Here is a list of closings and cancellations for Monday, Jan. 31, 2011:
Schools
- Central Junior High School boys basketball vs. Christian Prep — canceled, no reschedule date
- Free State High School boys basketball vs. Harmon — canceled
- Haskell Indian Nations University — closing at 11 a.m., all classes and evening activities canceled
- Oskaloosa USD #341
- Santa Fe Trail USD #434
Businesses and organizations
- Carl Knox Natatorium — closed Monday evening
Events
- City of Lawrence indoor soccer, intramural basketball and hoopsters practices — canceled, other classes and fitness programs, including hoopsters games, on as scheduled
- Kansas Chamber Annual Dinner — rescheduled for Feb. 22
- Tonganoxie school board meeting — canceled
- Tonganoxie city council meeting — rescheduled for Feb. 8
Churches
- Cornerstone Southern Baptist Church — Monday food pantry and all evening activities canceled
- St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church — all Atriums sessions and RCIA session canceled
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Comments
GuineaPigs 2 years, 3 months ago
They cancel school around here so easily!!
PopcoRN 2 years, 3 months ago
I disagree. And I'm not sure where you're comparing us to, but there are a lot of districts around here which serve very rural areas and the kids sometimes have up to a 20 minute drive to get/from school if they're driving themselves, or up to a 1 hr bus ride. The rural roads do not get priority when it comes to road treatments, so they can be dangerous.
Santa Fe Trail and Oskaloosa both cover almost excusively rural areas. Considering that K10 is (or was this morning, anyway) SHUT DOWN, I'm thinking these districts were making a good judgment call to avoid potential accidents and injuries. Safety has to be the first priority - you can't learn anything if you're dead.
Pywacket 2 years, 3 months ago
Agree, PopcoRN! Also, those (damned) buses do not have seatbelts, much less airbags. A slide into a ditch or a rollover or, gods forbid, a collision, even at low speed, can easily result in broken teeth, broken bones, lacerations, etc. Much safer to make up any snow days in May.
It's not about the kids being "soft" or coddled... it's about common sense and avoiding something much worse than a missed day of school.
GuineaPigs 2 years, 3 months ago
Not talking about the rural areas....talking about here in town.
PopcoRN 2 years, 3 months ago
GP, there are kids that attend the Lawrence schools that live in rural areas, too. Many of them from out on the far side of Clinton Lake, also near Lone Star, south of town in the Pleasant Grove area, etc. I used to live in a rural area of Douglas County but attended Lawrence schools, so I'm speaking from experience when I say that the rural roads are often not passable. Heck, our driveway wasn't even passable sometimes! We would have to park at the end of it and go up and down on the tractor. No joke.
Pywacket 2 years, 3 months ago
Speak of the.... Here you go: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/01/31/2622141/kcfd-truck-hits-school-bus-that.html
Nobody died... but is it a good idea to take chances with that many kids when you KNOW the roads are going to be treacherous?
happypill4014 2 years, 3 months ago
West Franklin #287 is closed as well.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 2 years, 3 months ago
No school in Lawrence USD497 today.
mom_of_three 2 years, 3 months ago
planned teacher work day though. Wonder what will happen tomorrow
Pywacket 2 years, 3 months ago
You rogue! ;-)
lily 2 years, 3 months ago
Lawrence already has to make up at least one day, where are they going to make up any more? You know it will be canceled if we get anything close to what's predicted.
middlemgmt 2 years, 3 months ago
We don't have to make up anything yet. We can take one more day without make up but after that, we will.
PennyBrite 2 years, 3 months ago
will we have to make up actual "days" or will a few minutes be added to each day for the rest of the year to make up the time? Anyone know?
Pywacket 2 years, 3 months ago
Oh, horrors! Schools here get out bizarrely early compared to most places I know of, which go into the first or second week of June. If they actually do use enough snow days to necessitate tacking on a day or two in MAY past the date they'd ordinarily get out, it should not be a disaster of any magnitude.
Here's an idea: just don't plan your trip to Disney World to start the very day after the scheduled last day of school. Plan it for at least a week later and you'll have a comfy margin of error. Problem solved!
KRichards 2 years, 3 months ago
They also start early.
Pywacket 2 years, 3 months ago
Yes--they start in sweltering mid-August, when they are guaranteed to have to pay enormous cooling bills, instead of after Labor Day, when the heat has (generally speaking) died down and when most other districts around the nation start. But that's a whole other can of worms...
mfagan 2 years, 3 months ago
Lawrence actually had two days built into its schedule for "incelement weather" days, and those already will be used to make up for two days in which classes were canceled because of snow. The district canceled classes a third time, but that day won't be made up, because of state rules that give a district a "grace period" equal to the number of makeup days it has built into its schedule. Translation: The Lawrence school district still has another "free" day left to use, without having to make it up. Now, if the district needs to go beyond that fourth day, and cancels yet another one? That class time then would need to be made up. I'm told such time typically would get added onto the end of each remaining school day -- a few minutes each day, depending on how much time would need to be made up, and how many days would remain -- through the end of the year. I've written a few times about this in the past, including a recent entry in my daily "First Bell" column: http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2011/jan... We'll see how this latest storm situation develops... - Mark Fagan, schools reporter
mom_of_three 2 years, 3 months ago
They did it a few years ago, when my kids were still in grade school. The kids started a few minutes earlier and got out a few minutes later. Kind of a pain...
heatherlee 2 years, 3 months ago
I think it's better to make up one day in the summer rather something terrible happen due to the weather!!!
KRichards 2 years, 3 months ago
I believe Lawrence adds minutes to each day for snow days above the 1 more free one we get. Thus the year doesn't actually go any further than it is currently scheduled to end
fu7il3 2 years, 3 months ago
What does that really accomplish? Is that four minutes going to actually do anything?
lgreen17 2 years, 3 months ago
K-State closed at 8am this morning-- Advisories Advisory: Winter weather: The university is closed and classes are not being held.
Manhattan campus is closed Salina campus is closed Winter weather: The university is closed and classes are not being held. Essential employees who are involved with housing, care of animals and safety of students and campus facilities should report to work if possible. All other employees may stay home. Check this website periodically for updates.
K-State's inclement weather policy is online at http://www.k-state.edu/policies/ppm/3035.html
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 2 years, 3 months ago
Mr. Fagan, Did you notice that by using the reply function, you self suppressed the information you were attempting to convey?
KRichards, by using a sequential comment put the information out more directly, and more effectively?
canusayduh 2 years, 3 months ago
Thank you for wasting my time to read this post! Really? I'm glad you're perfect.
Boston_Corbett 2 years, 3 months ago
Is Dunkin Donuts open on teacher work days?
Or just the days when the streets and sidewalks are dangerous?
Pywacket 2 years, 3 months ago
Like Lawrence, Baldwin schools are closed for a scheduled "work day" or whatever. Are you trying to cause chaos? ;-)
applejuice 2 years, 3 months ago
JCCC has canceled classes for tonight!
madameX 2 years, 3 months ago
I was coming here to post that! And I was debating whether or not to go to my evening class. dilemma solved.
Pywacket 2 years, 3 months ago
I wish they would just make the call for tomorrow. I can't believe they would expect people to show up for morning classes when the weather is expected to deteriorate so badly. Why can't they just call it and let people plan?
rtpayton 2 years, 3 months ago
I like Dairy Queen Blizzard's!
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