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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

For This?

On Monday, in dreaded fear of another major snowstorm, which the media had been predicting, like their support of "Land for Peace," the school where I teach dismissed the students and teachers and told us to return on Wednesday, unless...


... unless it doesn't snow.

Do you consider this "snow?" There was a disagreement in interpretation of the term. The administration didn't consider it "snow" and ordered staff and students back yesterday. We teachers braved the elements to return, but the students saw it differently.

"Snow is snow," nu? no? Why quibble over the quantity of flakes?

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2 comments:

  1. Lion of Zion21/2/08 05:25

    my father told me of his first snow "storm" experience in israel. it snowed less than 2 inches and the whole city (jerusalem) shut down and he could not get to work (in a school). or something like that.

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  2. Batya21/2/08 05:48

    Not that bad, because way back when, not that many years ago, they waited for the snow to fall before calling it a snow day and closing down. Now they closed it down before it ever snowed, just because the weatherman said...

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