The email I sent this morning (from a winter wimp)

Hi School People,

This is the second time in the last couple of years you guys have decided to hold school when there was a layer of ice on the ground. Personally, I'd much rather haul the kids through snow than over this stuff. We live a block from school--my kid fell four times and I fell twice (ow, ow). More seriously--as we walked, a car stopping too fast at the corner of A___ and F___ slid and almost jumped the curb.

Now I'm going back to school to take a change of clothing to him because he got thoroughly soaked when he fell . . . but before I slide out of here, I thought I'd whine at you some: Cancel school on ice days. Please. I know the world doesn't look particularly menacing when it's just icy rain and not lots of the scenery-transforming white stuff, but believe me, it's a scary place out there just now.

limping back to school (by car this time),

Kate Rothwell

Comments

  1. Douglas Hoffman11:33 AM

    Next time, I'd keep the kids home and lie about them being sick. It would teach your children a good lesson about when not to respect authority.

    -- Doug, who has never had to deal with this situation ;o)

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  2. Selah March9:54 PM

    Please be sure to post any response you receive on this one, Kate.

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  3. Kate10:04 AM

    They're not going to write back. They never do. (they never call, they never write. . .sniffle.)

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  4. FerfeLaBat10:46 PM

    I thought all nawth'ners had ice crunching shoes that spike in when you walk. Or, that you skate everywhere. Not true? Cleats, man. Get some metal cleats.

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