{"id":12064,"date":"2012-12-20T15:58:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T19:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=12064"},"modified":"2013-01-04T16:00:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T20:00:16","slug":"payne-mayan-apocalypse-cancels-michigan-classes-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/payne-mayan-apocalypse-cancels-michigan-classes-really","title":{"rendered":"Payne: Mayan Apocalypse cancels Michigan classes (really)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LaPeer public schools are cancelling classes due to unsubstantiated threats related to the Mayan apocalypse and the school shooting in Connecticut. We&#8217;re not making this up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Connecticut school massacre and doomsday scenarios based on the Mayan calendar have prompted the closing of dozens of Michigan schools. . . for Thursday and Friday,&#8221; reports AP from Flint.<\/p>\n<p>In a note to parents on the Lapeer website, Schools Superintendant Matt Wandriw actually went on the record about this nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good evening, I apologize for the timing of this message, but I have important information to share with you,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lapeerschools.org\/UserFiles\/Servers\/Server_3097392\/File\/school%20closing%20%2812-20-12%29.pdf\">he wrote<\/a>. &#8220;Given the recent events in Connecticut, there have been numerous rumors circulating in our district, and in neighboring districts, about potential threats of violence against students. Additionally, rumors connected to the Mayan calendar predicted end of the world on Friday have also surfaced. These rumors of violence have been thoroughly investigated and determined to be false. There have been no credible threats made against any of our students. However, these rumors have been a serious distraction for students, teachers, administrators, and parents. Therefore, given the significant disruption to the teaching and learning process, I have decided, along with my fellow superintendents of Lapeer County, to cancel school for both. On behalf of the Board of Education, teachers, administrators, and support personnel, I wish each of you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In sum: Dude, let&#8217;s say we&#8217;re concerned about violence and blow off school to take an extended Christmas break!<\/p>\n<p>The parents inconvenienced by this irresponsible shirking of education responsibilities should be outraged. Hard-working parents. Single moms that must scramble for daycare, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Ho ho horrible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LaPeer public schools are cancelling classes due to unsubstantiated threats related to the Mayan apocalypse and the school shooting in Connecticut. We&#8217;re not making this up. &#8220;The Connecticut school massacre and doomsday scenarios based on the Mayan calendar have prompted the closing of dozens of Michigan schools. . . for Thursday and Friday,&#8221; reports AP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2394,2395,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12065,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12064\/revisions\/12065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}