In high school, I wanted nothing more than school to be cancelled, even if there was the smallest amount of snow on the ground. In college, I’m hopeful that if I can’t get out of my driveway, my professors will understand that I can’t risk my life to be there. Since WHEN did this become a thing?
I understand that high school students are, well, babies. They need to be protected since many of them ride buses to/from school and it’s extremely dangerous. I did both in high school and almost got into an accident one day because our superintendent still decided it’d be a good idea we have school. I understand the ramifications, but at the same time: why can’t university classes be cancelled as well? Even though I pay to go to school there, I’m required to be in class (per my professor.) Why isn’t my safety an option too? (or just anyone that in general doesn’t live on/walking distance from campus.)
This may sound mediocre to the operations people that control this, and my university has been doing better with canceling, but I still believe that it’s a problem. I attended public high school and attend a public university. I also ride the bus system that my school has in place since there’s not enough parking on campus, which I feel can relate a bit more to high school. If it isn’t safe for the bus to run, it’s not safe for me to drive my car there. The town I also live in, and my university is in, is terrible at plowing roads. I live in a subdivision full of several different roads, and I understand why the city doesn’t plow the roads (people park on the side of the road too often,) but I feel like this should be part of my university’s decision in deciding whether or not school is on or not.
For example: my freshman year of college, I had a bunch of 11 AM’s and all that fun stuff. I usually wouldn’t wake up until 10 AM to get t my class since I lived on campus. It was a snowmaggedon that day and I woke up to snow covered EVERYTHING. Come to find out, my university hadn’t cancelled classes that day, but decided that it’d be a good idea to cancel them at 9 AM after most people were already on campus. I decided to go to my friends house (spoiler alert: this was not a good idea) and ended up stuck in the middle of a main road. Frat boys pushed me out and I eventually got to my destination, but I literally couldn’t get anywhere after that. I waited two days before I could get home. BAD decision on my university’s part. bad.
Today, I came to school when it was barely snowing. You could see the light snow mixed in with the rain that was currently going on, but when I reached my house, it was snowing. Hard core, flaky, huge snow that was terribly cold and terribly wet. This isn’t a good idea since the temperature is supposed to drop to 13 degrees. My boyfriends roommate came home and parked his car in the driveway, and his car began sliding down the driveway after he was already out of it with the emergency brake on. (He takes really good care of his car, too—it’s his “baby” so it’s not like he didn’t have 100% tires on that car.)
here’s your sign, school.
Our chancellor tweeted out a tweet saying that the Operations people wouldn’t decide until 4 AM. They’re assessing the road conditions at 4 am. You read that right.
My boyfriend sarcastically made the remark that he’d have to get up at 4 AM if school is cancelled anyway just to make it there on time. The sad part? That’s probably true .
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