I woke up this morning to plows. I look outside to find the blizzard that we expected to get. So naturally, I look at the computer and wander over to babson.edu to see if class got cancelled. Answer: absolutely not.
Apparently, we’re just about the only school in the Boston area that feels the need to have class during a blizzard (I think there were over 500 closed schools in the area today). More appropriately, we’re just about the only school that has absolutely no regard whatsoever for the safety of the staff and students.
Maybe the snowfall as of 8am wasn’t so horrible that the faculty, staff, and students couldn’t get to campus. But knowing that a blizzard has already started, and that this blizzard will turn to sleet, freezing rain, etc., then how is everyone supposed to get back home after the blizzard has set in and the roads are covered with freezing rain?
I only hope someone doesn’t have to pay the price with their life on the way back from class today for the administration to wake up and realize that having one snow day during the year isn’t such a horrible thing.
And it wouldn’t hurt for the admins to realize this is a COLLEGE, and that maybe snow days once in a while would improve the quality of life because no one likes doing 360′s on icy roads on the way to class, getting pinballed around among trees, cars, and other obstacles.
Anyway, stay safe everyone, and if you see Bareass around, smoke his nuts with your steel-toe boot for me and for all those whose insurance payments will double today as a result of the snow day that never was.