Angry superintendent?
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Topic: Angry superintendent?
Posted By: Predatorr
Subject: Angry superintendent?
Date Posted: 17 January 2008 at 8:03pm
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So today in Fairfax County we had three inches of snow, but were kept in school, an amount (though it's not large) usually gets us out. My friend Dave called the superintendent, and his wife called back with this rather angry message. http://devraj.kori.googlepages.com/voicemail.wav |
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Posted By: Kingtiger
Date Posted: 17 January 2008 at 8:19pm
Lulz 
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Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 17 January 2008 at 8:19pm
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3 inches of snow get you out of school...are you kidding me?
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 17 January 2008 at 8:21pm
No kidding, that's horsecrap. I didn't get one single snow day the entire time I was in the yukon. -40? Too bad, you're going to school. A foot of snow? No problem, get your butt to school. |
pntbl freak wrote:Posted By: Mehs
Date Posted: 17 January 2008 at 8:24pm
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rofl, that's hilarious. I remember my High School would never close, no matter how bad it was. As a result I was in a car accident. My superintendent apologized to our entire school though for his poor decision. ------------- [IMG]http://i27.tinypic.com/1538fbc.jpg"> Squeeze Box ☣ |
Posted By: Dye Playa
Date Posted: 17 January 2008 at 8:34pm
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We would definitely get out with 3 inches, they don't really play around much with that.
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Posted By: xXK1CK1NVV1NGXx
Date Posted: 17 January 2008 at 8:39pm
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LOL, she thinks it is bad that her husband went into work at 6:30 that is sad,
but I bet she will feel horrible if he husband gets fired for her replying to a work related phone call and treating a student like that. Also, we to got about 4 inches of snow here, I thought we should of had a snow day because of the driving conditions, because even after I got out of school and got home I was still have trouble getting my truck to grip the road. ------------- <Sig violation, Section 1> |
Posted By: usafpilot07
Date Posted: 17 January 2008 at 8:42pm
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Where I grew up, we had school canceled once because it might snow. I know a lot of you guys think that kind of thing is ridiculous, but you have to look at it regionally. Most towns in areas like that are spread out, and most of the time do not have access to their own plows/salt spreaders to make the roads safe for people. The one year we had a big ice storm(for us), we didn't have nearly the right infrastructure to deal with it, and the city ended up filling the dump trucks up with sand(because we didn't have salt stored for the amount of roads needed) and put guys in the backs of them with shovels. On the other hand, how many of you snowbirds have had to go to school during monsoon worthy hurricanes, because the power hadn't been ripped out yet? |
Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 17 January 2008 at 8:43pm
That was my first thought. When I was in high school, 3 inches of school wouldn't even be enough to make us check the news to see if there was a delay/cancellation. |
Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 17 January 2008 at 8:48pm
| In my area, 3 inches of snow might cancel school if it sticks to the road or the roads are icy. There are a few reasons why. 1: We aren't used to driving in snow 2:we don't have snow tires so we have less traction. |
Posted By: bravecoward
Date Posted: 17 January 2008 at 9:02pm
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Since i live in an area with a lot of hills and valleys 3 inches would get us a two hour delay. ------------- 
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Posted By: karalem
Date Posted: 17 January 2008 at 9:05pm
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My superintendent use to never cancel school until one day a elementary
school had to stand outside in snow during a fire drill and i think the parents weren't to happy. But now i would say we have a good amount 
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Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 17 January 2008 at 9:23pm
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lol 3 inches? pfft... we barely got out of school if there were 12 inches. |
Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 17 January 2008 at 10:58pm
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Yeah, some places don't have plows...
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Posted By: ANARCHY_SCOUT
Date Posted: 17 January 2008 at 11:16pm
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We had like a foot and a half one night then the the superintendent didnt call it so people stayed home. He then gave us some day not to long from then that was a lil cold ------------- Gamertag: Kataklysm999 
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Posted By: jerseypaint
Date Posted: 17 January 2008 at 11:42pm
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We get off if snow starts at 9pm and is expected to continue throughout the night. But thats private school for you. They can't afford to leave things 'til morning or have early dismals because the bus companies get pissy. ------------- 
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 17 January 2008 at 11:42pm
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Fairfax and DC are weird locations. Over 60% of the people who live there aren't from the area. Not even from the state originally. That means that you've got a bunch of yahoos that don't know how to drive properly in the snow or rain. Not to mention the fact that VA in general has suckalicious snow-removal. NoVA gets hit with a good storm at least once every year and yet they still underfund the snow removal guys.
I know a lot of schools got out an hour or two early Pred. Where in Fairfax Co. are you? I'm in S. Fairfax, just North of Ft. Belvoir in the Alexandria district of the county (not Alexandria City). ShortyBP is over in Falls Church. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: Styro Folme
Date Posted: 18 January 2008 at 2:01am
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How dare you call them at home. Don't you know he had to do the responsibilities he agreed to when he first got the job?
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Posted By: Apu
Date Posted: 18 January 2008 at 2:28am
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Yeah, you guys have no idea. An inch or two is enough to shut down northern virginia.
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Posted By: Hysteria
Date Posted: 18 January 2008 at 2:45am
| Wow, I would totally try to take that somewhere - that lady was very, very out of line. |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 18 January 2008 at 3:16am
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Psh. Northerners...
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Posted By: Enmity
Date Posted: 18 January 2008 at 6:00am
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Yeah, up around me (including today) a few inches and our superintendent will either call a 2 hour delay, or close completely because there's a lot of hills around us and the roads can get bad easy.
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Posted By: Dye Playa
Date Posted: 18 January 2008 at 8:34am
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Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 18 January 2008 at 9:16am
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It seems like all you warm-region folks are under the impression that we have an abundance of plows up here in the north. Where I live, it might take 2 days after a storm for anything other than the interstate to be plowed. Sometimes you just have to man up and drive in the snow.
Several times a year I have to get to work (used to be the same for school) by driving through a foot of snow. The only thing that really sucks is not being able to see the road, and certain hills you barely make it up, then go too fast down because you can't hit your brakes without spinning out. ------------- 
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Posted By: Da Hui
Date Posted: 18 January 2008 at 9:21am
Somewhat. I do consider it a little rude to call the home, but seeing as I have no more information on the scenario I can not say either way. ------------- 
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