21st January 2004, 12:08 AM
Snow on roads = cancelled school here. Generally I had always wondered how people up north where it snows much more often manage to even get to school, but it would seem they have no problem putting kids at risk of death except in very extreme situations. Oh well. So, they still have the buses that are COMPLETELY outdated and TOTALLY unsafe? We have seatbelt laws in this state here, and yet school busses STILL go utterly without belts in all but the driver's seat (there's also the COMPLETELY vertical hard back of the seats 2 inches from one's face).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)