The thought process behind making the call to cancel school due to wind or snow.
"Snow day." Those two words on a typical school week elicit hosannas from grateful pupils but also starts a mad scramble by parents who need to dance around finding childcare and babysitters. Belmont Superintendent Dr. Thomas Kingston was asked several times this past week how he determines making the call to cancel school due to weather decision including his determination to hold off on opening schools this Monday, two days after the blizzard ended in Belmont. Kingston's wrote how he makes those decisions on his blog: "Whether or not to cancel school is a complex decision contingent on many factors. There are some superintendents who dread having to make the school/no school decision more than any other decisions they have to make (…
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"Interim" superintendent would stay additional year, continuing stability in system.
In a move that will come as a pleasant surprise to many in the Belmont education sphere, the Belmont School Committee voted unanimously to enter into negotiations with "interim" Belmont Superintendent Dr. Thomas Kingston to extend the veteran educators contract with the town for an additional year. If contract negotiations are successful, the former Chelsea School Superintendent will continue as head of the 4,000 student Belmont district until June 30, 2014. In March the School Committee voted to extend Kingston's contract to June of 2013 after determining it was not prepared to marshal the effort to secure a new superintendent by that date. "Discussions I've had with other people in the community identified Dr. Kingston as a very …
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Mike
12:04 pm on Saturday, February 16, 2013
In the 60's, the three fire stations had bright red horns attached to the outsides of the buildings. Usually, there was a long blast every Saturday at Noon. On snow days, the School Superintendent, John McGrath, would call the Fire Alarm Office with the cancellation notice. Wisely, the dispatcher would call Dr. McGrath right back to confirm the authenticity of the message. Then the special signal… more ›