Snow day? or not…
I can remember being a kid and watching the school district cancellation notices scroll across the local television news. You’d watch for your school, trying not to get distracted or you’d have to sit through the list all over again. The web has changed the rhythm of snow holiday rituals. No more watching the anchor read the list aloud, while you root for your own particular section of the alphabet. You go online, pick a site, and keep hitting the “reload” button. You can even arrange to have the closings and delays sent to you via email…
Until a couple of years ago, snow days were a binary call in the city. Pittsburgh Public Schools had either school or no school - no half measures. However, the district has now switched to a policy of announcing a two-hour delay, which may or may not escalate into a full holiday, depending on conditions. And other schools in the district (independent, charter, and parochial) follow the city’s lead, as they share transportation. Sleeping in on a delay day is not nearly as much fun as a full holiday - for one thing, you have the suspense continue as you hope for the rest of the day off, and that makes it harder to luxuriate in the found time.
Still, two unexpected hours is a gift, and we enjoyed that last Friday.
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When I am the boss I am going to give my employees snow days. I think that would be a huge boost of employee moral. I think we will have snow delays too. It would be so great if even just once a year I could wake up, see snow and sleep in.