School closings, there has to be a better way
The morning routine for any family with school-age children is often a carefully choreographed affair. Throw in the first real snowstorm of the season coupled with uncertainty about school closings and civilization descends into chaos.
Most annoyingly, school closings are still announced only on that most inconvenient of media, the radio. As we rush around getting the kids fed and clothed, we are expected to pay attention to the music/blahblah box for that 0.5 second per half hour where we just might hear a familiar name.
As my kids were leaving to catch their bus, a friend called to inform us that their school was indeed closed. Normally we are only supposed to trust radio announcements but they were too busy talking about the Canadiens.
There has to be a better way. I have heard of a wonderful technology called the internet where updated information can be presented in a written format. Maybe I should ask some of the school boards to add Metrobloggling Montreal to the list of media that should be contacted in case of stroms?
PLEASE DO!
you are so right and let us all know if it happens, thank you.
Another idea would be to have a phone number that you called that would tell you whether your school was closed. In a previous district we lived thats what they had. If there was to be no school, an administrator would change the automated message on the answering machine of that number from “blah blah area schools are open” to “blah blah area schools are closed and then the date.” It was a great idea. And it takes, what, 30 seconds to change that message?