Enough with the cancellation BS. John(FXWX) explained things perfectly a while back. All It takes is one little mishap, and a kid gets hurt, and say good bye to your job as as superintendent. And a massive law suit for the town/city.
If I was in that job I’d cancel too…not going down from sue happy folks. Lots of districts, including mine, had a half day already planned, and the onset of frozen precip here inland was going to coincide with dismissal and travel during that window. If we had a full day here…I think we wouldn’t have had a cancellation. But we were slated to get out early and that’s what prompted the cancellation.
If folks weren’t so lawsuit happy, maybe it would be different..but it isn’t. So that’s why it is the way it is.
Our superintendent made a bad call his first year in, and he had us going in in the morning during a freezing drizzle event in early January, that came out of nowhere, and it was a total disaster of a morning. The parents and teachers wanted to hang the guy. He said never again…and I don’t blame the poor guy. It ain’t worth the hassle, and potential loss of your job.