<p>This only my second year in a new SD, they never cancelled last year, and I’ve heard teachers say that this school never cancells. But since my town is on the water and is pretty low-lying, school was cancelled for the whole week! Yeah, my town really got hit by the brunt of the storm…70 houses rendered “uninhabitable”, and it appeared that my town was on the news more than any other in Suffolk, not sure if that says anything. and my school is serving as a storm shelter, so with all these homeless people there, its gonna be a while before everybody find a new home. School being closed Monday and tuesday is a possibility.</p>
<p>NEVER.</p>
<p>My old high school was wealthy and a suburb and almost always got plowed, so if we had snow days, there might be one or MAX 2 a year.</p>
<p>New high school. It can be -50 here and we still have school.</p>
<p>so.</p>
<p>….</p>
<p>My Northern Virginia school district closes school at the first sight of snow. It’s pretty nice. However, last year we didn’t get any snow on weekdays, so we didn’t get a single day off (first time in 20+ years, according to my AP Bio teacher).</p>
<p>Maybe once every three or four years…</p>
<p>And I live in Minnesota, where it snows like crazy most winters, making it very difficult to drive.</p>
<p>Western Washington essentially closes down when it snows (which isn’t often), but as far as flooding goes we’ve only ever been sent home early as far as I can remember. We get some pretty bad winter storms with rain and wind and school gets cancelled for power outages from time to time. Our worst recent storm was a ice/snow/wind storm right before thanksgiving two years ago and everything was shut down for 4 or 5 days… We bought a generator after that :P</p>
<p>We used to close whenever there was any snow, but in the last few years we’ve had rather a lot of snow (comparatively) so there has to be quite a lot now. Usually it’s whenever roads start closing.
The county council only advise, the individual schools get to decide.</p>
<p>In Southern CA, very rare. Though it closed once because of nearby forest fire, the smoke was thick and the air quality was very awful.</p>
<p>An update on this.
Our school had three big problems this month.
A truck leaked hydrochloric acid in our parking lot, and the students who unloaded it without knowing it was open tracked it through the entire school and in a bunch of classrooms. We remained open through the situation.
A freshman sent a bomb threat to the school, as well as a mass forward to the students saying the school would be shot up and not to go to school.
We remained open.
I worry about our superintendent.</p>
<p>I’m in California and we NEVER have our schools close.</p>
<p>Live in a rural area, close maybe twice a year on average. Only when there is a big snowstorm/its too cold for the buses to start.</p>
<p>If there is any chance at all of freezing rain anywhere within 50 miles of us we close. That happens like once a year maybe.</p>
<p>NEVER, because it almost never snows in Houston; the one time it did only accumulated about 1 inch tops and school got cancelled, but other than that, our weather isn’t dramatic enough to force cancellations.</p>