Parents Make The Job Miserable

Vent: Director here. We had to call a snow day yesterday and called a second one tomorrow because most roads in town haven’t been plowed and are thickly coated in ice. Most of my team also said they can’t make it safely out of their neighborhoods which means we would either A.) risk their safety getting in b.) have callins and close anyways because we can’t make ratio. It isn’t ideal because we have been closed since December 23rd for Winter Break, yesterday was supposed to be our first day back. But this was a major winter storm that completely shut our city down the past few days.

Within 10 min of me announcing the snow day my app starts exploding with parents complaining and demanding refunds for the day. I tried explaining that we still incurred the expenses of staffing and benefits on snow days even if we aren’t in session. Teachers enjoy their normal salary despite the closure, but we ask they work from home as they can. Many have their own kiddos who are home from school, so they don’t have a ton of time for work.

Anyways, parents suck and don’t understand that we can’t stay open if we can’t meet ratio. Also my teachers deserve to stay home if they can’t safely come in. Also also my team have their own families they need to care for when public school is closed. I don’t understand why families don’t seem to grasp these things. Okay so you can get in with your SUV, but the teachers watching your kids can’t. Please stop yelling at me, I’m trying my best.

End of rant. Tl/dr - title says it all. Parents freak out over snow-pocalypse closures.