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Originally posted by Rick Lee
Oh, it's bad here. A 1/4" dusting will get school shut for days. Sometimes just a false prediction of it gets school shut. When I was growing up in NJ, we never had snow days. Once in a while we had late openings, but somehow, we always made it to school.
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I grew up here and went to Fairfax County schools. The tendency to cancel schools on forecast has gotten worse. It's always been bad. An inch will literally cause the county cancel school for one day and 2-3 days of 2-hour delays after that.
In high school they started canceling school based on forecasts. Now that seems like the norm. I kind of see the point though -- HS kids who drive to school have to leave their houses at about 6:40. So if you don't cancel school at the drop of the hat, you have several thousand inexperienced drivers on the road, in the dark, while it's snowing. Safer just to cancel school.