That glittery white death. It's coming!

Hello!

For those of you who care, and by that I mean no one, I'm currently procrastinating the massive amounts of studying I should be doing for my Huck Finn essay and Spanish oral exam and giant vocab test and Chemistry quiz in the hopes that there is no school tomorrow. If there is school, my grade just might have to suffer.

This brings me to what I'm about to ramble about.

Lebanon City School's knack for tending to choose the completely wrong thing to do every time it snows. I can think of multiple instances: My freshman year we went to school without a delay and 3 inches of fresh snow on the ground. A few weeks ago the same thing happened to a lesser extent. As recently as this morning, I was rear ended on my way to schoool, and almost got hit by the much larger truck that couldnt stop in the parkinglot. (This truck could have eaten my lovely ford ranger for breakfast.) Currently, most of the schools in the area are on some form of delay to wait to observe the impending doom that is the snow coming through tomorrow. I can very easily see Lebanon waiting, sending all of the students to school, only to turn around and send them home at noon because the snow is getting to intense.
In making these decisions, not erring on the side of caution, the school system administration endangers it's earliest arrivers: High school students new to the road. Most of LHS's students, myself included, arrive at school in the winter before daylight. This added obstacle makes traveling to school especially difficult while already dealing with a myriad of challenges of early morning driving; Students typically have older models of cars, some not too fit to drive in snowy conditions, as well as the factors of temperature, visibility, novice driving, and attention to morning grogginess allof which affect this morning commute. When there is any plausible chance of hazardous road conditions, a logical conclusion would be to protect a school's students by delaying a minimum of an hour to get to school. This added hour allows road conditions to improve, as well as students to drive to school in day light, able to intently pay attention as they make their way to school.
What is problematic about a delay? The full school day is still counted, while students, either driving or being driven, are safer. Classes are shortened a minimal amount which teachers are familiar with, as every Wednesday classes are shortened an hour for teacher meetings after school. Also, the administration can watch the weather and road conditions further to conclude whether they are improving or worsening, and potentially increase the delay or cancel school. Thus, the school system would not be stuck in the position of sending it's students home early in a potentially dangerous situation.

This being said, currently Lebanon has no delay, whilst Middletown, Mason, the Lakotas, Kings, Fenwick, Farfield, and Edgewood are on two hour delays and Little Miami is on a one hour delay. Lebanon Christian Schools are closed.

Good thing Springboro isn't on a delay as well; then it'd be personal.


Thus ends my rant. In other news, the dictionary.com Word of the Day is flibbertigibbet. It means "a silly, flighty, or scatterbrained person, especially a pert young woman with such qualities." This is my new favorite word; It describes me well.

In other other news, LHS JV Academic quiz team is currently undefeated, as I truly show my geekyness. It's like an unhealthy obsession with Jeopardy.

Goodnight! Wear your PJ's inside out and backwards, throw an ice cube in a toilet, or put a spoon under your pillow. Just do whatever you superstitiously do to bring on the snow please.

-Kels