Hide n' seek, the Amish and high school gradjitation

[Meganjo23]

Our snow days were decided solely on if the bus drivers felt safe driving. If they didn't, they called the superintendent, and he cancelled school. I only know it worked like that because I was one of the lucky kids who rode the bus 45 minutes each way, not to school, but to a voational program in another school, and the bus driver told us that. Of course, once we knew that we were constantly bugging her to cancel school for us.

Funny story, the superintendent once called a snow day only for it to stop snowing like ten minutes later. He was appearently pretty embarrassed, and refused to call another snow day that year.

[turing]

We don't get snow

Well, depending on your definition of "we", that's not strictly true for all of SA - it's just never in locations or quantities that would close the schools. (Actually, I think I read in the paper that schools were closed for a day recently in the Ceres district because of snow. But that's about the only place in the country where it could happen.)

What we do get, of course, is really hot days. At my school (in Cape Town) it was a commonly-held belief amongst the pupils that if the temperature went above 40°C (that's, umm, 104°F) then the school was required by law to close. I don't know what they thought would be done about hundreds of schoolchildren being let loose in the middle of the morning if that happened! They kept on believing it, year after year, even though every February we had days like that and the school stayed open.

Luckily our teachers were quite nice about it and would cancel after-lunch classes if it was too hot, and let us go jump in the swimming pool. (That only happened about twice a year, I'd say.)