2006-10-04 01:57:06 · 13 answers · asked by MAK 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Personally I think it's wrong-especially for housewifes, people who can work from home or people who have other options eg grandparents who can babysit etc.
2006-10-04 01:58:21 · update #1
I should add-there's lots of lightening and a few downed electric poles.
2006-10-04 02:00:54 · update #2
I dont care what other parents are doing, I do what is best for my kid. It would have to be very bad before weather would stop me though. Snow and ice would be more likly to make me keep here home because they arn't that great driving in it here.
2006-10-05 00:39:16 · answer #1 · answered by Tom H 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why? It's just a thunderstorm not a tornado ro hurricane. If I kept my kids home everytime there was a bit of thunder and lightening....well I guess I'd be better off homeschooling them if I did keep them home. And my husband or I always take the girls to school thunderstorms or not. So I guess the downed poles and lightening don't really matter unless the school is without power - then I guess we would be without power at home as well so they may as well be at school with all their friends.
*are you a parent? or a kid? not being rude just asking*
2006-10-04 09:02:18 · answer #2 · answered by Liss 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We had a thunderstorm this morning as we were getting ready for work and school. When it was time to go out to the bus, I took our golf umbrella and waited at the bus stop with her. She is 9 and in the 4th grade. I don't really know what other parents do as we live out in the country on a road where no other school age children live close by. A thunderstorm is no reason not to go to school.
2006-10-04 09:09:58 · answer #3 · answered by sevenofus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thunderstorms in London are pretty pathetic compared to what you're probably used to, judging by your question. There's no chance that I'd keep them off school because of one. They both love thunder and lightning storms, anyhow, and know all the safety rules (don't take shelter near a tree, don't go out in a wide open space, etc). But unless the school was closed, there's absolutely no reason why they shouldn't be there.
2006-10-04 09:05:01 · answer #4 · answered by Tish P 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why is wrong for kids to go to school during a thunderstorm?? There's nothing wrong about going to school during a thunderstorm...it's not like it's a hurricane or anything... that would be a different story....
2006-10-04 09:01:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
IF THEY HAD TO WALK TO SCHOOL, I WOULD NOT SEND THEM IN ANY KIND OF A STORM. YEARS AGO, WHEN I WAS A KID, I WAS WHAT THEY CALLED A WALKER. ONE WINTER DAY, IT WAS BITTERLY COLD AND SNOWING LIKE CRAZY, WITH HIGH WINDS. MY MOTHER KEPT MY SISTER AND I HOME. NEXT DAY, WHEN SHE SENT IN OUR EXCUSE, SHE TOLD THE TRUTH - THE WETHER WAS TO BAD FOR US TO WALK. LATER SHE RECEIVED A PHONE CALL FROM THE SCHOOL, STATING THAT THERE WERE MANY KIDS ABSENT ON THAT DAY, AND PARENTS "MADE UP" EXCUSES WHY THEIR CHILD DID NOT COME TO SCHOOL. MY MOTHER WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT TOLD THE TRUTH. AND I WOULD NEVER SEND A "WALKER" OUT INTO A THUNDERSTORM. MY COUSIN WAS STRUCK BY LIGHTNING WHEN HE WAS A KID WALKING TO SCHOOL. IT DAMAGED HIS HEARING. SO I WOULD NOT SEND A CHILD OUT INTO A THUNDERSTORM OR ANY OTHER STORM. NOT A GOOD IDEA. AND I WOULD TELL THE SCHOOL THE TRUTH TOO.
2006-10-04 09:03:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
its not wrong more people are hit by falling coconuts than lightning i beleive its wrong to have your child miss their education i mean what if there was a thunder storm every day .
dont be a hater thunderstorms are the most beautifull form of weather i would and have stood under a tree in one your fear is just old wives tales and b.s
2006-10-04 09:02:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't have kids, but since when is a Thunderstorm a reason to keep your kids out of school. I used to walk to school in thunderstorms.
2006-10-04 09:01:36 · answer #8 · answered by Myke BoDean 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, cuz oh my God...we all know thunderstorms can kill.
Lightning could strike & swallow up the entire school, then how would we feel? How dare we subject our kids to torture like a thunderstorm.
Is this the drama queen?
2006-10-04 09:02:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on how bad the storm is. If we're talking a severe storm (with a severe storm warning issued by the NWS) and the potential of tornadoes or local flash flooding, then I wouldn't make them go. Otherwise, yes. I'd drive them to school, walk them in and make sure they got to their classrooms safely.
2006-10-04 09:02:46 · answer #10 · answered by Writer of Truth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋