We've had a lot of snow lately and with that has come lots of school closings. To this day I still look to see if Ash Grove, where I went to elementary-high school, is out of school when the weather turns bad. The way we learn about school closings now has changed so much from when I was a kid. The school closing list still scrolls along the bottom of the TV, but today there are so many other ways to find out if school is canceled or not...searching online, opening the local news or radio station's app on your smart phone, or getting a "robo" call from the district telling you school is canceled for the day.
Tuesday afternoon I checked the local news app on my phone to see if Springfield was out of school. It seemed like it took forever to scroll to the S section! I wished there was a search feature on this app so I could simply type in the name of the school I wanted to find instead of having to scroll all the way down.
I laughed to myself when I realized how impatient I was being and remembered what really took forever was being a kid and watching the school closings at the bottom of the TV and just missing the A section for Ash Grove. Missing the As meant I had to watch the schools scroll all the way back to A to see if Ash Grove was out or not. Sometimes it seems that no matter how far technology advances, we always want more!
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