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Actually, care to explain?

Wait, don't you guys have air conditioning?

Not at school he doesnt

Depends actually, when I first went to school we didn't have aircon in any room that wasn't a computer room.

All the prisons in Western Australia have airconditioning, but not all the schools

Now, most of them do. They had to remove all that lovely asbestos stuff from the roof before the air con guys would go near it, but thats okay most of the time. But we have detachables that aren't even insulated that heat up like a primitive oven which have no aircon, leaving us bioled and finely cooked inside.

Huzzah for our multibilliondollar economy that keeps the rest of this crappy country afloat!

Apparently our school doesn't have A/C cos you can catch something evil from A/C!! But I dunno what that was..

A...cold! *badumtish*

It's been -31 C with 60 kmph wind, which equals out to nearly -50, driving snow, and school here, has not been closed.

I don't get snow days. It's snow. You know it happens where you live. Deal with it.

Legionnaire's disease. It's a bacteria that has a nasty habit of killing people.

However, it's so uncommon and has to have so many things go so wrong in an air conditioning system that I don't think it's ever actually hit a school in the history of mankind.

But it has hit multiple old folks homes in the south of New Zealand via bad air conditioning.

I'm quite baffled that people actually get school closed because of snow or because it's "too cold." o_o One morning, my city was the coldest place in the world (there was a news report about it) and we still went to school. You just dress appropriately. We don't even get sent home if there are tornado warnings. And there's no basement at my school.

A few years back, my teacher explained to my class exactly why we get snow days: the school gets money for each student in attendance each day. Any time they expect attendance to be low the cost of running the schools will probably outweigh the money received for student attendance, they close school. People here keep their kids home when we get six flakes of snow, so we get more snow days than we really should.

Well, it doesn't really make sense to get sent home for tornado warnings. You don't want kids out there in cars or buses or even walking when the weather's like that.

I think usually it's because the roads are too dangerous to be driving lots of kids on. Think of the legal disaster that would happen if a bus crashed and a bunch of kids got killed/hurt.

And then there was one time we got the day off because the bus company didn't think it would be cold yet, so they hadn't changed the oil or whatever it was to the stuff they use when it's cold. So the buses wouldn't start. No buses = no school.

2 hour delays are so much better than snow days though. Because you have to make up snow days at the end of the year, and delays you don't.