Parents around the LoHud region woke up to the quiet falling snow and the sound of happy children, rejoicing in yet another snow day. Except for those who live in the Pelham school district. That district did just fine with a two-hour delay, thankyouverymuch, the district’s superintendent told TJN/LoHud staff writer Theresa Juva in this news report. He apparently faced some criticism for not shutting down the schools (NYC schools didn’t close either.)

Well, one person who would have supported the Pelham decision appears to be President Obama, who joked about his daughters’ school closing in D.C., something about “flinty Chicago toughness.” USA Today wrote about it here. His comments drew criticism of their own, like: this storm has killed about 23 people nationwide, and 1 million are without power, some in subzero temperatures. So at this point, it isn’t funny to joke about the weather. Other commenters said that maybe he should have sent his kids to public school if he wanted “flinty toughness?” (I have a feeling that there were serious concerns about the security/logistics of the first kids in public school. Too bad. It would be great is a president’s kids attended public school.) And of course, where did he get this “flinty toughness” from? When he was growing up in sunny Hawaii?

Yes, weather jokes don’t weather too well. But the Pelham story had even better comments, with people recounting their own “flintiness” in the face of snowstorms when they were schoolkids. It prompted one poster to reply:

omg, all the “in my day” stories. Give it a rest, in your day you also didn’t have your computer and the internet connection, yet here you are on these boards. Times change, no one cares if you manned up and went to school in the snow.