Kids Get Day Off Due To Incompetence

With the temperatures hovering around 10 degrees this week in the morning, the news media is jumping on any sort of story possibly involving the cold it can. (This is normal. It’s okay, it should pass soon enough.)

So comes the tale of the students stuck on the frigid schol bus. The news stations had it yesterday, I think, and the Daily News has it this morning. (And now I have it. See, everyone’s guilty.)

The school bus broke down at 9th and Dickinson in South Philly yesterday at around 8:15. The students were apparently in the bus for a little less than three hours; they were only moved to a nearby school after a student called 911. (Way to go, adults in charge!)

Eventually, students called their parents from the other school. Here’s how the DN describes the ordeal of Vikera Wilkins and Aikiem Maxie, two nine-year-old brothers. (Uhh, how does that work?) The boys’ mother, Latasha Signil eventually got a call.

About 12:30 p.m., Signil took her children to their own school, Folk Art Charter, and they picked up their homework.

Then it was home for dinner, homework, a warm bath and bed.

Wait. Those kids got to go home just after noon? Screw the cold, I bet those kids are as happy as they can be. Three-day weekend! (And a warm bath to boot!)

Bus snafu leaves pupils in the cold [Daily News]
Cold start today [Philly Weather]