I know I speak for everyone when I say I was ever so impatiently waiting for SIUE to make the decision to call off Monday’s classes Sunday night.
SIUE is one of those schools that doesn’t cancel until about 5am of that day. I think this campus forgets it is not a “real school”. SIUE is just a large 4 year community college. Well at least that is how it is viewed in this area. SIUE is a largely based commuter school. No football team, or greek housing, it is hard to look at this school as a real university sometimes.
SIUE posted on their Facebook page that they did not know if they were going to cancel school and that it would later be announced. Well that did not go over with the general public. The post got slammed by over 50 different people in a matter of minutes. All but one person posted something negative. The one person that didn’t post something negative about the school is a student who is known for standing up for the school and playing devil’s advocate, so wasn’t much of a win.
Most of the comments voiced the true frustration of the students. Some were commuters, some were trapped in their driveways, some were parents who would have to find babysitters because their kid’s school was closed, and some were just students who didn’t want to go to class.
It was very entertaining watching all these comments pop up, and people slamming SIUE. Within an hour or so of the virtual beating of the SIUE posts, the school made the wise decision to cancel Monday classes.
I do think that the post had some influence over the school’s decision.
And they made a wise one at that, hope everyone enjoyed their snow day as much as I did.
English: An entry sign at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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