<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of CNN at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/12/us/school-closure-rap/">http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/12/us/school-closure-rap/</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><h1 style="padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Collaborate and listen: School closure announced with 'Ice Ice Baby'</h1></strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><br></strong></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">(CNN)</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">-- Who says teachers can't be cool?</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Administrators at a school in North Carolina decided to have some fun when they announced classes would be canceled because of</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/12/us/winter-weather/index.html" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;">the bad weather slamming the Southeast</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They rapped about the closure to the tune of that classic hip hop song, "Ice Ice Baby."</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Alright stop. Collaborate and listen. Ice is back and the roads will glisten," sung Michael Ulku-Steiner and Lee Hark, head of school and assistant head of school, respectively, at Durham Academy in Durham, North Carolina.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Sleet falling down like a million missiles, bringing school delays and early dismissals," they rapped.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We had fun with it. It was very spur of the moment," Ulku-Steiner told CNN later. "We'll try to keep people guessing for sure."</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The message announced that Durham Academy, which has some 1,170 students, would be closed on Thursday.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When asked whether the video is typical of how future cancellations might be announced, Hark laughed.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We were thinking about a rain delay message using Milli Vanilli's 'Blame It on the Rain,' " he joked.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This isn't the first time school administrators have gotten creative with announcements.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Last week, the principal at Stephens Elementary School in Burlington, Kentucky, sung about a closure to the tune of "Bohemian Rhapsody,"</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><a href="http://www.local12.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/stephens-principal-teacher-sing-school-closing-7916.shtml" target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;">CNN affiliate WKRC reported.</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">--------------------</div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Two buttoned-down Durham Academy administrators rap their school closing announcement on a YouTube video Wednesday, becoming a viral sensation. The announcement, to the tune of the 1990 hit “Ice Ice Baby”, featured Michael Ulku-Steiner, head of school, and behind him, Lee Hark, assistant head of school and upper school director.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><img src="cid:5B62AEBB-FEEB-43D5-BF8C-5F0ED5D79745" alt="1sC0gn.AuSt.156.jpeg" id="5B62AEBB-FEEB-43D5-BF8C-5F0ED5D79745" width="620" height="420"></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------</div><div>Video</div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://youtu.be/n3AcNus1ANI">http://youtu.be/n3AcNus1ANI</a></span></div><div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br>Read more here: <a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/02/13/3619088/ice-ice-baby-school-closing-video.html#storylink">http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/02/13/3619088/ice-ice-baby-school-closing-video.html#storylink</a></span></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">-----------------------------------<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div></div></div></div></body></html>