Ottawa Family Fun

*** Update: Thanks to a comment from Catherine (Thanks Catherine), I now know that there is a site similar to the one I ask for below. The site is done by CHUM and the A-Channel. It is called: http://www.busdelay.ca. For Ottawa area schools go here: http://www.busdelay.ca/ottawa/viewboard.php?cID=40

- From the Ottawa-Carleton School Board: All school buses are cancelled today due to the severe weather conditions however all schools will remain open.
- From CFRA website: School buses to english and french Catholic and public schools in Ottawa have been cancelled this morning. However, schools will remain open for students.
- For Upper Canada District School Board, visit their site: http://www.ucdsb.on.ca/transportation/viewcancelled.cfm

Now…. what I would like to see, and may do…. is set up a website for all schools to have access to to update the bus cancellation and school closure information. Each school board would be given an interface to login to. Radio Stations, TV News, Parents would be able to visit the site and get up to date information regarding the school they choose or all schools. You might even have an option to have it email the information to you. The news might be supplied in an RSS format so that several websites could share the information as well.

I know that the radio announces stuff like this, but it would be nice to have an alternative/central communication point that all school boards could share to communicate with the public in general.

*** Update: Thanks to a comment from Catherine (Thanks Catherine), I now know that there is a site similar to the one I ask for below. The site is done by CHUM and the A-Channel. It is called: http://www.busdelay.ca. For Ottawa area schools go here: http://www.busdelay.ca/ottawa/viewboard.php?cID=40

- From the Ottawa-Carleton School Board: All school buses are cancelled today due to the severe weather conditions however all schools will remain open.
- From CFRA website: School buses to english and french Catholic and public schools in Ottawa have been cancelled this morning. However, schools will remain open for students.
- For Upper Canada District School Board, visit their site: http://www.ucdsb.on.ca/transportation/viewcancelled.cfm

Now…. what I would like to see, and may do…. is set up a website for all schools to have access to to update the bus cancellation and school closure information. Each school board would be given an interface to login to. Radio Stations, TV News, Parents would be able to visit the site and get up to date information regarding the school they choose or all schools. You might even have an option to have it email the information to you. The news might be supplied in an RSS format so that several websites could share the information as well.

I know that the radio announces stuff like this, but it would be nice to have an alternative/central communication point that all school boards could share to communicate with the public in general.