![]() ![]() ![]() During President Obama's first winter in Washington, he complained when his daughters' school closed for bad weather: "We're going to have to apply some flinty Chicago toughness to this town." In response to this latest round of school closings, a Virginia mom sighed, "Hasn’t anyone heard of gloves, scarf and a hat when it’s cold? Just bundle up-people do it all over the world. Weather-related school cancellations tend to raise anxieties about whether we're a nation of wimps. Record-low temperatures caused by the Polar Vortex have forced schools across the country to close this week. A one-room schoolhouse built in the 1850s in Maine, similar to the one where Laura Ingalls Wilder taught (Wikimedia Commons) ![]()
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