School uses social media to inform students school day is canceled, uninformed student ends up waiting 40 minutes for the bus: ‘Can't even be bothered to send a text’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Oct 2, 2024 6:00 AM EDT

It is a kid's biggest wish to wake up in the morning and find out that school is canceled, there is nothing that compares to that joy. You get to sleep in, watch TV, and do absolutely nothing without any repercussions. 

So I am sure you can all imagine how annoying it can be to that one kid who didn't get the message that school is canceled, to get out of bed, get dressed, and endlessly wait for a school bus that is never going to come. That is exactly what happened to the kid in this Reddit story, who didn't know their school was closed because the administration only announced it on Facebook. No email, no text, not even a message on the school website. So the kid and her parents ended up waiting 40 minutes in bad weather for the bus to arrive, until a Google search showed the parent the Facebook announcement about the school being closed.

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    "We stood outside for 40 minutes"
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    My kids school used ONLY social media to announce that it was closed today
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    It's her first year at this particular school and nobody said a thing to us about how they announce closures. So we stood outside waiting for the bus for 40 minutes
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    because the school can't be bothered to send an email, or a text, or a robo call. Not a word about it even on the school or district websites. Nope. Just f'in Facebook.
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    Edit: the reason was continued power outages around the district from Helene. Edit 2: since it's not obvious that many states were affected by the
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    hurricane and to varying degrees- we are nowhere near where the hurricane caused any significant damage. It was pretty minor here.
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    • Responsible_Ad9862 17h ago • My school used to do this, but they would announce it at 8, by which point we would all be at the bus stop, stood in the s. ✓ weather, assuming the bus was just late
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    houseofnim OP • 17h ago • That's what we thought this morning! There was super heavy fog so we thought that was the cause for the delay. I had been checking and checking my email just in case the lateness of the bus was due to something else.
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    nlsjnl 16h ago • As you can imagine, the school board and superintendent are being eat alive.
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    houseofnim OP • 16h ago As they absolutely should be! That's like hundreds of cases of child endangerment.
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    wetwater ⚫16h ago • On potential snow days my father would listen to the radio while he had his coffee and read the paper. Even if it was a snow day I still had to get up, shower, dress, and then
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    go clean off the cars and shovel the driveway. All that being said, why only Facebook? I got rid of my account a few years ago and have zero intention of getting another.
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    houseofnim OP • 16h ago I honestly have no idea why it was only Facebook. The school uses one of the school parent communication apps and they didn't even use that to make the announcement. I had to start mine back up this morning
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    after finding the post through Google search results so we don't end up standing outside for no reason like a bunch of dolts again. I genuinely did not think there would be any issue with the schools today. We are over 800 miles from where it made landfall so we didn't get hit that badly.
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    MarsMonkey88 • 16h ago • You said it's due to power outages from the storm: is it possible that their schools email server or their robo-call platform were compromised by the outage?
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    houseofnim OP • 16h ago It's possible. The thing that really grinds my gears about it though is that nobody told us that they use Facebook for important announcements like this. A heads up would have been cool. Maybe a little blurb in the school handbook. Idk. At least I know now that they do this though.
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    The69BodyProblem 16h ago • What about people that dont use Facebook? Youd think they could send out an email or at least put it on their website. It be pand as h 'l if this happened to me.
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    houseofnim OP • 16h ago • Right, like I refuse to believe that even the superintendent can't access the district website outside of district facilities. I'm more baffled than anything tbh. I just can't find any reason in this.
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    Silly Stable 16h ago • I bet they sent an email or called but you were accidentally left off the list.
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    houseofnim OP.15h ago New kid problems lol
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    SLJ106 13h ago • Did you read the student handbook that you had to sign? Bet it's in there.
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    houseofnim OP • 12h ago There is nothing in there about using Facebook for anything.
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    • WoopsieDaisies123 13h ago • Hope you called to complain to the admin staff at the school, and then also called the district.
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    houseofnim OP • 12h ago • Maybe tomorrow if they're open.
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    sunkissedgeckos • 21h ago • Back in my day they used to do phone blasts at exactly 6 am
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    Enough_Jellyfish5700 • 19h ago • It's irresponsible for them not to put it on the school website and district website
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    Brojangles1234 • 19h ago • Schools also be like: How do we stop kids from using social media so often?
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