Whoops. Haverhill Public Schools apologized to families for holding school on Tuesday after the city got nine inches of snow, according to a Facebook post from the district.

The school said it was following weather forecasts, which predicted snow wouldn’t start until 1 p.m. It started mid-morning instead.“We called this one wrong, and we are so sorry!” their post reads.

The full story is here on Boston.com, if you're interested. (Non-paywalled.)

They apologized?!? I'm owed at least a dozen apologies for snow days that shouldn't have been and vice versa.

My old public school system owes me an apology for the day that I trudged to elementary school in the snow with my snowboots, and I lost one of my shoes from my bag, so I had to wear my boots all day at school. If they had closed school that day, I would not have lost a shoe and made my mother mad.

Shit, 30 years ago they did this and would reply "lol tough shit".

Still waiting for my HS superintendent for never calling snow days because SHE didn’t go to work until 9:30. School started at 7:30.

A superintendents job is to err on the side of caution. They did not in this case -- probably bowing to pressure from all the "uphill both ways" parents.

Nah. I was in school 40 years ago.

Parents are the same.

heh. remember seeing the busses drive by thinking the kids looked miserable. glad I wasn't out in it.

Did you grow up in Springfield?

Why not? My city held school. If the roads are clear the roads are clear.

This is news, lol

Depends where. Growing up, my town hardly ever canceled school, they seemed adamantly against it no matter how much snow we got and the adults always told us to get over it lol

Where was your town?