I assume school buses would have trouble in this cold.

You don’t want kids standing outside in this weather.

Good Call

Not like they’re getting snow days so might as well toss them a day off for wind chill.

Lol true!

Is this for east providence too?

Doubly so if the bus might be late showing up or not at all

Grew up in Minnesota and had less than one snow day a year. A foot of snow? No problem, the snow plowing operations are world class and all the streets will be cleared. –20° windchill? Better layer up because that accounts for a quarter of the days in January! It took full a full whiteout blizzard or colder than –50° windchill during school hours for school to be canceled. Kids these days smh lol

Edit I was half asleep when I wrote this and it’s only a half serious comment so everyone can just calm down, and also I thought this was for all of RI, not just Providence so this is fair

Lol they’d be fine. My hometown in Minnesota is going to be –19° at 6am today (Friday) and they’ve got school. I just looked and it needs to be less than –25° at 6am before they close school.

Yeah and you walked to school barefoot uphill both ways

Sure, I hear you. But this isn’t Minnesota. People could quite possibly die here from the weather we’re about to have.

literally nobody cares how you are so much tougher than kids these days going to school in -20 windchill.

I don't believe they have uphill in Minnesota

Good for them.

RI is a different state.

Wow you are so tough

I was gonna argue with you but seeing as this morning is deceptively warm compared to what it’s going to be like when they’d get out of school, I can see kids not dressing for –10 windchills when they leave for class this morning

no I took the bus

All right bud we get that you’re from Minnesota. It doesn’t get that cold here. This is the east coast my friend.

On top of that, most of the school buildings are older and have poor insulation and not the best HVAC systems. And, being a city, there's probably a much higher percentage of kids who walk to and from school.

Lots of pvd kids walk to school

PVD has a population of kids at or below poverty level. Some of them don’t have the winter gear to protect themselves. I’ve seen kids using socks as mittens while waiting for the bus, it’s not safe in this weather.

Thank you for the reasoned response instead of “wow look at this internet tough guy.” I guess I was speaking from a point of privilege here from the kind of school district I grew up in. That’s pretty sad :(

In 2007, the districts didn't make the appropriate call and students were stranded on school buses in a snow storm. Several people were fired too over this debacle. So, these days, the school districts would rather play it safe.

why do you think you deserved a "reasoned response?" you've been an asshole throughout the thread, you're telling me you think everybody else is the bad guy? sheesh

I’m always open to changing my mind about pretty much anything and I was thanking them for something that changed my mind. Wasn’t trying to be an asshole but I see how I came off that way when I made that slightly trollish comment while half awake last night.

>Thank you for the reasoned response instead of “wow look at this internet tough guy clueless rube.”

Fixed it for you. This is where you live now (I assume) so you should have have some idea of the poverty level in the public schools. Also school buildings here are built to withstand NEW ENGLAND winters, not the ones you grew up with. There has been much in the news in the past few years about their terrible condition, so we can assume the mechanical systems are old and not up to the task of heating them in arctic temperatures.

You're not coming off as a "tough guy" in this thread, but as a person who lacks self-awareness or any idea about where he now lives. I have a friend who grew up in central Canada where everyone she knew had a battery in their garage meant for starting cars on cold winter morning. I learned this through the course of normal conversation as in interesting fact, not in in accusatory "what, you think this is cold?" kind of way.