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By The Squall staff
A special weather alert: 3-5 inches expected between 8:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. tomorrow. Wind gusts up to 50 mph. Road conditions are expected to worsen making the morning commute dangerous. Stay tuned for further updates from your National Weather Service. Prepare, plan, and stay informed.
One thought rolls through your mind: I’ve got to tweet Timmis. I’ve got to convice him to cancel school.
A new trend in the high school and the middle school is to bombard the superintendent with tweets about calling school, assuming their opinion will sway his decision. We on staff believe that you guys have got to tone it down a couple notches.
“I’m okay with it,” DCS Superintendent Dr. Chris Timmis said on students tweeting at him. “It is somewhat humorous to see the wit from our students.”
Timmis isn’t alone in his belief; students do enjoy tweeting the superintendent.
“It’s fun,” freshman and avid Timmis tweeter, Owen Boquette said. “You’re kinda just joking around with the superintendent.”
Aside from his major jobs of making sure the staff and students are happy, keeping the books in the black, and making sure everything on school grounds is running smoothly, the superintendent decides whether school will be in session. Students know this, yet they try and voice their two cents. And not just a few students; it’s literally hundreds.
You guys have got to pump your brakes. It’s getting out of hand. Your tweets accomplish nothing.
“Nothing influences my decision other than the weather and safety of our buses and students,” Timmis said. “We have a set protocol we follow that involves several individuals making the decision. The tweets help the decision-making process be a little more enjoyable for everyone.”
Yeah, it is fun to see what people will tweet, but when you’re tweeting stuff like,“OMG @TimmisChris. There’s like hella snow!! You have to cancel school!!! XD” you’re just embarrassing yourself. Those are the tweets he won’t respond to.
Nor will he appreciate them. No one will, actually. Looking at you, underclassmen.
At least it’s somewhat understandable when 8+ inches of snow are falling four hours prior to school, but when we are getting half an inch at 8 p.m., stop it.
Sure, he doesn’t really mind it; in fact he sometimes finds it funny. However, it gets obnoxious.
If half the student body is tweeting at the superintendent to cancel school, it clogs up not only Timmis’ feed, but ours too.
The snow day tweets are incredibly out of hand.
Telling the superintendent that you saw an accident on the side of the road or that your tires slipped in your driveway isn’t reason enough to cancel school.
Accidents happen all the time. Just ask your parents about that.
We realize here at The Squall that we are no longer in snow season. However, we felt so strongly about the actions of the students of Dexter Community Schools, that we needed to get off it our chest.
Please stop.
Save your 140 characters for something worthwhile, like complaining about how hard your life is because of your AP classes or possibly sub-tweeting your recent ex. We’re sure everyone will care so much more about that.
YOUR VIEWS
DO YOU THINK THAT YOUR TWEETS HAVE ANY EFFECT ON DR. TIMMIS?
“I don’t really think it has a big impact at all. Most people just do it for fun I guess.”
– Owen Boquette
“No. No not at all.” – Gabi Waddington
“Maybe, he’s a pretty cool dude, so you know. It could.” – Marc Lopez
“I feel like it annoys him more than anything, but I don’t know if it really has an impact but I feel like it does because he realizes how bad we want it.” – Courtney Couch
