Anon's dad is a welder

TinklesMcPoo , 1 hour ago

If I were this kid’s dad, I think I’d prefer to leave him in class and ensure his understanding of the world literally was clarified.

Skipcast , 40 minutes ago

Missing a few minutes of class isn’t gonna make a differenc

catharso , 2 hours ago (edited 2 hours ago)

does not every school take out all the kids to see an eclipse every time?

RootBeerGuy , 2 hours ago

No! Only welders do!

groet , 2 hours ago

Exactly. If you are in the path of the eclipse and dont make it an event for the kids, you failed as a place of education and learning!

BossDj , 2 hours ago

I could maybe see some American schools being afraid that some dipshit looks at the sun and burns his eyes then parents sue the school

Shou , 2 hours ago

“I WILL SUE YOU!”

Fuck_u_spez_ , 1 hour ago

I can remember watching a partial eclipse in the early '90s from my elementary school… except we were only allowed to watch it from inside of a lame cardboard shadow box of liability and fear. It was as underwhelming as it was safe.

evidences , 59 minutes ago

I don’t other areas did but I live in the path of totality for the eclipse that happened in April and the schools were all shut down that day. A lot of it was our of fear that people flooding into the area to watch the eclipse would overwhelm the areas infrastructure. If estimates were to be believed from all the areas in my state I heard were supposed to be getting an influx of eclipse watchers I think there was supposed to be about 14 billion people looking for hotels around me.

Mozingo , 1 hour ago

Where I live, they typically only do that for the more total eclipses, like 80+% coverage. It makes sense to me that the dad might have heard about a lower coverage partial eclipse and realized he had exactly the right tool.