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Boston public schools will be open tomorrow
By adamg on Sun, 05/02/2010 - 4:13pm
BPS spokesman Matthew Wilder reports the good (bad?) news:
All Boston Public Schools will be open as usual. We will have bottled water in the schools and we will have pre-packaged meals for breakfast and lunch.
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I'm stunned
I'm stunned by this use of logic - isn't this the same Mayor and Schools Superintendent who kept closing schools even when no storms showed up??
The Mayor must be suffering from heat stroke, is all I can imagine.
No that's not what he did at all
Because weather can be predicted in advance of it happening, school cancellations have to take into account not just snow that has already fallen, but snow that might fall. In fact, because snow can be plowed, it's the snow that will fall between, say, the deadline for cancelling school and the end of the schoolday which is the most dangerous because you have less time to clear the snow away. However, weather is a highly chaotic system, so it's always a gamble. But the idea that there's something wrong cancelling school on days when after the fact it turns out that it didn't snow is a complete misunderstanding of how probability works.
Don't they usually have pre-packaged lunches?
And what does that have to do with water, anyways? They have milk and sometimes juice with lunch, not tap water.
Water fountains
Also, some schools have actual kitchens, as opposed to the tiny elementary schools you tend to see in the West Zone.
Can't use water in preparation
They won't be able to do things like rinse fruits and vegetables.
Substitute fruits?
Wonder if the schools could distribute fruit that doesn't need washing for the time being (oranges, tangerines, kumquats, bananas) instead of apples, pears, or grapes.
Kumquats?
I would love to see what would happen if you distributed kumquats to your average middle-school cafeteria.
Plus you're wrong
Not you, Adam. You, Ron.
Kumquats get eaten with the peel on, so you have to rinse them unless they're organic, and even then, you probably want to just to wash away any ick that got on them during transit.
Yeah, you're right
but by the time I realized it, it was too late to edit, plus I like seeing the word 'kumquat' on UH.
Huh huh. Kumquat.
You should at least put a NSFW warning on it though.
washing hands
Not supposed to use water.
at least until it starts
at least until it starts raining