Scientists say, that
because of the world’s climate slowly rising, cold fronts are a lot harder to
detect, as the one that hit the US late last weekend and all through the
week. Extreme cold temperatures such as
the one that recently hit the US, happens about once every four years. The extreme colds caused many schools across
the US to be delayed and canceled. Many
argue that schools should still be in session, even through the extreme cold;
but I’m here to argue otherwise.
There are several
reasons why schools should be canceled due to the extreme cold. First I’m going to ask: How to the majority
of students get to school? Surely the
first thing that arises in your head is the bus. Just one of the vary reasons schools were
canceled, because students take the bus to school and they all have to walk to
their bus stops and wait for the bus.
They may not have to wait long, maybe 3-6 minutes, but when temperatures
are well below freezing, frostbite can be easy to get. Also, what would happen if a bus wouldn’t
work or would be behind because the freezing temperatures? Would we let the students stand at the bus
stop for several minutes and freeze? Of
course the answer is no, which is the very reason why we cancel schools.
Not all students take
the bus, some drive themselves, and others have their parents drive them, and
what about the other group of students that live close to school? Many students, who live a set distance,
usually about 2 miles away from school, don’t have a bus to take them to
school. This leaves the students with
only a couple options, get a ride from their parents a friend or they would
have to walk. Many of the student’s
parents have to go to work, and they wouldn’t be able to take their students to
school, and if they’re unable to catch a ride with a friend, they’ll have to
walk or ride a bike. Don’t get me wrong,
this is a very few students, but they’re still students. If even a single student had to walk several
minutes to school in the freezing cold, it wouldn’t be fair at all, and schools
should be canceled.
Lastly, how do the
other groups of students get to school but by car, and what do cold
temperatures mean for cars? Many cars
wouldn’t be able to start because of the extreme cold, which leaves the
students or their parents no way to get them to school.
For all the naive
people who think school should still be in session through the cold, when the
temperatures drop to near or below 0, I dare you to try walking to work.
"In Much Of
U.S., Extreme Cold Is Becoming More Rare." The
Weather Channel. N.p., n.d. Web.
12 Jan. 2014.
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