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Weather too easily closes local schools
To Hamilton County Schools — you guys are the most overreactive district I’ve ever been associated with. Someone sneezes in Alabama, and you cancel school days in advance. There is zero reason why school should have been closed this week. You place a huge undue burden on your constituents because somewhere might possibly have a touch of snow. But, do you wait and see? No, you take a day off and call it safety.
What are we paying you guys for, to watch the news and panic? Let’s actually wait for the weather before we overreact! I swear you’ve done this every year and call it safety, or something like “little Bobby lives up in the mountains and his driveway is snowy, so the whole county must stay indoors.” This is ruining Chattanooga and holding the town back from being truly great.
How about we let our families decide what’s best, and you guys just do your jobs. You can switch to remote learning for the very small amount of students stuck in their homes. On possibly inclement weather days, let families have the choice to stay home without punishment of an absence. You guys can use all those spring break, fall break and winter break days off, plus any number of those extra “planning days” you tack onto the end of every holiday to prepare for these terrible winter days. The rest of us should not be punished.