<p>Sons college has not yet cancelled for tomorrow. They closed early today. We got almost a foot of snow here in south jersey. Every school around here has closed for tomorrow including the comm college. Some colleges in Philly area have announced late openings, noon or later. Son has 8 am class. Our street isn’t even plowed at 11:30 pm. Still some snow coming down but it’s starting to end. This 8am class allows ONE un excused absence, tomorrow is first day of class. It meets once a week. Do you think this would be an excused absence if the school Is actually open? I think it’s ridiculous the school hasn’t posted anything yet. Every public school in the county is closed tomorrow.</p>
<p>Obviously, he commutes or I wouldn’t have any concern, but he’s on my insurance and if he did get in a wreck then how would he get to school with no vehicle, plus the expense, plus the injury potential…</p>
<p>Whether or not it’s excused is going to be up to the professor (unless the school mandates that they allow excused absences). </p>
<p>Nothing, absolutely nothing, is worth risking your life for. If that means taking the unexcused absence tomorrow, so be it. I missed my first day of the semester a few weeks ago because I was not risking my life on the roads.</p>
<p>I drove on icy roads almost 3 years ago exactly, flipped my car and totaled it by rolling off the freeway. I escaped without a scratch and everyone was amazed. It put things into perspective for me.</p>
<p>Has he checked his emails on his university account. Our university often stays open but the prof may email otherwise.
I would bet they are just going to be one of the last to announce. Is it a commuter college primarily, or do they have lots of student residents? I would just say if they can’t run shuttles and such, how can they expect others to do so.</p>
<p>They have some shuttles going to a city campus about 15 miles away. The main campus is 21% commute as freshmen and 60% live off campus as non freshman. It has a fair percent of commuters being a part of the state college system here in NJ. Not too many out of state students, many go to comm college then transfer there.</p>
<p>Neither profs nor school have sent anything. Nothing on website except for today’s early close. He just sent an email to 8 am prof saying he commutes and road not plowed and roads are bad. He asked for an excused absence and how to get lecture notes. I told him he has to try to get to his 12:00 class because roads might be passable by then. Bitter cold tomorrow means there will be little melting and lots of ice. Less than 2 weeks ago we had freezing rain and over 200 accidents in out township alone! It caught everybody by surprise during rush hour because it just iced over. Luckily, it was winter break and it came after hubby got to train station.</p>
<p>Crazy. Rutgers New Brunswick cancelled classes until 10am. Haven’t been out yet (waiting for others to wake up and help w snow removal), however, my side street is down to pavement. Hearing other main streets in NJ are fine.</p>
<p>Of the two schools I work at, one announced yesterday morning an early closing (12) and a delayed opening for today (also 12). But the other, a state school, closed early, but didn’t announce the delayed opening for today until 11pm last night. couldn’t figure out what the delay was, and was really wondering how I was going to get to my 830 class.</p>
<p>as a prof, I do count the first day, but we allow 5 absences before withdrawal, not one. Also, if we’d opened early today, I probably wouldn’t have counted it on account of the weather. As others have said, safety is paramount.</p>
<p>OTOH, I did withdraw a student last year when he’d missed his sixth absence and blamed that one on weather. I had less sympathy, as he’d already missed five for other reasons, and it was only about a month into class.</p>
<p>I realize I wasn’t clear, there is one un-excused absence for “free” (my term) any others result in five points off final grade. </p>
<p>They did cancel school however they didn’t post it on website until about 630 am!</p>
<p>Son should be happy. Wed is rough day, starts with 2.5 hour 8 am, ends with 2.5 hr. Night class, and i think there is one in between. It gets tough to make a good schedule sometimes, but that’s how it goes. </p>
<p>I hate snowy roads even more now that my kids drive. Told S2 yesterday how slippery it was for such a small amount early in the day. Told him I almost slid past/through some intersections. He said its because I don’t know now to drive.i think that is part invincible young man and part Normal MAN talk. Later he did admit it was more slippery than normal for that much snow.</p>
<p>I hope everyone enjoys the snow day. Stay safe.</p>
<p>My S is commuting into Manhattan for school. Train and subway adding up to about an hour and a half each way. No late opening or snow day for him. He started out extra early and made it in time for the first of his four back to back classes. So it turns into a long day with the 3 hour commute (but I’m just glad he’s back in school! :))</p>
<p>I’m in MA and it is still snowing a bit. I live on the coast and we got the brunt of it. Must be 20 inches in my yard and on my deck with much higher drifts. No school for me today!</p>
<p>The original forecast in NYC was for the snow to continue until 6:30 a.m. It started earlier and stopped earlier than expected and the plows were out all night. Mass transit within the city is mostly on schedule but not so much the commuter railroads. Public schools are in session and my high school senior, who has two midterms today, was not happy this morning!</p>
<p>Huge differential in total snowfall in the Boston area–just an inch or 2 on the north shore and close to 2 feet a comparable distance south of Boston (and Cape and Islands). Schools in the metro area (apart from the South Shore) that cancelled early for today are surely regretting it.</p>