City Schools of Decatur Closed Thursday
Decatur Metro | | 1:49 pmCity Schools of Decatur Facebook page just broke the news…
There will be no school for City Schools of Decatur students and staff tomorrow, Thursday, January 30. All schools will be closed. We are so grateful that all our students made it home safely yesterday! Thank you to all the faculty, staff and parents who helped make that possible. Please stay safe and warm!
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if this keeps up we’ll be giving year-round schooling a test drive in 2014
Ha! Finally, I get my wish, a few years too late for it to help me with work/life balance. Be careful–some people don’t find even the mention of year-round school at all funny. But clearly, we’ve gone from an agricultural society in which the children need to be off during the summer to pick the crops to a technological society when the children need to be off during the winter because our heat/plumbing/electricity/cell phone tower/transportation infrastructures are at risk.
. . . and a society in which having a stay at home mom is relatively rare, so there is no built-in child care during working hours for most families.
i nearly fell out of my chair yesterday after reading there’s a proposal in the GA Legislature to legalize medical marijuana, and that it has a fair amount of support. if that can happen in GA, pigs can fly, and year-round education is a foregone conclusion.
I have friends who have a sick child who suffered from 10+ seizures a day. After tons of different medicines and diets that didn’t work, they relocated their family to Colorado to try medical marijuana. The results have been absolutely amazing for their son.
Many of us are lucky not to have a child with medical issues and have family support in the area. My friends grew up in Atlanta, their whole family is in Atlanta and now are on their own in Colorado with one child with significant medical needs, a toddler, and another bun in the oven.
The medical marijuana movement is not about “getting high”, it is about giving children suffering so badly an alternative where research is demonstrating that it actually works. I believe we would all do anything for our chlidren and some families just don’t have the ability or means to move across the country for treatment and in the end they shouldn’t have to
I think it is about all of the above, getting high and true medicinal uses. But above all, it’s that the drug war has utterly failed, pot is hardly worse than alcohol (if at all), and government has no business continuing to waste our money and take our freedom by continuing this stupid effort to ban pot.
^^ this
Word.
good for them. while i’m not personally familiar with the medicinal features of pot, i have seen enough video testimony of people suffering from a range of afflictions report the benefits they’ve experienced, that i’m willing to accept its validity. after all most of our pharmaceuticals are derived from biotics.
what amazes me is that **in spite** of the apparent evidence of its effectiveness, Georgia has even floated the proposed legislation. i love my home state for many things, but enlightenment and progressiveness aren’t among them.
now excuse me, i need to get back to practicing my glaucoma symptoms.
Many are fond of suggesting this idea of the school calendar as based on an out of date agricultural model. Google around a bit and you’ll find that is a myth. I am told, although have no first had experience, that most farm activity is in Spring and Fall…. so it seems most aren’t so sure where this idea of kids needing to be off in the summer took hold.
http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-myth-behind-origins-of-summer.html
I think point number 2 is quite relevant.
This economist may be right about the etiology of summer vacation. But his points about the harvest don’t apply everywhere. In New England, where summers are short and sweet, the harvest is in the summer, not fall. Berries are harvested in June, veggies are mostly in July-August, corn is in August. By fall, most fields are dead, only produce like apples and pumpkins/gourds are harvested. There’s only one planting per crop per growing season, not two or three like other parts of the country. Can’t remember when most crops are planted but snow lasts through March, sometimes into April and mud season is until April-May.
Whether this has any bearing on the origins on the origins of summer vacation, I don’t know. Most schools in New England used to start after Labor Day, not sure now. Never made sense to me that Southern schools, with a longer growing season and beastly hot weather, especially pre-air conditioning, started earlier in the year than schools up North. Which goes along with the economist’s argument that the harvest is not the etiology of summer vacation. Traditions self-perpetuate regardless of the original logic, or lack thereof, behind them.
Re point 2: I have a feeling that nutrition, poverty, and having to work for a living played into the physical condition of children back then. But can’t argue that lots of play outdoors is good for kids. Not sure that’s what many kids get in the summer these days.
Good decision.
from the Emory website just now: Emory University is closed today and THURSDAY, January 30, due to severe weather conditions. Emory Healthcare staff are expected to report to work during inclement weather.
For Parents Needing Child Care tomorrow: see message from Kristen Thorton-Webb, former Renfroe Science teacher:
The Science of Fun is offering a full day camp tomorrow!
Not that we are encouraging folks to get out on the roads but . . . for those of you who live nearby and need to go to work or who work from home, bring us your kiddos for a day of fun and learning!
Register at the link below or simply email me [email protected] if you are a return camper! Ages 5-12, 10:00-3:00, $69, located at The Lutheran Church of the Messiah
Please pass it on!