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- Mark Twain on School Boards
Monday night welcomes the resumption Romeo’s Monday Night Football with the regular meeting of the Romeo Board of Education.
In light of that, fellow youth worker Grahame Knox sent me this quote:
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain
Thanks for the quote Grahame. I don’t [...]
- Solutions for Snow Days?
Romeo was not alone in canceling school today. My opinion on snow days and dirt roads is well documented and tiresome. The effects on commerce and families is obvious.
So let’s talk solutions.
This is Michigan. We are a state surrounded on three sides by Canada and the Great Lakes. Winter weather shouldn’t effect commerce and education [...]
- Too Cold for Education
Satire warning. Perhaps I have heard this incorrectly, but Romeo Community Schools is now has to make up two days of school. They banked 3 days for the 2007-2008 school year and they have now used 5.
***Correction: I have since learned that they get 30 hours of snow days per school year. Romeo has now [...]
- Snow day
No complaints today, we got dumped on last night. At our house we got about 10 inches or so. It was a weird snow too as it slushed all afternoon yesterday and then as it got colder the snow got more and more fluffy.
Kristen loves to shovel, so she jumped out there early this morning. [...]
