( CNN ) Every time a snowstorm bears down on Danbury , Connecticut -- which has happened a lot this winter -- students and parents turn to Twitter to find out whether schools will be closed . They rarely get a straight answer . Instead , Danbury residents see jokes , meme-filled videos and teasing references to snow days at fictional high schools from `` Glee '' or `` Grease '' -- all courtesy of Mayor Mark Boughton , a social-media prankster whose @ MayorMark account provides actual updates about school closings amid all the buffoonery . `` Attention : West Beverly Hills High School is closed for tomorrow . # 90210 , '' read one recent mayoral tweet . Boughton always gets around to the real news eventually . But first come the wisecracks . He was in especially rare form Tuesday night , tweeting almost a dozen snow-day jokes , Storify user and freelance journalist Kristin Hussey chronicled , as yet another storm hit Danbury . Parents and students tuning in for real news about snow days might find this running gag irritating . But on Twitter , at least , many students seem to get the joke . `` @ MayorMark you better get each and every one of us a therapist after all of stress you 're causing us , '' wrote one . `` The kids take it tongue in cheek . They understand , because it 's sort of a tradition around here , '' said Boughton , who told CNN he 's been trading jokes about snow days with students on Twitter for several years now . `` We go back and forth . But it 's all in good fun . '' One twist of the whole thing is that Boughton does n't even make the call about closing Danbury schools . That decision is left to Superintendent of Schools Sal Pascarella , who confers with Boughton by phone and then sends an automated update to every parent 's phone . But Boughton , who ran for governor of Connecticut last year and has 18,000 Twitter followers , usually posts his school-closing tweets first . Finally , after hours of build-up , the mayor gave people of Danbury the news at 6:21 a.m. Wednesday : Schools would open two hours late . The mayor says he wants to help young people engage with public servants -- and show them that he can be funny . `` I have a very serious policy side ... but I like to have a good chuckle , '' he said . `` That 's who I am . In the end , I think it ( social media ) is about being yourself . '' He says he rarely gets complaints about his Twitter feed , and that `` parents think it 's hysterical . '' But maybe not all Danbury parents . `` As a parent , has it been helpful ? No , '' said Stephanie Pabon , whose 6-year-old son attends a Danbury magnet school . `` Because as a parent I do n't have time for Twitter . ''
Mayor of Danbury , Connecticut , teases students on Twitter about school closings . Mark Boughton tweets jokes , keeps kids guessing about snow days . Mayor : `` I have a question for you.