Bradley County Schools

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GASOUTHERNVOL

GASOUTHERNVOL

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Bradley County Schools (cleveland, TN) has closed their schools for tommorow because it will be too cold. (10 degrees) wow,
 
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i would say i wish they did it in catoosa, but im taking a personal day tommorow soooo i dont really care haha
 
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GASOUTHERNVOL said:
i bet its they dont want to pay for the bills to heat the schools, budget cuts
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That isn't the concern I would say...a lot of kids simply don't have the coats/clothes needed to wait for their buses or walk home in those kinds of temperatures. There are a lot of classes canceled in Minnesota as well...but of course their temperature is a lot lower (-15 or so)...
 
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TennTradition said:
That isn't the concern I would say...a lot of kids simply don't have the coats/clothes needed to wait for their buses or walk home in those kinds of temperatures. There are a lot of classes canceled in Minnesota as well...but of course their temperature is a lot lower (-15 or so)...
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yah, i see that as well. The reason i was saying budget is that a lot of schools in this area have idiots for school board members that dont know how to manage money, combine that with unfunded mandates and there is a predicament, so it wouldnt suprise me that they would shut down for a day to conserve on energy costs, plus TVA just went up on their rates.
 
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I think they probably have several schools in the system that wouldn't be able to keep up with the heating demands. Especially if they have classes in the modular units.
 
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vollygirl said:
I think they probably have several schools in the system that wouldn't be able to keep up with the heating demands. Especially if they have classes in the modular units.
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that may be one of my favorite terms in dealing with schools, modular units, AKA trailers haha. but yah, funding=BAD
 
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dang I had to walk to school barefoot in knee deep snow growing up....
 
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its just a sad state of afairs when we cant even heat our schools because of the federal government and their wonderful unfunded mandates because of all of our best friend, NCLB
 
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vollygirl said:
I think they probably have several schools in the system that wouldn't be able to keep up with the heating demands. Especially if they have classes in the modular units.
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That could be an issue. I wonder how cold they would be even if they tried to keep them warm?

Personally, I wonder if they will even turn down their thermostats?
 
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schools in upper east TN have closed down before simply for heating costs during extremely cold temperatures. Of course it can be 20 degrees colder in Shady Valley than Elizabethton and they are only about 30 minutes away from each other.
 
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cd12 said:
dang I had to walk to school barefoot in knee deep snow growing up....
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uphill both ways?

BTW, what's up with all of the coldness? Where is global warming at right now? It seems colder this winter than any I can remember the past 15 years.
 
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myrobbins7 said:
Interesting...I wonder what Mr. Gore is up to these days?
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Keeping warm by his natural gas furnace...gas for which he as purchased carbon credits to plant trees in Slovokia. Maybe he could go to Australia where they were having some record warmth or something....

...this is quite the Arctic blast, though...what surprises me is that weeks ago they said it would be coming, and were actually right.
 
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TennTradition said:
Keeping warm by his natural gas furnace...gas for which he as purchased carbon credits to plant trees in Slovokia. Maybe he could go to Australia where they were having some record warmth or something....

...this is quite the Arctic blast, though...what surprises me is that weeks ago they said it would be coming, and were actually right.
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I agree TT. im kind of shocked also.
 
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