WTF, county! I can hardly see out of my window because of snow!

[seishonagon]

Okay, so apparently it's okay for teachers to risk their lives to get to staff meetings. Our superintendent just sent out an email bas9cally saying (this isn't a direct quote, but it's not as far off as it should be), "If we had classes, we'd cancel them to avoid risk to the students, but since it's just the educators, all meetings are on schedule

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[aurelia_star]

That is epic fail. Your students don't get educated if your teachers get injured in car accidents!

WTF, county?

~Emily

[mobiuswolf]

I'm glad you stayed home.
I think driving to work today shaved a year and a half off my lifespan.
No roads plowed, no roads sanded.
So not looking forward to the drive home.

This is a small violin

[ouij]

. . . it's playing a sad song. I'm writing this from the law library. Law school didn't cancel, and I was late to this morning's Criminal Procedure class because I had to offer my arm to a classmate who was slipping & sliding on the way out of the Metro.

The county would be outrageous if it insisted on operating even when the Feds did not. The Feds, to the best of my knowledge, are open today.

Re: This is a small violin

[seishonagon]

My problem is less with the fact that the county is open, and more with the pretty-much-openly-spoken statement that the county is willing to close to protect students, but staff safety doesn't matter. If they'd simply said, "sorry, but we're not closing," I would have been fine with it. The fact that they went out of their way to say "we would be closed if the students were in school today, but we're staying open because the only risk is to the staff," that's what bothers me. It's indicative of a larger priority issue within the county, an issue that has been cropping up in more and more areas of the administration, school-wide and county-wide.

Re: This is a small violin

[ouij]

I'm going to step up in his defense.

Parents did not get a snow day. There were an awful lot of people this morning on the roads and the Metro, most of whom, presumably, were on their way to work, and exposed to the general cloud of risk. We're grown-ups. We can deal with it.

Indeed, because regular school is not in session, that should subtract a great deal of traffic from the roads, which limits risk for all road-users--including staff.

Don't get me wrong. I'd much rather not have to commute under less-than-clement weather conditions. But I don't think the superintendent's decision is nearly as outrageous as you or the other posters here.

[bean_bunny]

Your superintendent sounds like a jerk, how has he not had the union's boot up his rear yet? In our county, when school is canceled, everything is canceled.

[seishonagon]

That's true in our case too, on days when the students would normally be in school. Today's a teacher workday.

But yeah, he is about to have the union kick his ass, for sending out that email saying staff safety doesn't matter. And high time it is, too.