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Old Aug 19, 2017 | 5:42 pm
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CBear
 
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Originally Posted by RandomBaritone
Traffic and travel will turn some of the larger cities in the path of totality into absolute zoos. Nashville, for example, is having a daylong festival with attendance that could number in the hundreds of thousands.

I'm also curious why the notion offends? As with a snow day, they'll just make it up at the end of the school year.
I'm not offended, but unexpected school closures place a massive burden on all the parents who have to work and now have to scramble for alternative care. It's always fun to use leave because you can't find care for you kid.....not!
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