s/o schools closed for elections...

pitterpatter129 · November 2012

The post below made me wonder if your schools were closed today? I work in an elementary school and it is a polling place. We were NOT closed for voting! It's an open design school with no walls. The kids were told to be quiet today so as not to disturb voting (same with any other voting day) and the teachers parked down the street so the parking lot would be accessible to voters. I just read that some schools are closed elsewhere for voting?? Maybe we are just very trusting of strangers. I hate that our school is a polling place though because it seems like a safety concern and it's just a pain on those days. Most polling places around here (like my own) are in churches though. So...is your polling place in a school? Does the school close for voting?

honeybee111 · November 2012

I teach elementary and our school was not a polling place. We have a closed campus, though(I don't teach in the best neighborhood), so it's a safety thing. My own polling place was in a person's garage in our neighborhood.

jf198400 · November 2012

When I was a kid, my grade school was a polling place and we did Not have off for election day.

shouldbworkin · November 2012

Our schools are closed and they are not polls. They're closed due to union contracts. Some districts are open, though.

Jenny952 · November 2012

That is kind of strange, I agree. I'm not sure how I'd feel in that situation, with anyone being able to come into school. My polling place is at the city hall, but there are also polling places in churches and community centers around here. I don't know about any that are in schools.

pitterpatter129 · November 2012

honeybee111:
I teach elementary and our school was not a polling place. We have a closed campus, though(I don't teach in the best neighborhood), so it's a safety thing. My own polling place was in a person's garage in our neighborhood.

For some reason this is hilarious to me! I had no idea that was allowed. I guess if you sign up with the election board, a polling place can be anywhere! I know our school district gets paid to keep our school a polling place.

EastCoastBride · November 2012

Schools are polling places and they are closed. I honestly can't imagine them being open!

XCrissCrossX · November 2012

We were out of school- schools are used as polling places but I'm not sure if my school was. I voted at a school.

MrsSR · November 2012

If the school is used as a polling place, then the students are not there. That is how it is out here.

ali0608 · November 2012

All schools around here were closed today. Most schools had an institute day or Parent/teacher conferences.

Neener73 · November 2012

Schools were not closed here. I did not vote in a school, but there are schools in the area that are used as polling places. There were discussions in the past year or so about whether or not poll workers would be required to have background checks.

I voted in a credit union.

karleegirl · November 2012

EastCoastBride:
Schools are polling places and they are closed. I honestly can't imagine them being open!

Same here

June2007 · November 2012

Public schools were closed yesterday and some were used for polling. It was a teacher work day too though. Our private school was still open.

pitterpatter129 · November 2012

Neener73:

Schools were not closed here. I did not vote in a school, but there are schools in the area that are used as polling places. There were discussions in the past year or so about whether or not poll workers would be required to have background checks.

I voted in a credit union.

That seems silly. The three poll workers (who are usually elderly) probably don't present as big of a safety concern as the hundreds of voters. Just saying.

lovebug33 · November 2012

We have a teacher inservice day. The district started going to that because of the danger of having strangers around and because it is really hard to do lunch outside, like if it rains or is really cold out. It works well because I don't have to worry about my kids!

RoxyLynn · November 2012

When I was a kid we had school despite our elementary school being a polling place. It was kind of cool, actually, seeing so many people lining up to vote. Here/now the schools are closed on Election Day.

LoCarb · November 2012

pitterpatter129:
honeybee111:
I teach elementary and our school was not a polling place. We have a closed campus, though(I don't teach in the best neighborhood), so it's a safety thing. My own polling place was in a person's garage in our neighborhood.

For some reason this is hilarious to me! I had no idea that was allowed. I guess if you sign up with the election board, a polling place can be anywhere! I know our school district gets paid to keep our school a polling place.

I see ppl's garages on movies but think it's weird it actually happens. I guess I wouldn't want a lot of strangers pulling up to my house all day.

Our polling place is at the court house. However, several yrs ago it was in an elementary school and it was closed.

QueSrah · November 2012

I was just asking my mom about that the other day. She used to teach elementary school in OH, and she said they started closing schools on election day after 9/11 for safety - there were bomb threats called in and such.

The county I live in uses a lot of schools for voting, and the teachers all have a workday so the kids aren't affected. I voted in an elementary school yesterday and the massively long line snaked through most of the first floor, around the kindergarten classrooms and special ed and other special services offices. I can't imagine keeping a group of 24 kindergarteners safe and on task with thousands of strangers peering in their classroom windows, hovering in front of their lockers, and generally in the way as they move from classroom to anywhere else.

jnealet · November 2012

All schools were closed, it was a wonderfully easy drive to work yesterday.

MammaBear81 · November 2012

My son's school isn't a polling place, but the district is closed because some of the schools in the district are used (they use it as a professional development day). However, this year we missed a week of school because of the hurricane so they took the day back and held school.

thespianlawyer · November 2012

I voted at a school yesterday, and the school was not closed. Kids were showing up with their parents as I left. It didn't seem like a big issue to me. We voted in the auditorium, which has access from outside the school, and no kids were near the voting place. Regarding voting in a garage: my parents have always voted in a neighbors garage. It's kind of fun - they set up snacks and catch up and talk about local political issues.

Jinsy80 · November 2012

No school for Election Day around here and I voted at DD1's school. I think all the local schools are used.

KathrynMD · November 2012

pitterpatter129:

The post below made me wonder if your schools were closed today? I work in an elementary school and it is a polling place. We were NOT closed for voting! It's an open design school with no walls. The kids were told to be quiet today so as not to disturb voting (same with any other voting day) and the teachers parked down the street so the parking lot would be accessible to voters. I just read that some schools are closed elsewhere for voting?? Maybe we are just very trusting of strangers. I hate that our school is a polling place though because it seems like a safety concern and it's just a pain on those days. Most polling places around here (like my own) are in churches though. So...is your polling place in a school? Does the school close for voting?

I voted in my local elementary school, the school was closed but they were having some special event for a few of the kids. When I was in school, they closed for elections so people could vote. The day before the election, they would normally set up the voting machines and we would have our own mock election. I thought it was a blast! I've never voted anywhere except a school.

jcath · November 2012

It was me who said my daycare was closed for election day but it's closed b/c it's part of our public school system (the 0-4 component of a small charter system) However none of the schools are polling places - we all vote at churches

Soxgirl07 · November 2012

Around here we close schools for elections because in the early 2000s there were 2 separate incidents with senior citizens driving up on a curb and hitting students on election day. It was in the town near us, but it scared everybody so most schools close.

Bonnesetter27 · November 2012

I'm a teacher and our school was a polling place. We were open. Usually they have the voting in the band room which is the first door inside the building but this year they expected more voters so they closed the library and had it there (which is further into the building). They had people sitting in the hallways to "direct" voters/ discourage them from entering classroom areas. It was a concern for me as well but hey did a great job of bumping up security. I think it is odd that a school who have the polling area be in a classroom area/where kids are. That would concern me.

srgw · November 2012

As a kid I remember waiting while my mom went inside a church to vote and going into our city jail another year while my dad voted.

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