Fri, 02/04/2022 - 6:21am.

Sheesh just let the kids have a snow day.

By anon on Fri, 02/04/2022 - 5:16am.

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...

By Sock_Puppet on Fri, 02/04/2022 - 5:48am.

"It’s not feasible to roll that out and BPS would be completely incapable of doing so"

Guess which half

By anon on Thu, 02/03/2022 - 3:43pm.

nothing worse for driving than ice

By Lee on Thu, 02/03/2022 - 4:38pm.

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By anon on Thu, 02/03/2022 - 4:28pm.

When I was a kid....

By anon on Fri, 02/04/2022 - 7:39am.

Harumph, harumph . . .

By wils on Thu, 02/03/2022 - 4:29pm.

Is this something new from global warming?

By FlyingToaster on Thu, 02/03/2022 - 11:53pm.

...or worse, Freezing Rain mixed with Graupel that freezes to the ground rather than bouncing.

By lbb on Fri, 02/04/2022 - 9:31am.

...the ground would be nubbly and the traction should be excellent!

By Checking-In on Fri, 02/04/2022 - 12:11am.

Per the late Dick Albert it is "snish."

By The Fox 915 on Thu, 02/03/2022 - 5:36pm.

Unless you're a Zamboni Driver

By Notfromboston on Thu, 02/03/2022 - 5:49pm.

There won't be any freezing rain tomorrow.

By SwirlyGrrl on Thu, 02/03/2022 - 5:58pm.

You know this ... how?

I didn't see any FB memes about it.

National Weather Service Says Freezing Rain Tomorrow:

Tonight
Rain. Areas of dense fog. Low around 30. Calm wind becoming north 5 to 9 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.
Friday
Freezing rain before 2pm, then sleet. Temperature falling to around 21 by 5pm. North wind 10 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New sleet accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

By Notfromboston on Fri, 02/04/2022 - 7:50am.

I'm sorry. You are right. I was looking at a weather widget for a wrong city. It will be freezing rain in Boston.

By Pete X on Fri, 02/04/2022 - 8:11am.

How many different cities in the US do you troll?

By Notfromboston on Fri, 02/04/2022 - 6:30pm.

You said at the beginning of December that this winter surge is not as bad as last year's, so who is stupid here?