School Delay for FOOTBALL???
Yep. They are doing it in Indianapolis on Monday – Indianapolis settles on one-hour school delay on Monday after Super Bowl.
Christine the Curmudgeon thinks that this is absolutely ridiculous. Where are people’s priorities? School should be more important than football, even if it IS the Super Bowl.
Who is this really for, anyway? If it’s for the kids, well, if they are too young to stay up that late, too bad. When I was a little Curmudgeonlette, kids had bedtimes, and the only way we were every allowed to stay up late for anything was if it was held on a non-school night. Super Bowl goes on past Junior’s bedtime? Too bad. School comes first. The NFL puts out Super Bowl DVDs every year, let the kids watch those on a weekend or holiday afternoon. School vacation week is coming up soon, anyway.
If this is more to keep the school bus drivers from calling in sick, too bad once again. They signed on for this job, they need to do it. This is a case where paid sick leave should not be allowed. Call in sick on the day after the Stupor Bowl, your pay gets docked. If it turns out that you were really sick (and I don’t mean sick, as in caused by consuming too much beer the night before), provide some kind of proof, and you get the pay for the sick day back. If an employees is known to do this regularly, calling in sick the day after late-night events, then they need to be fired. Too bad if they lose their benefits, too bad if they have to look elsewhere for health and life insurance rates. There are plenty of other people who’d love to have their jobs…okay, driving a school bus has to seriously suck, but if you have NO job, the pay from this is better than nothing.
As far as I know, they have never done this sort of thing in any school in the Boston area. In recent history, we’ve had two World Series wins, three Super Bowl trophies, and one NBA Championship victory. All of these games were played at night and ended very late. Okay, there probably were parents who called in sick, or kept their kids out of school the next day…but there were never any official school delays the morning after the big win.
What are we teaching kids these days, by saying that it’s okay to adjust the school schedule over a football game?
