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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand, people who chose to keep their children home today are complaining because other children went to school and learned something? Your child missing one short day of school is not going to cause them any problems. They'll be fine.[/quote]

This is what happens when there is an obsession with equity, coming down from leadership. People start to think every student must have the same exact experience all the time, every day or it isn’t fair. So if they didn’t feel safe sending their kids to school no one else should get to go because it’s not fairrr.[/quote]

This isn't a personal thing, schools would not be closed for days. Decision was made for so many snow days because there was a reason in the first place that circumstances of school commutes were made difficult for enough number of people to make it not worth reopening. Friday opening was purely optics because there was no difference in areas affected by the lack of plowing between Thursday and Friday.  Because of the warming and snow melting there will be a difference between Friday and Monday, I already see it.  [/quote]

I see the optics exactly opposite. School could have been (and probably should have been) opened Thursday. But to give the appearance [optics] that the team at Gatehouse was putting student safety first, they foolishly closed. As a result, kids were at the mall, the movies, out to lunch, whatever, while schools sat empty another day. We can't wait for every street in the county (there are 17,000 btw) to be plowed perfect or every sidewalk to be shoveled. The kids will be okay.[/quote]

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