You know that I’m not in favor of dumping on the young generations but some things are just too much even for me.
Today, less than half of the students showed up for class. Those who did show up came in anywhere between 10 and 30 minutes late. When I asked what was happening, they told me it was because of the “horrible weather.”
The horrible weather in question is a tiny little drizzle that you don’t even need an umbrella for.
Seriously, folks, I don’t get this. You are going to sit there at home, completely immobilized because of an insignificant little drizzle that doesn’t even deserve to be called “rain”?
I’d much rather people just invented some excuses instead of telling me they are late or absent because of this “severe” weather.
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“I’d much rather people just invented some excuses..”
Heh. Maybe they did and you saw it as the truth instead of an excuse.
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So, they are not even smart enough to realize that this is a pathetic excuse?
By the way, I’m wearing the scarf today and I already got maybe half a dozen compliments. 🙂
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Thanks for telling me. This makes me happy.
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And how happy it makes me! 🙂
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To be perfectly honest, I’ve long been of the impression that Americans in general are complete wusses when it comes to “bad” weather. When I was a child, my school was cancelled only once because of weather, and then only because the worst blizzard in fifty years had prevented most teachers from coming home from their spring break vacations. I would gape in shock when my American friends would tell me that their school was cancelled for a week after what anyone in Canada would surely call a pitiful dusting of snow.
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I know! The only time it “snowed” here this year, students also started whining that “it snows!” Honestly, the amount of snow we got needed to be located with a microscope because you couldn’t even really see it.
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I’ve noticed this increasing fear of weather in younger Americans too. It just wouldn’t occur to me that anything short of a tropical storm was “horrible weather.”
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One thing you have to be aware of, when it comes to snow, is regional differences. A city that gets feet of snow every winter is going to be better prepared than a city that gets inches–and this is as it should be given the expense of maintaining a fleet of snow plows (for example).
Hilly or mountainous areas are also likely to have cancellations over smaller amounts of snow than flat areas. When I was a kid, my school district actually had, in addition to late starts and cancellations, a mode called “no mountain transportation” which meant that certain bus routes were not run.
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I hope you are exaggerating and they did, at least, need an umbrella.
Anyway, for the weather to be a decent reason to skip school it’s got to be impossible or seriously dangerous to get out of home. Rain is not one if there is not a flood!
But there are also important cultural differences (I mean, you are Ukranian…). I live in a place were it snows quite frecuently in winter, and, as kids, if the snow was strong enought there was a possibility that school was suspended and we were taken back home. When I was about twelve, a german family came to live in my neighbourhood. Tehy had two little kids of 5 and 3. It happened that year, and I was in charge of getting those two kids back home with me. They could not believe it. The kids. I explained the situation and they looked at me with the bigges “are you stupid?” look I’ve ever received…
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I swear to God that I just walked to the student center for lunch without any umbrella and barely felt anything. This is as far from severe weather as anything can be.
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Then I don’t get your students at all… anyone in college should be ale to tell severe weather from a not clear sky…
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