We've all been chatting about the weather this week: what is it doing? What did Mike Morgan say? Who drives like crap? Which school is cancelled?
Well, I've been stressed out with the fact that UCO is not closed.
I know I cannot drive in this and, most of us agree, no one else can effectively either. So why does UCO put us in a position in which we have these two unpleasant options:
1. Risk my life and others' to drive to campus.
2. Risk my grade due to missed class time.
I think this is a lousy and unfair choice.
Edmond Schools are closed. Why isn't UCO?
6 comments:
Mandee,
You are exactly correct. One reason why administrators might not close the school is because of their sense of Puritanism. We always, always must be working. Otherwise, who are we? The French?
You have a good question, Mandee. It probably has something to do with money, as all University operations eventually are. I don't know...maybe like the University won't get any state funding if it closes more than a day or two. Just a thought. My blog is Living On This Earth...my tag is treehugger62...I'm Laura Thomas! You are welcome to visit my blog!
Mike,
I think you've got something there.
How strikingly American of us to place work above all else, including one's safety.
I was just talking to my mom about this the other day.
I was noting how tied up with career and work all Americans are; how the first question we ask someone is: What do you do?; how we give lip service to other priorities, claiming that these are truly the priorities of America.
Look at family. Family Values. How often is this topic bandied about. Yet, our very work places alone attest to our shallow commitment to the family. We have no government-mandated paid maternity leave (and forget about paternity leave). We have no government funded, or business funded child care across the board. Rather, to get any assitance, one must live below the poverty line. And wages and benefits are so meager and pathetic that a typical family must have two income-earners to get by. The situation is aggravated when one party's entire paycheck is consumed by daycare expenses.
Google provides a nice alternative business model to the one I've just painted.
The bottom line is: family is just one aspect of our daily existence which suffers from our irrational and dogmatic attachment to work, work, work. UCO's unwillingness to close for the icy weather is symptomatic of this phenomenon.
Mandee,
But don't forget about the rainbows, smiles, and Asian breakdancers--the good things in life.
I LOVE the Asian breakdancers!
Mandee, just remember in 5 months it will be 107 degrees outside and we won't even have a spring! Ice Storm 2007 will be a laughable memory...a memory we wish would come back in real life!
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