I’m a teacher in the Cleveland area. Today we had our first snow day of the year! I got up with my alarm at 6:30, checked my phone to be sure, and saw nothing, and started on my usual morning routine. While I’m in the bathroom a couple of minutes later, I hear my phone chime its text-message alert. Sure enough, it was from the notification service the school uses.
Where I am, it wasn’t all that much: The ground was completely covered, but you could still see where the sidewalks are. Other teacher reported everything from whiteout blizzard and impassable roads, to absolutely nothing at all. And that last one was from one of the suburbs that usually gets a lot of snow.
But anyway, yay!
(And apparently “Snow day!” isn’t a long enough title for Discourse)
I’m in Cleveland too. We didn’t get much actual snow but it seems as if the city didn’t get the memo that it was coming because the streets are a complete mess. I saw one truck on my morning commute.
We had one snow day a few years ago that was called about 15 minutes before school was scheduled to begin. It had taken me over two hours to get to work to turn around and have to go home. It’s telling that that superintendent apologized to the parents and students for it but never apologized to the teachers.
Once when I was in school, I got all the way to school before I found out. Of course, that was before cellphones, so there wasn’t any way to get the message out once someone left home. And I was coming from the other side of town, so I had to leave earlier than most students.
The principal here did send out an apology to the entire community (including teachers) about the decision being so late, but from what I understand, conditions really were changing very rapidly.