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All y’all harshin’ on Yom Kippur need to take some time on Wednesday to atone for your own transgressions. I sure will. I hope WCPSS leadership would take that time to atone for unnecessarily canceling classes Thursday, (and potentially Monday, and Tuesday), and revisit their vacation vs floating holiday policies in future years. Kids need routine, and parents certainly appreciate being able to plan for it, as nature allows.
I think the district is not taking away Wednesday because it gives them an extra cushion to get everything fixed, emptied, etc. This way they just cancel Monday and likely Tuesday.
This is ridiculous. And they said "due to the after effects of this weekend's storm on facilities." What after effects, there is hardly any damage here? And if there's some water leaking, improvise, get a quick fix for the day, get some maintenance working that - and get the kids back on the routine.
I honestly don't know how working families do it. There are so many days off, even without days like these.
Thankfully I have a lot of flexibility in my job, but even then it's difficult. I don't know how families with two working parents (or single parents) do it.
Can they move the shelters? That's what they did in Chapel Hill. UNC is opening the Friday Center as a shelter and they're closing the ones in the schools.
That ought to be interesting as the road to the Friday Center has been torn up and closed for weeks......
I would hope that they would evaluate on a school by school or more localized basis. This event here in Raleigh amounted to no more than a few days of rain and intermittent downpours and high winds. It was basically the mildest outcome possible from what was predicted a week ago. Almost all significant issues in the city streets and rights of way seem to have been cleared according to city dashboards. A number of trees have been downed, but nothing widespread or remotely catastrophic on an overall scale. Cancelling the full day of school on Thursday was a mistake (and NOT just in 20:20 hindsight). The idea that WCPSS may be out for a full WEEK because of this is patently absurd. I would let my next vote for school board reflect my displeasure.
other than the folks in shelters, there's no reason for school to stay closed all week. Right now, Wake County is under a flash flood watch, and they're going to make the call sooner rather than waiting until the flash flood warning ends at 9 pm.
Wednesday is a VACATION day, not a teacher workday.
to say they clearly should have stayed in school for Thursday is completely opinion and hindsight.
and the school board gives the Superintendent the discretion to call school off.
other than the folks in shelters, there's no reason for school to stay closed all week.
There is a pretty good chance they'll close Tuesday as well if they're closing tomorrow. With Wednesday being a scheduled vacation day, that will be a full 5 days off Thursday-Thursday.
I believe that's what the poster was referring to.
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