The Pioneer Spirit

In America is dead. I am convinced of that because of yesterday when over 600 schools in Ohio were closed because it was cold. I can understand closing schools in the poorer districts because the kids don't have the coats, scarves, gloves, shoes, and whatever else needed to keep warm on the way to school. That I can understand. What I don't understand is that all these wealthy districts canceled school despite mommy and daddy driving them every morning in the BMW SUV. So instead of going to school all these kids were out and about with their parents shopping or sled riding or something similar. Now at the risk of sounding to old fogey I am going to say that we never had school canceled because of cold. Sure we stayed in at recess, but we got our butts out of bed, bundled up and walked the mile to school no matter how cold it was. If we keep coddling ever generation it won't be long until we have to outsource to some third world counry to have people come wipe our asses for us because we might get some germs on our hands.