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Martha’s Vineyard public schools are experiencing a two-hour delay on Tuesday.
According to Martha’s Vineyard assistant superintendent John Stevens, the delays were due to the Vineyard accumulating two inches of snow.
Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School also implemented a two-hour delay, according to MVPCS director Peter Steedman.
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back in the ’60’s we would walk to school with 6″ on the ground and still snowing, maybe get an early dimissal, but we went, Quincy schools
Was it uphill? Both ways?
I remember there had to be about 8 inches before school closed.
New Jersey schools. I also remember walking to school and back.
It was uphill both ways 😉
Those were the good old days, a lot of kids didn’t go beyond the eight grade, segregation was rampant. Are things better today?
The only thing that was not better in the 50’s and 60’s Hess was segregation and that only happened in the deep south. Things are a lot worse today. We are a banana republic.
Ever heard of red-lining? It’s the polite word for housing segregation. Your boy is quite familiar with it. https://clearinghouse.net/case/15342/
50s and 60s were great for women who were basically shut out of the labor market. LGBTQ could be fired simply for being themselves. It was a great time for white males. Didn’t learn much history, did you? But you’re right, any country that would nominate individual1 for president is trying to be a banana republic.
andy– I never realized Boston was in the
deep south. But I guess there is an area of
Boston that is referred to as “south Boston”.
Is that where you are talking about when you say
that segregation only happened “in the deep south” ?
Perhaps you were still in the Soviet Union when
the issue of segregation hit a crisis in the liberal
north, and missed this racial hatred in Boston, MA
in the 1970’s, when a successful campaign to end
segregation encountered racism and violence.
https://bostonresearchcenter.org/projects_files/eob/single-entry-busing.html#:~:text=Bused%20children%20were%20jeered%2C%20menaced,attend%20private%20and%20parochial%20schools.
I like how you ended your comment with the term
“banana republic”.
Do you have any idea of what that means ?
Here , let me help you—
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic#:~:text=The%20ruling%20class%20controls%20the,plantation%20agriculture%2C%20especially%20banana%20cultivation.
You know, andy, you have to be careful with some of
the rhetoric here. Even the slightest derogatory
reference against a group of people or a culture could
get you labeled as a “hater”. The term , after all refers to
a few specific countries- Guatemala and Honduras.
Some might see that term as having a
subliminal racial overtone, or even an overt
one. Given the fact that there many people
from those countries currently applying
for legal asylum in the United states, and a
governor of a border state (Texas) recently stated
that they don’t shoot these asylum seekers because
the bad old Biden administration would charge them
with murder is pretty telling.
We did that on the island too. You wore boots, if your mom drove you it was with chains on your tires. Now everyone has all wheel or 4~wheel drive. School delay for
Two Inches?! How embarrassing.
As embarrassing as a bus accident injury?
your comment is embarrassing. Its not about the number of inches of snow, its about the condition of the roads and the timing of the weather. You must understand that the superintendent must consider road conditions of the entire island. Roads can be clear in Edgartown but if Chilmark is covered and dangerous a delay will be called. Its the right call. Its the responsible call. We are talking about the safety of children.
When I worked in the Superintendent’s office, oh, so many years ago, the disposition of the bus drivers as to whether they wanted to drive up-Island roads and if they were safe had a great deal to do with this decision. I imagine it still does.
Bus drivers, should be the deciders.
Keller please note I said 50’s and 60’s not 70’s in Boston where schools were segregated in 1974 by a federal official not by normal ordinary people. A banana republic is a country with an economy of state capitalism, whereby the country is operated as a private commercial enterprise for the exclusive profit of the ruling class. There are banana republics all over the world and not just Latin America. As for racial overtones I am not a bit worried. by the way if you think things are better here than in the 50’s and 60’s you are a small minority. Every metric has gotten worse.
andy== every metric ?
I’ll stick with 1960
Life expectancy:
1960— 69.48
2023 —79.25
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/life-expectancy
Infant mortality :
1960—-26.36
2023—-5.34
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/infant-mortality-rate
Maternal deaths
1960== 37
2023== 20.4
Maternal mortality rate us 1960
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/maternal-mortality/2021/maternal-mortality-rates-2021.htm
sorry, google does not give me everything —settle
with 2021
traffic fatalities
1960—5.21 deaths per million miles driven
1921 1.5 deaths per 100 million miles driven
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/maternal-mortality/2021/maternal-mortality-rates-2021.htm
airline fatalities
128 people died in commercial airline crashes in 1960
https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/16-december-1960/#:~:text=All%20128%20persons%20on%20board,the%20burning%20jet%20fuel%20fumes.
not a single person has died in a commercial airline crash
in the U.s since 2009.
that’s just valuing life—
economic stats are much better
Average work week
working conditions
rate of pay compared to cost of living
How about you take the time to show me
otherwise?
social conditions are much better —-
There are more
opportunities for minorities and women
opportunities for people of color
opportunities for people who don’t conform
to the “norms” of white Christians
regarding their sexual orientation or
gender identities.
Opportunities for physically, psychologically
or mentally handicapped people.
Even more opportunities for religiously
devout people — remember in 1960,
JFK was handicapped because he was a Catholic
And Joe Lieberman was essentially excluded
from a shot at the vice presidency because he was
Jewish.
The only metric that i see that is worse, is
that wealthy white men don’t have their
exclusive white male only clubs and golf courses.
Women have rights, people of color have rights.
LGBTQ people have rights, and some of those wealthy
white men might actually to have sit next to them
in a nice restaurant.
Oh the horrors—-