UPDATE, 8:42 p.m.: Our phone rang and the kidlet picked it up. As soon as she began jumping and yelling, I knew: School is canceled in Boston tomorrow. Barring any more snow days, this means Boston Public Schools will get out for the year on June 28. All Boston Centers for Youth and Families sites will be open tomorrow, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Somerville announced this afternoon it's cancelled school, but America's Toughest City says school is still on. Parents who do get their kids to school will no doubt get really, really annoyed if they get robo-calls at noon again that absent kids won't be marked absent.
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Doesn't street sweeping begin
By datadyne007
Mon, 03/18/2013 - 8:32pm
Doesn't street sweeping begin on April 1, anyways?
Pilot program
By adamg
Mon, 03/18/2013 - 8:33pm
In, I think, the North End and South End.
Snow Day just got the call
By Mayhem
Mon, 03/18/2013 - 8:45pm
Snow Day just got the call
Early downtown
By johnmcboston
Tue, 03/19/2013 - 7:39am
In downtown neighborhoods, it now begins on March 1st, and continues to December 31st, weather permitting of course.
bostonpublicschools.org says
By ZedThou
Mon, 03/18/2013 - 8:45pm
bostonpublicschools.org says there's no school tomorrow, and the final school day is June 28.
Robocall
By eeka
Mon, 03/18/2013 - 9:05pm
was the first she heard of it?
Does she not get the text alerts? They show up faster.
Today
By Jess
Mon, 03/18/2013 - 9:11pm
The robocall came before the text.
Wow, could you be more
By Cripes
Mon, 03/18/2013 - 9:30pm
Wow, could you be more condescending about someone's kid?
Cripes
Not meant as a dig
By eeka
Mon, 03/18/2013 - 10:18pm
Just surprised she wouldn't be all over the snow alerts and signed up for them in every way possible.
My text showed up before robocall. The messenger on a horse beat them all.
You know those stereotypes about teen girls and phones?
By adamg
Mon, 03/18/2013 - 10:36pm
Let's just say she's not in that demographic. In fact, as I type, none of us can figure out where her phone is, except that it might be somewhere in the house (turned off, natch, although by this point the battery'd probably be dead, anyway).
So kids get a week off in February
By Will LaTulippe
Tue, 03/19/2013 - 1:32am
But have to sit in a classroom all of June? Wow, I really feel badly for Boston school kids. No joke. No wonder this city's schools are so awful...you really think a kid is going to pay attention once it's 75 and sunny outside every day?
Hell, in Vermont, we used to ask the teacher if we could have class outside by the time Memorial Day rolled around...and even we were done by June 15.
Sounds amazing
By JohnAKeith
Tue, 03/19/2013 - 2:46am
Wow.
I heard the Green Mountain Boys were neat guys. Did you know them?
Meanwhile, in the South...
By anon
Tue, 03/19/2013 - 7:42am
It's 75+ and sunny for like 50% of the school year and we somehow managed to get by.
Yeah, the South is analogous to the Northeast
By Will LaTulippe
Tue, 03/19/2013 - 12:06pm
Sick argument, bro. Nice weather isn't really a novelty down there.
Define "Nice"
By anon
Tue, 03/19/2013 - 1:07pm
Spend some time down there in July and August.
Forget summer
By rsybuchanan
Tue, 03/19/2013 - 4:26pm
My hometown had a high temp of 97° yesterday.
Ah. Explains so much. Now I
By Cripes
Tue, 03/19/2013 - 8:14am
Ah. Explains so much. Now I understand.
Cripes
You've solved the mystery!
By Scratchie
Tue, 03/19/2013 - 9:05am
It's all those darn snow days! I hope you'll be running for Boston School Committee soon so that we can all benefit from your insight.
Wimps
By canta
Tue, 03/19/2013 - 8:58am
Boston's lost its title as toughest- Cambridge is the only school within 40 miles that's open on normal schedule.
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