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>education doesn't depend on transportation Then why are schools closed on snow days?

ollifi 11y ago
> Then why are schools closed on snow days? I would imagine not in Minnesota? I think this is measure to limit traffic in places where snow is rare occurance and causes a spike in accidents.
- jeremyjh 11y ago
  You don't have to use your imagination; you have access to the internet. Places with lots of snow every year do close schools. http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/01/06/school-closure-criteria http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/01/06/school-closure-crite...
- brianwawok 11y ago
  Nah. From the Midwest and we had a super warm winter. Mostly no snow. First day of 4 inches of snow? Schools closed and 100 car accidents. People forget how to drive in snow.
- nommm-nommm 11y ago
  Very false. I'm from an area with tons of snow. As I mentioned before we not only got snow days, they were budgeted into the schedule.
  - ollifi 11y ago
    Ok, I misunderstood snow days to mean generally snowy days. I am from north and we have snow many months of the year. I thought if snowy day causes school to shut down it must be in a place where it doesn't snow this often. If snow day means day when school is shut down due to extreme weather it makes sense there are those especially in places with bad wearher. I wish we would have had them here when I was in school.
- kaitai 11y ago
  Sometimes it just takes long enough to clear the roads that you can't get kids to school on time (or back home on time). They try really hard not to cancel -- I remember as a kid being in a bus that slid backwards down a hill because it just couldn't get the traction. Being a successful northerner involves knowing when to hold and when to fold :)
pdkl95 11y ago
> > directly Teaching doesn't depend directly on transportation, but you probably use transportation infrastructure to gain access to it. Almost every aspect of modern civilization has indirect dependencies on infrastructure such as transportation. As James Burke explains in the first episode of "Connections", we've been living in a technology trap ever since the plow was invented. However, most of these traps are indirect. The slack in the system converts a lot of total system failures into mere inconveniences. In the case of snow days, it's easy to plan to have a few unscheduled days off. It's a lot harder to plan for infrastructure failures when you depend on it directly.

> Then why are schools closed on snow days? I would imagine not in Minnesota? I think this is measure to limit traffic in places where snow is rare occurance and causes a spike in accidents.

jeremyjh 11y ago
You don't have to use your imagination; you have access to the internet. Places with lots of snow every year do close schools. http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/01/06/school-closure-criteria http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/01/06/school-closure-crite...
brianwawok 11y ago
Nah. From the Midwest and we had a super warm winter. Mostly no snow. First day of 4 inches of snow? Schools closed and 100 car accidents. People forget how to drive in snow.
nommm-nommm 11y ago
Very false. I'm from an area with tons of snow. As I mentioned before we not only got snow days, they were budgeted into the schedule.
- ollifi 11y ago
  Ok, I misunderstood snow days to mean generally snowy days. I am from north and we have snow many months of the year. I thought if snowy day causes school to shut down it must be in a place where it doesn't snow this often. If snow day means day when school is shut down due to extreme weather it makes sense there are those especially in places with bad wearher. I wish we would have had them here when I was in school.
kaitai 11y ago
Sometimes it just takes long enough to clear the roads that you can't get kids to school on time (or back home on time). They try really hard not to cancel -- I remember as a kid being in a bus that slid backwards down a hill because it just couldn't get the traction. Being a successful northerner involves knowing when to hold and when to fold :)

pdkl95 11y ago

> > directly Teaching doesn't depend directly on transportation, but you probably use transportation infrastructure to gain access to it. Almost every aspect of modern civilization has indirect dependencies on infrastructure such as transportation. As James Burke explains in the first episode of "Connections", we've been living in a technology trap ever since the plow was invented. However, most of these traps are indirect. The slack in the system converts a lot of total system failures into mere inconveniences. In the case of snow days, it's easy to plan to have a few unscheduled days off. It's a lot harder to plan for infrastructure failures when you depend on it directly.