Some people today are totally wimpie!!

[EarthMama]

O.K., I'll admit... I didn't know where to put this post. I could have put it in the homeschooling file but it's not really about homeschooling per se. I could have put it in the self-reliance file but it's not totally about that either... but kinda is. So I figure I'll post it here. It's a pretty general rant. ::)

I took my youngest daughter to the homeschooling co-op this morning at 8:15am and the parking lot was empty and the church was dark. Second time this month! Second time of going through the whole morning routine (get up, get dressed, make breakfast, pack lunch, blah, blah, blah) for nothing.

I looked around the parking lot and lawn... not a fleck of white stuff (aka: snow) to be seen for blocks. I looked down on the pavement and out to the road... except for the puddles being frozen over, there was no ice on the concrete.

So why no co-op? Because the public school had a 2-hr. delay in starting today, for whatever reason, and the co-op follows the public school schedule (for whatever reason). ??? The public school buses have to start out by 5:30am, in order to get all the kids rounded up and to their schools by 7:25am, so maybe... *maybe*... I can see their point. Sometimes!

But to have the co-op (where all the kids get dropped-off by their parents/caregivers by 8:30am) delayed until 10:30am because of the weather? Today? Why?

I'll tell you why... *some* people in this country are wimpie. Cream puffs. Marshmallows. We live in northern Indiana, for gawd's sake. It's wintertime. No swimming, no shorts, no outdoor concerts at the park.

IT'S WINTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gotta drive a little bit slower... gotta drive a little bit more defensively... gotta start out earlier. But dang, you don't have to quit living from November through March.

The country's goin' to hell. I'm stayin' home with my doors locked.

[fnfredux]

maybe they MUST adhere to the public school sched in order to operate? There are some pretty strange laws out there. Remember, it wasn't so very long ago that public school attendance was mandatory. No home school when my kids grew up.

[flatwater]

Spokane isn't so bad when it snows. Most schools here are used to it but it's a different story when we get into the minus temperatures. Thats when the pipes start breaking. Now the seattle story is much worse. An inch of snow and 32% will shut down the whole city. (almost)
flatwater

[FZRaven]

That sound like around here, we seem to have a snow day every week. Last year the kids had to stay in school longer because they used up all the snow days and then some. The one thing that does effect us is rain, rain after snow is horrible. About 80% of the roads around here are dirt, and very steep. When it rains it washes off all the sand and you end up with pure ice. I can understand not wanting to send buses up these roads, it's a death wish.

I've never been to worried about the snow, I've yet to see a storm that would make me stay home. It's just a part of life around here, it's going to snow get used to it. I live in a valley so to get any place you have to go over a mountain. Your either going to see Sugarbush, Pico/Killington or Middlebury snow bowl. So you can imagine that we see a good git of snow around here.

[EarthMama]

maybe they MUST adhere to the public school sched in order to operate?

Nope. It's the choice of the co-op. It's privately run... no overseeing of any kind.

Wimpies! ::)

[EarthMama]

Spokane isn't so bad when it snows. Most schools here are used to it but it's a different story when we get into the minus temperatures.

You'd think we'd be used to it too. I mean.... northern Indiana (directly on Lake Michigan) gets a lot of snow during the winter. At least it has for oh... the last few centuries anyway. The temp this morning was 10 degrees.

[EarthMama]

I've never been to worried about the snow, I've yet to see a storm that would make me stay home. It's just a part of life around here, it's going to snow get used to it.

My sentiments exactly!! My deal yesterday was that my daughter and I had absolutely no problem traveling or getting to the church. The roads were great, the temperature was fine, and no snow. It may have been icy real early in the morning and that's what caused the delay for the public schools (having to start the buses rolling by 5:30am) but with this co-op deal, it doesn't start until 8:30am. So by that time everything was thawed, the sun was out, we didn't have one problem getting to the church.

I don't know if it's wimpyness or lazyness, I tell ya. Or maybe a combination of both. >:( I get so tired of it though, ya know?

So many are wimpy and lazy... with their hand out at the same time! Oh boy, don't get me started on THAT subject!!

[9vTech]

Well, here in the south, all you have to do is start a rumor saying you saw a few snow flurries in the backyard and within moments, you'll have mayhem in the grocery stores. :)

[Dawgus]

Our local school district HAS to use snow days, as odd as that sounds. They base the amount of available snow days for the following year on what they used during the previous one. So even when it's not all that bad, if surrounding districts close, ours does as well. Basically, if they don't use 'em, they don't get 'em next year. It's the same way our road salt works too, use X tons this year and get X tons next. They'll be spreading salt when there's a dusting of snow out there. Neither makes any sense at all since we never have the same weather from year to year. ::)