Seems like every week we have either a 'snow day' , or an 'In Service' day.
Now, a snow day is not when it is snowing a blizzard, it is when the school buses are not running down dirt roads. This is because the rural dirt roads are not salted to melt the ice. This makes them dangerous to drive on when there is ice present, and particularly when it is above freezing.
What the heck this has to do with closing the school God only knows.
It is every parents responsibility to ensure that their child goes to school. If those same parents choose to live on a road that is likely to be dangerous at times, then I am sure that they have means of transport to deal with that, such as a 4 wheel drive vehicle, probably fitted with studded tires.
The school boards make a decision on whether to close the schools, when they should be making the decision as to whether the buses run on dirt roads.
These irresponsible School Board idiots have little sense of modern reality, they are on salary, and have no concept of the disruption it can cause when a child is forced to stay home unnecessarily. The cost, both to the family, the breadwinners of which are more than likely paid hourly, as well as the companies that employ them, is massive. Yet the school board people get their pay that has been supplied in the form of taxes that have presumably been levied upon the very same people that the School Boards are disrespecting.
And the whole thing is given the excuse that the School Board can be sued if an accident occurs. Well, I have news for them - I pay them to educate my child, now if they would just keep the darn school open, they could do just that.
Then, there are the In Service days.
Once again, the way to get something sounding legitimate is to give it a name. Corporations do this all the time. By giving these days a name, we are expected to accept them. And sadly, we seem to do just that.
I cannot imagine finding a single company that employs people, that would close down their operation for a full day, with pay, so that training or meetings could be undertaken.
It is a scam, and we, the taxpayers, are paying for it all. I say that IN Service should be a requirement of the job, and should take place at the weekends, in the form of mandatory overtime that is already paid for by the fact that the pay is a monthly salary.

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