I admit, today's Friday Five is a bit of a cheap shot. What can I say, I get frustrated when parents would rather somebody else (in this case the superintendent of schools) do all of their parenting for them. Seriously, people: if you think conditions aren't appropriate for your child to go to school, then don't send your child to school. It really is that simple.
Still, there's room for a discussion here. Currently LPS does not have a hard and fast rule dictating that X weather conditions should result in the cancellation of classes. Instead, school officials make a subjective assessment and, for all intents and purposes, go with their gut. I am OK with that system. It has worked reasonably well over the years, and if anything it tends to result in slightly conservative outcomes, which is the right way to err. But I think one could make an argument that at least some of the subjectivity should be replaced by more objective measures. Not just to result in "better" outcomes, but to give parents a better predictive tool so they can make appropriate childcare plans more easily.
Would you support a less subjective system for determining weather-related school cancellations? What would your system look like?
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Sorry - posted my comment in the Friday Five before I saw this post.
I think if there was a less subjective way to make desicions like this the School District would probably be using it!
I promise you that no one who makes that decision for any school district in the nation WANTS to be making it.
If someone could put together a formula that takes all subjectivity out of the mix, they should apply it to something really important, like College Football!
Oh wait… they did that already, and everyone hates it.
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Oh goodness, I grew up on the IN-MI border. If we called school for a couple of inches, we’d never have gone in the winter. I remember two rules: if the real temperature dipped below minus five, school was canceled. If the buses wouldn’t start, bus students were excused. But walkers like me trudged to school in two feet of snow.
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