“My children’s school was canceled today. Because of what? Some ice?” President Obama asked incredulously yesterday. “As my children pointed out, in Chicago, school is never canceled.” USA Today reports Sidwell Friends, the private school Obama’s daughters attend, was among area schools that closed or started late Wednesday after a 2-inch snowfall and freezing rain overnight. Washington’s public schools opened two hours late.
“Folks in Washington don’t seem to be able to handle things,” Obama joked, adding folks in his new town could use some “flinty Chicago toughness.” The paper notes Chicago schools haven’t had a snow day in ten years.
