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January 28th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
I am out on the road working all the time and the snow does not bother me to drive in. I would say that today was one of the worst driving days on the road I have seen this year. At around 2pm today the roads in Lowell were unpassable. I had to go past three right hand turns on the Blvd. because the burms were so high from the plows. I saw some pick up trucks do 360′ spin outs trying to pull out from the lights. I slid on ice towards a telephone pole and was actually nervous when people were walking in the road. By 4pm the roads were great. It was a small window but it was bad. A big part of the problem is that Lowell has few clear sidewalks.
January 28th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
What bothered me more today was that the Parent information center was closed today. Today was one of the days for preschool registration. They are not teachers or students, they are office workers. I made it down there to sign up and they had no legit reason not to be there.
January 29th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Can of worms for today….. A fireman shows up for work even when there’s no fire. A priest or minister does their thing when nobody shows up at church. Can somebody explain why teachers don’t show up when there’s no school?? They could use a snow day to correct papers, go over lesson plans or have that “professional day” that we hear about. I know for a fact that some principals use snow days to play catch-up. Custodians do snow removal. I know what you’re thinking but I am NOT an editor for the Lowell Sun.
January 29th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Obama took back years when I was on a trip to Detroit and Windsor, Ontario. I was reporting on factory automation in GM plants.
The night before visiting the Canadian plant saw a blizzard. Even though Detroit was shut down the next morning, I called the plant, where the manager said to come on over, that they were perking. My rental car was in the hotel garage and I headed out. The Detroit streets were almost impassible, but I got to the tunnel and took it south to Windsor.
On the other side, of course, they had the same six or eight feet of snow, but they’d plowed the streets, removed some snow and piled the rest high. The kids were walking to school. People were at work and the GM plant running full blast.
Attitude has everything to do with dealing with snow.
January 29th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Prince… I asked that of a former superintendent of schools years ago and he laughed and said “unions, my dear, unions”.
January 29th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Teachers do not come in because they are under a contract for the number of days they work. Snow days are added in at the end of the year to make 180 days. Maybe it is union contracts that you do not like?
January 29th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
I didn’t say I didn’t like it, I asked why it happens.
January 29th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Many, many papers are corrected by teachers in their pajamas on weekends and snow days. Ditto for lesson plans.
January 30th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
What gets me is the increased inclination to cancel the night before. By all means cancel if appropriate, but at least wait until the snow actually falls rather than rely on forcasts.
January 30th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Marigold, (BTW I love marigolds) my point exactly. If I were in a position to get a contract for my union, I would demand that a teacher’s own time is his/her own time. As a union rep I wouldn’t want my people working at home for no money. If they are going to be working, they should get paid, likewise when they are not, they’re not.
January 31st, 2009 at 11:24 am
Massmarrier, sounds like a case where more government spending (overtime pay, more snow plows, greater enforcement of sidewalk clearing requirements) helped business be more productive.
January 31st, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Gee whiz, PC. I like you, too. It has ever been thus in teaching, that a lot of the job is after hours and I don’t think it’s about to change.