GO TO SCHOOL!!!

No, seriously. School is cancelled before the first flake falls?!?!?!? You must be joking. There is no way this is happening. Let me explain…

Where I live, we have weather forecasters who, how shall I put this…suck. They are rarely right and when it comes to snow, they are never right. So, for the past few days, the forecasters have been following a “big snowstorm” that will blanket us and we may all die. The stores have been crowded as people line up to get milk, bread, and other staples such as cigarettes, beer, and the National Enquirer. I am beside myself as I look outside and see nothing…NOTHING falling from the sky as the kids of Fayette County remain nestled in their warm beds dreaming of attending school through JUNE!!!

Allow me to explain, more…

Last year, the Superintendent of Snow called off school before it snowed a couple of times, based on the reports from the weather forecasters, mentioned above. Considering that school was cancelled so many times last year based on faithfully inaccurate predictions, our kids were in school up until June. This concerns me. Fool me once, shame on me…Fool me twice and you must be a weather forecaster.

Band Camp begins in July. School begins mid-August. Plans for vacation need to be solidified by March, at the latest. Well, guess what? It is very difficult to solidify plans for the summer when you don’t know when “summer” begins. ARGH!!! These people are killing me because if the kids go HALF a day, then the day does not have to be made up…so, if it is supposed to start snowing at 9, then surely to goodness, it will take a couple of hours at least before the snow is an issue, if it becomes an issue at all. Wait it out, feed them a sandwich, and then call it a day!!! GO TO SCHOOL!!!!!!

It isn’t that I don’t care about the safety of the kids on the buses. I do. Our kids ride the bus for Pete’s sake. I simply know that snow does not equal death. GO TO SCHOOL!!!!!

So, here I am…at work…looking outside and it is not snowing. The kids are home, in bed, not going to school, even for half a day. So, this day will have to be made up and it is the first week back to school. There is more “winter” coming and we will undoubtedly have viable reasons to cancel school, however, that day is not today. GO TO SCHOOL!!!!!

As you can tell, this stresses me out. I need the kids to be in school so that we can plan for our vacation this summer. It’s that simple. It isn’t about snow days or weather forecasters or even buying tabloid trash. Instead it is about having more than a three-week window for vacation when the summer is supposed to be 3 months long. It is about placing trust in someone that continually lies to you because you never learn your lesson and you continue to listen. It is about knowing that the snow never hits here. It hits near here, around here, and beside here, but never here-here. It is about school getting out on time so that the beaches may be covered up with families who have been planning their vacation since March.

Oh. Hold on a minute.

It’s snowing.

Nevermind.